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There's so many hack street photographers, it's crazy. The classic homeless beggar in front of a high end jewlery store. Visual puns. Bold and outrageous clothing. But I still like street photography, because the ones that can manage to tell an interesting story really stand out.

The difference between a model and a random stranger is night and day. The reason the model gets paid is because they are professional and contribute roughly equally to the process. With [good] street photography, it's almost entirely the story that is told that brings the value, the subject just happens to be living their relatively ordinary life.

Where's the data? This is all anecdote. Even in this comment thread it's all just individual anecdotes. Not sure what the value is in this post.

Can you share an example?

That's the "you have the choice to not use Apple" argument. Until apple becomes the only choice in the market I agree with the argument.

The difference between engagement algorithms and magazines when it comes to potential risk is in the orders of magnitude.

It's well known that engagement algorithms create a feedback loop to trigger negative emotions as they are the easiest way to increase engagement.

This is possible with traditional media, but nowhere near the immediacy or effect of an engagement algorithm.

Most studies? Citation needed

>Also, Apple buys up huge amounts of the supply chain such that their screens, cameras, etc are better than basically anyone else's

Apple has never been known to have the fastest/best devices on a feature-comparison point by point. There are better screens, cameras, speakers in many many Android devices.

Sure, different people want different things is true and accurate. But it also true and accurate that the vast majority of people want to do the thing they want to do, and for the interface to get out the way.

Design consistency helps with that, or rather, design inconsistency hinders it. I sense stockholm syndrome. Windows would not lose anything by making their design language consistent.

The article shows clearly there are multiple design languages in very common tasks. The first point is that the volume picker is different from the latest design. This is something users interact with on a daily basis.

The comments in this thread are pulling this idea apart, but the fact of the matter is that before the App Store, people were not willing to pay for apps. Apple created the market singlehandedly.

How far this extends into the current day is up for debate, and how much rent keeping Apple should be allowed to do, sure, but being dismissive of the instrumental role Apple played in the past and to this day is turning a blind eye.

I completely agree, and would love to see a competitor to Apple in terms of privacy focus.

I think the reason we don't see it from competitors is that Apple is years ahead of everyone else in terms of customer experience, and privacy is part of that experience, so they focus on it.

You just have to look at how many different models of phones Samsung sell vs how many Apple sell to see how unfocused Apple's biggest competitor is. They will throw anything and everything at the wall to see what sticks. There's no focus on privacy because there's no focus on anything.

Here's a few cases of chiro doing harm: http://whatstheharm.net/chiropractic.html (ignore the site header at the top, that statistic is for all topics totaled)

The argument against an iPhone being a general purpose computer is that it first and foremost needs to be a phone, and do various other critical things. Imagine being stuck out in the middle of nowhere and your phone not working because of an app you installed from a non verified source messing things up.

Rebase is only dangerous and problematic if your team shares ownership of feature branches. I have yet to work at a place where that is the case.

I have, however, seen many git trees that are a complete mess to grok because of merges into feature branches.

>This is asinine and you know it

Why do you think we use mice and keyboards instead of touchscreens for serious work? Gorilla arm syndrome has been known since the Apple 1.

There are other pages too. Applications (https://neuralink.com/applications/) has more details.

Can you elaborate? What are the juniors stuck on? Usually if a junior doesn't understand something it means the naming/structure is not as clear as you think. One of my favourite things as a senior is having a junior peer review my code, the places they have questions is a great sign the change needs work.

With a ton of respect for your work and field, the tone I am picking up here is that Neuralink getting too much attention, unfairly, compared to other good and important work.

What would be the downside to another organisation in the field? Putting fairness aside, if it means even a chance someone with a disability can have an improved quality of life within the next 20 years, is this not a good thing?

Related: Cmd + Mission Control (F3) temporarily shows your desktop.

Hit it once, start dragging, then hit it again to bring back your apps to drop into.

Business isn't a zero sum game, providing a service isn't robbing the poor.

Might be useful to some: LG Ultrafine 4k/5k brightness can be controlled with the touch bar. Press the Brightness icon on the touch bar and two sliders show up, one for your mac and one for the LG.

There's nothing special about 60GHz, it's just like any other radio transmitter that's been around for decades. The safety is well understood and apart from some pseudoscience around it (as has been for every new tech, including microwave ovens, cellphones, 5g etc.), there are no concerns.

Disclaimer: haven't worked with websockets

I can't imagine ever wanting to know when my chat message was received in relation to when a .gif was loaded.

Is anyone forcing people to live under a political system they disapprove of? People can move somewhere else where local politics is more fit to their worldview.

>socially healthier

That's a bold statement, can you elaborate?

People want to go for walks, meet up with friends, share memories, they don't care how it's done. Having the tools get out of the way and just do those things is a net benefit to society.

Users are notoriously bad at being able to explain what they want, or even knowing what they want.

This is why UX/usability studies are the gold standard of delivering value: put a user in front of your tool, give them a task and watch the actual actions they make to complete the task. This has been the norm for decades.

While I agree fundamentally, I think the blog post is focusing too narrowly which gives me a bad taste in the mouth, and I read it as an attempt to pass blame to employees.

For example, one suggestion is to point out the problem and discuss it openly.

>schedule a meeting with the project stakeholders and product owners ... talk about the pattern of incomplete requirements and make recommendations ...

This is great, and from my experience happens all the time. People speak up to managers all the time, every day. Rarely have I seen someone with a problem not bring it up to their manager.

It's the lack of action from managers following the feedback that's often the cause for developers adopting the "victim-oriented mindset". The direct result of manager inaction is for the developer to think the issues we have are real and are not being addressed, so my manager is indirectly telling me not to bring issues up next time which causes the "victim-oriented mindset".

Mindsets are situational, a developer's mindset reflects the environment they find themselves in. Poor leadership is the number one cause for burnout (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17849489). Poor leadership causes poor mindsets.

You may be describing a support developer role. Reactive to support tickets (internal or otherwise) rather than planned uninterrupted work. Some people enjoy being a support developer, it's not for me and it sounds like it's not for you.

>the female brain is less capable of many tasks

That's a very problematic and dangerous phrasing. There is also no such thing as the female brain. There are distributions of biology.