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John Chang

@jrcplus

Immigrant (🇺🇸🇪🇺🇸🇪🇹🇼), Silicon Valley refugee (ex-Apple, Skype, Microsoft). #web0 #bicyclesforthemind

 Stockholm, Sweden
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Joined June 2009
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Neural networks, pen computing, virtual reality. Ah, the 90s are back!
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Bye, Twitter. (I will still call you Twitter.) I'll be on Mastodon and Bluesky. 🤷‍♂️
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So now it's the Republicans that are clamoring for radical change and the Democrats that are standing for protecting and preserving institutional norms? I missed this memo.
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Booking a US rental through hertz.se is WAAAY cheaper than hertz.com/us/en/ for some reason. Each in a separate, fresh incognito window, same query, same time, no discount/CDP code attached.
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"Newton Intelligence: Newton products will be more than just tools, they'll be assistants. They'll know enough about what you're trying to do to actively help you do it."

ALT "Newton Intelligence: Newton products will be more than just tools, they'll be assistants. They'll know enough about what you're trying to do to actively help you do it."

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Apple Studio Display 21 - 77 lb AppleVision 850AV - 77 lb LaserWriter Plus - 77 lb Any heavier Apple product?
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The web and iOS are among the most successful software platforms of all time. Neither was originally intended to be a software platform.
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Today's observation: pouring coffee beans into a bowl (for coffee scale) sounds similar to pouring dry dog food into a bowl.
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I can't wait for captchas that make us show how dumb we are, to prove that we are human
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Maybe an idea for @soren_iverson?
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ChatGPT ChatGPT ChatGPT
The state of Apple design. @ Apple Park Visitor Center
wet white stone floor with yellow "wet floor" caution cones

ALT wet white stone floor with yellow "wet floor" caution cones

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0 days since I learned about desktop stacks (View menu > Use Stacks). Apparently it's been there since 2018.
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Any tips for a Web Summit first-timer, including getting a discounted ticket? Asking for @asemong
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Are there any remixes of SAS hold music? Asking for a friend.
"If a law enforcement officer asks your permission to do something, you have a right to say no. However, if you say no and the officer says they are going to do it anyway, you do not have a right to interfere with their actions." 🤨
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Our kids are going to think of USB as a power charging standard. And SMS as a two-factor authentication standard.
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"We are getting a demo of windows being moved around a desktop in 2022" —@reckless
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.@R2REurope This seems to have flown under the radar. The Swedish Riksdag recently approved a VAT reduction on certain repairs from 12% to 6%, starting July 2022. "More people should be encouraged to repair and change already manufactured goods." riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-lag…
“Carbon Copy” (as in email CC:) is way more anachronistic than the floppy disk icon for “Save”.
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Did no-one, neither from tech nor sci-fi, predict the now ubiquitous smartphone form factor? There was Dynabook, Knowledge Navigator, Minority Report, Holodeck, Ubicomp… but I can't think of wireless computers being popularly envisioned as touch-input handheld rectangles.
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