I remember interviewing for an engineering role with these guys a few years back. The people I spoke at Instacart were more elitist than any of the other tech companies in SV or SF. They really did think they were the best of the best and had no shame saying it out loud. Great quote from of the lead devs: "We're a team of 10x engineers".
Seeing this now only reaffirms my decision to reject their offer. People like that who really believe they are better than others have no moral dilemmas committing disgusting things to those they think less of.
Article is complete trash like most things written by 'technologists' who don't build things themselves.
Technology is only a dark forest to the laggards of the adoption bell-curve. Their only experience with new technology is makes them and their old practices redundant.
Today I played with a testnet Lightning Network node and sent BTC payments in real-time with no middle-men on a p2p network.
Tomorrow I will go to work and play with a microcomputer with an embedded ASIC chip designed specifically to run complex neural nets on embedded devices. I work remotely from Japan for a company in a completely different timezone.
Technology is evolution and not all species are meant to be there in the next generation.
Also the "Apple is gonna make voice control mainstream!" arguement in 2017+1 is hilarious. Apple has failed every new tech endeavor since the iPhone. The tablet, the smart watch, the touch bar, the ear pods, forcing usb3- everything has been a failure.
Reading the dumb things people in this thread go to the effort of making a voice controls for simply for the sake of using voice controls perfectly summarizes how useless voice control tech is. You're literally saving seconds of effort in order to open up yourself to an infinite amount of attack vectors. You deserve to be pwned.
Seeing this now only reaffirms my decision to reject their offer. People like that who really believe they are better than others have no moral dilemmas committing disgusting things to those they think less of.