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I own a zeiss 55mm e-mount lens and it is absolutely incredible. Never fails to blow people’s minds with its sharpness and depth of field. No comparison with smartphone lenses and easily worth the money. I cherish many photos and moments with that lens. Also, a side note: one of the biggest advantages of a larger sensor like those used in full frame and medium format cameras is the ability to crop in post. Its really about treating photography as an artform - composition matters.

Cool tilt shift effect. Ive found that adding a UI goes a long way in taking your game out of the prototype phase.

I’m as skeptical as you are but your hypothesis makes no sense. You’d have to take an exceptional amount of potent hallucinogens to have an experience like the one described in the article, let alone share such an experience with others in such vivid recalled detail.

What? How did you arrive at that conclusion?

Its all really cool technology, and I love the convenience of having a smartphone camera in my pocket, which I use often, for the right type of photography and when no other option is available. But right now you simply cant beat the results of a high end digital camera. The quality simply blows phone cameras out of the water in every conceivable way, even amateurs can tell the difference.

I hadn't read Paul Graham's article until I saw this, so I read that first before diving into this analysis of it.

It feels like he missed the whole point of what Paul Graham was trying to say... like yes obviously painter move globs of color around and software engineers write instructions to a box of electricity, but that's not the high level point Paul Graham was going for. Also the part about the women was super cringy, it felt dated, weird, and unrelated.

I think from a high level painters and software developers are in fact alike. Just like how engineers have objective constraints to work with when producing a solution to something, the message that artists are trying to convey in their work is equally constrained in certain situations.

For example, in depiction of photorealism, minute details like glints of light in an eyeball can make or break a painting. Artists like Johannes Vermeer were even renown for utilizing tools to depict the physical phenomenon of light in their work, by using a camera obscura.

There are many other examples of physical phenomena artists have attempted to reproduce in their work over many art periods that are comparable to the objective constraints engineers have to work with, which I wont discuss in this comment, but even in abstract and expressionist work, a parallel can be drawn to engineering.

When artists create abstract work they take a risk and sometimes their work is misunderstood, mocked, or just ignored... much like many frameworks, libraries, languages, and software projects created over the years that attempted to push the limits of what we think we know about programming and software development.

The author of this post missed the high level point quite badly.

Yo, git can be used locally. I highly recommend it.

Damn, just when you think you know what strange is, you read something like this. Can't imagine being one of these simple village folks and seeing a burning spent rocket tumbling down from space and exploding in your yard. Kind of reminds me of ancient astronauts where they always claim myths and fables were inspired by ancient spacefarers.