thachmai

I don't know much about other Musk companies.

But if you claim that SpaceX isn't the leading Space company by a huge margin, or that their execution is somehow behind any other space company, you obviously do not know much at all about SpaceX.

Why rewriting it in js help with maintenance?

This is not a snarky question, I'm genuinely curious since I personally have no problem coming back to old clojure code.

Plenty of ventures back by big names end up dead. Even when Amazon or GM themselves execute a new product, it's no where near a guaranteed success...

Tesla has products and paying customers. Big difference.

Metric ton sounds redundant to me. Does the US have the notion of a "imperial ton"? (1000lbs?)

In my experience, not a lot of developers manage to organize their thoughts well enough to write them down.

Maybe you manage to work with only people who can write down their thoughts coherently. But that's the rare exception and not the norm.

Do you have examples of such proper landfill, as well as their cost vs capacity? It sounds awfully expensive for a trash stock pile.

It's incredible how you trivialize SpaceX achievements. I get it that you probably hate Elon Musk for whatever reason. But you should really calibrate your bias filter.

Statistically, I move every three year so far. I do have a lot of stuff though, last time it took half a shipping container for everything. If I extend your logics for my case, I should be driving a container truck every day.

We shouldn't optimize for the exceptional cases. It's far cheaper and easier to think of the main usage first and deal with the exceptions when the time comes. Renting a shipping container once every few years is not that expensive.

> able to roll up and understand project status and progress across a large and sprawling organization working on goals

The major problem with that is we are incredibly good at gaming the system. I've seen mediocre, at best, team became a glowing beacon under the velocity game; they managed to close 2000+ stories in one year! (a developer closed well over 1 story per day on average).

Software estimation is a really hard problem. We can attempt to establish order by pretending that burning down/velocity charts actually say something useful. How do they work when all the methods we know fail? No idea. But have faith, because we have plenty of anecdotes of its success!

If there is only one thing I can complain about vim/vi, it's the esc key. The key is too far away to reach easily. It is most accessible with the little finger, which is our weakness finger. Coupled with the fact that it's likely the most important key in vim. I hate it.

So when I use a non-configured vim, it's the thing that I miss the most. The rest is trivial.

However, using someone else vim is completely different!

You must keep in mind that vim is much similar to a programming language. You can remap keys all over the place. You can create exotic combinations that do wonderful and/or terrible things with few key strokes. You can install plugins that argument and alter vim behaviours.

Jumping into a well tuned vim setup is not unsimilar to starting to use a new programming framework. It's hard to be productive right away.

In that case usually, I just rename .vimrc, remap <esc>, do my things and get out of the way.

A great thing about Macbook Pro is their high resell value.

I plan to sell my 2014 MBP when I get this. I'd lose around 20-30% for one year of utilisation, good enough for me.

Never say never. I love my MBP but the Surface Note has me salivating. If it works well then I'll sell the MBP.

OneNote with pen is just amazing. Coupled with the detachable high quality screen, this thing is all I can dream off at the moment.

The surface pro is NOT the same build quality as their cheap keyboard.

A counter example:

How many people aside from specialists use the browser as their main "app"?

How many people use webmail, search and read info, use facebook/twitter, order stuff, use online map, look at internet junk?

The browser is the number one app on desktop without a doubt. The flexibility it offers is nothing short of incredible. You can cite specialist apps all you like, it doesn't change the fact that those apps are a niche right now on the desktop.

I've been living here for 7 years, worked for 3 different companies. I suppose I have a bit more anecdotes than your dozen of times.

There are places are people don't seem to do anything. But it's hardly a France-only occurrence. There are only plenty of companies where you are expected to work hard and deliver results; again, hardly France-only.

I love it when some casual observations from a visitor become trusted source of generalisation for a whole country.