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by armadsen 5y ago
Thanks for the kind words. I feel lucky to get to work on it. And I’m on the same page regarding subscriptions. I much prefer to own my tools too.
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by armadsen 5y ago
I'm an engineer on LumaFusion, and one of my specialities is audio. If you run into things that could be better, let us know. support@luma-touch.com (real humans read every email, we're a small team).
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by armadsen 5y ago
LumaFusion is the obvious step up from iMovie. It's much more powerful than iMovie, but aims to also be very approachable for complete beginners. Disclaimer: My day job is as an engineer working on LumaFusion.
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by armadsen 5y ago
The funny thing is that when I first brought home a book on Cocoa programming in the mid-2000s, my dad (also a programmer) saw it and gave me almost an identical line to your last sentence. He said it was a waste of time, that I'd neve
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by armadsen 5y ago
I work on a large, complex, well-respected iOS app. Some of our main competition is desktop apps, and we've often been asked for a macOS version. M1 Macs can run our app natively now, and we've done some work to make that a better
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by armadsen 5y ago
I agree. But also, the author is not a native English speaker.
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by armadsen 5y ago
Same, although I also know degauss as it relates to CRTs. "Gaussian blur" -- almost always mispronounced -- is also relatively commonly encountered by anyone doing image or video editing. Though of course, that's a completely
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by armadsen 5y ago
Jacquard is actually an interesting one to me, because it overlaps the two major subject areas (fashion/textiles and science/tech). It's also one I (male) knew, while I didn't know most of the "more female" wor
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by armadsen 5y ago
> My guess is that close to 5% would disagree with the statement "the SARS-CoV-2 virus is real". I wouldn't be surprised if the number is even higher than that. Anecdotally, my mom didn't believe it was a real virus e
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by armadsen 5y ago
Ha, I’m reading this post on vacation in the lobby of a hotel with my (film!) camera in a bag on my body.
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by armadsen 5y ago
Anecdotally, I suggested Tuple to my boss (also co-founder of the very small company I work for) when I discovered it, and it took him all of 2 or 3 minutes to learn about it, decide the money was worth it, and sign up for a team account fo
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by armadsen 5y ago
There are plenty of programmers that don't/can't use VS Code, for one. I'm an iOS and Mac developer, so VS Code is of little use. I'm in Xcode all day. Tuple makes it so I can pair with Xcode, but also see/use
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by armadsen 5y ago
I've been using Tuple for the past year and a half or so, IIRC. It's just a really well done Mac app. One of those tools that "just works", is thoughtfully designed, and mostly just stays out of the way and does its job
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by armadsen 5y ago
I prefer to use Objective-C when using a C API that involves heavy use of pointers (buffer pointers, pointers to structs, requires mallocing things, etc.). It’s not that Swift can’t be used, it’s just that doing all of that is painful in Sw
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by armadsen 5y ago
They are written by different teams (source: I know people who have worked on each team). They share things, of course. In fact, the "new" (as of a few years ago) source editor in Xcode came out of Swift Playgrounds for iOS origin
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by armadsen 5y ago
I'm not said expert, but authentication is definitely one of the things he does. I actually think it would be fairly hard to create a forgery. With enough work, you can source period-correct (ie. actual old) components, and indeed dedi
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by armadsen 5y ago
Yes, there’s a small but well-developed community of replica builders, and all the parts needed are still available. You can also buy very good replica PCBs from more than one vendor. There is at least one guy who is an expert at bring up a
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by armadsen 5y ago
I lived in Fukuoka (and other areas in Kyushu) for a while, have visited Tokyo a number of times, and have also visited Kyoto. They’re all certainly different cities in various ways, but my experience has been that just like anywhere else i
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by armadsen 5y ago
I think this is the story you're talking about: https://www.wired.com/story/how-email-open-tracking-quietly-... . But it's pretty flimsy evidence. Undoubtedly Tim Cook has somebody, or more likely several some
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by armadsen 5y ago
I'm 37 and got my ham radio license when I was 15. Ham radio captured my imagination in a way nothing has before or since, and led pretty directly to my career as a hardware and software engineer. In some ways I feel lucky that I encou
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by armadsen 5y ago
I'm with you on not wanting to send traffic to Fox, but it's worth noting that this is Fox 13/KSTU, which is a local Fox affiliate in Salt Lake City, but is not owned by Fox (it's owned by Scripps Broadcasting). I have n
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by armadsen 5y ago
The official Reddit iOS app is already the result of Reddit buying an existing, excellent third-party app (Alien Blue), which they proceeded to ruin.
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by armadsen 5y ago
A lot of the worst parts of Music.app, including the Apple Music and iTunes Store UIs are actually rendered in a web view, at least last I checked. So it’s closer to being an “Electron” app (despite not using Electron itself) than a true na
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by armadsen 5y ago
I’m in Southern Africa right now and was watching the Olympics on local TV and noticed the same thing. Some commercial breaks consisted of nothing but back to back ads for the same local-market (ie. southern African) sports betting app. It
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by armadsen 5y ago
“Paved the way” is the common expression.
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by armadsen 5y ago
Apple has ~20% smartphone marketshare worldwide. It's higher in the US, but the last numbers I saw put them <50%. In what world is that a monopoly?
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by armadsen 5y ago
> collaborate with other people via a version control system LumaFusion has pretty nice integration with Frame.io, which is as close to something like GitHub for video as I'm aware of. (Disclaimer: My day job is as an engineer worki
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by armadsen 5y ago
The site was created and most of its articles were written by Andy Hertzfeld, who was an engineer on the original Mac team. The development of the original Mac is explicitly the subject of the site. Not sure why anyone would expect it to fo
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by armadsen 5y ago
I make a (good) living working as an iOS developer on the video editing app (LumaFusion) shown several times in today's event. We have a very solid userbase, including plenty of people using it for professional work. Apple chose to us
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by armadsen 5y ago
I recently got my old Game Boy games out so my son could play them. They've been in a box in storage for 20+ years. My saved games from the 90s are still there on all the ones I've checked.

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