It doesn’t seem that bad to me. Certainly not “toxic”. A lot of it is quite relevant to my industry. Perhaps because I am selective with who I link (only people I have worked with and could vouch for)).
Readit Newspbreit commented on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity elliotcsmith.com/linkedin... · Posted by u/smitec
Without Woz and Jobs there’d be no Apple (as the name was because of Jobs weird eating habits), but most definitely without Woz there’d be no Apple.
Everything Jobs was though and the people around him and those that worked before him were important for the state of Apple as he left it.
But Woz is my fav also, and if there were many, many makers like Woz, and there are, that would be fantastic, and it is.
Woz, I love you, man.
I think there's a decent chance there's an Apple without Woz. But definitely not without Jobs.
Less Jobs, more Woz
You could not be more wrong.
Woz was in the right place at the right time. Jobs would have found someone else and no one would ever have heard of Woz. Jobs gave us some of the most amazing products the world has ever seen.
I like Woz, was never a fan of Jobs. And I mean that with regard to their personality — not their skillset.
My sense though, after having seen Woz talk a few times now, is that he seemed (seems?) to be on a tear to make sure his legacy is known. Now I would never say that he came across as a braggart in his talks ... but intent on making sure it is established that is was he the designed the Apple II (not Jobs, for example).
I always feel a bit of sadness though. It seems that he dropped out as the chief architect of the hardware not long after the Apple II ascendency. I'm thinking of the Apple IIGs, etc. — certainly the Lisa and Macintosh.
It feels like the industry quickly moved beyond the reach of the "hobbyist". There were no more "clever tricks" to be employed — just thousands of very dense 4-layer traces and lots and lots of components.
I know he was not a "mere hobbyist" — he worked for HP for crissakes, but the machines became more like spreadsheets, less like "art" if you know what I mean.
Woz is extraordinary lucky that he has a legacy (and a lot of money). Clearly the bulk of the credit goes to Jobs. And it seems more than likely that if not Woz, Jobs would have found someone else.
Woz gave a lecture in one of my classes years ago and I came away impressed. He was obviously a brilliant engineer. "Naivete" is generally used in a negative manner but he had just enough naivete to get through life happy. He talked about all the chips he redesigned as a teen and it did not sound like bragging at all. We need more Woz's and less Jobs in this world.
Could not disagree more. Woz's naiveté is cute. But Jobs' creations are out-of-this-world amazing. If not Woz, Jobs would have found someone else.
“Most” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I use plenty of APIs that are GET
I was thinking server-side where it's probably 90%+ POST. True, client-side a lot different (node the only player client-side, though).
The killer upgrade here isn’t ESM. It’s Node baking fetch + AbortController into core. Dropping axios/node-fetch trimmed my Lambda bundle and shaved about 100 ms off cold-start latency. If you’re still npm i axios out of habit, 2025 Node is your cue to drop the training wheels.
It has always astonished me that platforms did not have first class, native "http client" support. Pretty much every project in the past 20 years has needed such a thing.
Also, "fetch" is lousy naming considering most API calls are POST.
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pbreit commented on I don't think AGI is right around the corner dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-... · Posted by u/mooreds
I’m always fascinated when someone equates profit with intelligence. There are many very wealthy fools and there always have been. Plenty of ingredients to substitute for intelligence.
Neither necessary nor sufficient.
Zuck is top 10% intelligence...possibly top 1%.
You cannot predict the future and chances are there will be some breaking change forced upon you by someone or something out of your control.