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I actually work 9-5 for a bank as a software at the moment, however; I'm leery of asking for a small business loan as it obviously indicates a long-term interest in leaving the company. Should I be worried about that? Realistically it would be a year or two before I'd leave the bank and I'd be doing this on the side.

Thanks so much for the encouragement. I really need it. I feel like I'm stepping out onto a precipice here but I also feel like I have to! Nobody is going to fulfill this opportunity for me.

Unfortunately, I don't own a home; or obviously that would be the first go. :(

I did a basic calculation online. Over 2-3 years I can; to the best of my understanding, given a $20k investment, guarantee at least a $30k return; which would be a 50% ROI. It could be more, but it certainly wouldn't be less.

I hadn’t thought of that - but holy shit; I’d put money on that being the case. How embarrassing.

>> An ARM based Windows computer isn't a bad idea, I just question if Microsoft is able to deliver on it.

Microsoft has already executed and brutally failed with ARM in the form of the disastrous Surface RT/Windows RT.

But, and more importantly.

Two people with unlimited resources are running a race car race.

One starts a year or two before the other. Even with unlimited resources; the other racer/team has unlimited resources, too.

So let’s say they can both reach a maximum of the speed of sound.

Apple’s already been going the speed of sound for a couple years now; they also have the advantage that their vehicle in the race has software and hardware that are married.

Microsoft is not only nowhere near the speed of sound, but even though they also have unlimited resources; they are severely hampered by separate hardware and software, with the exclusion of their surface tablets, whose previous incarnation of this race car model crashed and burned on the race track.

This isn’t a race where MS can or will catch up. They’re already years behind. Not that I encourage anyone to use an OS with built-in ads anyway. Just use Linux at that point.

It's an ARG? For what campaign?

Embarrassing that this exists before Apple gets its own Final Cut Pro on their so-called 'iPad Pro'.

Never understood how they could have the audacity to call it an iPad 'Pro' when none of Apple's actual by-name 'Pro' software was - or, to this date - 5 years later - still is.

No 'Logic Pro', no 'Final Cut Pro'...still no Xcode, either. Other than illustrators/designers, can someone please explain to me what 'Pro' can use an iPad 'Pro' for any serious professional-grade tasks?

The mind boggles.

Similar to a game console, I purchase hardware for the software it can run. I don't care if it's as powerful as my equivalent MacBook Pro; because there's nothing I can use to take advantage of that power.

I'm autistic, and often call myself retarded intentionally. :P

We're all a little retarded.

I'm working on the iOS/WatchOS app(s) for a major bank, and fortunately of course most of our staff uses it; too - because of course we bank with the bank we work for. (There's tangible benefits to a staff account, even those who have accounts elsewhere I'm willing to bet still do their primary banking with us.)

I've actually had an instance or two over my four years there where I discovered a bug in our PROD/App Store version myself; simply from using the software enough.

It's really unfortunate that this isn't the case for a lot of dev shops. Dogfooding is incredibly important to QA.

I'll certainly never use Windows again; for any reason. The idea of built-in advertising within an OS is absolutely a line too far crossed.

Doesn't matter that you can disable it; it's the existence of the advertising alone that tells me enough about the garbage philosophy of the company producing the software that I want nothing to do with it, and I could never rightfully recommend it to anyone.

Always boggles the mind how companies are proud of be part of an industry of systematic murder. Fun.

>> ‘free’

Don’t make us all laugh. It’s ‘free’ because the user is the product, not the service.

My girlfriend and I would love that. We love to travel, but rarely have the time to use things like pools unless we’ve specifically rented a room with a double jacuzzi. (If you haven’t done this, and have a partner; please do. I guarantee it’ll make your lives while it’s around.)

If we didn’t have to pay for a pool we’d never use (we don’t even pack bathing suits) that would be fantastic.

Ahh, made a big long comment suggesting a cat; ha - for me, the transition from completely empty, huge studio; to having a little fuzzy companion, made all the difference in the world.

Please don’t take this as a joke, I honestly mean this as an incredibly serious suggestion -

I felt the exact same way, I’ve got a partner and friends as well but unfortunately my hobbies (I produce my own conscious hip-hop and short films) mostly also consist of my spending a lot of time in my fairly large combo film/music studio / office / living space.

During COVID itself, I actually lived with a roommate - after COVID, and with some money saved up and some excellent goals in mind, I got the studio/house so I could be all to myself.

It’s awesome to live alone - less awesome to live, work, and play alone from the same space.

So, it might sound silly - but about a month or so ago, I adopted a very sweet middle-aged cat from a local adoption agency here in Toronto.

I will honestly say, her presence (her name is Lofi) has actually honestly even helped with like depression and general mental health things!

But, most importantly - I’m pretty much never feeling alone with her around. :)

When I step in the door, there’s usually a cute fuzzball greeting me; who’s likely missed me, and happy to see me; as opposed of course to an almost dauntingly large empty space.

I would really recommend adopting a middle aged cat who has had a family, though! Don’t get a kitten, you don’t need or want the equivalent of a toddler in your work space.

Might seem like it’s either obvious or just silly - but I actually have to say that Lofi has made a huge difference the last month for my well-being in general.

tl;dr - try adopting a middle aged cat. I find they are a great working companion.

Looked through the comments briefly and couldn’t mind a mention - but wouldn’t the Fossil Watch PDA have been the smallest, by definition; PDA?

That thing ran a full-fledged version of PalmOS. Way, way ahead of its time. (No pun intended. :P)

If you haven’t seen this little wonder - check it out here:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fossil_Wrist_PDA

Actually - I’m absolutely looking for a cofounder with a decent business background at the moment for a tech/physical product-based business I’ve been putting together.

I’d love a thread like this! :)

I literally laughed out loud that this would be the ‘example’…omigosh, too funny - I’m actually going to share this comment with a couple friends.

Funny fact: one of the only times online I actually caught a company shill acting as a regular person posting - essentially, ads; and whose extensive comment history only included positive remarks about a product - was a Stadia shill/plant I found on Reddit about a month ago.

Their entire history comprised of posts and comments praising Stadia, but clearly typed by a real person; with like these weird intentional grammar and spelling mistakes to make the account look like it was a real person. Either that or the Google employee behind the account needed to go back to Grade 5 or 6.

Ironically - they’d posted the article one or two months ago where Google promised continued Stadia support, and I found it on the front page of Reddit News.

I didn’t think twice about the poster of the article; until enough people started joking that - yeah - give it a month or two and Google will close it down, kinda thing…

The OP got so defensive in a very strange way to the point where their comments started to be more than questionably ‘real’.

So, I did a quick background check on the account - only to find - holy shit; it’s true, this person is literally paid by Google to post only positive things about Stadia online. Had to be - just from looking at it - but most telling, and the dead giveaway was that once myself and several other Redditors pointed out that the account was obviously just a paid shill from Google, the entire account mysteriously disappeared about an hour later. :P

Companies: if you know your product has problems and/or is shit - here’s a thought - instead of paying people to shill mostly false positive information on social media - how about you invest in actually improving your product; or marketing it in legitimate ways that don’t make you look like a total scumbag. Just my advice.

Let’s just cut ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ down to 40 minutes, because - why couldn’t Kubrick just compress all that slow motion classical music stuff down to the actual point of the movie?

‘Humanity makes first contact. They send out a spaceship to the source. The AI on the ship becomes sentient and murderous. One man escapes, and arrives at the source. He exits his 3 dimensional existence and enters a psychedelic-esque state whereupon he transcends humanity as we know it.’

Okay, now nobody needs to see ‘2001’ again - ever!

Symphonies - what the fuck?

Why couldn’t Mozart have just written a 3 1/2 minute long pop song instead of wasting all of our time?

What an asshole! Yet we celebrate this music as some of the greatest of all time? Shame on us.

Shakespeare? Ugh. They fall in love. Their love isn’t approved. They kill themselves. Get to the point!

You’re totally right. There’s absolutely no reason for us to do anything but compress all information into Tweet-level hyperchunks. :)

Oh, God - I, too; experienced DOOM 3 for the first time on a PowerPC Mac...not exactly a pleasant experience.

I was an early adopter of the first Intel MacBook; and let me tell you - the difference (once we had a Universal Binary) was like riding a horse vs. driving a car.

Other than Final Cut Express and Logic Express performance, I found DOOM 3 to be one of the first major signs that Intel was meant to be and here to stay.

VScode...is open source? :/

Y’know…it was clear that the original commenter was telling a story. If you didn’t want to read it, you could’ve stopped. Nobody was making you. :) There are plenty of other comments, and I found this one fascinating; myself.

Maybe it’s just that some of us still have patience - and don’t need things condensed into sound bites or summations for our convenience.

The Tumblr de-porning was the single most SMH business moment I may have heard of since Yahoo’s previous worst business move ever of not buying Google. I mean - my God…

Yahoo may very well be the single dumbest major tech company in history.

Just…blunder after blunder after shitty decision. Watching its history is almost the definition of seeing a slow motion train wreck. It’s almost impressive.

With regards to Tumblr - I can’t imagine what potential business decision could’ve been worth what they had to know was suicide. Why make the acquisition and then kill your user base? It’s not like they didn’t know. That’s probably one of the single biggest wastes of $1b I’ve seen. Why buy it to knowingly, fully intentionally, throw it down the toilet? So baffling.

It’s borderline criminal that these were sold with soldered-on SSD’s that can never be upgraded. It makes piles of otherwise completely useful laptops unusable pieces of shit. Same with the RAM.

The environmental damage alone that comes from this practice is heart wrenching. No possible performance benefits can be worth the damage it does.

At least on iOS/iPadOS, this is inequitably true. It’s impossible to argue Apple doesn’t have monopoly control over web rendering on these platforms.

I would truly love that. My email is in my profile.

Thank you for a realistic, grounded, evidence-based discussion of this. I've seen quite a few comments in this thread that have made me shake my head pretty hard.

Here's the thing: anyone who is in IT, especially programming; is going to be well-aware of the...I don't want to say 'evil', but I will at least say questionably ethical nature of Facebook's workings.

Anyone working there had to compromise some level of ethics for the profit they acquire from it.

Right? Like...a series of passwords or something...alongside some big red warning screen...idk...

The feature, as-is - is not just useless; but borderline hilarious.

LMFAO...yeah, you could say the same about Heroin. And Heroin is actually damaging to users.

You can pick any random thing, compare it to any other random thing, and get similar or opposing results - or anything in between, because those things aren't correlated or comparable in any way. :P