Took a look at your GitHub link, looks like you put in quite a lot of work.
Looks very interesting.
When you say "works great with other types of cameras", could you explain? You've tested with other cameras and could you tell us which?
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Looks very interesting.
When you say "works great with other types of cameras", could you explain? You've tested with other cameras and could you tell us which?
I wonder if there's an easy diagnostic method that is easy for people who aren't developers or sys admins?
He's probably more libertarian than progressive. He was quite open about his support for Ron Paul in the Obama-Romney election and then went for Gary Johnson in 2016. When Sen Sanders lost the nomination, he was quite open about saying he would vote for Trump over Biden.
He's very good friends with Alex Jones (of Sandy Hook denial infamy) and has hosted numerous other rightwing guests with a great degree of empathy for some of their positions.
Add to that his thoughts that perhaps "the Man" has had some grand conspiracies at work (e.g. him wondering if we really did land on the moon) and he's probably more identifiable as a liberal libertarian.
He definitely has a pleasant voice and can engage in conversations but I'm not sure how much some of the above-mentioned positions align with the majority of progressives.
My assumption was their choice to use Android components was to provide a better experience to users.
I asked a question about the CEO & management soon after they announced the layoffs and the post had a few very good observations by others - then someone flagged the post and only my comments/responses.
Maybe she or her umpteen executives were on a mission to be busy lol.
You can see it here and some of the really good answers imo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24171030
I really thought both the Foundation and the Corporation were hurting.
I'm assuming the research you refer to is their WebVR thing and I get it but how do they abandon Servo as a core differentiator and then focus on something that is at best years away.
If she were performing, fine, take your $2.5 million but when you let 1/4 of your team go and should have seen it coming, I'm just not so sure it's a justification for management.
They're a browser - or should be - and the internet didn't just up and get quarantined because of the pandemic. To me, it's apparent that they saw the browser as secondary to the other items and it made no sense.
Really interesting analysis, thanks.
That is just ridiculous in the worst way.
I understand she has served with other tech companies before and apparently done very well - in a legal capacity. If I'm getting what you're saying, she may be very well positioned for Mozilla's legal issues but technological, likely not.
I don't know if it was marketing and Thalmic/North not getting traction for its products or if it was just that Google came in with such a large offer. Or a combination of factors regarding sales and a buyout offer.
I've heard hardware startups are a lot harder than many software startups but when we experience things like Roku and the Myo, it's a big wow factor. At least for me.
I wish some companies would have clauses when they sell their products to whatever big name tech that customers get support or minimal updates for x years or refunds or something.
As for Google's inability to make something of Google Glass (which I was also an early adopter of for development and paid full price), that's been a real shame. Not to mention Google abandoning developers who bought it and it was a similar case when we all bought into Angular (version 1).
I thought it more or less conspiracy theories or drama, not realizing it could be real.
Stupid me I guess
I'm not getting into whether it's right or not to have a code of conduct, just whether these statements or actions are really deserving of much if anything.
What I find most interesting about all of this "woke" behavior from Ellen Pao and Alexis Ohanian is this:
A few years ago, when racism was brought up on social media during the 2016 US election and a Canadian federal election, Alexis publicly pushed back.
Similarly, activists complained that Pao hired people who had worked at Reddit and previously discounted policies against homophobic, bigoted, racist, etc subreddits and comments/harassment.
People like these were in charge of a world famous, social media site where they were more aware than many others in tech about the very things they are now aghast over.
To me, it's a bit like if I'm telling a software manager about bugs in some banking application that can sometimes deduct money from random accounts and they're like "Ship it, ship it anyway!" lol.
Back when free software was still a new thing on college campuses, there were proprietary software vendors who owned and monetized a heck of a lot.
Whether Microsoft's Server CALs for IIS (yes, that was a thing) or Oracle or Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Bell or ATT, there were a lot of vendors monetizing on both the server and the desktop.
Yes, software running on my machine might have been my data but there were numerous cases of that very same proprietary software where the data files were inaccessible.
In short, you owned the machine and that was fine but you didn't have a license to the data format and that meant you were...well, locked in and monetized by that particular vendor.
I'm not really going to speak to the moral judgement you made about free software since free software or proprietary software can both be used for whatever immoral ends.
I have an iMac that uses it and a Mac Mini that is on Mojave and for some reason, High Sierra just feels more stable with some software.
Firefox runs fine on High Sierra and has crashed multiple times in the past few weeks after using it on Mojave.
Maybe I'm just biased having used High Sierra for so long and dreading Catalina lol.
Me and two other devs have tried the Windows RN Windows for months off and on but always something missing when compiling.
As for the Mac version, great that it worked last night but without packaging, we can't ship anything at work.
I was talking to someone also in lockdown and she's in the market for a new laptop or iPad/keyboard.
She also wants to play games with family and friends and that's when she realized multiplayer and games in general on iOS and Mac were not a strength at all.
IMO, Apple's above-average hardware (at times, not all keyboards) is severely hurt by the lack of real gaming options on Mac or iOS.
I think that is even more glaring now in our present circumstances.
If by some stretch that means Swift can then make complete Windows programs, that could be good for consumers but particularly good for enterprise developers.
Maybe put some basic instructions bottom left or right so players know what controls to use.
And you can make it more difficult by increasing your vehicle sizes.
Nice. I didn't check it out for optimizations but it plays well enough for me to have had fun for a few minutes! Good job!
What makes you say he was "...bombarding support.."?
Similar reasons for subscribing digitally and the same lack of other stories I would find interesting. I'm sure it's great for LA but a lesson learned - subscribe digitally to national or local.
Cannot fault the LA Times for their focus but there is a real concern with the way they do business when it comes to these digital subscriptions. You can sign up easily enough yet when you want to cancel, you have to call in and spend 10 minutes on the phone. Plus, you're given multiple sales pitches for lower-priced offerings when cancelling.
This type of dark pattern for a well-known newspaper could itself be a tech news story.
What could be worrisome is this kind of difficult cancellation process will put people off from supporting other news organizations via subscription.
Even when you try to use the "basic HTML", they decided to not provide a lot of simple features such as basic view customizations (e.g. standard, compact, relaxed). I'm guessing that was done to make sure people use the new UI - so it's use the slow UI or too bad for you.
Not sure much will change in terms of the new UI since people are more wedded to their email addresses than say their choice of search engine or maps.
When I worked with them back in the day, there was a certain "take it or leave it" attitude at times from some senior people about some decisions in products.
This was not all the people and I'm not speaking about the present leadership who I don't know, just that it was the case because back in the mid/late 2000s with my experiences and people I knew via working relationships.
Even with my 1 yr old iPad, still have the Nexus 7 charged and use at times. (Just the screen won't rotate anymore to landscape after the last few OS upgrades lol)
When Google decided to abandon that line and their Nexus phones, it was pretty shocking - and telling. Approximately 10+ friends, family and colleagues went to other brands or iPad Minis.
Apple is a large enough and experienced enough company that fails like these are ridiculous to explain away.
One has to wonder if in the Steve Jobs era if this app and this type of publicity would get the app pulled and people held accountable.
I'm guessing it's a course or tutorial for a tool or a service but if the FAQs don't show up from the outset, not sure I could take it to my bosses at this time.
Not only does FF take a while to start up but when it is loading a mildly heavy page or even after updating, it can freeze up for several (as in 10-20) seconds.
When researching some topic, it's common to have the source document or documents open and then other tabs where people comment on them.
For example, if I'm checking some Python docs, I'll sometimes check how more knowledgeable programmers have solved some edge cases.