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by sandofsky 3y ago
There was a class action lawsuit about it. Sadly, they seem to have put arbitration agreements in their FSD EULA. https://electrek.co/2023/10/02/tesla-weasel-way-out-full-sel...
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by sandofsky 3y ago
Off the top of my head, I’d say the staged demo video: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-video-promoting-sel... I’m sure I could come up with many other examples. The meta issue is that if you blow past estimate
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by sandofsky 3y ago
It seems relevant that the company has scaled back its live service ambitions in recent months. https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-commits-to-launch-just-six... It seems many game companies thought they could build the
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by sandofsky 3y ago
You said you make the utilitarian choice. By using C everywhere, you can use an even faster compiler that doesn’t insert those calls for you. So why don’t you?
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by sandofsky 3y ago
> I didn't say I enjoyed ObjC. That's not really how I choose my tools. It's a job. The choice is utilitarian. Given C is faster and more mature than ObjC, why aren’t you writing everything in pure C and objc_msgSend?
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by sandofsky 3y ago
If there’s one lesson to take from Swift 1 and 2, it’s that Apple is comfortable launching beta APIs that can undergo massive churn. It’s why I avoided SwiftUI for the first few years, and now why people would be wise to do the same for Swi
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by sandofsky 3y ago
What makes it a systems language and not an app-development language?
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by sandofsky 3y ago
As a counter-anecdote from someone who also runs their own company, I began dabbling in Swift in 2014. I held off on full Swift adoption until after the big API renaming that happened with Swift 3, so language migrations haven’t been a big
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by sandofsky 3y ago
While all of our app are almost entirely Swift and Metal, I’d say it’s still invaluable to be proficient in Objective-C, given how relatively little investment it takes to understand. Sometimes an old code sample is only available in ObjC.
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by sandofsky 3y ago
There are a handful of interesting ideas wrapped in a self-help program. For example, the idea of testing can be useful, while rules like “all code should have tests,” and “you should always write tests first,” are just silly. I’m sure it’s
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by sandofsky 3y ago
I had a long post written, and I've decided that it probably belongs in a blog post rather than a random Hacker News comment, so I deleted it. But I'll just say no, Twitter is absolutely not an XP success story.
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by sandofsky 3y ago
The initial claim to fame of the XP crowd was the C3 project, an attempt to upgrade Chrystler's payroll system to handle Y2K. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Comprehensive_Compens... What nobody really talk
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by sandofsky 3y ago
So you read the Old Testament and Jurassic park?
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by sandofsky 3y ago
I’m pretty sure the Socratic Method predates 2015.
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by sandofsky 3y ago
You seem upset, and refuse to answer pretty straightforward questions, so I’m afraid I can’t continue engaging with you.
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by sandofsky 3y ago
You asked me why I’m qualified to have an opinion. I gave you evidence to back up my position. You responded with ad-hominem attacks. That said, I’m still genuinely interested in what you find loaded about my questions. Do you disagree that
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by sandofsky 3y ago
What’s loaded? Do you disagree that he drove away advertisers? Do you disagree that it destroyed revenue? Because I thought these were accepted facts. Maybe they’re facts that make you uncomfortable, but that doesn’t make them loaded. You b
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by sandofsky 3y ago
I think I asked a pretty straightforward question, but I’ll try to make it clearer: can you explain why a mentally-well person would drive away advertisers at a company he just acquired, destroying the majority of its revenue?
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by sandofsky 3y ago
I said he made the dumbest possible decisions at Twitter. If you disagree, please explain the benefits of destroying revenue by driving away advertisers. What I see is a mountain of evidence you can't argue with, so your only hope is a
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by sandofsky 3y ago
I bought a nice refrigerator in 2017. In early 2020, it began failing. It wouldn’t freeze, then after that was fixed, the icemaker stopped working. Luckily, I had bought an extended warrant from the store! Actually, the store sold me an ext
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by sandofsky 3y ago
> Don't fall all over yourself moving the goal post. That's dangerous. I don't think you know what moving the goal post means. In my original post, I said, "Musk doesn't design or build the rockets." You jus
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by sandofsky 3y ago
Rocketry, no, but Twitter, yes. Watching him go in and do the dumbest imaginable things, then make up excuses for his stupid decisions, then watching fans buy those excuses without an ounce of critical thinking… well, it raises a lot of que
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by sandofsky 3y ago
> Yes he did help to design and build the rockets. By literally any definition. His impact on the final products of SpaceX is clearly larger then anybody else at SpaceX. Do you think he had a greater impact than Tom Mueller? I'd exp
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by sandofsky 3y ago
> This is just factually wrong. Factually wrong? Are you saying that Musk designs and builds the rockets? > Musk has been leading and controlling SpaceX for literally 20 years now. I think his behavior has very clearly changed over th
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by sandofsky 3y ago
You seem to want to argue with someone else who is not me. Again, I never mentioned failed SpaceX launches, and now you’re telling me what I will say next. I don’t see how Valve is analogous. Perhaps if they were in a financial nosedive, an
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by sandofsky 3y ago
I just explained the difference between the two companies. At Twitter he has the clearance to do whatever he wants. At SpaceX, there are constraints. I never mentioned a failed SpaceX launch. Imagine describing Musk’s behavior to a stranger
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by sandofsky 3y ago
These responses always confuse me. Musk doesn't design or build the rockets. It's fascinating to see SpaceX succeed while Twitter fails, because the former has management in place to keep things on the rails, while the latter has
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by sandofsky 3y ago
Until fairly recently, Figma was stuck in sRGB, while Sketch supported wide-gamut color. It blew my mind that designers were ok with this. Anyway, if I were interviewing a designer, I’d look at their portfolio and just ask if they’re comfor
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BloomTech (previously Lambda School) cuts half of staff(twitter.com)
8 points by sandofsky 3y ago|1 comments
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by sandofsky 3y ago
One year to the day from the previous layoff. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35214966

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