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jmadleron Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative

Never go full Sapir–Whorf

jmadleron Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative

Never go full Sapir–Whorf.

jmadleron Android 12 Notification Reverse Trampolining

In this case, it's handled before the view instead of inside of it because it's managed by the OneSignal SDK as opposed to the app itself.

jmadleron Grow Your Customer Lists with Web Prompts for Email and Phone

There's a fine line between excessive and helpful communications, and it's different for every person.

Hopefully we'll be able to be more intelligent about this to accommodate your preferences, but for now we're building for to empowering our customers to decide how to engage their users.

jmadleron Grow Your Customer Lists with Web Prompts for Email and Phone

There's some truth to this. I think folks on Hacker News and in the Tech space broadly ought to remind themselves that they are power users, and their preferences are not representative of all users.

jmadleron Grow Your Customer Lists with Web Prompts for Email and Phone

That's the vision, though it's not quite where we're at today. Once users have the option to subscribe to updates in the ways they want, and for the specific kinds of updates they want, we'll be in a much better place.

jmadleron If someone’s having to read your docs, it’s not “simple”

Yeah, sorry, I wasn't being sarcastically ironic or anything.

jmadleron If someone’s having to read your docs, it’s not “simple”

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jmadleron Show HN: Pluto – In-browser spatial video chat

Brilliant innovation on the spatial audio. I love the barriers and proximity cliffs. A bit hard to find a specific someone.

It's like a frictionless, lightweight second-life. Congrats. Now we can have true house parties online.

jmadleron Boltons: A set of BSD-licensed, pure-Python utilities

Ah,ok!

jmadleron Boltons: A set of BSD-licensed, pure-Python utilities

Why not contribute these upstream into the standard library?

jmadleron Steve Yegge Quits, Saying Google Is 100% Competitor Focused

I'm not sure I agree with Steve that Google is 100% competitor focused. Yes, there are lots of fast-follows, but the fast-follows are innovative (such as Google Home), and the PM teams definitely focus more on user research than on competitive research. I mean, Google didn't exactly invent the Search Engine...

I do however believe that it is increasingly difficult at Google to enter new markets as an individual contributor. Nearly all new products require executive support before they can be meaningfully commenced. There are definitely increasingly strict controls on any public releases (even silent ones) centered around protecting the Google brand.

It kinda seems like Yegge was ready to move on and created post-hoc rationalization for it that was too broadly sweeping.

I also don't think the fetishization around innovation is really that useful. It's an ill-defined and abused buzzword.