_Codemonkeyism

Mostly never.

Could have been my comment.

I was a die hard Blackberry (my business phone, using a private iPhone) user, the last one perhaps in the large corporation I've worked for.

Then the Passport launched, LOVED the format, best format ever squared and large screen, beautifully fitting everywhere though being larger, loved the TOUCH keyboard, loved the unified messaging but had NO F* network connection ever. Just could't be called or call others. A second Passport the same. Then one got dropped and it totally broke internally, the "steel frame" didn't help in any way, I assume it contributed due to its weight and momentum.

Automated drivers.

Consumer Reports says (May 2019)

"In practice, we found that the new Navigate on Autopilot lane-changing feature lagged far behind a human driver’s skills. The feature cut off cars without leaving enough space, and even passed other cars in ways that violate state laws [...] As a result, the driver often had to prevent the system from making poor decisions."

https://www.consumerreports.org/autonomous-driving/tesla-nav...

Consumer Reports says (May 2019)

"In practice, we found that the new Navigate on Autopilot lane-changing feature lagged far behind a human driver’s skills. The feature cut off cars without leaving enough space, and even passed other cars in ways that violate state laws [...] As a result, the driver often had to prevent the system from making poor decisions."

https://www.consumerreports.org/autonomous-driving/tesla-nav...

Probably every stat that isn't on the vendors marketing page.

As mentioned several times on HN the comparison Tesla cites here is highly problematic.

Good to hear!

Had hoped there was a happy ending, hope for the dev and his family that there will be one.

We used it for some years in a startup as a sales tool but it was very very slow and the UI and flow was too complicated for our needs. So we switched to Pipedrive which did the job, was a great success and for our usecase was much easier too use.

Posteo has no custom domains. I currently use Gmail to SPAM filter and forward to Posteo. This at least removes Gmail at-rest-mails.

"but they tend to be temporary and easily fixed."

Only if your dependencies do the same, otherwise you have a new version of something and your dependency wants something old. Especially hard when older dependencies are no longer maintained.

For different environments and languages the problem might be bigger or smaller depending of the culture, strong/weak type coupling, cross compilation or runtime VMs.

This is the reason we've removed all Scala dependencies and now only depend on Java dependencies.

Same here.

I appreciate everything Panic has done, and how they pushed apps to a higher UI and innovation level. I probably will get a Playdate.

The first handheld I've owned was a Greenhouse G&W. I do wish to get back the simplicity and joy of games from that area.

I don't like the language of the page though, e.g.

"we hope you can’t wait to unwrap your gift."

A gift which I've paid $149 to you? My understanding of gift is different than that of Panic I assume.

"feel janky and disjointed."

What technology were you playing?

For people who want to learn more

https://simpleflying.com/airbus-a220-upgrades/

Is there? If I steal a prototype from a company or tea saplings and ruin the companies business? If there is any it looks very superficial to me.

People said this about Netflix and Spotify.

Funny wording to use "break" for IP theft, it looks different when the British do it compared to when the Chinese do it, doesn't it?

What does "it" mean in "no one considered it possible"?

"Well, they built and sold the first successful electric car in the age where nobody believed this would be possible."

I beg to differ, everyone thought it's possible but there is no mass market for electric car at a reasonable price point. Volkswagen had several working prototypes in the 1970s especially after the oil shock.

I worked for eBay for some time. They could do most of the stuff that startups around them could do, they had the tech, the ideas, the money and the people. But startups can be net negative for some years, or be happy with $10M revenue, while a project at eBay being net negative would be killed and a $10M project would be thought as too small. Championing a $10M project at eBay for several years would be a career killing move.

So selling 1000 cars a year is a success for a startup (Tesla) but nothing a large company like Volkswagen (11M cars per year) can sustain as a project. Large companies are just not structured in a way (would need to be structured like a VC fund, and some try, e.g. Alphabet) to handle this small but growing opportunities. They need to find the right moment to jump in.

"I find this point of view - that designers are inferior to developers"

The parent didn't make that point.

I think there should be a lower limit for this to be in effect, e.g. below 50k EUR/y or 100k EUR/y.

In Germany there is regulation about "Scheinselbständigkeit" meaning you are not really a contractor because you only have one customer for example. This is mostly a good thing but problematic with e.g. consulting where you have perhaps only one customer for some time. It was created to prevent exploitation but on the other scale limits high income people and consultancies, which was not the goal.

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19286970

Funny me too, didn't think others would do the same.

A little bit of googling tells me that in Germany you are allowed to change the lock [1]. Never thought of that, will do it probably next time I move.

[1] https://www.advocard.de/streitlotse/mieten-und-wohnen/schlos...

From the article

"In English language use, the Kontaktwagen was later named the "trolley", giving the trolley car and trolley bus their names."

Germany will use French nuclear power and feel good to have no nuclear plants.