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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

Blaming frameworks seems misguided.

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.

Apple is full of marketing geniuses. They’re maybe using a lot of dark patterns but they’re raking in profit.

Shit I even made GUIs for all my command-line tools so normal people could use them.

I’ve used Wirecutter top picks. They suck and actually do break

It’s like a light Power BI.

Honestly even thought I can make interactive report webapps, that stuff needs to be built and maintained so I rather have people use Excel or a BI tool. Even I rather use Excel or a BI tool than write code.

Super sus when Wirecutter is promoting something as a top pick.

But it also makes sense. A review site like Wirecutter is using the product like one time — they have no idea if it’s going to last.