Tagged “tech”
Tim Urban's thoughts on Vision Pro
The plan was clear. I went home, told my wife that I would be deeply ignoring her and our baby for the week, and spent twelve hours a day in the headset for four straight days. I’m writing this on Thursday afternoon, having already logged over forty hours. Here are my thoughts.
impressive, not ready yet.
Signs it's time to leave a company
OpenAI is now corporate, closed-source, and for-profit
What I learned getting acquired by Google
MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information#9208
clickbaity, but still not ideal
The Rot Economy
If capital is not invested in providing a good service via a profitable business, it will never sustain things that are societally useful.
hopefully this doesn't imply that things need to be profitable to be societally useful
Big Tech and Generative AI
Dan Hollick on Twitter: "What is the best newsletter service these days?
Interesting that substuck gets mentioned for this - that maybe the main selling point is the subscription part rather than the publishing part. Maybe this is obvious but I had previously thought they were more about editing experience and hosting text.
Why are there so many recent tech layoffs, and why to worry
Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro | Hacker News
surprising(?) amount of biased claims in there. "I have had great luck with phone x", some hating on google for login screens, etc.
Elon Musk Is Convinced He's the Future. We Need to Look Beyond Him
please fewer underground car tubes
A Big Phone Works for Everyone But You
I don't know about this theory, but damn all the giant screens are annoying when looking for a new phone
Reality Check: Twitter Actually Was Already Doing Most Of The Things Musk Claims He Wants The Company To Do (But Better)
unsurprisingly, issues facing twitter:
a) have been considered by people who spend years working on it
b) are more complicated to solve than a pithy phrase would have you believe
Steph Smith generation-defining predictions thread
Google Search Is Dying
Too much trash and sponsored noisy content
12 Predictions for the Future of Music
Rise of holograms, deepfakes, so more ongoing fame for existing artists. Decline of labels, consolidation of the remaining power/profit in that business to fewer and fewer people.
The “official industry figures” will show that the music business is growing, but these numbers will be highly misleading. A huge portion of “music profits” will actually go to tech companies (Apple, Google, etc.), who have no interest in reinvesting this cash into the music ecosystem. For example, Spotify will take the cash flow generated by music and use it to acquire rights to podcasts, etc.—and, in general, the music culture will be starved of funds because it now must pay the bills for other businesses
Ten Predictions for the 2020s
Mostly sensible looking predictions, interesting set of topcs: Enterprise software, phone form factor, SF / NYC tech rivalry apparently, Crypto as dissident tech, fall of grad school, biotech bubble, microplastics health fears, campaign growth hacking, and SV startup scam.
Debt is Coming
Framework Laptop
A long-awaited product - laptop with upgradable parts! And decent specs! The internal adapters might be too late (USB-C is almost now widely used enough), but at least having the choice of ports is cool.
CSS Frameworks, hype and dogmatism
Sensible writeup. The trashing and attacks over gd frameworks is terrible and unnecessary. Use whatever tech you want!
The Anatomy of a Large Scale Web Search Engine [Hacker News]
Started off sounding so ambitious and friendly; the goals and incentives probably shifted fairly early.
They never delivered on this "strong goal" to make web search an academic endeavour.
Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied
Ferment is Abroad: Techlash, Legal Institutions, and the Limits of Lawfulness
julia's drawings
Great little explainers for some important concepts. Learned a lot from /proc
one!
ASK HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?
That squares with my experience of software development. It's like being a furniture maker but spending 80% of your time fixing your goddamn hammer because it keeps breaking and no better hammers exist, or consulting glue-drying tables because they keep changing your glue on you every hour or two and for no good reason every single glue performs differently while accomplishing the same thing.
When I joined the tech industry in my early 20s and for years after, I noticed t... : Hacker News
I noticed this as well. Went from wanting to code all the time, to wanting to do something not web related in spare time. Hobbies are important!
You Will Never Be A Full Stack Developer
undisturbed
Automate Later
linksync
AMP's Branding Problem
The First 1940s Coders Were Women – So How Did Tech Bros Take Over?
How to check your IP address
Using DevTools Features Without Opening DevTools
This Ain’t Disney: A practical guide to CSS transitions and animations
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