Brian Meidell

I build things. Tech, electronics, games, companies.

[Brian Meidell @brianmeidell]

@danctheduck Great paraphrase.

I think of it as an optimization algorithm that *should* be running isolated inside of a VM running on a host OS of legislation, but due to political bugs reaches out to it's host OS and affects the rules governing it's own VM, causing many, many problems.

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@SimonVaever Inerti.

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@Jkooza Early March, give or take. It’s weird.

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@Heilemann Maybe it could be opt in then?

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Haven’t tweeted since 2018. Apparently I don’t like having opinions in public anymore. For you, I’ll go out on a limb now, though: This covid-19 thing sucks, and I’d like it to end.

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@Runkeeper It sucks quite a lot that you split the iOS App from the Apple Watch app. The old way was significantly better. I'd be happy to give you many reasons why :)

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@SpotifyCares Bizarrely I had not tried a reboot. Which fixed it. Go figure. MacBook Pro i9 2018 model.

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@SpotifyCares Have been unable to listen to Spotify for days, because of "Can't play the current song" error - tried: reinstalling, log in/out, hardware accel, etc - nothing works.

Can you help me solve this? (couldn't find a support email)

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@PADI You’re storing and emailing your online course members passwords in plain text 😱 Let’s party with IT security like it’s 1995! 🎉 #ITSecurity

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@marcoarment So maybe the future MacBook Pro purchase flow will get a config option like:
Keyboard: [ Regular ][ Give me TouchID, but throw the Touchbar into the sun ]!

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I'm at #WebSummit in Lisbon this week. Poke me if you want to cross paths and talk about tech, games, whatever.

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@ID_AA_Carmack @mike_acton Stuff that shows the hidden cost of language features: Build a memory allocator from scratch. Unravel a callstack manually. Learn about branch prediction hardware. Build your own vtable based polymorphism.

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@mhbergen Do you mean 21% of the entire Apple earnings or just Apples services business? (re. https://t.co/b9l1Dqfx57)

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@elonmusk I ran some of FRVRs games in my Tesla’s browser. Would be fun to work on getting them natively on the center touch screen :)

https://t.co/FfXS6nXgzp

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@garyvee you seem to work with every type of modern media - have you done anything with games?

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OH: "We can't entirely eliminate our technical debt. My goal is to refinance it at a lower interest rate." 😂

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@krolldk @loeffe If water falls from the sky and you get wet because you were not prepared, it makes no sense to blame the water. So I agree.

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I’ve been thinking a lot about why most gamedevs - even extremely awesome and experienced ones - fail to turn their work into a good business. Thoughts? #gamedev

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@krolldk @loeffe Yup, the low success rate of games in general ends up insuring that publishing deals will end up being balanaced in a way that makes it unlikely you'll ever reach "financial escape velocity".

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@dampgnat :( That makes me sad - hope you still have dry shoes.

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@RevolutApp I love your product, but you screwed up badly on this one.