Maybe if the movie had utilized a Princess Bride-style framing device, where Andy shows the movie to his kids or something, and then featured that in all the trailers, audiences would have had an easier time getting behind it.

It’s a savvy play by all the other EV manufacturers, honestly. GM knows that Uncle Sam will never let them lose, so why do the work?

Sony needs tossed in there as well.

I agree with both parties, so let’s get rid of exclusives and force them both to compete on quality instead of bank account size.

I think you might be underestimating how effective this framing is. It might be a transparent effort, but it is still extremely important because Microsoft *is* the smaller player in this market.

So you are saying the PS2 was on top but for a reason, PS3 ended up on top by the end... and xbox fell behind more recently because of themselves so that means Sony hasn’t dominated them? Sounds like you are affirming Microsoft’s claim to me...

8mm (.8cm) in height

Don’t get caught in the labyrinth of trying to understand why these people do any of the shit that they do.  There’s no center.

At least it wasn’t a snow normalizer.

it’s an accurate description.

“snow groomer”? Is that the best choice of words?

Very nicely stated!

What’d you expect? The guy to actually admit he was over his head? Humility in tech culture? That ain’t it. 

Carmack’s issues with Facebook were about it’s corporate organizational optimization, not the Oculus codebase. He was using ‘GPU utilization’ as a metaphor.

He explained to some Twitter users that the reason he quit was because he “expected the environment of a startup and found something very different.”

It’s almost as if hacking a PS3 doesn’t necessarily qualify you to completely recode the search engine of one of the biggest social media platforms on the planet.

Surprise, surprise. Sadly he didn’t even manage to learn enough to change his mind about twitter only needing to be “50 people”.

Twitter probably can’t get down to less than 50 LAWYERS, much less 50 employees. Even the idea of only 50 engineers is patently ridiculous. You’re going to need that many people to just…

Says one thing, does another weeks later.

Sounds like he learned everything Elon has to teach.

If I wasn’t busy with my real, actual work, I would dip back into that first article announcing George was going over there just to re-read all the dick-riding comments about how this galaxy-brain genius was going to move mountains, just to taste how poorly they aged.

There’s a huge difference between trying to find vulnerabilities in firmware and optimizing a DB script to run .00001 seconds faster. No idea what the guy expected he’d be able to add besides sucking off daddy Elon.