Not sure how to feel about that, honestly.
They deserve it for putting all the best engineers, designers, and developers under one roof and letting them do incredibly cool stuff.
But that’s not how they actually made that much money. They did it through labor exploitation in their supply chain and anti-consumer/monopolistic business practices.
Dungeons and Bad Dragons
I think companies that use unethically trained AI (read: basically all gen AI) should be subject to massive litigation, or at least severely damaging boycotts.
Have mentioned it to a lawyer at work, and he was like “I get it, but uh… fat chance, lol”. Would not dare mention it to the AI-hungry folks in leadership.
Descenders
Idk why. Well, I do know why: I grew up in an era where Flash games started to do physics-based gameplay, and something about that just made them endlessly replayable and easy to do while focusing on something else like a lecture or whatever.
So many games these days demand your full attention. And that’s great, when you have time for it. But if I just have 45 minutes to derp around while I catch up with friends on Discord, I can’t dive into an epic boss fight that I was prepping for a month ago.
And then the 0.1% goes “Hey you should hate that guy cuz his family had the kind of wealth we accumulate in five seconds instead of five milliseconds”
Probably, but they don’t really have to. Exploiting the OS itself is way better.
My answer is usually “I don’t use computers the same way you do, so I probably won’t know what you’re talking about.”
Super gross conclusions/recommendations from the marketing firm in the article.
I imagine that if the finding was “gamers spend more time watching friends play”, they’d suggest monetizing the couch cushions.
I’d say that’s pretty typical. Nobody wants to pester or to leave someone hanging, but that timeframe is different for every relationship.
I never give money to the homeless. They’ll just buy drugs and alcohol.
I keep it for myself. So I can buy drugs and alcohol.
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For real though, I try to give $5 if I can. Some people will waste it, some will make good use of it, and it’s impossible to tell from the outside looking in. So I might as well swing at every ball. Giving to charities is good too, but they don’t reach everyone (for all sorts of reasons).
Sean Murray’s curse is finally broken.
ITT:
People throwing shade at the devs who could easily be maxing&relaxing in IT but chose to make art instead, rather than the perverse financial incentives baked into the industry which encourage them to overpromise to secure funding and then underdeliver to abide by publisher demands.
But maybe I’m in the unreasonable one.
If “excellent customer service” means you have to go through three layers of call center to finally cancel your service, then yes.
over the long term–and I’m talking, like 20-30+ years–it could be positive. One of the things that made the US economy strong in the 60s was the fact that we had strong labor, and strong manufacturing
Looks to me like the strong economy of the 1960s coincided with ending 20-30 years of high tariffs… Sooo…
I’d recommend some Scott Galloway. He’s an advocate for young men, but he’s not one of those toxic manosphere types. He’s not exactly a leftist, but he’s certainly a liberal by today’s standards.
My most successful standups have been like:
“Okay, we’re all here. Anyone wanna take a look at anything together?”
“I need some help with XYZ. Alice, can you take a look?”
“Sure.”
“Anything else? No? Alright, let’s do it.”
Typically less than 2 minutes of whole-team time, at our desks. Really just a reserved pivot point where it’s okay to interrupt each other’s tasks to ask for some pairing time. Sometimes an unofficial second one would happen after lunch.
People getting put on the no-fly list cuz of racial profiling, I guess?
Yellow Mountain Imports is great.
AirPods have some pretty fantastic UX, Vision Pro’s UX is miles ahead of anything else even at a higher price point.
Fun podcast episode about Apple sound design: https://www.20k.org/episodes/the-sound-of-apple-2
Vid about Vision Pro by an AR/VR industry expert who has a specific interest in UXD: https://youtu.be/REo1ugX5GSI