As I read it, it is essentially "I don't see how a close association with white supremacists/racists is relevant to the fact that it mis-identifies black people as criminals", which I doubt is what you mean.
To me it looks like they saved quite a lot of engineering effort, and the price was lockin. Seems like it was probably a fair trade for them.
At least if it's sane and well thought out it can be taken back apart and repurposed for something different. There will be cost. Consider it paying back the loan. That's why it's called technical debt. The terms of the debt looks good to me.
You definitely want to scale UI to readable. Also need to consider how to take advantage of the extra screen real estate, e.g. code editor in right half of screen, browser for research on the left, console in bottom left for random command line stuff, etc...
Rather interesting to note the use of "my" rather than "our" and "I" rather than "We" in the article: "Multiply this by all my managers and I was on my way to burning up all my cash and destroying my culture."
I noticed this as well. I wonder how much of his assertive and dominant character also influenced empire-building politics. Management is responsible for setting the general tone and language for the corporate culture.
Even though "we" and "our" sounds better in principle and rightfully gives credit to the team/company as a whole, I've noticed that management oddly like people that speak the opposite way. Speaking about things as "my" team, what "I" would like to do, or what "my" idea is. Saw it recently, even. Coming from a (mediocre) junior developer, coupled with a cocky attitude, and it absolutely infuriates me to watch it.
Hilariously weak logic... reading has higher information rate than listening. Written content can be parsed rapidly to focus on interesting chapters and sections of books. Main use case for listening to podcasts (incl vs. scanning podcast written transcripts) is in the case of listening while doing another activity (e.g. driving a car).
Keep in mind that there may be passwords / keys in the spaghetti etc...
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