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by madrox 6y ago
At one of the earliest E3s, the keynote was from the CTO of AOL. I wish I remembered the year or his name or could find some video of the talk, but this was at the height of Napster where it seemed like no one was paying for music. This guy
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by madrox 6y ago
I think you mistake my opinion of Twitter for my opinion of all media and all social networks. Virality of the kind Twitter relies on is not essential to the definition of a social network. I do not quit out of a desire for some ascetic lif
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by madrox 6y ago
At no point did say independent platforms are immune, but I can see why there might be the appearance of that subtext since I'm using substack. I'm using substack because I can use it without needing to buy into a social graph, an
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As a former social media analyst, I'm quitting Twitter(madrox.substack.com)
113 points by madrox 6y ago|123 comments
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by madrox 6y ago
A little off topic, but has anyone else noticed that when you look at any product that shows off their client list, Cisco is on it most of the time?
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by madrox 6y ago
This same argument could be made about browsers depending on the value one places on specific advances. The original author is arguing there will be a point where there’s simply nothing new to add to the browser because it will do everythin
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by madrox 6y ago
That was it! Thanks! I would add the link if I could still edit
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by madrox 6y ago
Visual Studio of 20 years ago was in many ways superior to Xcode of today, but you need Xcode to make iOS apps, and iPhones are cool. Moral of the story is better technology does not always win. It’s a fallacy that technology is a continuou
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by madrox 6y ago
Yes, that’s the point of the Uber example, and while it’s trivial to realize what the hidden correlation is in this case it’s pointing out there could be other hidden correlations in this case we don’t automatically know. For example, vitam
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by madrox 6y ago
Worth noting case control studies like this have inherent bias because your sample is of very sick people. It’s like saying out of all car accidents a disproportionate amount of them were Uber drivers. Being an Uber driver won’t get you in
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by madrox 6y ago
AMP is bad. I’m not sure if AMP policed by the FTC is better.
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by madrox 6y ago
Stadia is a great example of this
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by madrox 6y ago
When this essay started with "As someone who has used the Web since 2007" I immediately felt old, so thanks for that. As someone who has been using the Web since 1994 (and I feel like I was late to the game), I can assure the auth
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by madrox 6y ago
I guess I tend to use the terms "mission" and "topic" interchangeably ;)
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by madrox 6y ago
There's a lot of various anti-compete reasons why this doesn't happen. In most cases, the people most interested in hiring these people are competitors. I love the idea in theory, but in practice it's way too easy for compani
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by madrox 6y ago
"Some people aren't cut out for it" explains nothing and is an unfalsifiable statement. It's simply restating what's happening, but in a way that removes empathy. As someone with 10 years of management experience at
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by madrox 6y ago
There was a post on HN a couple days ago about a loss of tech optimism. I've been searching for a bit and unable to find it for linking. It (and the associated comment thread) had no answers. This feels like as close as you can get to
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by madrox 6y ago
I’ve never once used cloud Jira at any of my jobs, so this move is a surprise. I wonder what’s driving it. Perhaps support costs of on-prem are high and it’s only the most legacy customers using it.
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by madrox 6y ago
As someone who's spent a lot of time coaching new EMs, I agree with these bullet points. The thing that makes me sad is that this is only correct if the EM's director agrees with it. The true bullet point of what is expected of an
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by madrox 6y ago
Various digestion issues and stomach pain. I'd find myself getting dizzy and lightheaded out of the blue while doing nothing more than sitting. I'd have trouble concentrating when talking to someone and have trouble remembering wh
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by madrox 6y ago
Reading this is like reading about my own experience. I went through a similar period several years ago as an executive. I was leading engineering for three separate products and dealing with some very difficult stakeholders. I was also in
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by madrox 6y ago
This seems like an interesting corollary to the Streisand Effect, where shutting down means of spreading information makes the information spread further.
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by madrox 6y ago
There's a Pareto optimal middle ground here, because companies that pay more don't want to pay a lot more . They want to pay enough to beat their competitor's offer. All companies involved aren't interested in that numb
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by madrox 6y ago
I have a pretty unpopular and attitude about this. Cost of living adjustments are literally that: salaries adjusted so that you get the same lifestyle whichever city you happen to be living in. To argue against a cost of living adjustment i
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by madrox 6y ago
There isn't a single technical example of this in practice. All implemented examples are in other fields. The suggestion in technical areas (adjusting gamma in a game) just makes me laugh. This feels like an attempt to reinvent the pro
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by madrox 6y ago
I got my first windows laptop in 10 years last April, and I love it more than my last thre MacBooks. Some people will swear windows UX is terrible, but I’m a huge fan of Windows 10. The only thing I miss are a few apps, like OmniFocus and i
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by madrox 6y ago
For me, one of the most impactful movies in the last decade has been Tomorrowland. The entire movie was about how we relate to the future, and how that relationship creates it. I don't believe optimism is a luxury. We have to hold an i
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by madrox 6y ago
I think that was an analogy where Apple was the government
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by madrox 6y ago
Seeing this play out for the last 25 years (a quarter of a century...whoa), I think diversity in the browser space is the only reason we still have an open web. I worked at a large media company that had a stake in the way browsers handled
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by madrox 6y ago
This is not really correct, since I'm writing this to you through Chrome on an iPad. Edit: I stand corrected. I learned something about my browser today.

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