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Zoom is SO much more seamless than Meet. Its desktop clients exist, are usable, and don't force you to keep trying Chrome whenever something breaks. (I swear Google never tests their prodcuts on FF/Safari...)

Meet also has a very fixed layout. Its mic control bar on the bottom cuts off the names on the bottom row of participants. The UI on "waiting to connect" page is hilarious; it has a line of vertical dots for changing settings, and a line of horizontal dots for monitoring audio. There's a small concept in design called discoverability -- doesn't exist for Google, lol.

Thanks, it does!

> Google likely considered legal defense as part of the hiring cost when taking someone that high profile

Stuff like this is always so fascinating to me: the idea that someone's ability to do their job is worth fighting over in court -- nevermind the cultural costs of bringing someone new into a executive position at a company.

Oh of course! I've just heard the a440 debate more than the tuning debate.

Nope! According to this article[0], Dropbox used to use Zoom internally, and no matter how many serious bugs they discovered+reported, many are still in the software today, years later.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/technology/zoom-security-...

Yep. I've read a lot of medium articles that have zero actual substance and are just pharaphrasing a different article. Or, they are advocating for an objectively bad principle that the first SO result says is not optimal...

every musician ever: A440 PROVEN BY THE BRIDGE

In a similar vein, singing to a more "natural" tuning (i.e. quarter-comma mean tone) is insanely more comfortable. Adam Newley and 12Tone on youtube have excellent videos that explore this topic further!

Hey there! Fourth year CS Major here. Great news that you're not worried academically. But as someone whose also been coding for a long time, really be careful to not get blindsided. I got very screwed over from that mentality -- like, knowing C still didn't guarantee an A in a C class. That kind of thing. In no particular order: - Get social! Make friends. You'll need them when college gets hard and they can be invaluable for the rest of your life. Student clubs and hanging around the CS building are great ways to do this! Also ask around your dorm for fun things to do. Don't be afraid to try new things! - PROJECTS. INTERNSHIPS. Your first internship will be nearly impossible to get no matter how good you are unless you get very lucky. It takes a lot of determination: keep at it! Best way imo is to do projects outside of class. Also, in terms of a tech stack, something ppl like and get REAL GOOD over time. Note that certain internships are much harder to find than others; iOS and Backend in particular. - As a former dual degree seeker (BS CS and BM Music composition) I'm biased, but definitely take classes outside of CS. I took around a year of non CS classes and I have NEVER regretted a single one. (Maybe chemistry.) Things like economics, music theory, intro to law, philosophy -- these are what will pay dividends later on in your career in totally unexpected ways. - Embrace chaos! And embrace change. Think of college as your time to try shit out and fail. If you fail... so what! Get good at getting over failure. Invest in yourself and figure out what you want to change. - Finally, please dear god have fun. And truly best of luck given Covid!

Hi David! As an iOS dev I can't wait to try this out on mobile. Although until then I have a noob question: I've noticed some services that offer similar email button sign ins, but the emails were delayed: sometimes by a few minutes, other times by a few hours. If you can comment on it, what are some ways that Magic works to optimize that delay between button and email trigger? Thanks!

Especially with SwiftUI bringing reactive UI principles to native code ;)

As a musician/programmer this seems like a great visualization for exploring related information about music. For searching, well, if you study music you just kinda learn the corpus as you go, so tools like this are the equivalent of browsing programming languages by type. Yeah it's great for true beginners but even a year of music study (not long) is enough to outgrow this kind of system imo.

As an iOS dev, SwiftUI is painfully limiting in its current state aside from small UI views here and there. Hopefully WWDC makes it really worth an upgrade, haha.

> youtube algo's screwing up content creator

A slightly different problem, but Tom Scott did an excellent video on the automation of the copyright system on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU

In summary, auto copyright checking solves Most copyright issues, to a degree that no other solution can really provide. And while there are a small (yet very unfair) number of false positives, the benefit that the system as a whole allows far outpaces that downtrend: for YouTube to exist!

With regards to fact checking, I'd be more interested to hear how many people who read those kind of "fact flags" actually change their opinion in an easy case (flat earth, climate change, etc.). Honestly, the problem of "true truth" might never be solved, but so will the cause of incompetence never disappear.