More than a couple. Not as many as amazon.
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While other companies would order whole componants from vendors - Tesla will only order parts - and assemble in house. For instance - Toyota will order brake assemblies. While Tesla orders guards. Toyota will order a door - and Tesla a door panel. Even worse - Tesla has a history or delivering third parties sub-par China made tooling; and expecting 2-3x performance out of it - when in actuality their sub-par tooling will reduce efficiency. Trying to save money on tool manufacturing isn’t where mature companies cut corners. Trusting vendors to look after their own interests is a good practice (provided those vendors have a proven record)
Eventually Tesla will work it’s way into understanding that it’s core competencies are IP, design, and marketing - and leave the micro manufacturing to third parties.
A 6mo miss in production on one vehicle isn’t a sign of the times for a company with a 10yr road map. The markets aren’t super forgiving, but I think this will all get smoothed out as Tesla grows up.
In the H-Bomb example, what would happen if Oppenheimer didn’t help develop the bomb? Russia most certainly still would have. And the world would be a different place today.
China, Russia, shit - North Korea are all working on super shady projects that you not I would want any part of. However that doesn’t stop the technology from being developed - and in some dire cases - not making the technology domestically puts us at a disadvantage.
This isn’t me saying that Amazon should continue providing Facial Recognition software to the Government. This is just saying never doing evil isn’t always the best solution - on a global scale.
- Developers
- Adobe Suite users
- Video Editors
- C-Suite Professionals
I think they abandoned video editors when they dropped Final Cut. So they didn’t care about those professionals.
Adobe Suite users is a large group of professionals. Photographers for one; Apple ditched the SD card port - seems like they don’t care about photographers. Illustrators; Wacom/tables all use standard USB style ports; and several other ports at the same time; like external hard drives or now, external video cards I guess. Less ports seems to mean they don’t care about people who use additional hardware. Musicians, Video editors, I’m sure I’m missing a few other “pros” who require external hardware.
The iPad Pro has that pencil thing; and maybe the adobe software for the iPad is good enough to do professional illustration and photo editing. Although i don’t know any photographer editing 1Gb files on an iPad Pro. They’re hard enough to edit on a MacBook Pro.
Who does the touch bar serve? Maybe it’s just because I’m in that demographic who doesn’t understand Snapchat - but I just don’t nderstand the touch bar. It doesn’t feel “pro” to me.
You can’t charge the Apple mouse while you use it. Somebody needs to explain that logic to me.
So all the Mac pros are really good at - is jobs for professional typists. Programmers, writers, emailers; but the new keyboards seem to be pretty poor at their core function. Typing.
It’s clear in my opinion that Apple doesn’t care about today’s professionals. Maybe they care about tomorrow’s. I guess I have to ask what problems is Apple helping to solve for tomorrow’s professionals - today? Wire problems?
Edit: added the iPad Pro, and Apple mouse
A lot of the mootools team moved into React. At least the ones I was familiar with.
But jQuery wasn’t just a tool, it was also community. What that community did/perpetuated was some pretty bad and ill advised practices. Plugins for everything - the old $.sum(2,2) joke applies here. DOM for state. Even sanctioned projects like jQuery UI were guilty of some terrible, awful practices.
That said, React isn’t the new jQuery, it’s the new Backbone. Backbone lacked so much - and did so little - that it’s deficiencies needed to be made up for by “other” tooling. As a result, there was O(n) ways to “Backbone” – making backbone apps very difficult to study/build/maintain.
React is fine. The community just needs to coalesce.
Edit: typing on my phone; and am lazy
However, maybe they can? Compliance as a service? Sounds like just the kind of Bay Area centric idea that VC’s love to fund.
But it seems like there’s some commen sense patterns that our tooling should take up. A framework can take up the transparency, and user control aspects. Framework might be too narrow, platform might be more like it. Things like Wordpress, Magento or Shopify can be “GDPR compliant”.
It seems like there’s room for an enterprise framework that does all the compliance work for you (for US gov contacts, i18n, user info download etc). Maybe calling it enterprise is a misnomer. Maybe it’s a spec that framework’s can target or comply with?
Youngsters don’t use Facebook. And if a young dev is using Facebook - they’re certainly using an ad-blocker. If they’re not using an ad blocker on Facebook, do you even want to hire them?
Seems like if you wanted to attract a pool of young candidates now days, you’d target the parents of the said youngsters. The ones with no applicable experience, and who are still living at home “looking for a job.”
The ad should be to the effect of “tired of your good for nothing millennial taking up your third bedroom? Want them to move out? We’re hiring good for nothing straight out of college devs so as to lock them into a low tier pay bracket.”
It was sold on an impossible premise; - Minimum 200 miles per hour (320 km/h) where conditions permit - Maximum travel time between SF and LA not to exceed 2 hr 40 min - Financially self-sustaining (operation and maintenance costs fully covered by revenue)
A flight to SF is 1.5hrs from LA (take off and landing). And only costs $150 round trip. If you could reduce the hassle of “security” you have a better, faster, cheaper high speed transit system.
It was supposed to cost $30b. It will cost north of $90b. And it will still need to be subsidized. And it will be slower than 2hr 40min.
If you could possibly deliver what was sold - I’m sure the polling would reflect that. But what the people are getting is a shadow of what they approved.
There are cases where the AC needs to manually (with eyes) focus, and yeah, those are very skilled individuals. I was looking for a video of Chivo’s Focus guy working while Chico worked the frame from the Revenant, but I can’t find it.
More like “this isn’t comfortable, better pull over and see what’s wrong” harder.
Now when the enemy has (and use) the same technology, we’re forced to cry foul. Demand oversight. Demand regulation.
The greater public is OK with this technology. They’re Ok with sweeping data collection (Snowden Files). They’re OK with mining personal data (Facebook, Google, etc). Thy’re OK with 1984, so long as it’s their sides version of 1984.
It takes a Trump for your side to realize how shitty things got while you were enamored with charisma on your bliss box.
Edit: typing on my phone. Fixing grammar.
Perhaps they’re passing this command to a secured container? I shouldn’t make excuses for them, but passing root commands to the shell seems too far out there.
A marriage contract is the worst – often wildly lopsided – contract people can enter into. Family courts are corrupted by the revolving door of judges and divorce lawyers.
Tools (lots of them), art, and furniture (we buy mid-century designer).
Everything else is trash. Why do we keep trash? Why do we buy trash?
Tesla sells patents for A.C. Polyphase System to George Westinghouse for $25,000 in cash, $50,000 in notes and a royalty of $2.50 per horsepower for each motor.
https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/timeline/1888-tesla-s...
Some tangential history regarding Westinghouse for fun.
I'm failing to see how these economics work. Host countries have an incentive to acquire productive individuals. And subsequently they have a negative incentive to acquire those 'most in need' (need metric assumed).
A rough attempt to try and square up the two has me thinking we need two immigration systems. One that treats immigration as an altruistic endeavor, and another that treats immigration as an economic endeavor.
> The fair thing to do would be to accept a random sample of would-be immigrants.
I couldn't disagree with this more. Even with pretending that fairness is a thing, I have to argue that the 'most fair entry path would be some form of earning entry by establishing the criteria up front. Much the same as public universities do in the US.
Oracle is a software sales, and software holdings company.
Their litigious behavior doesn't help.