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Yeah, I was thinking of similar, would be good to see how it works out for you. There's obviously the command line tools for building, but I would miss the integration of Xcode as an IDE for iOS storyboards etc.

Otherwise I've been looking at using remote servers from macincloud.com / xcodeclub.com, but haven't tried that yet.

Damn, my Macbook Air 2013 logic board just gave out, and was considering the upgrade to Macbook Pro 2017 as logic board is running at £450 replacement cost.

After reading other's thoughts here, I think I have to avoid Macbook Pro for now, I hope they change this in the next release.

Annoying as I need a machine with Xcode.

Video encoding would be stateless. There is no reliance on previous runs / state.

Lambda is designed to be used for tasks like that, such as resizing images, parsing file etc.

Thanks, serverless looks interesting.

Lambda has a long way to go, it's a promising product but if you want to develop anything for it, it's a bit painful and archaic.

I've had issues with the temp memory. It is completely unreliable, you have to store files when processing in /tmp/ and for whatever reason, reading from this results is patchy. I had to resort to storing every file I process in the RAM.

The tooling is only just taking off now, 6 months ago simulation was painful, at least there is AWS SAM now and docker support.

However despite the pain, it's giving me a solution for scalable video encoding that is very cost competitive and I don't have to worry about submitting jobs and monitoring resources.

As much as I wish they did, I am not sure they will.

A large portion of the UK has no idea how encryption helps them and believe that criminals and terrorists should "have nowehere to hide".

Still have a main job 40 hours a week. (But yes working on making it main!)

I try to get in 20-30 hours a week just now.

(Have dropped most other activities because I am pushing to try launch in couple of months).

How is that in anyway comparable to the suffering of an actual animal?

As far as I am aware no one has ever made a proper holographic game, as in a game with parallax on the display.

Most true holographic displays are still under lab conditions with high power lasers, expensive optics and precision setup. Maybe someone at a lab has hacked together a game of sorts though.

You could probably create a sort of holographic game with a lenticular display. You would have slight parallax with a couple of views, it would be quite rudimentary though but a fun project.

Awesome, I am thinking this could be used to create an animated hologram by quickly changing the polarization of the indcident light on the hologram.

That would be very impressive to see.

The number one thing to remember is almost no one cares what tech you used. Just get it shipped.

People have built million dollar business that had it's first iteration in MS Excel, if it is useful to someone and kind of serves the purpose then that is enough for a start.

"On the Shortness of Life" - Seneca.

More an essay, but profoundly impactful.