"Sorry, we used the wrong buzzwords & PHBese, making shareholders nervous. Therefore, we are issuing new buzzwords & PHBese to describe our shrinkage without directly admitting we are shrinking."

This was meant for the Amazon article, not Adobe. I apologize.

"Sorry, we used the wrong buzzwords & PHBese, making shareholders nervous. Therefore, we are issuing new buzzwords & PHBese to describe our shrinkage without directly admitting we are shrinking."

Fair enough, fancy white paint.

"White paint"

1. There are a lot of empty seats; a lot.

2. The demo wasn't live, likely due to the huge failure of an event that the Meta one was.

3. They noted that you do all of this 'hands-free', likely an intentional knock at Meta's offering.

4. The examples were...odd. Who the fuck is going to be using this to shop for a fucking rug? Come on; give some real-life examples that are IMPORTANT. None of these were.

5. The entire presentation's style, across multiple different presenters, was...exhausting...halting...jarring...and...really undergraduate level. It was almost as if they were being fed what to say in their earpieces, not from memory and not in a fluid and practiced way.

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Personally? I love the idea of AR glasses that work well. I want to have live subtitles for humans talking to me as I'm hard of hearing and hearing aids do not work well for me, particularly in public spaces.

I want it to give me important information, respond to my environment in ways that are useful (telling me where I am really isn't that; I know where the fuck I am--tell me what I should be doing or where I should be going next, perhaps?)

I know these are early adopter level devices, but they're just fucking ugly due to their bulk.

I strongly prefer this option to Meta's simply because I don't have to do stupid fucking mime-style hand gestures, but I want this technology to be useful, now, not in 5 years. We're going to see this largely flop just like so many other AR/VR toys out there unless they make this something more than a gimmicky piece of shit.

Looks like they are using a paid service that serves open-source apps as a semi-unified "palette" of tools.

And something tells me FaceBook will still be profitable somehow. Maybe enough will sign up for bots to do their shopping (Amazon is researching this), and those bots will use FaceBook ads to make decisions. It would be like 90% of the commerce cycle is bots.

I thought WASM has limited access to the DOM. It's a common complaint. Perhaps necessary for security?

most startups flop because they fail to get seen, even if they have product-market fit

Couldn't a savvy investor contact the producer of otherwise good products that are not getting traction, and ask for an ownership percent if they market it for them?

By waiting until after the product is clearly flopping, the investor can get a better deal (bigger slice) since the producer no longer has many options for the product.

Cluely [is] a tool to help software engineers cheat on their job interviews, among other use cases...use Cluely to impress a woman on a date, which went viral.

I suspect the Trump Administration is using Cluely to guide policy.

a JavaScript semi-wrapper doctored to kind of behave like a statically typed language. Think of JS and C# having a love child.

Would it be plausible to make a language from scratch that's fairly similar to TS but fixes the warts left over from JS-ness? Call it Fixed Type Script (FTS) as a working term here.

Then make a FTS-to-JavaScript compiler/transpiler/interpreter. I realize FTS wouldn't run as fast as TS, but for most apps that wouldn't matter.

Oh, and add Optional Named Parameters. Those are a must! I will eat the pet of anyone who makes a new language without ONP's! I love ONP's; I married them!

And please don't use "+" for string concatenation. That was a really dumb decision.

Just reply "Screw your AI slop!"

To misquote C-3PO: "Bots friending bots!? How perverse!"