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Live demos are especially hard when you're selling snake oil.
by axblount 1y ago
Live demos are especially hard when you're selling snake oil.
- steve-atx-7600 1y agoYeah. Everyone wants to be like Steve but forgets that he usually had something amazing to show off.
- OsrsNeedsf2P 1y agoDidn't Steve flip through 3 iPhones and hardcode the network UI to look like they had good signal?
- nwallin 1y agoOne of the demos was printing a thing out, but the processor was hopelessly too slow to perform the actual print job. So they hand unrolled all the code to get it down from something like a 30 minute print job to a 30 second print job. I think at this point it should be expected that every publicly facing demo (and most internal ones) are staged.
- scuff3d 1y agoHe faked shit all the time. He just faked it well and actually delivered later.
- whatevaa 1y agoEvery demo of not yet launched product will have something faked.
- tdeck 1y agoIronically the original snake oil salesman's pitch involved slitting open a live rattlesnake and boiling it in front of a crowd. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/26/215761377/a-history-of-snake-oil-salesmen https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/26/215761377...
- franktankbank 1y agoJesus dude