don_neufeld

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by don_neufeld 11mo ago
I’m so glad that Kyle wrote this. I’m so sad that he had to. Pay attention to what’s going on and vote.
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by don_neufeld 11mo ago
There is an ease of cleaning value that comes from a single unbroken surface. That said - placement needs some work. Or put the UI in a phone.
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by don_neufeld 11mo ago
LIDAR, like other technologies, declines in cost over time, has done so substantially, and will continue to do so. Tesla is just on the wrong side of that bet.
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
“Probably the second most annoying thing on the web today is when you click a link that looks interesting but the page you land on almost immediately says you have to do or pay something to actually read the thing the referring page implied
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
I really don’t, no. I’m also not affiliated with twitter or Elon at all, so not sure what the rest is about.
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
Oh we definitely were, I don’t know too many of the folks there these days, it’s been 12 years since I left. Hostile? That’s definitely a take. Curious what you’re thinking there.
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
[Founding CTO of Medium here] It wasn’t just Ev - I can confirm that many of us were typography nuts ;) Marcin for example - did some really crazy stuff. https://medium.design/crafting-link-underlines-on-medium-7c0...
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
A+ advice.
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
As someone close to a severe Alzheimer’s case - I would personally write a check for $100K in a heartbeat for a treatment that worked. And yes - I mean I would do that every 6 months. I’m curious: Do you have any idea what care for such sit
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
Example: EV charging is largely schedule based (mine charges overnight only - because rate plan), and can be made demand based pretty easily.
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
As an early 2000’s game dev - I weep. Scrolling? Animations? LOL.
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
Ariane 5? Therac-25? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
Curious what you’ve heard. I certainly enjoyed working with him and Hurst in the early days at Obvious 2.0 when we were incubating Branch. A bunch of Medium & Obvious 2.0 alumni I respect work or worked at TBC (Dustin, DanB, Connor, Cem
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
No
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
Just in case it wasn’t obvious, there are a bunch of “Expect X to have happened by now” type tasks in there. These are basically dead man’s switches to remind me to check on someone else’s progress vs a timeline - ala @patio11’s “dangerous
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
Yuuuup. I remember the days before I had this much complexity. Frankly, it’s forced me to get a lot better at stuff. Back to school was a blizzard of forms, meetings, drop offs, etc. each with their own unique timelines. Sandwiched between
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
Thanks, it’s grown organically over the 10+ years I’ve used it. I’ve also used a variety of EAs over the years, and in my experience reliability is highly variable. The great ones are amazing .
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
I do have those, especially for shopping. "Home Depot Trip" for example is a constant, and has 2-10 checklist items on it at any given time based on what I need. The problem with a once weekly checklist of [all the house things]
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
100% - I read that when it came out, and I point others to it too. The thing about Maker's schedule for me is that it's easy to get so into what I'm doing that other things in my life don't get the attention they need. H
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
It's definitely detailed. Here are a few from today: Call PG&E about medical baseline allowance Check SM Court website re: Conservancy ruling Expect next invoice from [redacted] Order refill of [medication] Book service for [vehicl
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
Sure, but I would lose a ton of reminder and repeating action functionality. I’d also have to scan across a dozen or more files to figure out what my day looks like. Seems strictly worse to me.
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
I’ve tried most of the major systems, and for me Things3 wins hands down. Yes, it costs some money to by the app on my phone and on my Mac, but the cost of missing even one deadline blows those costs out of the water. I do with Things3 sup
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
sigh I've done the text file thing, and it’s fine. Up to a (very small) point. What the author describes as their “workload” barely registers. For context, for me, Things on any given day has over 100 individual actions, most of whic
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
I get between 5-10 per day, so I’d say you’re just lucky.
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
Oh boy, 38 Studios. I should read that book, but I was pretty close to it. Kurt was a huge EQ fan, and ended up trying to staff his company by making offers to a bunch of people at SOE (which included both me and my team). I was not convinc
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
Fun! I see Trion was involved, was that during Scott’s time?
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
“What we could make tech do” is so true! Working on MMOs definitely pushed the boundaries of what was possible, and continues to inform what I expect from the machine. What did you end up doing?
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
I’m glad you enjoyed it, though I personally really only contributed shared code - SOE ended up using my UI library from Planetside across all their titles at the time. From where I sat (St Louis, then San Diego), it looked like the SWG tea
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
Thanks, but trust me - they were no saints. Kelly Flock threw the project I was leading under the bus with Sony Pictures on his way out the door when they fired him. I barely saved it. Brad McQuaid, as CEO of Sigil famously didn’t even show
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by don_neufeld 1y ago
I was there. My first pay stub had Verant on it, I joined shortly before the SOE transition. One thing maybe not well known outside of the company was that the MMO subscription revenue enabled a hotbed of experimentation. There was an MMO R

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