dcastonguay

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by dcastonguay 4mo ago
This article was very eye-opening for me. I think I understand the author's pain and I could certainly feel it while reading the article. The fact that it was "the people" that made the difference kind of surprised me, and th
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by dcastonguay 1y ago
My current opinion is that AI is just a thing that is going to further amplify our existing tendencies (on a person-to-person basis). I've personally found it to be extremely beneficial in research, learning, and the category of "
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by dcastonguay 1y ago
> At the end of it, they were sketching a completely different architecture without my "PMing". Because they finally understood who was actually using our product. I cannot help but read this whole experience as: “We forced an
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by dcastonguay 2y ago
Some of these items were such elegant distillations of my thoughts and feelings that it made me laugh when I read them. To the author: thank you so much for sharing this wisdom. The only thing that I've found difficult to reconcile is
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by dcastonguay 3y ago
IIRC that's not how any of it went down. The authorities wanted access to the device itself and were asking for a "good guys only" backdoor into the device to obtain anything that might not have been in the iCloud backup; App
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by dcastonguay 3y ago
Regarding the rollout, this is from the bottom of their official blog post: > Starting today, the new user experience will begin rolling out to new teams, and will reach our existing users over the coming months. https://slack
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by dcastonguay 4y ago
I think there are actually two questions here: 1. Why do some people seem to be so fanatical about their love for Macs? 2. Why do some people seem to be so vocally fanatical online about their love for Macs? As far as #1 goes, I think it&#x
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by dcastonguay 5y ago
For me it’s just because I don’t want another piece of software on my machine that adds essentially no value on its own running in the background that I also have to manage to ensure that it’s not running in the background when I don’t want
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by dcastonguay 5y ago
This isn't my understand of what the parent commenter is trying to communicate. I think the point that they're trying to make is this: A chef could originally decide that a dish is only complete if it is garnished with a terribly
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by dcastonguay 5y ago
I enjoy watching Apple's keynotes with the presenters delivering extremely polished and scripted rundowns of each new product and feature; they come across as having tailored their emotions to fit the desired tone of the presentation.
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by dcastonguay 5y ago
This proposal seems to me like it's centered around a false dichotomy: - Acknowledge the presence of natural talent, put naturally talented kids into advanced levels of math, and create inequity. - Denounce the belief in natural talent
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by dcastonguay 6y ago
I alternate between a Razer 15 and a MacBook Pro that I plug into a 3 display setup and this is one of the things that is very aggravating / comically short-sighted about macOS with multiple displays. While I largely prefer using macOS
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by dcastonguay 7y ago
I'm interested in this as a convenient way to access some of my cloud storage providers, but I can't consider it responsible to use this until it supports OTP two-factor.