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by bsimpson 2y ago
His post isn't for you. It was written on his personal blog, announcing to the community of people who look up to him (and yes, there's a community) why he won't be in the places they expect. Adam was a UX Engineer who saw a
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by bsimpson 2y ago
For ~a decade, Facebook replaced the address book. You wouldn't ask for a phone number; you'd add someone on Facebook. They got greedy. Word got out about how they'd manipulate the algorithm to get you to spend hours per day
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by bsimpson 2y ago
"Now that you've been promoted, you don't build CRUD tools anymore. Those are below your level. Instead, you build AI agents that build the CRUD tools."
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Without measurements, I can easily think of two other contenders: - The Google employee escalator at Pier 57. - The escalator to leave Delancey-Essex station.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I'm trying to imagine how he slowed down. Just keeping his legs clear of that 150 MPH tire is its own feat.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
The article also says that they were using Signal as a standin because there's not yet a secure system that crosses agencies. It also tries to blame past administrations for this (which includes Trump last time).
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by bsimpson 2y ago
> Please correct me if I’m wrong. "culture war" in this context was me quoting a 3yo Twitter thread that made a lot of people, inc myself, realize that Wikipedia's "appeals" are deceptive. I was trying to get the
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I found the Twitter thread that I believe was the source of this; claims that they granted money to culture war institutions: https://x.com/echetus/status/1579776106034757633 I love Wikipedia as a free source of h
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I used to be a Wikipedia donor, until there was an article that made the rounds a few years ago that argued that Wikipedia-the-website is essentially funded in perpetuity, and that the "Jimmy Wales needs your help or kittens will die&q
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I took a look at the Signal group creation UI when this story came out. Not only does Signal suggest contacts, but it also suggests people you're in mutual groups with. Even if Waltz didn't have the Atlantic's JG as a contac
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I don't claim to be an expert, nor to be able to speak credibly on the interactions of the millions of people in government. I just remember hearing an anecdote from a friend with ties to Signal that some part of the government wanted
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by bsimpson 2y ago
One nice side effect of Signal's importance for governmental/military use is that it helps keep it free for civilian use. They can't mandate a backdoor for something other parts of the government rely on to be secure. I once
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by bsimpson 2y ago
> But such is always a good practice anyway. One more reminder to develop for people who may not perceive color and shape as you do. If you're hiding critical information in your menu styles, that information is presumably inaccess
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I will forever remember how my parents, who insisted we should be honest in all situations, also taught us to just click the blue button whenever something wants to be installed.
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The grammar around "an open Android system with a pre-installed Google Play Store" made me question their licensing compliance. I don't think I've ever seen a legitimate manufacturer brag about a "pre-installed&quo
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Before Google Play Services, updates were a big concern for Android. If Android N had the feature you wanted, but Verizon/Motorola only shipped N-1 for your Droid, you were out of luck. There were pie charts routinely tossed around s
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I had to check if that was the British couchsurfer who got arrested because they said tidying up her hosts' home demanded a work visa. There are a scary number of people being detained for bullshit reasons.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
To people who voted for Harris, "convicted felon" expands to "see - he's unqualified!" To people who voted for Trump, it expands to "see - he's the victim of partisan/predatory prosecution." Fur
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by bsimpson 2y ago
The Horizon OS for Oculus headsets too.
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If I understand correctly, it sounds a bit like Valve and SteamOS. They publish the source, but they optimize for their internal developers and tools, not for easy source access by anonymous members of the public. Valve has been publishin
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Both The Verge and 9to5 are citing this as the original source: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-...
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This sounds less like a Signal problem than an information organization problem. Signal can only show what's in its datastore (your contact list). I just checked on Android - if you try to add someone to a group chat, it shows their n
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I built a prototype of something similar with iframes for a gig at eBay a decade ago. Ended up showing it off at the first React conf. Definitely useful to have as much immediate feedback as possible when you're developing. Glad to s
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one would hope that they could find a way to be sustainable with a payment of $100 per record or whatever it was. (i don't have a good sense of what their costs per commercial sequence are.) but the difference between food and 23andme
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by bsimpson 2y ago
There's probably a business case to be written here about total addressable market. The world is a big place, but after all the people willing to pay $50-$100 for some novelty info buy their dossiers, where does new revenue come from
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I saw one of the mainstream news writeups about this say that the IPO made her a billionaire, which made me raise an eyebrow considering she's the mother of Sergey's kids.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
You're making me wonder about nuance. Since those ports are exclusively called HDMI, I wonder if you could call your unlicensed cable "HDMI compatible." If your TV only supports 4k@60 HDMI 2, no need to go buy more expensive
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I'm a UX Engineer. My phone was ringing off the hook to build VR meeting software in the early 2010s, and I couldn't understand the appeal of either seeing people wearing computers on their faces, or in having conferences with ca
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Valve had an early lead with the Index and has plenty of titles in its store that were designed for the Index. Then Oculus came along with the Quest and many of the titles were ported over there. People who prefer Valve to Facebook, or who
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Valve's free Steam Link has done the job for me.

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