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"these darned kids with their doing of thing that I don't like".

• grogenaut 10y ago
  Yeah that's was mostly my reaction to my wife's reaction. My thought was it would help people get over the awkward part. This seems like it'd be more endemic to all communications. Then again I remember seeing on the palm pre a feature that showed you notes about the caller on the call screen. Supposed to be for sales people to put stuff like "Wife Jane, 3 kids, Bobby, Sue, Jamal" to read before they picked up.
  • TeMPOraL 10y ago
    > Then again I remember seeing on the palm pre a feature that showed you notes about the caller on the call screen. Is there anything wrong with that? Seems very useful. (How do people think how previous generations handled having many acquaintances and still knowing something personal about each of them? They noted things down, on paper.)
    • grogenaut 10y ago
      It seems fine in the small but immediately imagined sales guy in a smarmy voice saying how's Betty and the kids. That said I thought it was a great idea. Heck at the time I was working with about 80 people from a customer and having it say jake (junior java dev... insurance ingestion...mega insurance inc) would have been great. Oh well my cynical snarky self is conflicted now.