benjimouse

I went thru this seven years ago, leaving my startup which I'd been with for about 15. I still considered it a startup after all that time. The opportunity had long since been missed and all that remained was a long slow grind down to nothing. Which is exactly what has happened as it continued after my departure.

For me it was as close as I could imagine giving up a child would be like, but in hindsight it was the best choice and I grew hugely as a result.

All these alternatives people suggest are a full stack and have the same problems. 1. the network effect, 2. that users expect the client experience to be as complete as that they currently have.

What I want is a drop in compatible replacement backend. That would mean the existing clients could be supported with a base url change, and some disabling of functionality until it's supported. Bring across those 10 million users on the 3PAs. Pay for it by serving topic targeted ads over the api.

Well it's importing images from a card into the apple photos catalogue, and randomly scattering them thru the folders in it's database. That's kinda useless for anyone wanting to manage literally terabytes of images.

Otherwise it's really slick. Frustrating.

This is one I'd consider paying the $99 lifetime price for:

- Pixelmator cost me peanuts and I'm still using it ~15 years after buying it. I even purchased PM Pro because I felt guilty I'd gotten so much benefit of the original for so little.

- I gave up Lightroom because... adobe.

- Capture One:

  = is barely anything but rental software at this point. "Lifetime" price is ridiculous.
  
  = I'm tired of having to relearn a seemingly completely rebuilt UI every time I upgrade.
  
  = Catalog system makes it practically impossible organize your photos outside of the app. (all my raws up till I switched to C1 are in year/month/day folders, afterwards it's single folder blobs dated roughly at the time I ran out of diskspace and had to purge it to offline storage). The whole paradigm of how it manages photos sucks imo.

As long as it can read my Sony A1 raws and has reasonable shadow recovery I'm in.

B12 and B6 for vegan me. As I'm male, and live somewhere sunny, I think iron and d3 are less of an issue. B6 has been linked to anxiety, so it's mainly an experiment to see if it helps.

> What specifically? Just comparing Nikon mirrorless to Nikon DSLRs, the F-mount (for DSLRs) has, for example, the highly regarded 14-24mm f/2.8. What's the mirrorless equivalent to that?

The old 14-24 is a mediocre lens compared new ultra wide zooms. Nikon hasn't got to an z-mount f2.8 yet, but their f4 is already sharper. When they do a f2.8 it likely will be even better.

Nikon has provided a perfect upgrade path for your lenses. When/if ever you buy a z body, they will perform better with the ftz adapter than they ever did on your dslrs.

The problem with Araxis Merge is you have to pay for upgrades. Sure you don't "have to", but eventually it stops working for some reason and/or you get new machine, cant find the license key, and it's awkward so you end up having to buy a new one.

I've used it for more than 15 years, and bought it 3-4 times. I honestly don't believe it's worth that, and I'm not going to buy it again. I would be willing to pay what they ask for a years license, to actually own it in perpetuity, only receiving updates when OS changes stop it functioning. As they won't offer that, I no longer use it.

Possibly I was missing something, but I found Kaleidoscope's handling of directory comparisons was totally unworkable for anything but trivial sized projects.

Meaning, comparing two slightly different copies of a project containing maybe 1/4 a million files, with a few variations between them. It takes quite a while to initially open the comparison window, and that's fine as it's a lot of data to churn thru.

But where the problem lies, is when you dbl click into a subdirectory of that comparison, it again takes forever to open a window for just the contents of that directory, even thou it already has done a full comparison of all the files in it, when opening the parent comparison. For some reason it starts again in that sub directory instead of just using the comparison data it's previously generated.

I've used Araxis Merge, it's clunky, not really a true mac app, but actually works fairly decently. Pity it's effectively a subscription.

Meld is ok, but crashes with large comparisons, and the UI is fairly painful.

I'm another dev who works off a 15/16" laptop. I've always thought it was because all OSs make switching back and forth between more than two applications without losing mental focus, difficult. Instead I've added utils and cfgs to help with that in OSX.

Play Memories apps were dropped when Sony rewrote their OS.

Maybe I'm less fussy than others, but I've never understood why people are so obsessed with making sure their sensor is spotless. If a dust spot is in a place it's easy to see in the resulting image, then it's trivial to remove it in post. If it's somewhere that's hard to remove, then it's not noticeable. Maybe my standards are low :)

Miles was, and is well known outside of the US. In his autobiography he talked about how much he enjoyed playing in france during the late 50s, because there he was treated like a star, and not a 'black man' like back home.

I started on OS/2 as well, in the days of 1.1. Some thoughts:

- 1.3 was a gem, never crashed, never bogged down.

- The product we developed was eventually picked up by IBM. Mid 90s at a trade show, even the IBM employees were stunned to see an OS/2 program which didn't look terrible.

- When Windows NT 4.0 came out, it was game over.