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I refuse to develop for Apple, I'm already part of the solution.

Apple should not be used as an example. They are a company that lives off Marketing and gets away with anti-consumer and anti-developer practices. They are somewhat unique in that sense.

It's better to compare an automotive giant with a different tech giant.

Or Tesla with another big brand/marketing car company like Audi, BMW.

The boring reality is that it's a bubble.

I feel so conflicted when I read posts that consider Tesla "the best". I did benchmarking on all automotive interiors, exteriors, and infotainment systems, and Tesla was Kia level.

The interiors and exteriors were actually bad. The infotainment system was buggy and cheap, but it was feature rich and fast. If it wasn't Tesla, people would hate it for not having buttons.

The reliability is notoriously bad too.

I don't see any genuine argument for "Best", they might have the hardest, lowest paid workers, or the only car you can natively play a 30 year old video game, but when comparing Tesla to Nissan or GM EVs, I don't see why you'd get a Tesla.

It's more expensive and you get less.

Yeah I'm not really sure what people are expecting out of Tesla. I do think the current investors are low information investors who don't understand what stocks are or how automotive works.

I think we are seeing the beginning of hyperinflation.

Apple still designs for style and upcharging over usability.

Not sure why people/Apple marketing insist on Apple products making them more productive. I can't agree on iPhone and I didn't find any speed increases on a macbook.

Meh, if naming things encourages people to come up with discoveries for humanity, it's worth it.

These jobs pay like crap but require an intellectual.

So the best thing to do is buy now.

My parents retirement is screwed..these small interest bonds will mean nothing with 10x inflation..

Our gym group broke up due to covid and all 3 of us gained 20 lbs each.

Ancedote sure, inevitable maybe. But this wasn't some January new years resolution, this was April.

It's a psychological thing. When you go to the gym, you are significantly more likely to focus on diet(and finances, and self improvement) as well.

I'm more concerned about the 30% of Americans that are obese than the 0.1% top athletes, who in rare circumstances are badly affected.

Open the gyms to save lives.

But bars and casinos are open.

If you want to get rid of the virus we need to shut down everything.

I got one that is still in effect in Michigan-

"Gyms are closed" (but bars and casinos are open)

A virus that kills old and _obese_ people, and you are shutting down the gym?

If anything I hope Coronavirus shifts politicians from business leaders to scientists.

"One of the core issues in software engineering is that its approaches are not empirical enough because a real-world validation of approaches is usually absent, or very limited and hence software engineering is often misinterpreted as feasible only in a "theoretical environment.""

Software engineering is Engineering like sandwich Engineer is Engineering.

They should use "specialist". It's not like they are using science to prove something will work.

I feel it was more replaced by- Linux/Windows developer friendly vs Apple ruthless dictatorship.

I don't understand.

What commands are you sending your macbook outside installations?

It's not like you are running a server, you still need to SSH into the server to do anything.

Software is not Engineering. You guys call your developers Engineers?

Is this a real thing? Like there are people that don't VM/SSH into Linux but use shell?

What demographic is this? College kids and Apple employees?

It seems like minor benefit in an otherwise atrocious platform.

I'm the other way, I've never seen a Macbook in an (Engineering) office setting, four fortune 500, two small businesses.

I've seen them at University and some non STEM students homes.

That said, I see iPhones at work, but probably because they are not critical to doing anything other than email.