apozem

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by apozem 4y ago
I'm quite alright with new tooling every six months when the new thing is orders of magnitude faster. If people want to compete to make my job as a frontend dev easier and faster, that is just fine .
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by apozem 4y ago
"Brutally expensive and competitive" is right. Look at what Microsoft had to do after losing the Xbox One / PS4 generation. They've spent almost a decade building out a radically new subscription service. That's bef
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by apozem 4y ago
One of the biggest issues in the gaming industry is AAA video games cost too much to make. 20 years ago, a dozen people could make a major PlayStation 1 game. Today, a new Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed requires thousands of people w
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by apozem 4y ago
The Wind Rises is a masterpiece, and one I would especially recommend to any engineer. The protagonist loves planes. He loves their grace, their beauty, the way they soar through the sky. He spends his whole life trying to build a great p
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by apozem 4y ago
Figma will likely slow down. In the short term, they've got to lay off redundant folks, join the new healthcare plan and learn how to work with lots of new stakeholders. All that comes before the actual engineering work of integrating
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by apozem 4y ago
A product line can be useful, longstanding and industry-standard without being friendly, easy-to-use or cheap. I don't love Photoshop's long startup times, huge RAM usage and non-native Mac UI, but I appreciate what it lets me do.
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by apozem 4y ago
I don't think Figma is going to die. It'll be bundled as part of the Creative Suite. It'll add buttons to quickly export your designs to PhotoShop or Illustrator or whatever. It'll probably get slower and clunkier. Not d
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by apozem 4y ago
20 Feet From Stardom. A wonderful, heartfelt doc about backup singers. Talks to the people who are almost stars, those who never quite made it big. You even hear from the woman who helped sing “Get Shelter” by The Rolling Stones. Fascinatin
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by apozem 4y ago
Being on call is a burden, even if you’re not called in. When my spouse was on call for a hospital, they had to sit with their phone in their lap when we went to the movies. I had to be prepared to Uber home because they’d need the car. It’
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by apozem 4y ago
Exactly. I support private enterprise but I recognize it has limits. The market is going to do things that are profitable , which may or may not be things society considers good . When that difference becomes unacceptably large, governmen
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by apozem 4y ago
A wonderful, wonderful game. The cards are so simple. Gain 8 armor. Deal 5 damage each time you play at attack this turn. But, they synergize in amazing ways. You realize, wait a minute, I could build my deck around drawing and playing as m
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by apozem 4y ago
The answer to your question is contained within the linked article. > Lawyers say this structure means Binance is protected from direct U.S. sanctions that ban U.S. firms from doing business in Iran. This is because the traders in Iran u
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by apozem 4y ago
Light spoilers, but there is a memorable section in The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe about criticism outweighing praise. The creator actually put negative Steam reviews for his previous game into Ultra Deluxe. The game's narrator, spe
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by apozem 4y ago
Why should the press spend its time fawning over the world’s richest man? Isn’t it better to hold him accountable? Isn’t that literally the point of a free and independent press? If Musk does not want news stories that accurately report the
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by apozem 4y ago
It's not indicated anywhere visually. I don't even remember how I found out about it. This is a downside of macOS and iOS design - lot of hidden gestures. For example, you can right-click the text title of a Finder window to open
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by apozem 4y ago
This is the thing - if you're going to be like Apple and dictate design, you have to get it right. macOS and Apple hardware is not to everyone's taste, and they make mistakes, but they prototype and dogfood and iterate like crazy
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by apozem 4y ago
Not to be rude but this is an inaccurate and poor understanding of computers. The entire chip architecture of the Mac changed since 2010. 16 gigs of RAM on an M1-based chip gets you much, much better performance than 16 gigs on an Intel c
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by apozem 4y ago
As a solo, hobbyist iOS & macOS dev, I like SwiftUI. It's much easier to learn than all of UIKit and AppKit. Feels like React. That said, I find myself dipping down into AppKit and UIKit quite often. Any kind of complex views or UI
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by apozem 4y ago
It’s the obvious thing, convenience. Humans love convenience. People build billion-dollar businesses like Steam and Spotify that basically sell convenience. Makes sense that a lot of people just want an easy way to manage their crypto. If y
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by apozem 4y ago
That makes sense. Googlers keep dumping out technically interesting products with no go-to-market strategy because one time doing that, they made a perpetual money machine (search ads). The problem is it’s 20 years later, technology has cha
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by apozem 4y ago
Thank you for tagging the plant-based recipes! My wife is vegan, so I'm always looking out for good recipes.
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by apozem 4y ago
You should read the article. You're arguing against a position the author does not take. I know this is the internet and everyone just reads the headline, but comments like this are frustrating.
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by apozem 5y ago
> Windows Subsystem for Xbox - so anything that plays on Xbox will play on Windows I think Microsoft will just stream Xbox games through the cloud for Game Pass subscribers. That way, you get Xbox games on PCs, Macs, smart TVs, you name
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by apozem 5y ago
Not the person you were replying to, but I completely agree. I had fun setting up my Raspberry Pi as a Plex host / torrent box / home server. Where us hobbyists go wrong is thinking any large percentage of customers want to do tha
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by apozem 5y ago
These are better than 99% of predictions because the author has a good eye for what will change (technology, transportation, consumer goods) and what won’t (human nature).
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by apozem 5y ago
> they'll use whatever volume they free up to mindlessly make the phone thinner. It's funny this commenter accuses Apple of mindlessness when they did not look up that the iPhone 13 and 13 Pro are thicker than their respective
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by apozem 5y ago
I don’t work in streaming, so take this opinion with a grain of salt, but my impression is this problem will solve itself in a few years. Right now the video industry is in land-grab mode. Everyone knows there are too many subscription stre
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by apozem 5y ago
If anyone reading this is interested in more environmentally friendly ways to maintain a lawn, look into xeriscaping. If you pick good plants it can turn out really well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeriscaping
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by apozem 5y ago
The author of this piece pointed out on his podcast that Zuckerberg, despite his baggage, is a founder and thus the only person who can sell such a huge change to employees and investors. If building a metaverse is a good idea, and that is
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by apozem 5y ago
YouTube has been an extremely potent vector for antivax rhetoric. They've banned antivax content, but we'll see how that holds up. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/youtube-an... (2021)

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