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Wish he would be still alive, none of this self destructive bullshit would have continued. The touchbar would have been binned and the butterfly keyboard slapped on the wall of shame with the title
"think before you build"
Two years ago my friend rented her room for two nights. The person who rented it didn't like it, and demanded his money back after the first night. Instead of going through the usual AirBnb route, the man took her keys with him and demanded she goes to meet him at a random hotel with cash to get the keys back.
Airbnb refused to provide any assistance and said that it is within the guests right to do so (lol). Police were called on a premise of extortion to resolve the situation.
I hope Airbnb goes bankrupt.
You can't put a horn on a dog and call it a unicorn.
there are footage of protesters beating the police with equal brutality, but i guess you won't find it on reddit.
i'm ending my discussion here with you, you can choose to consume and believe whatever media you like.
my 2 cent was that reddit is a cesspool of propaganda now.
the anti china sentiment that has been driven up by US media and Hong Kong protests alike is irrational and is bordering xenophobia and bigotry.
just a small glance at r/HongKong and you can see images posted out of context with slogans against the police and government, most of which are targeted towards kids in school, sometimes by the same kids.
One thing pisses me off to no end: When you drag a window and accidentally make a small "left-right-left" movement, everything on your screen is minimized to the tray. There is no button to restore this.
f*cking retarded features.
4 years on, the TouchBar:
- Adds zero value in terms of functionality nor user experience for 95%+ of the user base
- Fails to better the classic buttons to change volume
- Fails to better the classic buttons to change screen brightness
- Leaves users deadlocked when they change screen displays
- Is incompatible with bootcamp, oftentimes blanking out
- Needs the user to be very cautious to not rest their hand anywhere near the touchbar, or ESC/F1/F2 will be pressed accidentally
- Needs the user to make sure that ESC was pressed when they wanted it pressed. No haptic feedback is terrible.
- Consumes more battery
- Adds a few hundred bucks to the price of the laptop, and there's lack of choice for 2018 MBP which forces the TouchBar on the user
If still alive, Jobs would have ripped someone's head off for letting the marketing idiots drive product development.
Fuck you Apple.
Sounds like the author has no idea what he is talking about, and is forcing blockchain into the article when it has no relevance.
The execs are the ones who should be tried and jailed.
I used to work for Bloomy for 3 years, and all the workflows for a Bloomberg employee are tied into the terminal, from email to chat.
That having said, I'm sure the person who wrote this article has never used Slack at work, and as a journalist he surely does not see the value added of being able to format code/send files/create polls as easily as slack allows you.
Comparing it to email is pure stupidity and displays a lack of understand of the product. But to be honest, I didn't expect more from Bloomberg Businessweek.
I work in London and was just wondering what those rates go for.
>Yet I chose the Beats because they looked comfortable. And, you know, NBA players wear them, right?
Drop near $300 on a product because NBA players wear it, then write an article complaining it is not what he expected.
Ten years ago, YouTube was just a very popular video hosting service, with videos that were not made for profit but for entertainment. Videos were made by fans for fans, by enthusiasts for other enthusiasts, and they were quality. Regarding the football vids, they were a perfect blend of action and music, paced well and with well designed rhythm.
I used to go on YouTube to watch compilations of my favorite footballers, and back then the content wasn't restricted or monitored for intellectual property breaches. Those compilations were fantastic for the reasons above.
Today's youtube is just trash.
Well maintained 2015 MBP on ebay are too expensive for the kind of hardware that they have. In my opinion, at least.
I bought a 2018 15' MBP last week. I wanted the 2018 model for the 6 core CPU, so did not have a choice regarding the TouchBar.
Here are some of the issues I've experienced since the purchase:
1. I keep on hitting escape multiple times because I don't know if I've touched it or not. More often than not, I will press it one time too many or not trigger it at all. I don't look down at the keyboard when I type.
2. I switched the TouchBar to show function keys (f1, f2, etc) by default. I plugged in an external monitor and was prompted if I want to extend the screen or mirror it. After selecting one of the options, there is NO WAY to change your external display settings using any keyboard shortcuts.
3. Every time I want to change volume or brightness, I have to look down at the TouchBar. It gets annoying, it is unnecessary, and again I have to look at the damn TouchBar to be sure how much I've lowered/increased the volume/brightness.
4. I use vim. It is a nuance.
I bought this to do development work, mainly because I highly value the trackpad and OSX user experience. But to be honest, I am contemplating returning it within the 14 day window because how fucking annoying the TouchBar is. Knowing that without this gimmick, the device would have more battery, more space to accommodate a proper keyboard mechanism, just makes me wonder how much out of touch with the users must the designer or product manager at Apple be? Not to mention that without it, MBP would probably cost around $150-$200 less.
The TouchBar is utter garbage. Why slap it on a $2,000+ "pro" machine? It makes the MBP line up an expensive gimmick toy for rich kids. Total cashgrab and disdain towards their customer segment who rely on these machines for actual work.
I won't go into details about the butterfly keyboard and magsafe. While those decisions are unpopular, they aren't as debilitating as the TouchBar.
I remember Steve Jobs talking about the downfall of Xerox being caused by marketing people taking over control of sales and product development. Now Apple is following the same footsteps. They're abandoning good and sound designs which got them to where they are now.
Sorry, but I had to rant. The TouchBar is utter garbage.
I think you got it all wrong. This is not a pitch for AirBnB. If anything, the company is creating the problem, not solving it.
>As for your tight local control, fuck that. No, you shouldn't get to decide exactly what happens in your neighborhood just because you got there first.
You're taking what OP wrote out of context and molding it to fit your simplistic thinking. There are laws to protect residential neighborhoods for a reason, and they certainly are not based on "who got here first" rule.
More likely than not, he is stuck at mid-level because of his lack of humility and arrogant approach to seniors, traits that would make a terrible technical manager.
Games are designed to grab as much cash from kids and adults alike, with things like loot boxes, microtransactions, season passes. There is little focus on developing a community, and diminishing focus on shipping an actually good product. Today's games by Blizzard can not even hold a candle to names like Diablo 2, Warcraft 3 or even Starcraft.