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811.
by turnsout 3y ago
Steve was replaced with one of the greatest minds in Operations that history has ever known, and much of Apple's success under Steve was thanks to Tim. So Apple is not the best example if you're trying to show "CEOs don'
812.
by turnsout 3y ago
I mean, to be fair, no executive is managing thousands of people. Maybe leading thousands of people, but there's a real physical limit to how many people you can directly manage.
813.
by turnsout 3y ago
True, although if you're getting above $1M/year as a CEO, it's not because "the job is really hard." In fact, the bigger the company, the more layers of management to keep you from any real work. Instead, the board
814.
by turnsout 3y ago
Yeah… that was the 70s though.
815.
by turnsout 3y ago
After the development of the F-35, the idea that the US government could fund and develop a new fighter without the public knowing is somehow heartwarming!
816.
by turnsout 3y ago
This makes me nostalgic for the mid-2000s when all the geeks had binary watches
817.
by turnsout 3y ago
Tables? What are tables? Posted from NCSA Mosaic
818.
by turnsout 3y ago
> OnlyFans experienced a 47% increase in the number of creators using its platform between 2021 and 2022. That’s almost a doubling Not so sure I agree with you 100% on your police-work there, Lou.
819.
by turnsout 3y ago
Let’s play another round of “was it a shadow layoff or just routine incompetence?”
820.
by turnsout 3y ago
And you would still be forced to upgrade every 2-3 years once people started to send you incompatible files!
821.
by turnsout 3y ago
Yes! I developed a paid (upfront) iOS app and had to abandon it because there was no way to fund further development.
822.
by turnsout 3y ago
It was $999 for many years, but has been $299 for over a decade now. But $299 might as well be $2999 for many people.
823.
by turnsout 3y ago
Man, talk about a ship that has sailed. I was 100% anti-subscription pricing for a very long time. Eventually I realized, it's better for the software vendor and the customer. Final Cut Pro used to cost $999 upfront, now a teenager can
824.
by turnsout 3y ago
Yeah, couldn’t you simply rephotograph a doctored image off a sufficiently high-res monitor?
825.
by turnsout 3y ago
Have you ever shipped a new hardware product of your own design? It doesn't matter if you already have the electronics ironed out. It's still hard.
826.
by turnsout 3y ago
File under “hardware is hard”
827.
by turnsout 3y ago
Yep, and then they cross Firefox off the list, and pretty soon they're not web devs, they're Chrome devs.
828.
by turnsout 3y ago
Ah yes, why bother testing? Safari must behave exactly the same on mobile and the desktop, right? Let's not even bother testing that assumption, it sounds correct.
829.
by turnsout 3y ago
Sadly, these days you can be Chrome-only and still sweep the web dev world. As a desktop Safari user (we exist), I wish it were otherwise!
830.
by turnsout 3y ago
Neat! It will be even neater when Safari/WebKit adds support (seems semi-promising)
831.
by turnsout 3y ago
I was on Usenet a lot up until the late 90s! I just did a quick search for Mac Usenet apps, and most of them seem oriented around file downloads. Does anyone have a recommendation for an actually good native Mac Usenet app tailored for, lik
832.
by turnsout 3y ago
At this rate, we'll be able to make every company carbon neutral by 2030 without making any actual changes to the environment! Go capitalism!
833.
by turnsout 3y ago
I saw a mild version of this on my 12" Powerbook G4. FWIW, I have never had any issues with the surface of my unibody MacBooks, other than some smoothing of high-touch areas.
834.
by turnsout 3y ago
This is not altruistic. He is looking to make an investment which he assumes would have an upside.
835.
by turnsout 3y ago
Yes, in research. But once they can see what real-world users are looking at in context, in realtime, it's a different ballgame.
836.
by turnsout 3y ago
Someone should do this, but for the love of god, DO NOT take any venture capital to do it. No matter how well-intentioned the VCs are at the start, eventually your eye tracking startup will 100% be used for advertising as investors in your
837.
by turnsout 3y ago
Someone should turn this into a product! You highlight the code you want to optimize, and it posts it to hn as a semi-contextually-appropriate comment to invite code golfing, and the highest rated reply gets posted back to your repo as a P
838.
by turnsout 3y ago
As someone who has done both parts assembly and web dev, I assure you they are not worlds apart.
839.
by turnsout 3y ago
The point is not that there hasn’t been progress. The point is that the alleged explosion of the economy has not fundamentally changed society, which seems to run counter to OP’s point. I maintain that the lives of most people—while measura
840.
by turnsout 3y ago
In 1923 they'd say "we have modern medicine and air travel" and feel just as smug. Jets and the moon landing are cool, but they happened closer to 1923 than 2023.

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