Bobby Johnson
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@yishan It's the one annoyance in modern American life that you can't buy your way out of, so rich douchebags hate it. Fwiw, California is a lot worse than other states, but not that bad.
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@Appyg99 @peteskomoroch also, in California now the clear line is often significantly slower than the precheck line, and I've even seen it longer than the general line, so it's kind of moot
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@Appyg99 @peteskomoroch it's not the same at all. Business class is a private company selling you something and security is a public concern. A private company selling a pass to a public requirement has always been kind of sketchy.
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California is such a nanny state. They want to ban CLEAR at airports now in the name of equity ?
What’s next? They’ll ban people buying business class seats too?
CA is full of pea brained politicians
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Spelling Bee really galumphed the shark yesterday #Nytspellingbee
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@maiab @triketora Another thing that has gotten worse is you have to log in to everything now, even lightweight things where it doesn't help the user at all, but it's beneficial to the app for growth or monetization.
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yes! I have several theories why tech products are all garbage today:
1) Fraud: with increased functionality available online, fraud is increasingly lucrative. Stepping up fraud prevention often results in worse experiences for normal users
2) Gold Rush: building apps became a way to get rich for MBA people who do not take pride in building high-quality products
3) Gold Rush 2: similarly, “learn to code” became a reasonable-earning career for people who do not care about computers or have pride in what they build
4) Data-driven: As an industry we’re more efficient at prioritizing highest impact initiatives. Some usability work gets rightly deprioritized as low impact (eg, does not make the company lots more money). Some usability work gets wrongly deprioritized, because the impact is hard to measure given the unsophisticated and short-term structure of how its most often measured
5) Personalization: Our app experiences are now customized, often on a per-user level. It makes it hard to even know what the experience is for some people, and makes casual dog fooding/end-to-end testing impossible for employees
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Zuck has so far open sourced and given the world:
◆ React
◆ React Native
◆ PyTorch
◆ Llama
◆ GraphQL
◆ Flow
◆ Jest
◆ Relay
◆ HHVM / Hack
◆ Yoga
◆ Hermes
◆ RocksDB
◆ Zstandard
Goated.
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@soleio Yep. For me at least, it was because the site always went down on Sunday when people started uploading their weekend photos.
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Not gonna lie:
The week always started on Sunday afternoons/evenings at the Facebook office in 2005-2007
Terrence Rohan@tmrohan
I was lucky enough to work at Google ‘05-10. We were in the office, 9a-8p, Mon-Thurs; Friday 9a-5p. Saturday people took off (kinda). Back online Sunday most of the day. I think you miss something profound if you don’t have this work environment early in your career.
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@jefielding I also think it's interesting that most VC firms are run as lifestyle businesses, not growth businesses.
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A few venture funds I know have super fragile internal cultures. People are afraid to say what they think and hard topics are avoided or watered down.
But these same VCs are investing into bold entrepreneurs who tend to be outspoken and go against the grain. Often times these founders piss off a lot of people by saying what they really think.
Hard to understand this clash of cultures sometimes 🤷🏼♀️
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I'm on threads now
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@sdgoed thanks for the warning. I'll go somewhere else where I'm less likely to get shot
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There is one analytics tool I am excited about more than any other. Now you can see it at work -
Watch @seanjtaylor use Motif to explore this social network dataset and mine it for insights.
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Motif is the rare tool I’d rather use instead of SQL.
» teej@teej_m
I got a preview of something new and I'm so excited about it. Lets talk about ✨event analytics✨ I have over a trillion events in my db. Just getting them in is a pain. Analyzing them is harder. I can count click of a button, but WHY do people click at all? Why did they stop?
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When the robot apocalypse comes it won't be with missiles and guns, it will be with bullshit.
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By default Material Design suggests using initials in lists of people. Do you find it useful? Even better, have you ever observed users who found it useful?
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@KentBeck @bethcodes This is so true. At this point in my life pretty much the only thing I look at in a design is how likely it is to cause bugs.
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Some software design reduces the cost of implementing features. Another category of software design @bethcodes pointed me to is software design that reduces cost by discouraging errors. Time to dig into this: tidyfirst.substack.com/p/fool-proof-d…
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Idea: a seed-stage VC firm that has designers & frontend devs on staff and lends them out to portfolio companies.
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@kocienda Strangely related - I've seen great ideas comes from someone misunderstanding or mishearing someone else. I think maybe when you're trying to understand what the other person might be saying, you release some of your inhibitions about what it's ok to consider.
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This can be a multiplayer game of sorts. Many times when I’ve shared an idea that isn’t any good, it spurred a colleague to come up with an idea that actually is good.
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@antoniogm It's a blue state with some large red areas that don't have a lot of people, but the people who are there vote very red. I think everyone understands this perfectly well.
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