My first instinct after reading the complaint is... Fuck off!! How nice it must be for members of this so called "Center for AI and Digital Policy" to dictate - isn't that the result of a complaint enforced by the FTC - from their nice and comfortable chairs at what OpenAI and by inference, every other AI research company in the US, what to do and how. Is this the new form of virtue signaling? The FTC should stop OpenAI because of all the possible negative outcomes their AI work MAY create? Right off the top of my head, I can come up with at least 10 places in the US and around the world where members of CAID can go to right now and make a real difference to people who have real problems NOW. Instead, they want to tell and force others on what to do with their expression - yes, AI research and its output is a form of expression protected in the US (home of OpenAI) under free speech laws. How about taking a page from their org name and create an AI that can do all those things they're asking for automatically? No, that's not an option for them because it would actually require them to do more work than the complaint they could've probably used ChatGPT to write. In their infinite wisdom, couldn't they have foreseen in the last 10 years that an AI-based tool like ChatGPT would emerge? Where's their AI tool that could save us all now from the awful and destructive AI companies that are creating so much value for the world? Have they even read OpenAI's System Card on GPT-4? Did CAID even see the tradeoffs and concerns explored? On the way to reading the card they should dust off a copy of Lessig's Code, checkout a copy of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and remember that this the US, we don't force people to do anything, engage in dialogue instead.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell
One, if not the main, feature to upgrade to iOS 14 is now delayed to any of the 365 days of 2021. Clear message: "Save adtech and continue to screw your customers". Bravo Apple, Bravo!!
Hard to give feedback because your design decisions and trade offs are not public and in your writing you give more of a business vibe than a designer, would've been nice to have the designers here instead of you. But you asked for it so here we go...
Good attempt so far. Frankly, something like it should've been "a mode" for iPadOS. Instead, unfortunately, you're app is restricted by its horrible limitations. There's no separation between content and features that can be applied to content. Take PDF just as an example. No matter how good your team is, the chances that it will create a better toolset than what Adobe already has created are slim. The second I decide to interact deeper with any of Muse's supported content types while in a board, I'm left to leave Muse and deal with an entire different app. Result? My flow is broken. This interaction is conceptually unnecessary. If the PDF is already open in Muse, why can't I bring all the great features from Adobe in and when I'm done I continue with my flow?
2. Your metaphor needs a lot of work. I won't go into many details but I'll highlight one of them. What's up with the grids? Why can't I arrange the content anyway I like? Flipped, 34 degrees, etc.
3. Infinite canvas - bring this in. How to deal with it spatially was solved decades ago.
4. This is related to the last two points... computers are a meta-medium and either you are stuck in the medium that existed before or you're not letting your designers that know this not shine. Stop thinking only in 2D!
This is a hard no for me. 3D wizbang stuff sounds amazing on paper (heh) but in practice, it is massively distracting. People tried to build 3D desktops and a whole bunch of bullshit 3D wankery with GNOME and KDE and none of it was as revolutionary as it claimed to be. The time it takes to build 3D content arragement app for Muse can just be spent in improving 2D problems you're referring to.
I also dislike your tone about - "You can never achieve this" or "was done decades ago, why haven't you done it yet?"
Try doing it yourself then, and show some compassion. Provide constructive feedback and not lofty statements that criticize unconstructively.
This is one of the things that really bothers me about feedback. Please don't do this.
I hate the infinite canvas in Sketch. It sounds great when you're creating things, but you have no idea where anything is when you go back to read it later.
Totally get what you are saying - A solution to navigation in an infinite canvas could be a concept of “zones” Which I’d envision as similar to the art boards feature in illustrator, so that you can click on a menu to take you to sections you have defined.
The propaganda machine is in full effect, not in Russia but in the US. For any possible scenario Americans might come up with for China or anyone else for dystopian surveillance systems, they should look no further than America itself. Chinese government involvement with Huawei -> 3 letter agency desks at Facebook and Google (let's not forget their funding as well). Uighur's prisons in the west -> immigration camps and mistreatment in the US. Meddling of elections by Russia -> assassinations and policy warfare by the US.
It's time for the US to respect the principles in which it was founded on. Respect the sovereignty of others and "live and let live."
Fuck Axios. If you're behind a VPN they won't let you visit their site.
To Axios:
No, I won't let you follow me all around the web and I won't give you any of my info. And yes, I will call you out for trying to exchange my privacy over your content. Fuck you.
I recently discovered Axios, and they are an absolute breath of fresh air. They get to the point, they don't editorialize headlines, they don't fill their article with a bunch of useless opinion and pontification from a subject-matter-non-expert.
If they need to serve me targeted ads to fund their operation, by all means.
Sure. Great work! Would rust-analyzer provide enough of a foundation to build something like this?: https://gtoolkit.com
Mind you, in the IDE above reflection builtin the language allows for the incredible amount of power. In Rust's case, the only way I can I see it replicated is at a layer before compile time, hence my interest in your analyzer.
Unlikely: rust-analyzer focuses on static analysis. So it aims to power something akin to IntelliJ IDEA, but probably would be a bad fit for something like lightable/elisp/smalltalk ide.
As a "only go to the Mac if you have to" iPad Pro fulltime software developer, I wholeheartedly agree with the pros, cons and promise of the software. It's just unfurtunate that new and existing iPad Pro users will have to wait almost a year for the iOS to catch up to the hardware - iOS 13 beta in June? and release by beginning of October.? Who knows, by that time a new version gets released, one that makes the smart cover keyboard double as a trackpad.
In the meantime, nothing incites Apple more than bad press. Shame is a great motivator, specially when you have $240b in cash in the bank. For 1k for the iPad Pro, 200 for the keyboard and 130 for the pencil I expect the experience to be... well "magical." Better yet... "at the intersection of
getting my work done better than on a Macbook Pro and Jeff Raskin's wet dream."
But Alas, Steve Jobs is dead and with him Apple's reality distortion field.
So maybe it's time to give our friends at Apple a hand and show them - as this article has done - all the areas the iPad - all iPads btw - are lacking.
How about:
ipadshortcomings.com
pcreplacementneverwillbe.com
ipadinsearchofapro.com
excelisnotforipads.com
ipadprobutnotxcode.com
pcreplacementifyouonlyconsume.com
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