Apple is a huge company so certainly experiences will vary but all the anecdotes, podcasts, and books written by former employees mention the highly collaborative environment, even within very secrete siloed projects [1].
Honestly, the reality is most engineering is tedious and boring and mired in context. The old 10% inspiration 90% perspiration quote always rung true for me. I think you’ll struggle to have anything other than a superficial conversation of any hard problem or question with any engineer whose not closely associated with your team.
I understand your point and, as I am sure you know, life can definitely be unfair.
Do you think it's so unfair that 90% of students would feel the same way? It's not impossible but personally, I would be surprised by that. Which is the point. Experiences vary dramatically, especially if we broaden the statement internationally, so knowing who was asked what is just as important as the claim.
I get why businesses should care about ad fraud, but why should I, as a consumer care about it? Frankly I don't even want to know about my traffic, let alone yours.
"Ninety percent of students think they are more intelligent than the average student."
Does anyone know which study this came from? I was trying to figure out exactly how the survey question was worded because this statistic seems somewhat amazing to me. The driving one I get because drivers are not being routinely graded, but students are.
I googled the phrase and I basically got related quotes, this article (from 2010), and a couple of studies that came after this article was posted, and they were mostly looking at gender differences in preceived intelligence and after a quick glance, didn't seem to support this statement.
> you can't just revamp the UX for a product used by billions of users without some pretty serious blowback... but it is often difficult to justify the benefits of an improved UX versus the productivity hit to all of the existing users.
What you wrote is not wrong. But if Microsoft can change the office UX then Google can do it too.
I suppose the price is a bit misleading because the AX also requires the $12 programmer so with shipping+tax to CA it's closer to $30 total out of pocket.
Personally I use the BX because having the flash, and a bit more logic, is convenient.
"About half (47%) of a CEO’s work was done at company headquarters. The rest was conducted while visiting other company locations, meeting external constituencies, commuting, traveling, and at home."
Shockingly I didn't see anything about time spent on Hacker News. There's probably a lesson there, or something. :)
"As of Thursday, Austin has officially had its 19th day of triple-digit temperatures. This means we have tied the third-longest stretch of 100-plus degree days recorded at Camp Mabry.
Not to mention, every single day this month has been above average. Our average temperature at this time of the year should be 97 degrees."
Technically that was an "electric car" subsidy, not a Tesla subsidy. But I am pretty sure the lion share of those 200,000 cars were Teslas judging by whose driving in the carpool lane with single occupancy, so it's probably fair to say it was a de facto Tesla subsidy. But do we really blame Tesla for other manufacturers not being able to take advantage? That seems a bit unfair too.
The Fremont factory and Palo Alto headquarters will still be in California... for now. I imagine they will open up some Texas sites, which everyone is doing, but I think Tesla will have a CA presence for some time. It's difficult to move these things. On the other hand, Elon has a "damned the torpedoes" attitude, so who knows.
[1] https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/atm...