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There is absolutely no reason for this post to be down voted. I am not sure why people are okay with "it will fix itself" -- it is an absurd position.

I laughed.

The first part of your statement doesn't really agree with your last.

What an extreme simplification and absurd push-under-the-rug statements.

I'm glad we could stand by free-market narratives while we waste untold amounts of capital on nothing.

I wouldn't call Word's features obscure. They may not be relevant to you, but it is an extremely powerful publishing tool.

It has nothing to do with being sensitive. It is extremely suspect. They're not exactly a family photoshoot.

At the expected price point, isn't this card going to be kind of dead in the water considering Nvida's Pascal line will most likely be released just a quarter after it?

This kind of attitude is exactly why I tend to avoid recruiting out in the west coast. There is nothing about "SV material" that translates directly into productive output. It's all ego, with no substance to back it up. And in our company, I certainly have the data to prove it. Although it pains me that I can't share it, especially with the "community" at HN.

And yes, we offer extremely competitive salaries not typical of the east coast.

I have the latest 15 inch MBP.

I like how a very forthright question has been met with utterly ridiculous characterizations of what was stated. I didn't say "how did you ever get hired." I specifically mentioned the lead/CTO aspect. It's a crudely constructed sentence that should result in a struggle to interpret any other way.

My comment then was meet with trivialities, outlandish statements, and generally nitpicking of tiny parts of my posts. And it appears that because they simply took a position seemingly contradictory (in the lightest sense of the word) to mine, they have been spared any amount of criticism despite significantly diminishing any hope of constructive conversation. Quite honestly, if I had simply ignored these responses there'd be far less noise and general non-sense. My question was not a top level post, it was specific to what was stated and based on one other comment the OP made in the same thread. It's not complicated to respond to nor to understand the motivations of.

Based on his comments, both the lead of the project and the CTO chose an entire stack for their product after seemingly one hackathon, maybe even hosted by Meteor itself.

I am sure the industry doesn't need to have a conversation about how huge amounts of capital are being used at various companies, with people who lack the experience (or sometimes, and not necessarily in this case, intelligence) to make such decisions, all while giving marching orders to who knows how many engineers under them. And again, this type of problem and others like it are something that the industry as a whole has plenty of talent do deal with and appropriately handle. So, how did this non-sense of picking this shiny new toy come about? How did he become lead? Which is why my question was asked. This isn't some isolated incident. I see it far too often, especially professionally.

Oh and let's not forget this is all on a post about the schism between development motivations in the Meteor community.

Calling me a troll for not using an endearing tone and having a question that is part of a larger conversation on the state of the tech industry is maddening. That being said, this is clearly not the right audience, especially using the responses as benchmark, so I'm dropping it and sticking with "just ignore everyone but OP" after this.

Well, for example, with the most recent updates I had problems with wifi stability and thunderbolt peripherals not working properly. They've been fixed now, but it's still kind of surprising they creep up given the limited amount of hardware the OS has to target.

I can't help but avoid but sound like an Apple marketing drone, but hardware wise quite a few the selling points for me for a MBP have been the form factor and how "it all fits together." Personally, there still isn't really a comparable windows-esque laptop from any other manufacturer that makes me not want to rip my hair out when I'm using their product. I enjoy the weight and weight distribution of the laptop, the keyboard is okay, the trackpad should be the target of corporate espionage, etc etc. And it certainly looks nice.

Admittedly, a good selling point for OS X is how well it handles the hardware -- the battery life is consistent and lasts long enough for my needs. I definitely use OS X more often when I'm traveling, and will relegate my development to that environment just to make sure the battery lasts.

The software ecosystem is definitely a selling point for some. I am not involved in multimedia production but I certainly can appreciate paying a premium amount to get the tools you want/need. Although whether this aspect can be fundamentally attributed to the OS or just a product of other things (audience, marketing, corporate deals, etc) is another conversation.

Not only was it not much of a story, in fact it's so generic that can be applied to almost any field, but I never said he shouldn't have shared it. I asked how he was a lead on a project, when it's kind of clear that he probably shouldn't have been. I'd also be inclined to ask how is CTO is, well, a CTO.

It's a really rather silly situation -- but as far as startups go it seems par for the course. It's quite irritating.

That's a ridiculous statement. "I'm sorry" is not an indication of negativity. Nor is it indicative of my posting history. Apparently criticism is simply not allowed. Sorry to poke the fluff that is somehow being perceived as value.

You most definitely can judge someone's technical prowess as well based on their decisions. I am not sure how you're going to grey-wash this into some kind of innocent mistake. The decision that was made reeks of novice motivations and perspectives.

I asked a very blatant question, if one is going to go off of titles, how does a CTO and lead engineer (or anyone leading any kind of project) make such a novice mistake, together nonetheless. My apologies for not echoing commendations.

I would definitely agree with that as well.

It's definitely a common mistake. It is not a mistake I would tolerate with a CTO or someone leading a project.

Where do you see negativity? How is his comment adding any value? "We chose a stack we didn't fully understand after trying it for less than a week and it turns out we didn't know everything about it!"

Also it's "your", not "you're."

They most definitely do not have identical components. I am not sure why you think this is the case.

>they are able to charge a higher price due to having OS X as part of the product, and they do.

That's a suspect claim. I am not saying the cost isn't accounted for, but claiming that they charge a premium simply because they have OS X is dubious at best. I don't consider OS X a selling point in any regard and I'm not sure even Apple could. Of course this is largely my opinion. I would find it kind of funny if they really considered it a selling point.

I'm sorry, but how are you in a lead position but somehow didn't understand a timeless principle of software development?

I'm sorry, if we're talking about features being buggy, OS X is not something you exactly what to point a finger at as a good example of an OS that has features implemented in a stable way.

Thankfully, OS X is cheap/free. I use OS X, Windows, and Arch literally every day of my life, both at work and home.

To be quite honest, I blame consumers for all this non-sense. No one wants to actually pay for software. I can go into this in a more nuanced fashion, but I seriously think software across the board is a good bit cheaper than it needs to be. From OS's to games and everything in between.

I'm going to have to strongly disagree that "slack showed us all how it's done." Trust me when I say, I am being forced to use Slack on a daily basis and I want nothing more for it to crash and burn.

Give me MSN Messenger and IRC again -- you know things that actually worked.

>We already hire 'anyone' by hiring people from 3 month coding boot camps

Oh my.

None of those are really comparable. Nice try though.

That's a bunch of pseudo-historic non-sense with basically no scientific foundation to it.

The fact remains that eating less calories than you burn resulting in weight loss. There isn't any magic to this. There is nothing to indicate otherwise.

>None of this is a surprise- it was all predicted by those opposing the ACA. Fortunately, the asian countries are developing first rate hospitals and medical tourism industry.

What a joke of opinion. Reality won't stop you from making up non-sense, will it?

>I have lived decades with a single payer system and left in part because of it.

No you didn't.

If your state can't sustain something with the federal government funding 90% of your expanded costs, then maybe you need to rethink the state you're in. It's no doubt, most likely in the "south" in some form, so I'm not surprised the government can't operate correctly.

Your post basically picks the one thing he voluntarily disclosed and ignores the rest of his perfectly reasonable statements in some manic attempt to defend the one true stack.

The only points you even remotely bring up are vague and wishy-washy and could easily be applied to any statement, even outside of programming.

This site isn't for "today I learned"'s. There is a reasonable limit to the context of conversation and submissions that happen here.

And instead of being snarky, you could actually explain what is so novel about dynamic image generation on a server.