For what it’s worth I’ve been using HA for 5 years and don’t deal with any of that and it generally just works. I was dealing with worse with overlapping hubs and ecosystems.
All my switches are unicellular and ceiling fans and lights are their fan hubs as well. Over a hundred devices and it generally just works.
It made a rough transition for me because all of the things going wrong were all too familiar.
Then when it wrapped up very nicely I felt like I was bad at my job. "Wait, how did they fix it so fast!?!" (hyperbole here but it was sort of a gut punch)
A lot of this was covered in "The Phoenix Project". A good read but a bit idealistic in the expected outcome. The fake company was essentially able to right the sinking ship after the band had already stopped playing, in 2 quarters no less.
However, the core tenets were valid from a general approach. My fear when reading was the potential to go overboard. We have all met over-zealous scrum masters. Same could be applied to a lot of the stuff they were essentially transferring from manufacturing to development and more specifically devops.
Compared to today's tracks it's insane to me that Nürburgring was widely used. The logistics at the track are clearly very high stakes and seeing how we could look at how huge that track is and think that's a good idea just shows how far the sport has come.
I don't quite get why you can't disable these notifications at all. I really don't want to see the things I missed or it finds interesting. And they're purposefully pushing you to look at it to dismiss those notifications.
This launch event was very odd. It seemed like a launch event geared towards the general public but about a media platform for the media. No real launch details and no pricing structure with no previews of shows.
Given the recent debacle with the airpower lack of a launch date I can't help but not really trust that this is going to come out in the fall...much less "what" is coming in the fall.
I wonder how much the proliferation of start up failures has to do with this very fact versus a poor product/model/founder/execution/etc.
Not saying that the employees are to blame but I'm sure there's plenty of good ideas out there that just don't have the right people trying to implement it.
Or that's such a small amount that it really doesn't contribute.
This is purely anecdotal but lately I've been getting more and more delivered via Amazon's own carrier service. 100% of the time it is late. Some things have completely disappeared and never left the SF carrier facility. It's made me not order from Amazon a handful of times this past week out of being burned on a consistent basis.
It seems very un-Amazon of them. They clearly have the metrics to track this so I'm shocked they aren't diverting or doing something to fix the problem, whether that's incentivizing slower shipping or using other carriers (I realize the carrier deals they have are very complex and affect a whole load of other data points).
It's just odd to me that consistently the Amazon delivery service is what is being used and that it's consistently bad/delayed/etc.
Less than 2.0 is more or less an alpha imo. I use 2.0 in production and love it. But not sure how they’re going to get over all the bad PR 1.0 and 1.1 generated.
Every single AMZL package I've had in the past month has been delayed. What's more frustrating, there's no actual reason for it being delayed.
The last one that was delayed was delayed for 2 days. I contacted chat and apparently it was because they couldn't get into the mailroom and were waiting on delivery instructions.
I don't know from whom, because I was never contacted.
Typically you’re fired when you do something bad. I wouldn’t consider what Tesla did as firing anyone.
Poor performance isn’t typically a “bad thing” in this sense. For instance, if someone went and pissed in the coffee pot, they would be fired. If a big group of people were simply told to not come in anymore it’s laid off. Tesla specifically said this wasn’t laying people off so I’m not sure how that works.
I don’t know if there’s any legal or contractual grounds for one or the other but I’d guess it would matter what state you’re in.
I know for a lot of states collecting unemployment benefits does require some sort of reason for termination that is related to the above distinction.
This is why I've finally accepted the fact that for my own personal tracking, nothing beats a post-it note. I'm not going to spend the time to put down all the real information I should and dealing with an app is another barrier preventing me from getting stuff done.
I would argue that Apple's core competency isn't hardware but the Apple "experience". In the same way that Google uses search to sell ads, Apple uses the hardware it sells to sell everything that goes with it: music, iCloud, software, accessories, etc.
I didn't get the feeling that was the Sun business model, but I didn't follow it super closely.
All my switches are unicellular and ceiling fans and lights are their fan hubs as well. Over a hundred devices and it generally just works.