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Bringing back the escape key is such a admission of their original screw up. I'm glad they admitted it and reversed the design decision. But I'm still on a 2012 15" MacBook that's running strong. I normally would have updated but using my work 15" has been horrific between the dongles, the keyboard randomly dropping keys (last week "G" would not work, now it's back. The most infuriating thing about the touch bar, out of many things, is the fact that the Escape Key doesn't line up with the upper left, it's offset. So decades of muscle memory has to change by s quarter inch. What a pain in the ass. Yes I'm a vi user.

On iOS and the reader mode makes long articles like this much easier to read. I don’t use it enough myself but it’s quite handy.

Zombie startups can hurt people in more ways than just a lack of a big payday.

I joined a zombie startup. I wasn't there for the quick money or the get rich quick scheme or anything like that. Yes, the potential of a payday was part of the equation, but I joined because I hadn't been at a startup in 15 years and I was in a place in life where I had alignment on motivation, financial stability, ability, and desire to contribute. I went in wanting to work hard, do great things and have a lot of fun in the process. If there were great financial rewards that would've been great.

So, it's not all about the money. I lost a year of my career working at this dump that turned out to be a zombie. And it's a facepalm now, but all the warning signs were there: great coverage in the press, awards, prizes and so forth, a continuous source of funding through VCs and private investors, lots of customers, etc. I didn't see the warts until it was too late.

It wasn't until a few months in that I realized that it was operating like a comfortable place to just put in 8 hours a day for most people. The bureaucracy was worse at this 200 person company than it was at the large company I'd left.