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by drewbeck 3y ago
Starting in HS and continuing for years I developed the first and only complete software package I’ve ever made, for my father. He’s a EE and was doing a lot of his board design in excel — if I remember this meant he then needed to map the
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by drewbeck 3y ago
In the desktop app Search is always available for me in the sidebar. Not for you? I agree in general about their UX, though; it's part of the general enshittification, these companies always trying to squeeze us for more attention. The
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by drewbeck 4y ago
It appears on the `shownew` page, here [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew
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by drewbeck 4y ago
I’m not sure about onboarding but to my eye the general UX kind of misses the mark on what’s valuable about this app. I see the app as basically “voice recorder plus” and in that regard it’s incredibly powerful. As you have the UX now, the
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by drewbeck 4y ago
This is very neat and I’m keen to see if I can make use of it! One note, I downloaded and dove right in with some nonsense and used up 17 of my trial tokens, unknowingly. It definitely made me understand how the app works but it was a surpr
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by drewbeck 4y ago
> There is a certain kind of "feel for it" I definitely agree with this and I think it partly comes down to the fact that product design is always a negotiation between many concerns – all the interface pieces on the view, patt
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by drewbeck 4y ago
They were looking for their angle and found it. Reading was not part of the process.
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by drewbeck 4y ago
> I feel like if Apple doesn't say anything about LLMs in WWDC, it will be officially its biggest loss after the death of Steve Jobs. This is a bit silly. What will they have lost, exactly? I think they’re likely scrambling right no
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by drewbeck 4y ago
And $4 egg n cheeses!
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by drewbeck 4y ago
Yep. Operation Giant Sky Bucket was right there but the idiots in Sacramento were too woke to even consider it.
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by drewbeck 4y ago
Wow, is this common? From a systems perspective it seems like pure folly, increasing systemic risk and reducing resilience. (from SVB’s perspective I’m sure it seemed great …) it feels like it should be illegal !
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by drewbeck 4y ago
A real throwback rant at that. Vintage stuff.
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by drewbeck 4y ago
We can save money on educating the "unsuited" (which will be determined entirely by family income, as is appropriate), depress wages for everyone, AND give kids something to do while their parents are at work. It also will instill
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by drewbeck 4y ago
I agree. The joke-per-thread count needs to be less than one or HN will devolve into chaos.
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by drewbeck 4y ago
This plus tracking phone position plus ML vision to fake up 3D from the front facing camera could make for a very cool FaceTime “portal” experience
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by drewbeck 4y ago
If you turn off your self view it’s a lot easier to stay focused, I have found. Overall quality of calls is much higher for me.
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by drewbeck 4y ago
> However, we have freedom of association, and a business may not want to associate with someone who has opinions counter to their own. I think this part is why there’s so much angst about this these days: businesses have captured a huge
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by drewbeck 4y ago
I hate this part of cross platform messaging sooo much. Apple has “improved” it somewhat by making it so iOS users now don’t see the “[x] had liked a message” text, but of course this doesn’t happen on the android side, making iOS users equ
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by drewbeck 4y ago
Agree on your last point o some degree (transit) but many cities’ downtowns are struggling post (“post”) pandemic. It’s a bit of a laff to lay this at the feet of progressive policing and NIMBYism, which seem like issues you have at the rea
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by drewbeck 4y ago
Macrumors has a stacked area chart showing the breakdown of the categories by quarter going back to 2009[0]. It's helpful to see all these numbers in context [0] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/02/apple
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by drewbeck 4y ago
Also a ton of successful HN posts are articles that are largely opinion, so this as a general rubric doesn't really hold.
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by drewbeck 4y ago
If it takes a superior officer telling 5 others to stop beating someone who poses no threat to anyone we’re way too far gone. If an employee at a store steals a bunch of merchandise do you say “what was needed was a supervisor to come in an
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by drewbeck 4y ago
This gave me a laugh, thanks. Perfect satire of tech’s attitude toward creative work!
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by drewbeck 4y ago
I see Slack in a similar light as I see dating apps — good first stabs at the tool but really needs evolution to develop into an actually great tool for its purpose. Unfortunately due to the dynamics of the market that needed evolution is u
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by drewbeck 4y ago
I've got a new hip in my future and I've been hearing more of these stories. Incredible, and incredibly relieving. Congrats on your new skelly!
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by drewbeck 4y ago
Arc is great!
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by drewbeck 4y ago
If someone wants to build a screenshot-based bookmark/reminder/everything tool with me … holler.
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by drewbeck 4y ago
Yeah the possible chilling effect here is terrifying tbh, especially with all the mergers happening. Using the courts to get redress is a core pillar of our world (whether it should be or not is another topic). Imagine if Live Nation had a
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by drewbeck 4y ago
Not sure when we get this tech real-time and part of our video conferencing tools but … can't wait.
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by drewbeck 4y ago
Joy and delight are ultimately liabilities, and humans will be better off if we remove the need for them.

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