Research for the sake of research sometimes pays off. Who knows if this product will recoup the billions spent on R&D but that’s how the game works.
The weather and climate are amazing, but socially its suffocating when everybody you meet is a variation on a tired theme.
That said, nowhere on earth had better driving directions on apps since people will notice the bugs on the drive into work and fix them. ;-)
Look, I know I'm being pedantic here, but as a rural nerd, I just gotta say that this is true of literally any habitable location on the planet if you decide to no-life the right hobby or hobbies.
Am I going to hear a violin performance on the subway platform that is utterly sublime from a world class performer?
Am I gonna see the rarest bird in North America perched branch in front of me?
For me, the worst is the middle ground between crazy urban and pure nature where there is low probability of seeing anything exciting.
It needs serious clean up, from the mentally-sick homeless domesticating the subway, to the stench and the rats, from the grime, to the zero outdoor culture besides the monotonous central park which after dark gets swarmed with rats which my dog loves to chase. They need to narrow the avenues and start building outdoor areas the same way Barcelona is doing. In the winter you put heating mushrooms and you are good to go. NYC has a long way to start looking like a decent city that europeans would like to move to. Americans find it great because its the only thing resembling a city and not an airport where you dont need a car to move around.
Unless the thing is "afford housing"
The problem with some particularly uptight places is that people aren't always open to chatting (or maybe under strict NDA), and you want to find a place on that nice area of the venn diagram where you actually do bump into and communicate with new and stimulating people.
Seems pretty hollow and transactional to me.
> Interests must align.
That's part of the dice roll. Sometimes interests do align, sometimes they don't, but someone looking for ROI is easily spotted and ran away from. Chemistry and common ground are a matter of luck.
some of them made me question my reality that changed my life, something you may want to try. Even keeping a conversation going that you think is not going well,can be a really good skill to have
You must be fun at parties.
Incidentally, one of the scariest things about the volatility in the housing market and in my (lack of) career, is that I may at some point be forced to abandon the neighborhood and city in which I've adopted as my home and in which I've befriended many of these random delightful people of all ages, and they might have to too. They're my community, I see them at the gym, the coffee shop, walking down the street, or at the park. A 1 bedroom condo starts at around $650k CAD, and most of the people here who haven't already owned something for a while depend on renting basements.
If some one asks what I do they'll say "that's neat, must be nice to work from home!" and that's the end of the conversation, we can talk about hobbies or something else instead.
I'm a "regular person", engineer, and since moving here over 10nyrars I've met a lot of famous tech people, witnessed lot of amazing things, all mostly by happenstance just because there is so much of it, so many people like me, here.
What part of it is confidential? Its existence? Obviously not. The fact that it uses SLAM? Not confidential, of course it does. That a person was transferred from that to the Vision Pro? Probably also on their linkedin page.
Nothing that OP described this person as saying sounds "stupid" or confidential. Sure, maybe they also said something that was confidential in addition to what was described. Maybe they also insulted your mother. We don't know.
I've known people at Facebook and Microsoft who were working on upcoming not-yet-released products and were free to talk about the products and their roles on them. These people, much like the person we're discussing, worked on upcoming projects which had already been publicly announced.
Of course publicly discussing a confidential project that no one knows about could get someone fired, but that's not the scenario we're talking about.
Reporters reported on internal communications and noteworthy patterns in who was hired.
Apple does not pre-announce products by more than 6-9 months, and only that in cases where developer support is needed at launch.
More generally, Apple is notorious for having policies around new product secrecy that are vastly more elaborate than other tech companies. Using Microsoft and Meta as comps seems like a bad idea.
At my last bigco job, I was advised not to discuss company matters outside of the office.
For others out of loop:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_an...
Maybe the fact that they were moved away from the car project would have been a leak though, depending on what else they said.
Tangentially, it's funny to me that people link to YouTube for podcasts these days.