How did you reach that 1.2GB/h figure? It is dead wrong. One hour of Netflix HD video is 8GB, one hour of Amazon prime HD video is 9.8GB. Are you a Verizon shill lying through your teeth?
Just from the first website that came from a google search (source). I didn't research any further, mostly because even at those figures I was able to show it doesn't take much data to fill my Verizon data plan. If your numbers are more accurate, it even further validates my contention that it doesn't take much usage to max out a standard mobile data plan.
Yes, but unless the usage is very large, it's generally cheaper to just buy the mobile data plan and not also have a home ISP.
Usage doesn't have to be that large. One hour of HD video is about 1.2 GB of data. Even a standard YouTube video at 480p is 400 MB for an hour of video. Removing wired Internet access will probably save around $50 per month, which could pay for an extra 10 GB or so from a mobile data provider like Verizon. That is only 8 hours of full HD video or 25 hours of low-res YouTube video per month. Neither of those would be considered excessive.
I can understand why a large number of people have switched to mobile data only over the past few years. That only recently became a serious option. But I have a hard time believing this trend will continue. Mobile data providers would have to start offering closer to 10x the current data volumes for the same price before it could handle the amount of content viewing needs of the average household (which if you believe YouTube marketing watch on average of 25+ hours of YouTube per month).
My wife for instance would never be considered a mobile power user, but when we had problems with our WiFi equipment she went through over 3 GB of data in a single weekend. That was almost entirely YouTube, Netflix, and Snapchat.
How about someone with 4 years, give or take, of specialized study exactly in what you do?
Four years of experience working with similar IT systems should be enough to maintain any system I create. You used the words "specialized study", which sounds like just reading books or classroom instruction, which would most likely not be enough. Education is an important part of working in IT, but it does not replace actual experience. Usually when I hand off a product for others to maintain, the highest ranking person responsible for the actual maintenance (aka not management) is in their late 20's, so it doesn't take much time in the industry to gain the necessary skills.
But like I said, you shouldn't need to pay people $150k+ in the suburban Midwest (where I work) to maintain well built IT systems. You may need them to maintain horribly designed systems, but hopefully you are using them to build the next transformation of your technology stack. Any time spent resting on your laurels in this economy simply allows your competitors to overtake you in the near future.
if a bus took out the entire operations team, someone from outside of the company would be able to use the docs to come up to speed.
Conversely, if someone off the street can read some documents and perform your job with no specialized training, then your job must pay very close to minimum wage, and you're going to be replaced by a robot soon enough anyways...
He never said someone with no specialized training could do his job. Someone would likely still need significant IT training and experience, he just wouldn't need knowledge of this specific implementation.
Any time I am doing a project one of my primary goals is making sure I will not be needed for any maintenance or enhancement tasks after project completion. This is so I have the flexibility to choose my next project without compromising my professional integrity by abandoning a crap implementation. If the only reason your company is keeping you is because you are the only one who knows how to do the same tasks over and over, then you are ripe for replacement. Valuable employees are valuable for what they can do for the company tomorrow, not what they did yesterday.
An education system poor enough to produce millions of people who would vote for Trump
Whatever your position on Trump, the most incorrect conclusion to come to is that the reason people are voting for him is that they're "too stupid" to know better.
Trump is happening for a reason. The real stupidity is not to look for one. The real terror is not to want to find it.
I never said they are stupid. Lack of education causes ignorance, not stupidity. Stupidity may hinder someone's ability to become educated, but hard work can usually overcome all but the most severe handicaps.
There is certainly a reason why both Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are happening right now. Both are anti-establishment, and one of them caters to those with strong conservative values while the other caters to the ignorant who have been being courted by conservatives for decades. That manipulation is now starting to bite the conservative establishment in the ass.
Wow, so now thinking differently than you is a disease? You do have an ego, don't you?
No, I never said that. I disagree vehemently with almost every platform Ted Cruz is running on, but do not feel the same way about his supporters. I have many intelligent Republican friends, and there is a fundamental difference of opinion and moral values between us. I may feel their opinions are misguided, but I understand how our different views on inequality, social justice, and safety net programs shape those opinions.
Trump is another beast all together. I stand by my statements that it takes deep ignorance to be a Trump supporter. Not stupidity, as others have claimed I meant, but certainly ignorance.
More likely they're just terrified by the prospect of a Trump presidency for the same reason everyone else is
You mean except for all the millions who are voting for him, right?
To me it's those millions who are voting for Trump who scare me. Trump is just a symptom of a disease. An education system poor enough to produce millions of people who would vote for Trump is the real sickness. Trump never answers political policy questions with substance yet people are still willing to hand over the most powerful position in the world to him.
Companies banding together to exert control on governments is nothing new. This only seems new because it at least appears they aren't doing it for financial reasons, but instead are doing it for a real public good. This appears to be a good shift to me, but the cynical side of me still smells a rat.
The market returns around 7% on average. At best you will get 0% on this investment, and you'll overpay just for the honor of getting the first buggy models off of the assembly line. Good luck.
No, at best you get to buy a $35k car for $27,500 instead of $35k like everyone who did not put $1000 down. That is a pretty good deal. Even if your car isn't delivered until 6 quarters after the 200,001st Tesla is delivered, the tax incentive is still $1875. That is still quite the return on investment.
If you look at current Tesla cars as a guideline, the biggest option will probably be a $10-12k performance option that gets closer to 4.5s 0-60. There will be a $3k premium interior option. A few $500-$2000 paint colors and tire options. A few $1000-$3000 options like high fidelity sound, smart air suspension, and autopilot features.
All together most cars without the performance option will cost around $40k, and $50-55k with the performance option. There will certainly be some people getting the base model, but most of these early adopters are not going to be that budget driven.
By the time the car goes into production it will not be sight unseen. There will have been opportunities for test drives just like with the last two Tesla vehicles. I put down my deposit because in the worst case scenario I have $1000 in a non-interest bearing account for a couple years, and in a best case scenario I will likely be part of the last Tesla buyers who get Federal tax credits.
> You are quite an unpleasant person all around. Its good you have the self-awareness to not have kids.
I agree with him completely and I do have kids. It's not my job or his to pay for your life choices, it's YOURS.
That's what it means to be an ADULT.
That's just the thing; we live in mostly the same society and often it really is your job to pay for the life choices of others. You may not like it, just as I don't like funding our huge military complex, but you don't really have a choice. People like you fight against social progress, but you almost always lose. And your wins are short lived. The world is moving to a more inclusive and cooperative place whether you like it or not.
You certainly aren't very pleasant either. That is of course your right, but you would have to be oblivious not to see the developed world almost unanimously does not agree with you. The propaganda the moneyed elite in the US have used to convince the working class (and those who have attained middle class status while still clinging to working class values) to not demand their fair share of the social contract is reaching the end of its effectiveness. That viewpoint, while powerful, could never withstand a ever more educated population for long.
Men like Trump and Cruz are showing those moneyed elites that keeping their core voting block so ignorant of reality has finally backfired. It was a quite effective tactic for decades, but you can only get millions of people to act against their own self interests for so long. It is good it is coming to an end.
Its a very good thing almost all people in the developed world no longer think like you. The few remnants will die off soon, while the rest of us continue to build a more inclusive and mutually cooperative society.
Those self reliant skills you claim to have are nothing to be proud of. They are a shadow of a past our species has moved on from. I may have more survivor skills than most from my childhood on my father's farm, I'm not delusional enough to think they are enough to keep up my quality of life if civilization as we know it breaks down. While you dream of an apocalyptic scenario where those survivor skills become useful, the socialists of the world will go on building a better world together.
My second child is only a month old right now, and we are currently mentally preparing ourselves for months 4-6 (or so) when we are both working but the baby isn't on a sleep schedule yet. It certainly isn't easy in week 5 with only one of us working, but its a cake walk compared to what is coming. My best friend had one kid who was on a good sleep schedule by month 3, so I am clinging to that hope right now.
I don't give a flying fuck if everyone stops having kids tomorrow. It's not my job to help other people have kids, and no it doesn't benefit me. If I get to the point where I can't take care of myself, I'll do the responsible thing and eat a bullet.
I sincerely doubt you can take care of yourself.
Can you grow your own food without any tools built by others or seeds gathered by others? Can you build your own dwelling without tools or materials provided by others? Can you secure your dwelling, water supply, and food supply from a few dozen people willing to take them from you by force? Without weaponry built by others?
You depend on society for far more than you are willing to accept. And don't use a lame cop-out like "I work hard and pay for those services without the help of others", because without other human beings creating a society they are willing to accept you into, you wouldn't have anyone to pay.
It's funny because properly raising a child is one of the least selfish things you can do
Bullshit. You want some cute kid to play with and love and to carry on your name. Fine. But stop acting like it makes you Jesus, you self-centered fuckhead.
I don't owe you jack-fucking-shit. And neither do any of your co-workers.
When you adopted a dog, did you run to your co-workers and ask them to pay for your fucking Purina too, you arrogant douche?
You are quite an unpleasant person all around. Its good you have the self-awareness to not have kids.
Maybe what they do is socially important, but going on vacation and spending money is also socially important. The act of raising a child is what's socially important, not just having them.
Well technically they are not getting this leave to have children. They already are given more than enough PTO time to cover the delivery and disability insurance would cover complications. This leave is for the extra burden of raising a child during its first few months, which is far greater than it is later in life. So this leave is for the act of raising a child.
And in reality this leave is not a benefit given for the public good. It is a recruiting and retention tool. There are plenty of benefits that don't affect every employee, and the usefulness of most of them are closely tied to decisions made by employees (such as having a child).
You get a shitload of extra work to pick up the slack.
It almost makes up for the extra work these parent's are doing to create the next generation to pay your social security benefits and keep society running. Its only off by a factor of 10-20, so you're getting a hell of a deal here.
There are already too many people without incentivizing making more.
But not nearly enough people with the financial capabilities and social upbringing who are likely to raise the next generation of high skilled workers the world still needs many more of. I would like to keep Idiocracy just a comedy and not an accurate prophecy.
I want 20 my weeks too, or I'll take a 1 year 38.5% raise instead.
Invest 20,000+ hours in creating the next generation, and then you can talk about getting another 160-480 hours off from your job.
This isn't charity. I am one of the highly skilled workers with two young children who put family related benefits high on my priority list. My first daughter was born at a company with paid paternity leave, and for my second child my current company gave me weeks of PTO up front because my wife was pregnant when I joined. I assure you my boss and his superiors didn't bat an eye at giving me extra time off if it meant being able to get me to join.
If you care so much about this, negotiate for more PTO time for yourself because of your needs as a single person. If you are worth it they will give it to you.
Everyone complains about corporate interests manipulating government. The second common sense shows up, they lose their minds. This is an example of a company trying to exert pressure on a government entity. Where is the outrage?
It seems people are capable of seeing the difference in businesses fighting for social justice and businesses fighting for corporate profits. The concept of lobbying is not a purely evil one; it can be used for good and for bad. This is a case of corporate pressure being used for good, therefore the lack of outrage from the left.
Corporations are merely organizations of people, and it is a good thing when they have a moral code. If that moral code tramples on civil rights the government should step in, such as businesses not serving members of a certain race, gender, or sexual preference. But if that moral code does not violate such rights, as decided by the legislature and judicial bodies, I see this activity as a primarily good thing.
How the hell is it "bigotry"? Most software UI design/development is done by people in their 20s and early 30s. You know, people born after 1980. By definition they're part of the Millennial Generation, hence it's perfectly correct and acceptable to refer to them as "Millennials". And nearly all of those people do subscribe to the "Hipster" way of life.
There are about 77-80 million Millennials in the US alone. This group is more socioeconomically, ethnically, and ideologically diverse than any previous generation. Yet you stereotype about a quarter of the US population into a single narrow ill-defined group.
And while perhaps a large percentage of mobile apps and young startups have their UI's designed primarily by Millennials, I doubt most software is designed and approved by people under the age of 35. I agree the majority of the work may be done by Millennials, but the Directors and VPs approving the designs before they are released to the public are probably Gen X. I would be willing to bet most of the important design decisions made for Windows 10 (mentioned by the OP) were done by Gen X. The Lead Designer, for instance, graduated from college in 1990 (Albert Shum).
One of the core tenets of the "Hipster" philosophy is putting design above utility
Hipster is such a loosely defined derogatory term that any claim there are core tenets of their philosophy is suspect. And if there were, it would based more on independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, appreciation for independent art, and creativity (stolen from Urban Dictionary). Counter-culture is not the same as form over function. It is simply a rejection of main stream culture.
It's pretty obvious that his bigoted anti-hipster / millenial comments are what got it modded down, regardless of the quality of the rest of the post. It will probably be nodded back up eventually.
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How did you reach that 1.2GB/h figure? It is dead wrong. One hour of Netflix HD video is 8GB, one hour of Amazon prime HD video is 9.8GB.
Are you a Verizon shill lying through your teeth?
Just from the first website that came from a google search (source). I didn't research any further, mostly because even at those figures I was able to show it doesn't take much data to fill my Verizon data plan. If your numbers are more accurate, it even further validates my contention that it doesn't take much usage to max out a standard mobile data plan.
Yes, but unless the usage is very large, it's generally cheaper to just buy the mobile data plan and not also have a home ISP.
Usage doesn't have to be that large. One hour of HD video is about 1.2 GB of data. Even a standard YouTube video at 480p is 400 MB for an hour of video. Removing wired Internet access will probably save around $50 per month, which could pay for an extra 10 GB or so from a mobile data provider like Verizon. That is only 8 hours of full HD video or 25 hours of low-res YouTube video per month. Neither of those would be considered excessive.
I can understand why a large number of people have switched to mobile data only over the past few years. That only recently became a serious option. But I have a hard time believing this trend will continue. Mobile data providers would have to start offering closer to 10x the current data volumes for the same price before it could handle the amount of content viewing needs of the average household (which if you believe YouTube marketing watch on average of 25+ hours of YouTube per month).
My wife for instance would never be considered a mobile power user, but when we had problems with our WiFi equipment she went through over 3 GB of data in a single weekend. That was almost entirely YouTube, Netflix, and Snapchat.
How about someone with 4 years, give or take, of specialized study exactly in what you do?
Four years of experience working with similar IT systems should be enough to maintain any system I create. You used the words "specialized study", which sounds like just reading books or classroom instruction, which would most likely not be enough. Education is an important part of working in IT, but it does not replace actual experience. Usually when I hand off a product for others to maintain, the highest ranking person responsible for the actual maintenance (aka not management) is in their late 20's, so it doesn't take much time in the industry to gain the necessary skills.
But like I said, you shouldn't need to pay people $150k+ in the suburban Midwest (where I work) to maintain well built IT systems. You may need them to maintain horribly designed systems, but hopefully you are using them to build the next transformation of your technology stack. Any time spent resting on your laurels in this economy simply allows your competitors to overtake you in the near future.
if a bus took out the entire operations team, someone from outside of the company would be able to use the docs to come up to speed.
Conversely, if someone off the street can read some documents and perform your job with no specialized training, then your job must pay very close to minimum wage, and you're going to be replaced by a robot soon enough anyways...
He never said someone with no specialized training could do his job. Someone would likely still need significant IT training and experience, he just wouldn't need knowledge of this specific implementation.
Any time I am doing a project one of my primary goals is making sure I will not be needed for any maintenance or enhancement tasks after project completion. This is so I have the flexibility to choose my next project without compromising my professional integrity by abandoning a crap implementation. If the only reason your company is keeping you is because you are the only one who knows how to do the same tasks over and over, then you are ripe for replacement. Valuable employees are valuable for what they can do for the company tomorrow, not what they did yesterday.
Whatever your position on Trump, the most incorrect conclusion to come to is that the reason people are voting for him is that they're "too stupid" to know better.
Trump is happening for a reason. The real stupidity is not to look for one. The real terror is not to want to find it.
I never said they are stupid. Lack of education causes ignorance, not stupidity. Stupidity may hinder someone's ability to become educated, but hard work can usually overcome all but the most severe handicaps.
There is certainly a reason why both Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are happening right now. Both are anti-establishment, and one of them caters to those with strong conservative values while the other caters to the ignorant who have been being courted by conservatives for decades. That manipulation is now starting to bite the conservative establishment in the ass.
Wow, so now thinking differently than you is a disease? You do have an ego, don't you?
No, I never said that. I disagree vehemently with almost every platform Ted Cruz is running on, but do not feel the same way about his supporters. I have many intelligent Republican friends, and there is a fundamental difference of opinion and moral values between us. I may feel their opinions are misguided, but I understand how our different views on inequality, social justice, and safety net programs shape those opinions.
Trump is another beast all together. I stand by my statements that it takes deep ignorance to be a Trump supporter. Not stupidity, as others have claimed I meant, but certainly ignorance.
More likely they're just terrified by the prospect of a Trump presidency for the same reason everyone else is
You mean except for all the millions who are voting for him, right?
To me it's those millions who are voting for Trump who scare me. Trump is just a symptom of a disease. An education system poor enough to produce millions of people who would vote for Trump is the real sickness. Trump never answers political policy questions with substance yet people are still willing to hand over the most powerful position in the world to him.
Companies banding together to exert control on governments is nothing new. This only seems new because it at least appears they aren't doing it for financial reasons, but instead are doing it for a real public good. This appears to be a good shift to me, but the cynical side of me still smells a rat.
Which is nothing if you're an urbanite living in a major US city. But there's the additional cost of getting the charger purchased and installed, no?
True, I have heard figures that range from $500 to a couple thousand for the electrical work.
The market returns around 7% on average. At best you will get 0% on this investment, and you'll overpay just for the honor of getting the first buggy models off of the assembly line. Good luck.
No, at best you get to buy a $35k car for $27,500 instead of $35k like everyone who did not put $1000 down. That is a pretty good deal. Even if your car isn't delivered until 6 quarters after the 200,001st Tesla is delivered, the tax incentive is still $1875. That is still quite the return on investment.
If you look at current Tesla cars as a guideline, the biggest option will probably be a $10-12k performance option that gets closer to 4.5s 0-60. There will be a $3k premium interior option. A few $500-$2000 paint colors and tire options. A few $1000-$3000 options like high fidelity sound, smart air suspension, and autopilot features.
All together most cars without the performance option will cost around $40k, and $50-55k with the performance option. There will certainly be some people getting the base model, but most of these early adopters are not going to be that budget driven.
Refundable until the car goes into production.
By the time the car goes into production it will not be sight unseen. There will have been opportunities for test drives just like with the last two Tesla vehicles. I put down my deposit because in the worst case scenario I have $1000 in a non-interest bearing account for a couple years, and in a best case scenario I will likely be part of the last Tesla buyers who get Federal tax credits.
> You are quite an unpleasant person all around. Its good you have the self-awareness to not have kids.
I agree with him completely and I do have kids. It's not my job or his to pay for your life choices, it's YOURS.
That's what it means to be an ADULT.
That's just the thing; we live in mostly the same society and often it really is your job to pay for the life choices of others. You may not like it, just as I don't like funding our huge military complex, but you don't really have a choice. People like you fight against social progress, but you almost always lose. And your wins are short lived. The world is moving to a more inclusive and cooperative place whether you like it or not.
You certainly aren't very pleasant either. That is of course your right, but you would have to be oblivious not to see the developed world almost unanimously does not agree with you. The propaganda the moneyed elite in the US have used to convince the working class (and those who have attained middle class status while still clinging to working class values) to not demand their fair share of the social contract is reaching the end of its effectiveness. That viewpoint, while powerful, could never withstand a ever more educated population for long.
Men like Trump and Cruz are showing those moneyed elites that keeping their core voting block so ignorant of reality has finally backfired. It was a quite effective tactic for decades, but you can only get millions of people to act against their own self interests for so long. It is good it is coming to an end.
Its a very good thing almost all people in the developed world no longer think like you. The few remnants will die off soon, while the rest of us continue to build a more inclusive and mutually cooperative society.
Those self reliant skills you claim to have are nothing to be proud of. They are a shadow of a past our species has moved on from. I may have more survivor skills than most from my childhood on my father's farm, I'm not delusional enough to think they are enough to keep up my quality of life if civilization as we know it breaks down. While you dream of an apocalyptic scenario where those survivor skills become useful, the socialists of the world will go on building a better world together.
My second child is only a month old right now, and we are currently mentally preparing ourselves for months 4-6 (or so) when we are both working but the baby isn't on a sleep schedule yet. It certainly isn't easy in week 5 with only one of us working, but its a cake walk compared to what is coming. My best friend had one kid who was on a good sleep schedule by month 3, so I am clinging to that hope right now.
I don't give a flying fuck if everyone stops having kids tomorrow. It's not my job to help other people have kids, and no it doesn't benefit me. If I get to the point where I can't take care of myself, I'll do the responsible thing and eat a bullet.
I sincerely doubt you can take care of yourself.
Can you grow your own food without any tools built by others or seeds gathered by others?
Can you build your own dwelling without tools or materials provided by others?
Can you secure your dwelling, water supply, and food supply from a few dozen people willing to take them from you by force? Without weaponry built by others?
You depend on society for far more than you are willing to accept. And don't use a lame cop-out like "I work hard and pay for those services without the help of others", because without other human beings creating a society they are willing to accept you into, you wouldn't have anyone to pay.
It's funny because properly raising a child is one of the least selfish things you can do
Bullshit. You want some cute kid to play with and love and to carry on your name. Fine. But stop acting like it makes you Jesus, you self-centered fuckhead.
I don't owe you jack-fucking-shit. And neither do any of your co-workers.
When you adopted a dog, did you run to your co-workers and ask them to pay for your fucking Purina too, you arrogant douche?
You are quite an unpleasant person all around. Its good you have the self-awareness to not have kids.
Maybe what they do is socially important, but going on vacation and spending money is also socially important. The act of raising a child is what's socially important, not just having them.
Well technically they are not getting this leave to have children. They already are given more than enough PTO time to cover the delivery and disability insurance would cover complications. This leave is for the extra burden of raising a child during its first few months, which is far greater than it is later in life. So this leave is for the act of raising a child.
And in reality this leave is not a benefit given for the public good. It is a recruiting and retention tool. There are plenty of benefits that don't affect every employee, and the usefulness of most of them are closely tied to decisions made by employees (such as having a child).
You get a shitload of extra work to pick up the slack.
It almost makes up for the extra work these parent's are doing to create the next generation to pay your social security benefits and keep society running. Its only off by a factor of 10-20, so you're getting a hell of a deal here.
There are already too many people without incentivizing making more.
But not nearly enough people with the financial capabilities and social upbringing who are likely to raise the next generation of high skilled workers the world still needs many more of. I would like to keep Idiocracy just a comedy and not an accurate prophecy.
Ugh, math fail, that's 20 weeks not 20 days, so 800-2400 hours. Still a tiny portion of what it takes to raise the next generation.
I want 20 my weeks too, or I'll take a 1 year 38.5% raise instead.
Invest 20,000+ hours in creating the next generation, and then you can talk about getting another 160-480 hours off from your job.
This isn't charity. I am one of the highly skilled workers with two young children who put family related benefits high on my priority list. My first daughter was born at a company with paid paternity leave, and for my second child my current company gave me weeks of PTO up front because my wife was pregnant when I joined. I assure you my boss and his superiors didn't bat an eye at giving me extra time off if it meant being able to get me to join.
If you care so much about this, negotiate for more PTO time for yourself because of your needs as a single person. If you are worth it they will give it to you.
Everyone complains about corporate interests manipulating government. The second common sense shows up, they lose their minds. This is an example of a company trying to exert pressure on a government entity. Where is the outrage?
It seems people are capable of seeing the difference in businesses fighting for social justice and businesses fighting for corporate profits. The concept of lobbying is not a purely evil one; it can be used for good and for bad. This is a case of corporate pressure being used for good, therefore the lack of outrage from the left.
Corporations are merely organizations of people, and it is a good thing when they have a moral code. If that moral code tramples on civil rights the government should step in, such as businesses not serving members of a certain race, gender, or sexual preference. But if that moral code does not violate such rights, as decided by the legislature and judicial bodies, I see this activity as a primarily good thing.
How the hell is it "bigotry"? Most software UI design/development is done by people in their 20s and early 30s. You know, people born after 1980. By definition they're part of the Millennial Generation, hence it's perfectly correct and acceptable to refer to them as "Millennials". And nearly all of those people do subscribe to the "Hipster" way of life.
There are about 77-80 million Millennials in the US alone. This group is more socioeconomically, ethnically, and ideologically diverse than any previous generation. Yet you stereotype about a quarter of the US population into a single narrow ill-defined group.
And while perhaps a large percentage of mobile apps and young startups have their UI's designed primarily by Millennials, I doubt most software is designed and approved by people under the age of 35. I agree the majority of the work may be done by Millennials, but the Directors and VPs approving the designs before they are released to the public are probably Gen X. I would be willing to bet most of the important design decisions made for Windows 10 (mentioned by the OP) were done by Gen X. The Lead Designer, for instance, graduated from college in 1990 (Albert Shum).
One of the core tenets of the "Hipster" philosophy is putting design above utility
Hipster is such a loosely defined derogatory term that any claim there are core tenets of their philosophy is suspect. And if there were, it would based more on independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, appreciation for independent art, and creativity (stolen from Urban Dictionary). Counter-culture is not the same as form over function. It is simply a rejection of main stream culture.
It's pretty obvious that his bigoted anti-hipster / millenial comments are what got it modded down, regardless of the quality of the rest of the post. It will probably be nodded back up eventually.