He is quite the character on that. Great episode!

What if Google can't compete? They don't want to be left behind and all this money being throw around is just nonsense anyway.

I hAvE a FeW qUaLmS wItH tHiS aPp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

I really like Zettlr, but I find it is always crashing when markdown changes behind the scenes and it has the document open.

It's so good for viewing all markdown in a repo, but dies all too often.

This is the reply that was posted when Dropbox was first shown off on HN. It's a joke :)

ah I wasn't aware! thanks for explaining :D

I used to partake in all RAM discussions online. Here, reddit, every technical hardware forum and anywhere workstations were being talked about.

The sentiment was always ECC is a waste and a scam. My goodness the unhinged posts from people who thought it was a trick and couldn't fathom you don't know you're having bits flipped without it. "it's a rip off" without even looking and seeinf often the price was just that of the extra chip.

I've discussed it for 20 years since the first Mac Pro and people just did not want to hear that it had any use. Even after the Google study.

Consumers giving professionals advice. Was same with workstation graphics cards.

Very bizarre, as I also found it helped with this! I was only a First Officer at the time, but even as a Captain today I find playing 2048 during take off and landing really helps.

Wait, you're a Captain, and you fear of taking off and landing? I have so many questions :). Also, as someone who is scared of taking off and landing, I'm even more scared now.

I suspect they were being facetious.

Too much control and influence for an American company I expect.

Japanese companies have some behaviour that may seem odd, naive or lacking the best of capitalism, but they are what they are.

Nintendo regularly get this sort of criticism.

The game is also a data collection tool for Niantic, rather that to be a great game. Someone would have to give up control to change it all.

You forgot brain surgeon. Of course it's not rocket science is it.

Probably with Doctor. An actual scientist might come above Lawyer/Doctor (and below Artist/Designer), but this is a rather recent upwards move, as it became cooler to be smart (note this does not apply to engineers, who are looked down upon by scientists anyway)

It's a reference to a Mitchell and Webb sketch about the status games that people play around employment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I

Oh I missed the reference! Yes great sketch, and exactly what we are talking about here.

fantastic reference! made me chuckle

> " I guess you don't really know that you needed ECC until it's too late."

I spent many years on hardware consultation and was amazed at the all the times I had to explain it was just a what if insurance like any other things their business was mitigating against. Sometimes they'd even decided they needed to save costs in non-ecc ram when it was $4 a gb in difference, or (during the FB-DIMM era) there wasn't even an option to avoid it.

Never really understood the resistance towards it.

Maybe the lack of evidence before the Google study and people thinking RAM manufacturers were trying to rip them off or something.

The "never had a problem so why would I need" it attitude with no way to know if an issue was caused by a bit flip was most baffling.