anybody know why a javascript engine was ever included in core java in the first place? seems... niche. and yet core java never included a simple web server (officially).
seriously though, i’m glad they were able to tie their profession in by sharing their story, i really enjoyed it. if i were to embark on this kind of thing i’d probably end up writing some software to help with the effort.
I will continue to use Apple but I pulled both of my apps from their app store years ago due to maltreatment. I don’t use their app store as a consumer either. IMO it’s a wasteland.
Unpopular opinion but I also think it should be completely up to them to set their revenue share. Let their app store wither away as developers create platform-independent web applications instead.
> If you want to detect how someone fares at a task, say loan sharking, tennis playing, or random matrix theory, make him/her do that task; we don’t need theoretical exams for a real world function by probability-challenged psychologists.
i don’t know what the automakers’ stance was or is but i believe the organizations that have fought direct sales have been the national and state dealership associations.
if the sun, which is huge compared to the earth, were the size of a pea, the nearest star would be ~120 miles away to scale. this is a typical distance between stars and it’s why when andromeda collides with the milky way there is little chance of stars colliding.
Price ceilings cause shortages. Every time. Let’s not use Venezuelan-style economic illiteracy as a model for how to incentivize the flow of critical supplies to those who need it most during a crisis.
Excellent point. What is 3M for example — an American company — doing? Are they attempting to ramp up production in the US or have they determined that it’s not feasible because PPE prices are are not permitted to rise because of anti gouging laws?
the ones that i know are former engineers. they also have excellent verbal skills and seem to be the smartest people in the room. may or may not be the best coders — i don’t know — but they are very impressive in person.
a housing slump may be coming but then so are pay cuts. in fact they’re already here for many people. prices are also falling for energy and lots of other commodities as aggregate demand collapses.
all of this amounts to textbook deflation. those with debts to service (mortgage, auto, student) are going to be feeling a lot of pain in this environment. good news is gov’t just needs to print money to bring nominal prices up.
bad news is there’s no free lunch for young people hoping to buy homes. imo wages are largely going to move in unison with home prices.
If your fridge were really smart it would infer both your household’s disposable income and technical acumen based on its location and overheard conversations then tailor prices, failures, and replacement policies accordingly.
I have a Mazda 6. I would say that Mazda is a mature manufacturer. Yet the Mazda, which I purchased brand new from the factory, sight unseen (big mistake), shook at high speeds (I found out later due to a warped brake rotor), sounded like the windows were cracked at all times and you couldn’t ever roll them all the way up (for which Mazda issues a TSB years later), pulled to the right because it came off the truck out of alignment, and made a crunch vibration in the pedal every time I pushed the brakes. The dealer refused to even acknowledge any of these problems. I had no recourse.
On the other hand, Tesla lets you return the car within a week if you don’t like it.
(btw when i cancelled my wsj subscription i had to call and be put on hold. there’s no way to cancel online. should be illegal imo. never again.)