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Forstall fired an engineer I had worked with (and who I respected a lot) to take the fall for Apple Maps.

Like one engineer could ever be responsible for that epic of a fiasco?

“When we started out with maps, it was an ambitious undertaking. It was bumpy…”

And I know many engineers within Apple that had been testing Maps before it shipped and they were filing bugs about it. It shipped anyway.


> It shipped anyway.

“Real artists ship”

No product worth using is bug free.


No product is bug free. Are all products worth using?

"No product worth using is bug free" is not the same statement as "all bug free products are worth using". Come on man, this is basic logic.

You’re right. But your statement was that no product worth using is bug free. I said that no software exists that is without bugs. Your statement uses the presence of bugs to indicate a product is worth using. But since all software has bugs, that applies to every product ever made. It doesn’t have any discriminating power. So it’s not fallacious on its face but it’s not useful either, and that’s what I was trying to point out.

> Your statement uses the presence of bugs to indicate a product is worth using.

This is not correct; "If a product is worth using, then it has bugs." (P→Q) does not imply its converse "If a product has bugs, then it is worth using." (Q→P). Buginess is presented as a necessary condition of being worth using, not a sufficient one.

It does, however, imply "If a product has no bugs, then it is not worth using.".


> It doesn’t have any discriminating power.

That was exactly my point. The presence of bugs in a product (in this case Apple Maps) does not mean it should not ship. “No open bugs” cannot be the criteria for whether a product is ready to ship.


> “No open bugs” cannot be the criteria for whether a product is ready to ship.

I think you mean, should not.


That “pointing out” is, itself, “not useful either.”

I mean the problem was the Google contract, yeah?

Could also combine with the "scanner back" and not have the intermediary screen you have to photograph.

Of course everything has to remain quite still…

Next level indeed: https://youtu.be/KSvjJGbFCws


This is an option I wanted to experiment with, but when I decided to use it for the short film it died off in my mind. (I even checked how many fps we'd get with a scanner...)

Agree. The U.S. needs reforms at the Amendment level after this administration. We need it to so the U.S. citizen can trust their government again.

Need to write your language in the emulator—build your emulator from the language emulated in your emulator…

Sounds like the Forth way.

What a great idea

"Starting from marriage, men are changing to the less manly direction."

Ha ha, I started perhaps already farther on the Femine spectrum such that marriage pulled me more toward the "Masculine" end—feeling now obliged to "win the bread" for another.

(When it was just me I could indulge all my selfish, artistic whims…)


That behaviour was probably more due to psycho-social reasons that biological which regressed, but sure the net effect pushed you more to the one pole.

When we only have ourselves to care about, I think it is easier to be irresponsible about our health. It is only ourselves who suffer the consequences. That kind of "solitary-ism" or ego can swing either way: you care so much for yourself that you focus on your health, or instead focus on enjoying those things life has to offer like food and wine (often at the expense of health).

Unlike my and many other's parents, I waited until I was older, more mature and planned beginning a family. Nonetheless, I suspect none of us were truly prepared for what that would mean—especially in the life-changing ways it manifest in.

So if some of us were not focused on our own health before going into fatherhood, I am not surprised. No doubt there are others that had checked off that box but started a family with much slimmer finances than I thought necessary to begin fatherhood.

In the end I suspect it is easy to Monday-morning quarterback my introduction to fatherhood and determine where I could have done better. At the same time, and I am considering my own upbringing, I could have done much, much worse. And yet most of us make it to adulthood with more or less healthy minds and bodies.


I get that. I quit smoking when my first child was born.

I think my devil-may-care attitude toward longevity changed when I realized I had a long-term investment cradled in my arms. And I wanted to live long enough to see her leave the nest at least.


"I am not looking for confirmation bias…"

Then you'll enjoy all the contrarian opinions on both sides. Also here in HN comments.


Who is the disciplinarian in the house? I get it, there does tend to be a "role" there (not clear which sex gets that one–it seems to be dependent on a lot of factors—perhaps who is the less patient being the top one).

It just seems odd that anyone would see "nurturing" as assigned to one or the other parent.


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