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https://www.torbenrick.eu/blog/strategy/avoid-an-organizatio...

> Monocultures reinforce bad habits.

Very true but it is interesting that Apple is often used as an example to follow on avoiding a monoculture. In the business press anyway.

Apple is a huge company so certainly experiences will vary but all the anecdotes, podcasts, and books written by former employees mention the highly collaborative environment, even within very secrete siloed projects [1].

Honestly, the reality is most engineering is tedious and boring and mired in context. The old 10% inspiration 90% perspiration quote always rung true for me. I think you’ll struggle to have anything other than a superficial conversation of any hard problem or question with any engineer whose not closely associated with your team.

[1] Examples abound but this is my favorite: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37638098-creative-select...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37638098-creative-select...

They expire. People legally write whole books about their time at Apple.

egsmion I assume I’m below average (2010)

> On the other hand you cannot talk about anything you do at all

... to people outside of Apple. Apple has 137,000 employees in 25 countries. I’m sure you’ll find someone to discuss your work with.

egsmion What Shape Are You?

It’s an interesting thought exercise but there are reasons a product may not work that are not necessarily under your control.

I understand your point and, as I am sure you know, life can definitely be unfair.

Do you think it's so unfair that 90% of students would feel the same way? It's not impossible but personally, I would be surprised by that. Which is the point. Experiences vary dramatically, especially if we broaden the statement internationally, so knowing who was asked what is just as important as the claim.

egsmion Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone

> To prevent fraud

Honest question, I am not trying to be obtuse, but in this context can you more specifically define fraud? Is it just "ad fraud" as defined here: https://www.clickcease.com/blog/what-is-ad-fraud/

I get why businesses should care about ad fraud, but why should I, as a consumer care about it? Frankly I don't even want to know about my traffic, let alone yours.

egsmion I assume I’m below average (2010)

"Ninety percent of students think they are more intelligent than the average student."

Does anyone know which study this came from? I was trying to figure out exactly how the survey question was worded because this statistic seems somewhat amazing to me. The driving one I get because drivers are not being routinely graded, but students are.

I googled the phrase and I basically got related quotes, this article (from 2010), and a couple of studies that came after this article was posted, and they were mostly looking at gender differences in preceived intelligence and after a quick glance, didn't seem to support this statement.

egsmion Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX

Why can't one stick with the old UI with a web application? That's an implementation choice Google makes.

egsmion Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX

I didn't say anything about minimizing blow back. I agreed that there will be blow back. But life moves on.

egsmion Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX

> you can't just revamp the UX for a product used by billions of users without some pretty serious blowback... but it is often difficult to justify the benefits of an improved UX versus the productivity hit to all of the existing users.

What you wrote is not wrong. But if Microsoft can change the office UX then Google can do it too.

egsmion Naked Yoga videos don’t violate Community Guidelines says YouTube

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it

egsmion MIT 6.004 L14: Implementing RISC-V Processor in Hardware

> familiar with the version terminology

That's probably because I was using the wrong word. I should've said "variant".

egsmion IceStick Tutorial: experience FPGA design and RISC-V using $40 FPGA device

Interesting. The AX is out but the AX1 ($15) is in stock. https://www.crowdsupply.com/tinyfpga/tinyfpga-ax-bx

I suppose the price is a bit misleading because the AX also requires the $12 programmer so with shipping+tax to CA it's closer to $30 total out of pocket.

Personally I use the BX because having the flash, and a bit more logic, is convenient.

https://hbr.org/2018/07/how-ceos-manage-time

I'll bet EM travels more than the typical CEO, who already travels a lot. Especially if the company is international.

"About half (47%) of a CEO’s work was done at company headquarters. The rest was conducted while visiting other company locations, meeting external constituencies, commuting, traveling, and at home."

Shockingly I didn't see anything about time spent on Hacker News. There's probably a lesson there, or something. :)

https://www.kvue.com/article/weather/austin-tied-for-the-thi...

I really do love visiting Austin but... Ouch.

"As of Thursday, Austin has officially had its 19th day of triple-digit temperatures. This means we have tied the third-longest stretch of 100-plus degree days recorded at Camp Mabry. Not to mention, every single day this month has been above average. Our average temperature at this time of the year should be 97 degrees."

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-stock-price-california...

Technically that was an "electric car" subsidy, not a Tesla subsidy. But I am pretty sure the lion share of those 200,000 cars were Teslas judging by whose driving in the carpool lane with single occupancy, so it's probably fair to say it was a de facto Tesla subsidy. But do we really blame Tesla for other manufacturers not being able to take advantage? That seems a bit unfair too.

egsmion IceStick Tutorial: experience FPGA design and RISC-V using $40 FPGA device

The Fremont factory and Palo Alto headquarters will still be in California... for now. I imagine they will open up some Texas sites, which everyone is doing, but I think Tesla will have a CA presence for some time. It's difficult to move these things. On the other hand, Elon has a "damned the torpedoes" attitude, so who knows.

Some FPGAs are commodities. Here’s one with a PCB for $13. Can be used with an open tool chain too. I could probably find an even cheaper one if I looked harder.

https://store.tinyfpga.com/products/tinyfpga-a1

Just like with GPUs, FPGAs with bigger die areas cost more. The biggest ones are expensive, just like with GPUs.

egsmion AirPods Max

> established professional audio companies offering better sound

Didn’t these just come out? How do you know the other offering have better sound?

egsmion Ask HN: Will the dev tools that don't work on M1 chips be fixed next year?

Do you really need all those tools or just a subset? Of those that you need and don’t work yet, have you considered reaching out to the developers for an ETA or priority of the port? People can reply however they want but if the developers of the tools you happen to need don’t write the code, a forum comment won’t amount to much.

egsmion The Raspberry Pi 4 has a fan now – the Case Fan

What an interesting year 2020 is. MacBook Air lost its fan and Raspberry Pi found it. Strange times.

We've basically got one foot though that door already.

> We'll have some niche manufacturer building something more open for the small segment of enthusiasts.

I would argue that's exactly what Raspberry Pi and Arduino is.

> You can't do what you do on a desktop on a laptop, not even a good one

Ummm... ok. But my comment was not all RAM is equivalent.

This is reasonable enough but I’m not sure how it relates to the parent comment which brings up the possibility of laws of physics being repealed. A more complete paraphrase of the first paragraph is, people believed fast computers should run hot. And that certainly matches my experience to date.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25050625

showed https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-apple_m1-1804

which determined the M1's memory is LPDDR4X-4266 or LPDDR5-5500. If those memories are not high performance, what is?

Can you be a bit more specific about what section of the article you're referring to? The claim I read is that it runs fast and cool, as perceived by touching the outside case. I didn't find any claim that no heat was generated at all and didn't read anything about throttling in this article.