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Flutter game kit! Pre-made game assets are great for people learning to code. https://github.com/flutter/pinball https://docs.flutter.dev/resources/games-toolkit
It took 10s to load on my M1.
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I used to be a professional speaker (Amazon, VMware, etc), and presented at more than 600 events. They said I was pretty good. Point is, after years of perfecting my craft, I can instantly spot the difference between a good presenter and a "fake" / bad one. Most people are bad. Really. Sorry to be blunt, but it is what it is. A bit of training and a bit of rehearsal would go a long way. I am shocked that big events l…
The audience is also able to detect professional speakers like yourself, with calculated hand movements and inauthentic voice pitch calibration and is equally turned off -- its just that professional speakers so rarely admit that since they make money off saying otherwise. The problem here is just that the topics aren't compelling enough. And you rarely get a good speaker who also knows the topic well so as to be per…
That would be a "wannabe" professional speaker, not an actual one, imho.
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I think Apple, Samsung and Google should give up on this whole iPhone 13 and Pixel 6 naming and numbering scheme and stop pretending like it is going to be an exciting brand new product every single year. They should name them more like cars where you can always expect there to be the latest revision each year, but you never expect it to be something completely new that you need to upgrade to. We need the iPhone (202…
I believe Samsung has started to do this with their Galaxy S series of phones, starting with the S20 in 2020. This years phone is the S22 for 2022.
I popped in for a few minutes to verify something. I'm ... over this whole annual what's new presentation stuff. I just don't care anymore. And honestly the three presenters I saw didn't even seem like they rehearsed at all. They just read from the prompter and tried to put excitement in their voice at the same time and it just fell flat.
I think tech in general is kinda stagnating at this point. We've plucked all the low hanging fruit, to get new revolutionary things will be much more slow going from here.
Almost all the comments so far are negative! So let me change that: I'm excited that something I'm working on, Typesense, was mentioned by name and logo during the developer key note! [1] https://twitter.com/jasonbosco/status/1524483471988727809?s=...
Typesense is truly a magical piece of software. Thank you for building it.
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I guess this is intentional exaggeration to make some kind of point, but I just checked a bunch of Google corporate pages and every single one with pictures of people had a white guy somewhere. The majority were not white men, but that's because most people are not white men.
Google's workforce is 53.1% white, and 36.3% Asian (so, not far). 2.5% is black. Their marketing graphics - to put it charitably - bely those demographics. src=" https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/diversity.google/... " />
The rest of their marketing is not made up of employee photos, though. We would expect it to roughly reflect their target audience, and it does.
> to put it charitably
To put what charitably? What are we even talking about? I don't understand this conversation.
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https://careers.google.com/ , scroll down to "Spotlight", scroll over to "Data center roles" or "Staff Software Engineer", both pictures of white male talking to white female. Globally white people are about 10% of the population, so I'd expect 1 in 10 people in a representative sample to be white, which feels about right for much of Google's marketing material.
A lone white male. Sorry it wasn't totally clear. For all intents and purposes, women count as minorities. Google has plenty of pictures with white women, and white men and women. But so far I have only found one picture with a lone white male (on one of the chromecast pages, on the TV was a show page, and the show page had a lone white male). I guess they can get 1/2 credit for that. Oh and I found a picture of a lo…
https://www.blog.google/press/ (filter for headshots)
https://about.google/commitments/#responding_to_crises
https://crisisresponse.google/recovery-resilience/
https://grow.google/, https://grow.google/grow-your-career/, https://grow.google/grow-your-business/, https://grow.google/certificates/
https://learning.google/, https://learning.google/school/
https://www.android.com/enterprise/
https://careers.google.com/locations/seattle-kirkland-bellev...
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbfo3d7J3mB/, https://www.instagram.com/p/CZUlQ4OBDee/, https://twitter.com/Google/status/1524472870885339141, https://twitter.com/Google/status/1518607578376425474
This is just scratching the surface, I'm not gonna spend time clicking in to every blog post and article. Again, their target market is basically the entire world, and most people in the world (and the US) are not white men. So I would not expect the majority of pictures to be white men, and indeed they are not.
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Nice to know you find this guy "truly inspiring" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517707521343082496?ref_...
I thought that was pretty hilarious.
With great power comes great responsibility.
It's kinda crazy how little there is to show from a year of effort for 139,995 employees.
You're kidding right? I'd imagine the large majority of employees are working on their existing products, not the ones they present as new every year. You know, their large portfolio of industry leading services that are used by billions of people every day. That kind of thing.
Judging how Google Images and Google Maps have evolved over the years, I kinda wish they'd stop.
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The audience is also able to detect professional speakers like yourself, with calculated hand movements and inauthentic voice pitch calibration and is equally turned off -- its just that professional speakers so rarely admit that since they make money off saying otherwise. The problem here is just that the topics aren't compelling enough. And you rarely get a good speaker who also knows the topic well so as to be per…
> inauthentic voice pitch That would be a "wannabe" professional speaker, not an actual one, imho.
the pros are cheesy as hell.