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by allenu 3y ago
I didn’t think it would be “dirt cheap”. It’s a surprising product to make in a world where there are already more affordable models produced by the same company to satisfy the urge for instant photos and everyone already has a camera in th
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by allenu 3y ago
I was shocked to see the price tag on this. On the other hand, I could see it being used as mostly a marketing tool to provide an aspirational product to essentially set an anchor price that makes all their other lines feel more affordable.
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by allenu 3y ago
I worked at Microsoft from 2005-2017 and mostly had a private office during that entire period. There were some teams that I joined in the later years that were more "startupish" that worked in open spaces, which I really didn&#x2
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by allenu 3y ago
You're right that it does hallucinate a lot when it comes to MacOS API. I find that the hit rate is good enough to ask ChatGPT first, however, before diving deep into Apple documentation. It's saved me quite a bit of time in terms
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by allenu 3y ago
I remember fixing up a CRT on an arcade machine I had in my office at work at one point. I read up on how to discharge it and made a makeshift tool to do the job (i.e. an insulated screwdriver with a wire attached to ground). I was pretty s
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by allenu 3y ago
I wonder about this, and not in the sense that this person is being extra cautious still. In my case, I moved into my house a few months before the pandemic struck. When I moved in, the couple across the street came by to introduce themselv
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by allenu 3y ago
I don't really think of it that way. I've been doing Mac and iOS development for over ten years now. A lot of the info I gleaning is not design techniques or stuff that I feel is worth memorizing. It's more what functions are
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by allenu 3y ago
I do Mac/iOS development and am constantly asking ChatGPT about various APIs and frameworks. Apple's documentation is not great for explaining how to actually use APIs, unless you can find the one WWDC video that explains it or a
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by allenu 3y ago
This announcement feels like a "well, we're not close to shipping and we don't know if we have the resources to continue, so let's issue a press release and see if we can muster some interest to gauge if we should keep f
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by allenu 3y ago
I came here to comment on this too. I’m from Edmonton but live in Seattle now. I can definitely hear a difference in people from Vancouver versus those from Edmonton. I was hoping to see more detail on the Canadian side.
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by allenu 3y ago
Same here. It's so inscrutable, I'd also assume it was just a weird-looking bench. It honestly looks goofy chained-off, like some kind of modern art installation.
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by allenu 3y ago
I have a similar story. I was working at Microsoft and part of the internal arcade alias. One day, somebody on there mentioned a team was moving buildings and had some arcade cabinets in their storage room that they had to get rid of, one o
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by allenu 3y ago
At least in some parts of Seattle, you do see them a lot. In my neighborhood of Ballard, for instance, I can go for a walk and see three of them parked on the street.
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by allenu 3y ago
It's incredibly frustrating to see a lack of serious discussion of the product here. Any skepticism is met with blind faith that Apple can pull this off and just to sit and wait until the product ships before criticizing. (Meanwhile, a
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by allenu 3y ago
I don't know about VR developers being angry. I'm a VR/AR skeptic too and I'm surprised at the seemingly overwhelming optimism about Vision Pro from commenters. I think maybe it's the result of a large number of peo
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by allenu 3y ago
It's funny because the idea of "if you didn't succeed, you didn't try hard enough" is a cornerstone of the self-help industry and the charlatans peddling various self-improvement systems. If anybody follows their sy
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by allenu 3y ago
You're right. It's a good lesson to take away when it isn't you because when you're that guy, it's so hard to separate yourself from your work.
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by allenu 3y ago
I absolutely agree with the premise. People just love building things even when they're not needed. After a while, your ego gets attached to whatever it is you've built and you can't let it go. I remember working at one place
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by allenu 3y ago
It really is. I'm finding that there are some menial programming tasks where I really can just turn off my brain and listen to podcasts while I work and almost let my muscle memory take over. There are also tasks that require my full u
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by allenu 3y ago
Thank you for the explanation. If I get another chance, I'll give it another try with that in mind.
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by allenu 3y ago
I remember trying it at PAX and was disappointed the effect didn't feel that strong to me either. I almost felt like something was broken or not calibrated since I could sense some 3D-ness, but it didn't jump out as truly 3D. I ag
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by allenu 3y ago
There's a viral quality to emails from BlackBerry devices as well. Didn't they add "Sent from my BlackBerry" to the end of emails by default? And then Apple famously added "Sent from my iPhone" by default to em
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by allenu 3y ago
> I fully understand how much Meta, Apple and others "want to make fetch happen". Many of us are simply just not interested. That thing that gets me is just how weak the scenarios were in their promotional videos. After buildin
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by allenu 3y ago
I'm kind of jaded from the work world and part of it is that it took me forever to recognizing the promotions don't really reflect your skill at your craft. They're more a proxy of how visible your impact is at executing the
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by allenu 3y ago
Speed is underrated. I've worked on a lot of side projects and for a long time I couldn't get them done. I spent too long "perfecting" baseline things like folder structure (really) and overall system design. This made t
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by allenu 3y ago
It's great for SEO, though. 20 books = more potential search hits and longer dwell time.
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> Nobody was clamoring for a small portable computer beyond what Blackberry provided. Nobody was clamoring for online gameplay before the internet. No offense, but I don't think these are accurate. When Doom came out in the early &#
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by allenu 3y ago
The thing is, people already use their laptops to watch movies... or they use the in-flight entertainment. Why bother strapping on a headset when you have a solution already?
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by allenu 3y ago
> For one, it’s a way better recording device than what currently exists. > Another use case is getting rid of monitors and freeing up space on a desk. > I will be able to play board games with friends across the country These don&
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by allenu 3y ago
If I remember correctly, weren't most of the original Windows Mobile devices similar to PDAs in that they required a stylus to use them? I joined Microsoft around that time before the iPhone, working in the codec team, so we had severa

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