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by mceachen 7y ago
Buying an iPhone 11 Pro and not using it as a phone would be ridiculous. It's designed under different constraints. The image sensors are tiny compared to good cameras. More photos hitting the sensor means less need for computational i
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by mceachen 7y ago
http://link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/moneystuff-s... (found via his pinned profile tweet)
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by mceachen 7y ago
Thanks for sharing, that was a great story. A photographer friend shared with me a long time ago very similar advice to get better shots: location, timing, make the subject wear red, and push the shutter button more. You can't frame wh
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by mceachen 7y ago
Dell XPS laptops can come factory-installed with Ubuntu, with official support.
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by mceachen 7y ago
OP: do this. If you love it, great, and if you're on the fence, you've got 90 days to decide.
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by mceachen 7y ago
The G7 camera and app are serviceable. It's on par with my iPhone SE in speed, and bests it in low light. It has a reasonable portrait mode with effective background blur. In good lighting, landscape shots are indiscernible with my pi
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by mceachen 7y ago
Currently I import both the mp4 and jpg as separate assets, but I will absolutely fix the presentation to be autoplay-video-then-show-image, as it should be.
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by mceachen 7y ago
...but texting 40404 still doesn't require authentication.
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by mceachen 7y ago
I'm building that right now, and an looking for more beta testers. https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/ Your photos and videos remain on hardware that you own (or rent). It's designed t
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by mceachen 7y ago
Nope, that disables 2FA.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Yes, they do. 2FA is via SMS or TOTP. Frustratingly, you can't enable TOTP without a phone number, and if you remove your phone number, you disable 2FA.
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by mceachen 7y ago
we call them TOTPagotchis these days
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by mceachen 7y ago
Come on, Apple. 13mm, 26mm, and 52mm lenses? Have you even watched people use your phones? They always zoom in (like, 10x). A 3x optical would have been much nicer. 4x and I would have preordered.
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by mceachen 7y ago
In the bay area, there was an express bus line from my town straight into downtown San Francisco. I could work through my whole commute (as I had a seat and a laptop), not worry about traffic or deal with road rage, and was filled with a wi
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by mceachen 7y ago
Nice! FWIW, it doesn't seem to support streaming, so large payloads can take a while (as the entire request needs to be returned to cloudflare, and only then does argo send the response payload back to the client, so you get a double-l
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by mceachen 7y ago
No problem! It's not a traditional SaaS website, nor traditional desktop app, so I need to some practice with describing it so it's clear to people. PhotoStructure runs on a computer you own, or in the cloud, on a computer you ren
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by mceachen 7y ago
> How do you manage the "forever" part with a cloud service that could go away? It's software that you run, on your hardware . Currently there's a desktop installer for win/mac/linux (so people can try it
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by mceachen 7y ago
FWIW our California-born babies slept with us (and was never taken away from me, except to be cleaned and weighed, and I was right there next to them the whole time). The "room of cribs" was the neonatal intensive care unit. It wa
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by mceachen 7y ago
I'm building that! After a decade in the adtech business, PhotoStructure is an act of penance to let your richest metadata source, your photos and videos, stay yours and yours alone. I'd love to have you try it out and hear your f
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by mceachen 7y ago
If you need to find something quickly, PhotoStructure will scale to that quantity, and if you've got exif or sidecars with keywords, those tags would be navigable as well. There's a pulldown that then let's you open the enclo
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by mceachen 7y ago
What if downvotes led to a popdown, with a series of radio buttons: ( ) I don't agree with this comment ( ) This comment is factually incorrect ( ) This comment is offtopic ( ) This comment is rude or inappropriate (Add and replace
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by mceachen 7y ago
The distortion on scroll makes the site unusable on tablets. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. That distortion does nothing to help communicate to your target audience.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Consumer Reports was amazing in the late 70s through the 80s. I don't think my parents bought anything > $100 without consulting the thick CR annual report guide, which tested pretty close to everything: cars, TVs, appliances, tools
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by mceachen 7y ago
Google probably got the terminology from Bell Labs. A "Member of Technical Staff" was for PHDs or very accomplished engineers. See https://www.quora.com/When-did-Bell-Labs-add-the-Distinguish...
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by mceachen 7y ago
The Front-Loaded Bloviators is a hella fetch band name.
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by mceachen 7y ago
You should check out https://alerthn.com/ (reliable and free). Also: woah, pipedream is sweet. Looking forward to playing with it.
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by mceachen 7y ago
There are tons of great articles about what makes successful marketing verbiage, but in general, don't make your audience think. Describe how your tool solves an expected problem. Don't just describe the feature and hope they can
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TypeScript 3.6(devblogs.microsoft.com)
295 points by mceachen 7y ago|204 comments
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by mceachen 7y ago
Here's their getting started page (not terribly mobile friendly though) https://zerotier.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SD/pages/8454145/...
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by mceachen 7y ago
I've been writing software for a while now, and "how deep" is tough. In some sense it's just all rabbit holes and yak shaving. At least for me, the promise of the pomodoro technique is the guarantee that you will take st

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