jasmer

13 ms·

31.
by jasmer 3y ago
Cherry picking. Apple is almost biggest company in the world and they command very high margins for a reason that is 'more than marketing'. Ironically, you're pocking at the 'mouse' when their trackpad is the reason
32.
by jasmer 3y ago
The 'Apple Way' is more user centric than 'the short term profit way'. One of Jobs primary philosophies is around 'creating great products' aka 'craftsmanship' which is de facto user centric orientati
33.
by jasmer 3y ago
It's not just UX it's everything customer facing. Only organisations with a specific cultural focus on user centrism will have great products. Apple at least has some of this, but not always. Have faith: there is a payoff in the l
34.
by jasmer 3y ago
I spend much of my time looking at dusty old code, arguing with my former self, undoing tangled knots of hitherto maligned bits of supposed genius.
35.
by jasmer 3y ago
This is not the right analogy. 'Criminally adjacent' means literally, adjacent to organised crime. This is not the same thing as 'above bar businesses are 'adjacent' to anything that is not' , or 'aggressi
36.
by jasmer 3y ago
'feels rigged'. My friend, the entire thing is rigged from top to bottom, from the time you see the ad, until you are back at home. The only way to win is to accept the grift on those terms.
37.
by jasmer 3y ago
Yes, we care that people behave themselves, we're referring to 'who cares' about whether the nature of a talk being 'keynote speaker or not'. If Jim Smith is keynote, great, if they're in a conference talk, gre
38.
by jasmer 3y ago
"makes you look (see, optics again) either incredibly naïve or covering for some pretty bad behaviour." It is point blank what you said, it's plainly ridiculous that you would deny what is right there as though we're mis
39.
by jasmer 3y ago
You very literally accused someone of 'covering something bad up' because of a random post.
40.
by jasmer 3y ago
Nobody cares but the speaker themselves. There is obviously some legit cred here, and it's a definite downgrade - but it's not being sent to the woods either. G Given that 'nobody else cares at all, whatsoever' - that ad
41.
by jasmer 3y ago
I think the framing of 'uncomfortable' is just a poor choice of words among a bunch of people it would seem have difficulty with these things. My gosh this is all out of proportion.
42.
by jasmer 3y ago
My gosh no, this toxic - it is not up to people to have contextualise or defend their behaviour given others' sensitivities. It is fundamentally bigoted to assume racism, and fundamentally up to people to provide at least some evidence
43.
by jasmer 3y ago
"Rust acted as a cruel, heartless entity that did not care about JeanHeyd and treated him as disposable. " "But it was just a downgrade. I shake my head at people that say things like this. Clearly, they are not used to treat
44.
by jasmer 3y ago
Rust is exactly the kind of movement where everyone is going to take themselves very seriously at every turn, this is bound to happen.
45.
by jasmer 3y ago
Or it's one side of the story.
46.
by jasmer 3y ago
"Because that's what you are saying, literally." You're having trouble with the meaning of word 'literally', but also analogies, and climate. The earth has various mechanisms for absorbing CO2 over time.
47.
by jasmer 3y ago
This is some really bizarre logic: "It's not the guy with then gun, it's the bullets, let's avoid them!" I think the secondary things you describe are almost large scale weather events, not quite climate. But most f
48.
by jasmer 3y ago
Much of the interesting pure research can be done at smaller scale, the larger models are arguably more product engineering than research. At least from a certain perspective.
49.
by jasmer 3y ago
It's basic raw Imperialism. The Soviets were just the Russian Empire under another name, absolutely all of Putin's actions aka saying Ukrainians don't exist, calling them 'little Russians', the tactic of treating th
50.
by jasmer 3y ago
Without context, this is verging a little bit into conspiracy territory. Literally in the first reference, the first reference given of the 'Goldman Man' ... is Steve Bannon (!) as if he's part of that crew. Goldman is the to
51.
by jasmer 3y ago
"who then push the government into a war that will benefit the industry or company." Where is the evidence for this ? Wars are generally not started by the arms makers, rather, the profiteer off of the situation. Obviously there m
52.
by jasmer 3y ago
The missing artifact from the comment is that Republicans and Democrat Left/Rightism as we understand it is a modern thing established (edit: I should say 'consolidated' - because the shift started earlier) under Reagan. The
53.
by jasmer 3y ago
The people driving the wars generally don't profit from the wars, and it's generally not true that the war profiteers have that much influence over spending during war time, rather, they are a bit like doctors during a plague and
54.
by jasmer 3y ago
Where is the 'war fervor' of the Left? What does helping Ukraine defend themselves have to do with 'war fervor'? Putin invaded Ukraine in 2014 and Obama/Trump reaction was to ignore it - which directly resulted in a
55.
by jasmer 3y ago
Fed sets rates banks decide what rates to lend out for mortgages. Just like we tax things at different rates, we may want to require mortgage lending at different rates, maybe a bit higher if necessary. I don't think that exists, but I
56.
by jasmer 3y ago
There should be a separate set of lending rates for real estate. Sounds kooky at first but really it's a fundamentally different kind of asset.
57.
by jasmer 3y ago
Once you are self aware of it, then basically don't act on it because you recognize it as personal. Then it's an emotional thing you can deal with. Just move on man, there's so much to do, more important things to worry about
58.
by jasmer 3y ago
Again, the completely inconsistent argumentation here: have you every had difficulty finding and buying Milk? No? The market for Milk, like most other things works perfectly fine - like any other market. The mental gymnastics going on here
59.
by jasmer 3y ago
So if your kids have constant access to AI, which they will very soon as the web embraces it, they won't need to 'know how to write'? I suggest there are more foundational reasons why it'd be better to learn to write, an
60.
by jasmer 3y ago
That analogy, and the statement 'most people can only sell something once' has no bearing at all on the issue at hand. If Avengers is available for everyone on pirate.com the day it comes out, then Avengers will make only a few mi

More ›