ChrisMarshallNY

He was definitely controversial, as evidenced by the rating on the grandfather post.

Around here, many people have their sense of humor, removed, during their first colonoscopy.

I joke, anyway, and bear the downvotes. Totally worth it.

I have AppleTV+, and subscribe to a bunch of services, which it aggregates, but it's still a big fat mess.

I dunno. The Norks seem to be really good at this, and have been, for a long time.

I suspect it's clever, experienced, engineers, leveraging LLMs.

I assume these types of things are going to become more and more common.

Looks like these folks really did their homework.

It's nasty, but I have to respect their skills. I'll bet it works, quite often.

Have to agree. They are, indeed, very safe and effective, but no user that usually picks "fuckyouhacker" as a password, is gonna use them, given a choice.

I'd say this def rates a black bar.

I miss them so much, I became one!

Ars had an interesting story, yesterday: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/on-the-run-for-20-yea...

Looks like this guy was considered "proven," by his company. So much, so, that they didn't even bother checking his basic bona fides. Wouldn’t surprise me, if he was actually pretty good at his job.

I think a lot of the "proof" at this level, is Mastery of the Bro-Fu. If you can speak the right language, wear the right watch, and drive the right car, the key to the executive washroom is tossed to you, without a second thought.

We’re really talking about two media, here.

The media of creation, and the media of consumption.

Valid discussion.

I don’t really consider him to be actually relevant, when discussing organic creativity.

Nope. I see you already dinged the post. I think we’re done, here.

Good ol’ HN.

Have a great day!

Yeah, but it's a long story. I do it for a very specific reason. I'm retired, and don't need the money. It's enjoyable, and many people benefit.

What "$_BUZZWORD_DU_JOUR"? That's been around for quite a long time. I've been using it for over 15 years, and I know that I got it from someone else. The dollar sign is relatively new, but that's been used for all kinds of stuff, and I'm just following the herd, on that.

That you?

Cool.

Sorry if your reply got dinged (looks all right to me, now). It was spot-on.

I think of "Yak-Shaving" as working on peripheral aspects of the project, to the detriment of the main path. Easy to justify, as they are "working on the project," but maybe not helping to significantly advance it.

I think of "Bikeshedding" as working on another aspect of the project (or a completely different project), because we want to (often, because it is more approachable or pleasant). This often becomes a problem, when the project is getting near shipping, as there's a ton of really boring stuff that needs to be done.

"Perfecting," on the other hand, can look like either of the above, but is, indeed, working on the main path, and advancing the project; just maybe not quickly.

I always thought of that as “yak-shaving,” or “bikeshedding.”

Quality takes longer. Sometimes, significantly longer, for many reasons. That’s why something top-shelf, costs so much more than commodity, when it doesn’t seem to have much more, in the way of features.

Many orgs aren’t interested in spending that much extra time on it (which is their prerogative). The customer base tends to be smaller, and a lot more fickle. It’s really difficult to make a living, doing top-Quality work.

Source: I worked for many years, for a company known for top-shelf stuff. I’m quite familiar with Quality as an everyday feature.

Heh. I have written stuff that has changed the world. Not in a big way, but thousands and thousands of people around the world use my stuff daily, and no one knows I had anything to do with it. I’m still at it. I’m getting ready for the first public test of a fairly ambitious app.

My friends use my stuff all the time, and they are always gobsmacked, when they find out I did it.

I do it for free, and tend to follow my own muse, as opposed to $_BUZZWORD_DU_JOUR, so tech folks aren’t really impressed, when I mention it (like, now, I suspect).

It’s not really very rewarding to talk about it. Either people get all impressed, or insulting (the typical HN reaction). Neither does much for me, so I’m best off just keeping my mouth shut, and my mind on my work. There’s others that are much better than me. I’m just grateful to be able to Give Back.

That’s not pretension; it’s just facts. But there’s often no need to mention the facts.

Same here.

I also write software for free, but it’s not a cry in the dark. It’s serious, ship-grade software, released into the App Store, and used by thousands.

It’s just not designed to make money.

As an artist (former, really[0]), I can confirm that the medium really, really matters. It can inform the creation, as much as the creator.

There are top-shelf authors that insist on writing everything in cursive, in legal pads (God help the poor schlubs that have to transcribe it, though). They insist that they can’t be creative, otherwise. There are musicians (like Rhiannon Giddens), that always perform barefoot.

Most of the Great Masters could work in many mediums, and they chose specific media, to do specific works, because they knew that the medium would “push back,” and inform the work.

Michelangelo was quoted as saying something like he “saw the statue in the stone,” and that was why selecting the rock was as important as any other part of the process.

Many folks take great pains, to do their work in specific contexts, as that affects their creativity.

Creativity isn’t something that is easy to commoditize.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917886

As always, "It Depends™".

There was another post, a year or two ago, about someone that really tried to manufacture a webcam, and gave up.

I spent my career at hardware companies.

Glad this worked out, but past performance is no guarantee of future success...

From what I understand (I don't use it, myself, so this is hearsay), Git LFS is unsuitable for the kinds of assets used by creative studios.

Yup. That doesn’t change the effect, though.

That kind of thing has happened before. When HP adopted IEE-488, it became the standard test equipment interface for a couple of decades.

USBC has arrived.

Agreed.

The thing about an SCM, though, is that it needs to be rock-solid reliable and trustworthy. No "YOLO, Bro!" or "Move Fast and Break Things."

Git is that. I believe that this is exactly because of who wrote it.

Torvalds has plenty of detractors (and they aren't necessarily wrong), but he is one hell of a C programmer.

I'd trust stuff he wrote, over about 95% of what modern devs, do, these days.

Virtually 100% of non-indie GAME devs use Perforce.

FTFY. Git is likely the system used by almost every non game pro shop out there. Paranoid ones self-host.

Linus changed the world twice, and Git may have more impact, overall, than Linux (arguably).

Not bad, for a 10-day yak-shave project.

Yup. That’s it.

I remember when one of the engines (either Unreal or Unity), shipped with Perforce included.

If you are using Perforce as an enterprise system, $500 is peanuts. Perforce can get pricey.

We used to be a Perforce shop, in my last job.

However, I continue to be amazed that Perforce survived Git. I assume its ability to handle large binaries has been what saved it.

I seem to remember an HN posting, some time ago, about a new system, aimed at creatives, and that handles big binaries. It looked fairly good, but not sure how it’s doing.

Great job!

Uh…Claude…

We have a very "fuzzy" visual perception. I remember seeing an RGB response curve of the human vision mechanism once. I doubt it was measured. Maybe they extracted it from the CIELab stuff.

Anyway, things like the green (or blue -can't remember) receptor have a strong curve in the green spectrum, but also a "bump," over in red (I think).

We're an organic mess.

Looking at RGB curves for LEDs, they are three perfect little mountains. No "bumps," anywhere.

I guess that the goal is to try to mimic the "messy" human visual perception.

Also, expect these monitors to be non-cheap. Companies like Eizo are having a difficult time, justifying their prices, these days.

Yeah. That was crazy. I've not encountered that, before.

Love it!

These kinds of posts are one of the reasons I stick around.

I have a friend that does these kinds of projects, all the time, and shared it with him.