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just like Flickr was a game that accidentally became a photo sharing website.

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/633164558/slack-flickr-stewar...

Stewart Butterfield is absolutely terrible at making games, but incredibly good at building successful companies.


I find it really fascinating that this is priced identically to an iPhone 17e. Speaks to it essentially being a big iPad with a keyboard attached running macOS.

In Canada they don't seem to be priced the same - Neo starts at $899, and 17e at $799.

There are so many generalities and so much hand-waving in your comment that it's really hard for me to understand what situations or which people you're referring to. It would be much improved with some specifics.

Bad news, Voltaire didn't actually say that thing about 'defending your speech to the death.'

i'm not defending anyone's speech - i'm saying just because other people are assholes doesn't mean i should become one.

Expressing qualms about hiring somebody who has voluntarily demonstrated a lack of ethics isn't 'being an asshole'. In fact, it's usually a good business decision and always an ethically-sound one.

Here's a sample question, feel free to use:

"If somebody offered you money to build the brains for fully-autonomous killbots PLUS mass domestic surveillance of the civilian population, would you accept the offer?"

"Yes" => They are unethical => No-hire.

"No" => They did do that, and thus are a liar, and thus are unethical => No-hire.


Still on X, yelling about how amazing Elon Musk is.

OODA: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act.

I see a number of references to macOS support in your docs for Axiom. Can this run on iOS?

Theoretically, yes? This hasent been tested but xcode has great c++ interop and the goal with Axiom and now parakeet.cpp is to be used for portable deployments so making that process easier is definitely on the roadmap.

"Truth, Justice, and the American Way" aren't dead yet.

They've always been dead for a segment of the population. And its the section of population "We" (royal) chose.

Unfortunately, We have exhausted the existing people we demolished. Now, who is being sacrificed is moving further up the economic foodchain with no real end in sight.


Are you sure?

I’m not entirely sure what point you’re trying to make. The invention of the cotton gin increased the use of slaves; it didn’t decrease it.

https://freedomcenter.org/voice/eli-whitney-cotton-gin/


> The invention of the cotton gin increased the use of slaves; it didn’t decrease it.

Because the efficiency increase in that part of the process meant we could grow so much more cotton to be processed. It wasn't very profitable before that, because slave labor wasn't very efficient at the process.

(This led, eventually, to more automation of the planting/harvesting process.)


Clearly, you are much more clever than I am because I still have no idea what your thesis is supposed to be.

Thesis: Slavery is a morally unacceptable crutch that leads to stagnation over innovation in the long run.

I took an even simpler route:

I rebuilt the OneBusAway iOS app from scratch as a pair of Swift frameworks that will work anywhere, including tvOS[1].

Then, I started a new project to rebuild the OneBusAway server in Golang from scratch[2].

Then, I got an intern to build a suite of fantastic SDKs on top of Stainless[3].

Finally, I got Google to pay for an intern last summer to build a sign mode UI in SvelteKit that will work in any browser[4].

Easy!

But seriously though, if your transit agency isn't so cool that they provide GraphQL endpoints to query transit information, I think you'll find that the OneBusAway Maglev server is an incredibly easy way to consume your transit agency's scheduled and realtime data, and that our SDKs and apps are a fantastic way to visualize all of that information.

We're always looking for software developers to help out with our projects, as well as folks in disciplines ranging from user experience and product management, to biz dev and marketing, to volunteer some time to help our underfunded open source projects succeed. Feel free to reach out to me at aaron@onebusaway.org if that sounds interesting to you. Our software is used by millions of people every day in cities all around the world, including Seattle and New York City.

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[1] https://github.com/oneBusAway/onebusaway-ios/

[2] https://github.com/OneBusAway/maglev

[3] https://developer.onebusaway.org/api/sdk and Stainless (which is a really terrific product) is at https://www.stainless.com

[4] https://github.com/oneBusAway/waystation


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