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by allenu 7d ago
I think it's clear that Apple has recognized that their target markets don't care to have useful computers. Just look way back to when Steve Jobs was still alive and he was talking about how "PCs are going to be like trucks.
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by allenu 7d ago
I agree. The demos were great. They really showed off how things you already do today are "better" on two screens. This is in contrast to the Vision Pro where the demos were of things that were neat but I can't see myself nee
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by allenu 24d ago
I wonder if for many people today, it's not so much the art form of writing they are interested in, but rather having their thoughts and opinions validated by an audience. I mean, we live in a world where technology is constantly askin
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by allenu 1mo ago
Your framing makes it seem like these companies decided to reduce the size of their products for the health of their customers. We all know they're doing it to save on costs and increase profits. Why would news outlets go the extra mil
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by allenu 2mo ago
I used to be much more precious about notebooks myself. I may have also found tricks or games to play to on myself to force myself to use them without fear of mucking them up with bad sketches or poorly organized ideas. Eventually I got ove
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by allenu 2mo ago
I stand corrected. I haven't used X in a long time, but I think you're right.
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by allenu 2mo ago
I really hate that change. It's counterintuitive that a shell recognizes mouse clicks to mean "select this option". Also, the auto-copy selected text feature is awful. That's another thing that is so counterintuitive. I
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by allenu 3mo ago
I imagine they're suggesting that so someone who lands on the page and is unaware of Bellard can immediately know what he is (famously) known for instead of having to scroll through the long list of projects.
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by allenu 4mo ago
It sounds like another way to put it: tell people what they want to hear and you'll go far. Most people want their beliefs confirmed, whether what they believe is true or fiction. Unfortunately it can lead to an echo chamber-y world wh
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by allenu 4mo ago
It's a common way to phrase a request in the corporate world. It's a bit more of a concrete and explicit than a simple request, something that can be written down in bullet points in a meeting notes summary or an email. I hate it
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by allenu 4mo ago
The one on the shelf is probably a Akari paper lantern. I have an orange one that I quite like. You used to be able to buy them from Design Within Reach or the MoMA Design Store, but I can't find them on their sites now but they'r
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by allenu 4mo ago
Very beautiful setup. I'm jealous of the space to do this. I like the idea of making the desk face out into the room, but my office is quite small, so it would end up floating in the middle of the room. Having it in the corner isn&#x27
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by allenu 4mo ago
Similarly, I'd write code in BASIC in notebooks before I had a computer. Later on I remember writing up assembly code in my high school library on loose leaf sheets when I had a neat idea and my friends were busy studying. Nothing like
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by allenu 4mo ago
I have vivid memories of thick dBase manuals on shelves in offices wherever somebody had an IBM PC or compatible computer. As a kid, I had no idea what it was, but the thick grey books made me think they must be a very important thing indee
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by allenu 4mo ago
I've been working on an update to my flashcards app for over a year and half now and I'm finally nearing completion. This is for Mac and iOS only and the app uses Core Data with CloudKit for syncing its data, which has been intere
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by allenu 5mo ago
I wonder if there's any relation to the strategy of the Gish gallop or Flood the Zone where you overwhelm your opponent with arguments that they have to engage in. Technically, you don't have to engage in the arguments, but the sh
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by allenu 5mo ago
I can see it happening. It's very easy to drag and drop a file into an Xcode project and when the dialog pops up asking if you want it to be added to the target app bundle you just hit OK, not realizing what you just did. I've don
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by allenu 5mo ago
I like the clean design of the landing page. I downloaded it and started the app and it needs an OBJ file to even do anything, so I wasn't able to play with it at all. It would be cool if it included sample OBJ files to entice me to fi
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by allenu 5mo ago
I'm in total agreement regarding some designs that seem obvious later but really took several iterations to reach. There's definitely hindsight bias when a design works so well that it feels obvious. My point was more that I'
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by allenu 5mo ago
Sounds like a really cool idea. How do you organize the meetup and promote it to people if it ends up being random people? Do you set it up on meetup.com and have a theme at the minimum? I've been to a lot of meetups and it's defi
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by allenu 5mo ago
I love these types of videos because they create this fiction of how design happens, where people sit around a table with drawings and or come up with beautiful mock-ups (the motion sickness glasses is a good example). Often, a lot of desig
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by allenu 5mo ago
Copy-pasting is a clever way to do it! I used to use TheDraw for doing ANSI art, but I also ended up making my own ANSI drawing tool back then. It's stupid to think of now, but one reason I made it was because I had a monochrome monito
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by allenu 5mo ago
Beautiful. Masterfully done. I love all the BBS-era aesthetics and callouts. I hadn't seen FILE_ID.DIZ art in forever.
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by allenu 6mo ago
This project brings back memories. I worked somewhere over 20 years ago where we were working on something just like this (touch displays using cameras). The biggest challenge was definitely the lighting conditions as you mentioned. We tri
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by allenu 6mo ago
> But if you are running in the wrong direction, speed is of very little value. I think of it differently. Speed is great because it means you can change direction very easily, and being wrong isn't as costly. As long as you're
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by allenu 6mo ago
It must be a nod to Freud (i.e. id, ego, and super ego)
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by allenu 6mo ago
Watering plants is also super easy once you do it regularly. You get a sense of how much water a plant needs just by looking at it and testing the soil (via moisture meter or just by touch). It's quite rewarding realizing how each plan
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by allenu 6mo ago
Just a guess, but it looks like an IBM Model M but with a German layout, or at least something from that era.
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by allenu 6mo ago
I was being a little facetious, but there are things that most people would find tedious today that we would put up with in the past. Writing anything long by hand (letters, essays), doing accounting without a spreadsheet, writing a game in
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by allenu 6mo ago
I think you're spot on. It feels like parts were edited with AI and parts were left alone. > This isn't just a Digg problem. It's an internet problem. But it hit us harder because trust is the product. The statement this i

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