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by chasing 2y ago
Easy to be snarky online. I'll pull it back.
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by chasing 2y ago
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by chasing 2y ago
Half of that article is about how you shouldn’t treat the ideas of so-called geniuses as sacrosanct.
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by chasing 2y ago
They're common in places I go. And once the "that's interesting" factor wears off, they just kind of look unbalanced and awkward to my eyes. Sort of the physical embodiment of someone with no taste trying to be cool. The
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by chasing 2y ago
I was founding engineer at a start-up tackling similar problems, albeit using 2014-2022 tech. Email me off-list and I’d be happy to talk through some experiences!
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by chasing 2y ago
Haha. Yeah, I’m working on logic puzzles all day for work. The games I play to relax are either shoot-everything games or, like, MarioKart. I need to chill and not think.
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by chasing 2y ago
No shit.
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by chasing 2y ago
Periodic generative AI reminder: It will not make you creative. It will not give you taste or talent. It is a technical tool that will mostly be used to produce cheap garbage unless you develop the skills to use it as a part of your creativ
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by chasing 2y ago
Looks like a cleaned up version of Josh Nimoy’s classic Ball Droppings piece. https://experiments.withgoogle.com/balldroppings
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by chasing 2y ago
Okay, but I want to be able to compare how much "nothing" I'm doing with my friends and have "do nothing" influencer tools so I can monetize "doing nothing." I need to be able to sell flairs, let people pa
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by chasing 2y ago
The mobile gaming market is overwhelmed with cheap trash. It's what you see when you open a mobile game store. (I just opened the iOS App Store games section and, apart from Minecraft and Roblox -- which I'm not interested in -- e
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by chasing 2y ago
Hahahaha! He’s absolutely not standing for free speech and anyone still thinking that needs to spend a few minutes actually poking around Twitter (and maybe a few minutes deconstructing what “freedom of speech” actually means). It’s a playg
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by chasing 2y ago
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/exhibitions/y2k-aesthetic-in... Remember when tech was optimistic?
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by chasing 2y ago
> Censorship, beyond what’s required by law, is doomed to fail. The opposite. Online communities can't be healthy without moderation. Cf. Twitter.
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by chasing 2y ago
Not Legos or Lego: LEGO. All caps. For example: https://www.serious.global/LEGO-SERIOUS-PLAY-Trademark-Guide... (It also says when you speak the word you're supposed to shout it as if you're scaring off birds. If
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by chasing 2y ago
Well, yes, Lego sets are super fun for everyone. Even shoplifters.
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by chasing 2y ago
I thought copying other people's work was the whole point.
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by chasing 2y ago
Of course they're in bad faith. The whole idea is to punt accountability off to something else endlessly. "We can't do X because Y already exists to handle that." Later: "We can't do Y because we already have Z
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by chasing 2y ago
Lifetime appointments for Supreme Court Justices is fucking absurd. My out-of-my-ass fix is that each Justice is on an 18-year term. Every two years one Justice is replaced. Two per Presidential term. Makes it legitimately fair. Elect a Pre
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by chasing 2y ago
Burn a billion dollars. Artificially pump the market value of your company by 10 billion dollars. Pizza company gets a few hundred dollars for free. "Haha, we pulled one over on the man!" Go public or sell. Founders and initial in
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by chasing 2y ago
I grew up in Austin. People are arriving in droves for the cool scene and bustling economy, which is great. But a few degrees in Austin means a shift from having part of the late summer that's obnoxiously hot to having a part of the ye
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by chasing 2y ago
Maybe I'm deeply cynical, but it doesn't seem far-fetched that Putin would be perfectly fine with opening up some Russian warm water ports with the happy side benefit of destabilizing chunks of the United States and western Europe
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by chasing 2y ago
Seems like at a minimum there might be some asset reuse (or recreation) that could violate copyright. And maybe a trade dress issue, creating confusion in the marketplace? Whether either of these (if actual avenues for redress) are worth
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by chasing 2y ago
This on its own may or may not be a good thing, but remember to keep it in context: Our country has had a centuries-long problem with racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism keeping large numbers of people from accessing the mainstream of
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by chasing 2y ago
All four of those things were present in my classroom experience, and I’m an 80s-90s kid. They were just in their proper place. I’m obviously not advocating for kids just totally tuning out and fucking with their phones all day.
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by chasing 2y ago
I dunno, man. I get the frustration, but part of me also feels like this guy is banging his against against a cultural change and just giving up. Rock music. Cable TV. Video games. The Internet. iPhones. Every generation has that thing thei
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by chasing 2y ago
Cultural context, interest in artist backstories, discussion of sonic details, etc. The same reason someone reads about anything?
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by chasing 3y ago
I was talking about designers, specifically. But I have found that senior people on any I’ll are generally more capable of making considered choices. Not all, of course. And engineers definitely will bias towards tools they understand and h
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by chasing 3y ago
Also: > Power users need the app to be efficient. Naive outsiders fret too much over æsthetics and the potential usability for newbies. In turn change does not work out for the better. This is exactly the sort of naive guess the design
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by chasing 3y ago
Because not talking to users and then implementing a drastic change they don’t like sounds like a rookie move? Although, as I kind of allude to, I also place a lot of blame on management: Employees will make mistakes. Big ones. That’s life.

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