Can’t stop thinking about my old robot vacuum that did this to itself every morning
Nathan Lawrence 🌈
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Nathan Lawrence 🌈
@NathanBLawrence
Dev tools and large machine learning @ 🍎. Formerly: Tools for news and filmmakers. I didn’t choose to have this checkmark.
Cupertino-ish, CA
Joined August 2010
- I am a connoisseur of weird robot vacuum issues, because they all seem to get at least one thing slightly wrong, but this might be my favorite. I discover this happened almost every morning.
- I may never fully get over the “volume knob” on Ford electric car entertainment systems, which is just a fake “finger” running on a set of bearings they epoxy directly onto the big display.
- Replying to @NathanBLawrenceThere’s a “unit tests vs. production environment” metaphor in here somewhere
- Replying to @EmilyKagerThere’s a lot to pick on here but “nubile” really stands out as head and shoulders above everything
- I’m assuming this is what the new button was built for.
00:00 - Replying to @blip_tmI also think that if you are obsessed with how no women like you and believe this is symptomatic of some kind of “destruction of culture” that’s such an all consuming belief you don’t have time/energy to thrive in other ways.
- Replying to @NathanBLawrenceA personal favorite: "Xcode now pins elements of your code structure to the top of the editor as you scroll through a document. To toggle this behavior, use 'Show: Code structure while scrolling' in Xcode’s Text Editing preferences." This particularly helps with large files.
00:00 - Replying to @jpbrammer“A reporter can’t just walk up to a politician and ask a question like that!” Why the fuck not? It’s their job to answer tough questions from the people they’re supposed to serve.
- I love text/code editors. The first Mac app I ever wrote (with the very dev tools you see here!) was a text editor, and I've always wanted to work on one as a "grown-up." Well, at the end of August, I'll get to do that — I'll be starting work at Apple on the Xcode Source Editor.
- UX tip: When this happens, you have to solve it, even if you don’t feel like it’s your fault.
- Replying to @DiannetheWriterIf I were them, I would have just said, “what you do is your business, we can’t enforce anything, but this is really about getting yourself in the habit of personal expression, and you will not get anything out of it if you aren’t the one expressing yourself.”
- Replying to @NathanBLawrence and @jpbrammerIf it’s about losing access, let’s make it public. Let’s show the world these people are so petty they’ll cut the news off for asking a question they don’t like.
- Replying to @fcbunn @alexjprice and @netflixI guess they must have used the same web service for whatever the last Netflix app working on iOS 5 was and the DVD version of Netflix for Wii? I don’t imagine very many people get to experience this error. Kinda neat.