Sam is a leader. Let there be no doubt. Does he have foibles? I’m sure. I do. Everybody has people out there who will proffer criticism of them, especially those at the top of the pyramid. Our summer at YC was heavily influenced by him; he always had time for us, and always thought hard about our problems.
I always thought of the iPod as THE inflection point for Apple. Not the 1998 iMac, not the iPhone, even though it was the latter that made Apple the company it is today. But I think the iPod put Apple on a track to get to the iPhone-it's why Apple/Jobs were even thinking about it. The pod and the phone shared form factors and have always been intertwined in my mind. For that reason, when the iPhone came out, I automatically assumed that Apple had just killed its iPod business. I was wrong, but I suppose that it did eventually come to pass... 15 years later.
>I was wrong, but I suppose that it did eventually come to pass... 15 years later.
It happened way earlier than 2022. iPod has been in life support for the longest time now and arguably the last true iPod was the last iPod Nano in 2012.
So is the extension hitting the Google Matrix API (excuse naming errors if I make them), or is it scraping results from sites such as Kayak asynchronously? Or is it something else entirely?
Just terrible. There are thousands of similar, less sensational stories generated by the U.S. health system every month. All parties in the system are to blame, as all parties have twisted incentives—profit—when it comes to providing and paying for healthcare. This isn’t news, obviously, and without some kind of legislative sledgehammer that alters the potential earnings of millions of people who are now cogs in this system, the problem will remain intractable.
> legislative sledgehammer that alters the potential earnings of millions of people who are now cogs in this system
Doing this all at once might not be palatable to a lot of people. In reality, boiling the frog slowly may be the better way to go here. Reduce their earnings a fraction each year, over say a 20 year timespan. Decreasing the eligibility age for Medicare each year by a year or so might partly accomplish this.
Agree. I am on a 2013 15" MB Pro that has been my horse for a long time. I hated that last generation of keyboards, which held me back. Then the promise of the M1 chip has delayed me once again. I've never really champed at the bit to spend $3k before...
I have an almost-fully-specced 2015 15” MBP for personal use and it’s still fine. For work I had a 2019 16” MBP with the newest keyboard and now I can pretend 2016-2018 MacBooks never existed and instead we went straight from 2015 to 2019 and the world makes sense. But yeah the next one I buy will probably be an M1.
Put in some time and get out. It will help your resume, but not your soul.
I have been working with a FAANG recently, one that builds EVERYTHING in house. Almost comical. There are great engineers all over the place, but no cohesive strategy or overarching sense for product outside of a couple of niches. Not a great situation.
A-ha! Another consequential web outcome decided in Urbana-Champaign. As an engineer and a writer, I have monitored this debate for some time. Editors of mine have usually lobbied for two spaces, while engineers I’ve worked with say, simply and reasonably, browsers reading HTML deprecate the extra space, so why bother? Now we know why. Thank you for the fascinating inside story. The traditionalist in me, however, the part that still enjoys a paper newspaper, will always prefer the luxuriousness of the double space.
I don't know if they're all rich. Ralph Lauren certainly is. But I tend to agree. There simply aren't that many ranchers. But there are millions of Coloradans—and visitors to Colorado, outdoor/nature tourism being a much larger business in CO than ranching—who favor reintroduction. If Yellowstone is any kind of guide, ecosystems would benefit. Wolves are all over the Northwoods of Wisconsin now, and the negative side effects are basically nil.
