{"id":15272,"date":"2021-08-18T06:47:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T13:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=15272"},"modified":"2021-08-18T06:48:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T13:48:02","slug":"design-why-monorails-almost-never-work-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/18\/design-why-monorails-almost-never-work-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Design: Why Monorails almost never work out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was such a die-hard Apple dead-ender in the 90&#8217;s that I&#8217;d often fruitlessly pitch Macs anyone who&#8217;d listen (any many who wouldn&#8217;t). My roommate would listen to my rants about the vile inelegance of Windows, then gently shake his head and say, &#8220;Look, I get it. But the Mac is like a monorail: it&#8217;s sleek, it&#8217;s beautiful, and it&#8217;s just stuck on some little loop.&#8221; Then off he went to buy a new gaming PC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This funny, informative video explains the actual mechanics &amp; economics that explain why such &#8220;futuristic&#8221; designs have rarely made sense in the real world. Check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Monorails Are A Bad Idea\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9f__nhlHC1g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was such a die-hard Apple dead-ender in the 90&#8217;s that I&#8217;d often fruitlessly pitch Macs anyone who&#8217;d listen (any many who wouldn&#8217;t). My roommate would listen to my rants about the vile inelegance of Windows, then gently shake his head and say, &#8220;Look, I get it. But the Mac is like a monorail: it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15285,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15272\/revisions\/15285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}