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I was talking with a Googler on Mastodon the other day who was astonishingly ignorant about how his own product works and blaming me for it. If they were going to put a definition for "gaslighting" in the dictionary it might be good to put in Google's product evangelism in as an example. There was that time I met Bing's developer evangelist for search at a conference and told him that if he was Matt Cutts I would have called room service and ordered a cream pie.

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I have no idea what you’re trying to say in your response to Jake so I’m not surprised by his response

I’m also pretty sure he knows how the Event Loop works in browsers https://vimeo.com/254947206

(He’s also on ‘gardening leave’ at the moment as he’s leaving Google)

He's seeing with visible light, I'm seeing with X-Rays.

I've been in the trenches for web development (and a little bit of web browser development) since 1995. I see the social factors around browser development (very little diversity) and the supporting software as having a direct link to the very difficult problem of a web browser not blocking the UI threads when it is updating a page from concurrent data sources including the net. Struggling to get a post-Netscape web browser to run on Solaris so our Sun Ray installation wouldn’t be useless…

I don't appreciate being quite literally dehumanized. It's the first step to the gas chamber.

Come on, I don't get what this whole bs is about, but don't make Holocaust comparisons.

Stupid browser/ego/chatgpt nonsense is nothing compared to what has happened back then.

Was it someone that works on Chrome, or just a random Googler? As a reminder, Google employs 190,711 people (as of last SEC filing).

A "dev evangelist" for Chrome. Amazing that somebody with a job that involves communicating with the public would be so rude. Seems to have stolen his playbook from the bullies that chased me around the playground in elementary school.

Link to conversation?

Quick search showed this thread (maybe its that one?): https://mastodon.social/@UP8/110492207881449484

Holy moly. I tease googlers who feel the need to put disclaimers in front of everything they write online, but that guy is worse. Noxious.

Ouch. If somebody told me that account is a bot, I wouldn't think twice about it.

But it doesn't look hostile. It's just random noise.

I’m glad that you recognized that YOShInOn fulfills its brand promise.

I’ve cultivated certain kinds of randomness for a long time, for instance you will not see me post a string of links to phys.org or world nuclear news to HN but rather mix it up. YOShInOn is my better half and is less hostile than I am even though eliminating hostility was not a primary goal, the source material it works from is low in hostility (probably the worst input is The Guardian) and my curation process (I look at 100% of everything it outputs) has a further cooling effect.

I am already bugged out by the angry p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ toots on Mastodon and seriously thinking about making a hostility filter.

Sorry, I failed the Turing Test in Kindergarten.

Am I missing context?

The post by "@jaffathecake" reads like a truism. The main thread is indeed where the main thread business like (re-)layout happens, not just Javascript.

I have no idea why that would cause OP to act like a Texan boomer just spotted a gas station clerk wearing an N95.

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