systemicdanna

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by systemicdanna 4y ago
This strategy did not start with Twitter and won’t end with this acquisition. Tech startups will keep betting on capturing the market first and getting to profit later. Not sure this specific fact makes Jack an idealist.
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
This situation for Twitter is closer to winning a lottery than to being a wild success. The fact that they locked in the offer at that price point and then the market crashed is pure luck (with a ton of work from smart lawyers), but it’s no
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
An important question to ask yourself before you launch a product: when you look at the final result, do you personally think that it delivers on your value prop? If you don't think so, then users, who are often more critical, definite
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
Many complained about voice-only input. I want to highlight a few other aspects that could be improved: 1. Navigation doesn’t work. Sometimes swiping right goes to the next page, sometimes doesn’t. Then you are stuck on the 3rd page and can
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
Not giving microphone access unless it’s something _I_ need, not the website. Would be great if you could add text input as an alternative to voice input.
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
My friends in different size tech companies.
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
Looking forward to a new insidious workaround Google and Apple will use to limit the impact of this legislation.
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
Yes. Underperformance is a decent indicator. Number of PRs is not a great one, but it can be somewhat correlated with eng velocity/productivity. Twitter will probably end up using a combination of metrics like that. They will hopefully
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
A very large number of people do slack off at these companies. Some engineers code only a few hours a week. They do attend meetings and such, but the actual task delivery timeline is very relaxed.
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
One way is to look at a few most recent perf reviews. Another way - look at some internal productivity metric that many companies introduced during Covid/WFH.
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
Many big tech companies, especially in the social space, are extremely bloated. They could literally have 10x more employees and everyone would still find something meaningless to work on. On the other hand they could have had far fewer emp
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
According to this definition everything that requires a passport is racist. We need to agree on some very basic level of how we participate in a society, not to give up because a few people can't prove their citizenship. Instead of foc
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
> This sort of discrimination was wholly race based You said it right. “Was”, not “is”. In 2022 we need to focus on what’s affecting our society the most, which is income and wealth, not race. Of course racism exits today, but it’s playi
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
Both links contain great examples of late 1960s Polish animation. Poland was never a part of USSR. Moreover, just like Czechoslovakia, Poland did not develop its animation style in a vacuum. They had strong artistic connections with many ot
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
You just listed some of the reasons for having a successful messaging app. Why wouldn't any of those reasons be attractive to Google? They could have _finally_ owned a social network. Or a "backbone for a business SaaS ecosystem&
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
I never understood this argument. > Apparently Gchat was not growing while competitors with emojis and other features were. So... add emojis and other features to Gchat, not create a new messaging app. Seems like every time there was a h
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by systemicdanna 4y ago
That's exactly why I am not going to donate this year, and I donated annually for almost a decade now. I love Wikipedia, will support it if it gets in trouble. But I am not rich enough to donate to some random causes, especially if I f