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721.
by veidr 6y ago
No, it isn't; that is what I use this software for, almost every day. So do several of my co-workers.
722.
by veidr 6y ago
Helping people do better remote meetings and presentations more easily seems pretty meaningful in the context of the present pandemic, where millions of people are suddenly having to do that (for the first time, in many cases).
723.
by veidr 6y ago
I think you are missing a (killer!) feature they rolled out during the beta: the "SHARE THIS" window. They let you present a window that includes whatever is in your mmhmm video feed. It is the same content as your virtual mmhmm c
724.
by veidr 6y ago
I think am the target audience for this. I do a lot of online meetings, and make regular internal presentations about our engineering work to the rest of the company. I have used OBS, and it does work, but it is complex enough and fiddly en
725.
by veidr 6y ago
Wow, I just tested this after reading this post here, never having heard of it before. (It's a little after 22:00 here, but I want to wrap up some loose ends from today on my computer, now that my kids are asleep, before I got to bed.)
726.
by veidr 6y ago
You're right that the pace has slowed. But yes, I do still feel that every year it still gets a lot better... but perhaps the "massiveness" is indeed decreasing. The phone isn't even how I ever choose to spend my free ti
727.
by veidr 6y ago
I'll go contrarian on this one: I have bought a new iPhone every single year since the first one. It was like $650 back in 2007, and for the last couple years it's been $1700. (I always buy the maxed out model, even though the cos
728.
by veidr 6y ago
Something about your comment struck me as slightly unusual — and then I realized, I have literally never encountered a JSON or YAML formatter/validator tool that can handle even a single gigabyte of JSON or YAML in any kind of performa
729.
by veidr 6y ago
No, although I remember that thread, too, since I am an e-bike enthusiast and evangelist (not for work or anything, I just love e-bikes and am always advocating that people try them). I think the funny comment I am trying to find occurred i
730.
by veidr 6y ago
That is not the comment I was referring to — sounds reasonable to me! (The comment I am looking for also started rather emotionally, something like "Ugh I hate — HATE — when people... (make assumptions like this without evidence, somet
731.
by veidr 6y ago
No, no, I like HN, and have derived a great deal of value from it over the past 15 years or so (even made meatspace friends from it; the HN Tokyo meetup basically became my entire social life after I had kids). That comment is one of my fav
732.
by veidr 6y ago
Hmm I am not sure! To be honest, I have spent the time since posting my comment above googling for the post... but no luck yet. The problem is, I think I myself might not have even commented in the thread, so it is hard to search for... any
733.
by veidr 6y ago
I'm sad I can't find my favorite comment, and have actually searched for it on multiple occasions. It wasn't a good comment, it was a bad comment — I am only sharing it on the off chance that somebody else will remember and p
734.
by veidr 6y ago
Yep, I do share your concern. They so far haven't done anything shitty with this capability (unlike the one the main thread pertains to, which they have done over and over). There absolutely should be a mechanism to disable the featu
735.
by veidr 6y ago
That doesn't invalidate the point, it reinforces it: when you sign up for an Apple-style "walled garden" you cede all control of whether or not your app ships — and, assuming you do ship, whether or not your users can keep us
736.
by veidr 6y ago
You are overstating the case pretty wildly. They have the ability to cause the OS to automatically delete binaries based on checksum, not "remotely login". And every time they have used this awesome power, it has been for good and
737.
by veidr 6y ago
WTF. I dare any one of you who downvoted this to explain why in public.
738.
by veidr 6y ago
I feel bad for the developer. But every time I see stories like this, I also feel a little jolt of validation regarding my choice as a developer to leave the Apple ecosystem in 2008. At the time, the App Store (iOS) was new, and I was worki
739.
by veidr 6y ago
Yes, but it's pretty clearly transitional tech. Apple knows that it's shit. It's a stopgap until SwiftUI matures — and you can tell because SwiftUI is maturing fast .
740.
by veidr 6y ago
Totally agree, I had a Dell XPS 15 touchscreen laptop, and while I found Windows too unproductive to replace my MacBook Pro for development work, going back to the dumb non-touch screen made the Mac frustrating. I would use the mouse/p
741.
by veidr 6y ago
It is confusing until you use any Catalyst app. They are utter garbage; there isn't a single good Catalyst app, they're all putrefactive shit on the Mac. The JIRA app — which Apple demo'd on stage when they unveiled Catal
742.
by veidr 6y ago
This book is fantastic. I think it is on the way to becoming, if it isn't already, "the" canonical book to check out when you start using TypeScript.
743.
by veidr 6y ago
I live in Tokyo, and I just want to point out that the voluntary compliance with the "request" to limit how much you go out appears to be better than the compliance with legally mandatory lockdown in California, which itself is fa
744.
by veidr 6y ago
I live in Tokyo. In normal times, people wear masks when they are sick, as you say. It's good manners, consideration toward others. But now, and since COVID-19 became a thing (February here), "everyone is wearing masks" even
745.
by veidr 6y ago
Yeah, but one thing about the subways here in Japan that I think is weird: if I ride the subway to work (11-minute ride) most of the time literally nobody talks. Nobody uses the phone (it's bad manners here), so like the only time any
746.
by veidr 6y ago
That is like comparing cars based on the latency of the door unlock button. I mean sure, faster is better, but door unlock speed is probably not the problem that makes people think a car is “slow”.
747.
by veidr 6y ago
Yes, I totally agree with that. The way they have implemented it for even their own "cross-platform" needs (where the "platforms" are really basically different versions of the same OS) works very well — the sickening, j
748.
by veidr 6y ago
It's because they are poisonous, and also look roughly like a troll's testicles.
749.
by veidr 6y ago
Creating a good cross-platform GUI framework is probably harder than creating a good cross-platform language. Way way way way way harder, I'd think. It's basically never been done in the modern era. All the s
750.
by veidr 6y ago
The Deno docs recommend creating a deps.ts file for your project (and it could be shared among multiple projects), which exports all your dependencies. Then in your application code, instead of importing from the long and unwieldy external

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