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A lot of people like Apple because it was built on Jobs’ taste and they liked Jobs’ taste.

With Jobs gone, it still has a taste but it someone else’s taste.

That said, I think some people have developed their own original taste but some people’s tastes are just an amalgamation of the people around them.

I don’t have ADHD but I did the test. My answers would vary with amount of sleep:

4 hours/night - Poor executive function, can’t figure out what order to do things in, lose keys and random things, forget to lock doors and not even realize it

6 hours - Mild executive dysfunction, never sure if I locked the door but I did

8 hours - Zero problems

10 hours - I’ve never actually experimented

I agree. It doesn’t matter if you give an inexperienced person a hammer or a saw — they’ll still screw it up.

My biggest pet peeve is they NO ONE ever does failure modeling.

I swear everyone builds things assuming it will work perfectly. Then when you mention if one part fails, it will completely bring down everything, they’ll say that it’s a 1 in a million chance. Yeah, the problem isn’t that it’s unlikely, it’s that when it does happen, you’ve perfectly designed your system to destroy itself.

You know, planning isn't something that is necessarily required or necessarily not required. You plan as much as a situation demands.

Presumably in a smaller society with abundant water, you can wing your pipes because it doesn't really matter. A larger society in a desert? Well, that's way different. Inefficiencies add up too much.

The real trouble is people who just believe in strong rules when really, you should be looking at your specific situation and using your brain.

There’s very few candidates in that region for good allies so Israel has a stronghold in US politics.

If we had made Iraq a powerful ally, it would have weakened support for Israel but that whole area of the world is too embroiled in conflict.

The problems with DSLs is usually poor ass documentation.

Throwing a full programming language in place of a DSL means now you deal with everyone and their mom inventing their own way of doing things.

I grew up in the early 2000s and us and other kids in middle school were watching beheading videos and/or porn.

Shit, I talk to other functioning adults in their 20s and 30s and they tell me they too watched the same garbage.

I think you might have rose tinted glasses on to be honest. The Internet was just as wild back then.

Afaik a ton of companies use Watson.

IBM doesn’t market services… they market solutions. You contract with them and they figure out how they build something for you. And it may include Watson.

It seems a lot of people make a product but don’t use it themselves enough to tell how to make it better so it always feels like v1.

Or they do but they’re not very observant idk?

This is where experience comes in.

Someone experienced will know how much work a certain approach will take and its capacity.

Sometimes there are quick wins to give like 100x capacity to a system just by doing things slightly differently, but only with experience will you know that.

I mean you can design a filesystem to handle a million files extremely quickly... it just has to be in the requirements up front.

But there will be some trade-off.

And I don't think people generally put "a million files" in the requirements because it's fairly rare.

In this case, the limitation is more on developers of iPad apps than users. It’s making developers more creative but I don’t think it’s making users more creative.

Don't know about New York but California has lost plenty of firms over decades. Aerospace used to be all in California, for example.

But California's GDP rises faster than most states and countries in the world so it's probably good the rest of the world gets our hand-me-downs...

Even every significant website built 15 years ago not in JavaScript involved a framework. In Java, you got Spring. In Python, you got Django. In Ruby, you got RoR. In PHP, you got Symfony. etc.

Blaming frameworks seems misguided.

I mean everything has a cost but quadrupling the number of users is the benefit.

There’s no reason why an app can’t work as well either via command line or via GUI. The whole point of architecturing your software is so you don’t write something kludgy.