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New comment by oh_hello in "The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster"

oh_hello — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:38:51 +0000

Copilot is turning into Microsoft's Watson.

New comment by oh_hello in "The great junk transfer is coming"

oh_hello — Wed, 25 May 2022 15:18:43 +0000

I agree. My parents should enjoy life to the fullest all the way to the end. Wasting their golden years cleaning up, planning for death, and likely emotionally parting with a lifetime of possessions is not something I'd like to foist on them. It will be time-consuming and painful for me to do, but so what.

New comment by oh_hello in "Apple is discontinuing the iPod"

oh_hello — Tue, 10 May 2022 16:58:45 +0000

This does jump out to me is a surprisingly profound. I was a freshman in college when the iPod first came out. I was a huge Apple fan, but didn't get their move into consumer electronics. It was so expensive. Why weren't they building more cool Macs instead? 10 years later I was putting serious time toward learning how to develop for the App Store. Another 10 years later and that path has had a profound effect on my career and life. Thinking back to the moment my friend Peter showed me the gen 1 iPod he bought on launch day, the vision, progression, and brilliance you can tie back to that product is astounding.

New comment by oh_hello in "One painful meeting with Steve Jobs"

oh_hello — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:26:20 +0000

There is also an interesting omission in this exchange. Steve asks for revenue and last valuation, but gets back number of users and last valuation. It appears the author dodged a direct and critical question in this exchange. Steve almost certainly caught this, but still gave a clear and direct answer. Additionally, Steve said Eddy Cue would be responsible for working out the details, but the author chose to press Steve to stay and talk money. It doesn't seem crazy that Steve was annoyed with the author by the time the "I know" statement was made.

New comment by oh_hello in "Apple Reports Third Quarter Results"

oh_hello — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 02:01:19 +0000

Apple One really feels like a great deal. I was already paying $10 a month for 2 TB of data storage. Now I pay $30 for their full package of services. It's amazing to have access to all of these.

New comment by oh_hello in "Compass S-1"

oh_hello — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 03:09:08 +0000

Does anyone have any familiarity with Compass platform? At first it seemed like the plan was to cut out a huge amount of busy work from agents' load and ultimately reduce the need to keep so many employed. Shaving away the cut paid out to agents would make a lot of sense. However, the story for the last year or so has been that they are simply spending a fortune buying up smaller companies and paying out higher-than-standard commissions.

Was the notion that their technology is their secret sauce abandoned? Did the platform just not meet the stated goals? The promise of their software seems gone and they look like a plain old real estate company trying to buy their way to market share with investment money.

New comment by oh_hello in "New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst"

oh_hello — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:00:26 +0000

I agree after a year or so with my 16" MBP. My first attitude was that it was useless after hearing years of complaints. This machine has the physical escape key and I believe that combination really works.

I'm not using the Touch Bar constantly, even when typing on the built-in keyboard. Discovery is slow because you have to become familiar with which options are available in specific applications and for specific contexts. This is a legitimate problem. Over time I've built up a decent number of uses that I know are there and make life better.

The negativity is unreasonable to me. It would be very interesting to know how much a Touch Bar increases the cost of each MacBook. To me it seems Apple took a section of the keyboard very, very few users used and replaced it with something that probably can be helpful to most users at least some of the time.

New comment by oh_hello in "New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar and more ports: analyst"

oh_hello — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 17:48:28 +0000

If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have said "a faster horse".

New comment by oh_hello in "The Art of Whaling: Illustrations from the Logbooks of Nantucket Whaleships"

oh_hello — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 20:19:12 +0000

Yes, great book. The story is completely fascinating and in addition great detail into the culture and process of whaling is given.

New comment by oh_hello in "On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation"

oh_hello — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:57:02 +0000

Yes, and this is a really shame. Several years ago I was able to become an iOS developer almost completely by reading through Apple's docs and then building a couple of projects on my own. I had a checklist of the programming guides to work my way through from Objective-C, to App Programming, to view controllers, and on. Over the years I found it more and more frustrating to truly understand new frameworks as the documentation changed. iOS development is now a small portion of my job and the lack of good resources is making it hard to stay up to date.

New comment by oh_hello in "Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable"

oh_hello — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:26:42 +0000

I don't have nearly your scale of photo data, but I also refuse to move to the cloud-based Lightroom. I really hope there are enough pro users like you to prevent Adobe from pulling the plug on Lightroom Classic. I'd go straight to Affinity or elsewhere if that happened.

New comment by oh_hello in "Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS"

oh_hello — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:42:36 +0000

I also often look at these tools and don't see clearly how they are meant to scale beyond small, isolated projects. The simple examples where you let the tool take your small project and start serving requests from AWS doesn't show me how I would use it in the real world.

New comment by oh_hello in "App Clips for iOS"

oh_hello — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 18:51:48 +0000

I find the wording of this odd also. They mention Apple Pay and Sign in with Apple, but also say App Clips can use the full SDK. Would you not be able to include the Stripe SDK or a competitor?

New comment by oh_hello in "Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I don't love it"

oh_hello — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:38:23 +0000

I agree. I upgraded from a 2013 15" to the new 16" as soon as it came out. I expected the Touch Bar to be worthless based on everything I had heard. Over the months I've found myself using it more and more. It isn't nearly critical, but as I come to discover certain uses they get added to my rotation. As many have pointed out, there is a discoverability problem with this feature and I don't see how that is fixable.

New comment by oh_hello in "Docker Expands Relationship with Microsoft"

oh_hello — Thu, 28 May 2020 18:13:10 +0000

I am a huge AWS user. However, as a VSCode fan and generally happy GitHub user, I also regularly consider playing with Azure integrations just to see how seamless they have made the experience.

New comment by oh_hello in "Speech to Text on iPhone vs. Pixel"

oh_hello — Wed, 27 May 2020 17:22:10 +0000

An an iPhone user, I very often find speech recognition far too slow. It is to the point I rarely use the feature because it often causes frustration. The Google performance here is amazing.

Is this a feature only of Pixel phones?

New comment by oh_hello in "Tech workers consider escaping Silicon Valley’s sky-high rents"

oh_hello — Thu, 14 May 2020 17:53:10 +0000

Working from home with kids around as we are now is distracting, but under normal circumstances the kids are at school, daycare, or otherwise supervised.

Having a family brings with it some other major concerns. You will want a larger home, a good school district, a safe neighborhood, and a short commute. A childless person who lives in an apartment in the city and doesn't think twice about getting home at 7 is likely to value the time in the office much differently than a parent trying to make brutally expensive house, a miserable commute, and family time work.

As others have touched on, single people might really enjoy the atmosphere of their office space as an escape from small apartments.

New comment by oh_hello in "NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS, but forgot about egress costs"

oh_hello — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:36:27 +0000

"The audit, meanwhile, suggests an increased cloud spend of around $30m a year by 2025"

Isn't this a rounding error for NASA?

New comment by oh_hello in "Apple's Pro Display XDR Can Only Be Cleaned with Special Apple-Provided Cloth"

oh_hello — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 15:36:26 +0000

Agreed. This is a dumb story. A $5000 display ordered with upgraded, low-reflectivity glass must be cleaned with the INCLUDED cloth.

New comment by oh_hello in "Tesla Cybertruck"

oh_hello — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 17:39:55 +0000

I agree and think this could possibly replace many SUVs in suburban areas. 6 person seating is another great selling point for many, just look at all of the third row vehicles like the Honda Pilot. The base price of the Cybertruck is similar to a Pilot. Which would you rather drive?