Grustaf

Wow, almost half of Automattic's annual revenue!

The codebase

What he meant was they were running out of money.

Is 125 m the actual number? I would be surprised if they got more than 10.

Let’s hope so

What i meant was that the idea was that people would eventually stop using e.g. whatsapp on Beeper and just use Beeper, since eventually all their friends would also have the beeper app installed. Might sound a bit optimistic but there it is.

It wasn't, they genuinely believe in Beeper, and the long term plan was rather to become the leading chat app in their own right, with users communicating over the Beeper protocol.

> I feel a little exhausted just thinking about needing to be on 14 different chat networks.

That's the point, the vision is that you should only have to be on Beeper.

The Beeper codebase is also in a pretty bad state.

That seems anything but “neat”

I am contradicting this:

> People need cars that can handle the longest distances they would need to travel

You should not buy a car for the rare, most demanding use case.

How do you wash it then? Seems like quite a chore to wash something like that every week?

Yeah there is no need to have it hanging down, shaking it like a whip has the same effect.

> Other expert voices say we should be doing this fortnightly, or even weekly.

Even as a bachelor I wouldn’t wait two weeks to change the duvet covers, I hope most people change the covers when the change sheets?

Even without the holes, you can just do the same thing by inverting the corners and grabbing the duvet through that.

Presumably they put a sheet or something washable between themselves and the blanket though?

What do others use then?

It’s not “full”, since it only works in very limited circumstances.

Cruise control only manages the speed, right?

To me the general idea felt as trite and blindingly obvious as any book by Taleb or Gladwell, and about as self-congratulatory. The only thing that surprised me was that he picked the singularly unmemorable names "System 1" and "System 2", instead of something like "intuition" and "reason".

>> the average trip in the US is less than 20km

> I don't buy my car for my 50th percentile drive.

For most people the average is more like the 95th percentile.

> People need cars that can handle the longest distances they would need to travel.

No they don't, it's much more optimal to buy something that is geared towards your daily needs, and then if you need to drive cross country a few times a year you can rent a big car, that's almost always going to be cheaper, even before taking fuel costs into account.

> Is it really aspirational if you do it?

No, aspirational means that you aspire to do it, which is probably why most people buy most cars, at least in the US. One exception does not disprove that theory.

If you only need the range 4 times, let alone once, a year, why not rent a car for that rare and buy something more optimal for your daily needs? That's what we do, and our daily need is no car at all.

Selling an expensive product or service is very different from committing fraud or stealing. There are plenty of practices within banking that are a lot more immoral than charging high fees.

I suppose you could argue that as long as the car is doing the driving, it is in fact full self driving, even if you have to watch it?

That's because Objective C is too old for anyone to bother improving it. That doesn't seem like a positive.

I don't doubt that you find it difficult, I am just saying that I never had any problems migrating to Swift 5. That's why I offered help, and because I am genuinely curious what it was that you found so overwhelming.

I offered help, not condescension. In my experience migrating to swift 5 has been exceptionally painless, so if you find it onerous I was offering to assist you.

There are already many APIs you can’t use, and more or less all APIs in general are now easier to use in swift. But sure, you can still write apps in objc.

The source breaking differences between swift 4 and 5 are very few, and quite mechanical. Most of them should be adequately handled by the migration assistant, did you try that? If it’s open source, I’m happy to take a look.