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tomger··on I'm resigning from my job at Facebook
“Just saying” is judging. The anxiety created by his move is real. At the same time we can accept that other people are in a worse financial situation.
tomger··on Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT): a wolf in sheep’s clothes?
I realize governments, Apple, google already have access to my personal information and location. But I get the sense the public gets uncomfortable whenever we feel Governments are openly using our personal data on a large scale. Uncomfortable is the key for me.

What scares me specifically about person proximity tracking is that in the current covid world it seems realistic that some governments will force people to enable it with seeming support from the public. Therefor eroding that uncomfortableness.

tomger··on New iPhone SE
Death of the small phone
tomger··on Half of American workers would rather work from home forever: poll
100% agreed. Important patterns for me are having the same breakfast, lunch and dinner times with dedicated time to eat without work. Shutting down work at a fixed time at night. Waking up at a fixed time.

If it stick to those I tend to automatically start making other patterns to make those times work.

tomger··on Apple and Google are launching a joint Covid-19 tracing tool for iOS and Android
Wouldn’t this require a lot of data transfer? 14 * 24 * 4 * keysize * millions of people?
tomger··on CouchDB 3.0
“Grammar.” Thanks.
tomger··on Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings
Another post where the top part of the thread is a tangent/unrelated to the post. This is becoming common on HN and I don’t find it helpful.
tomger··on Gears
This is a beautiful article.
tomger··on PinePhone Review
Now if they’d create an iPhone SE sized one... I’d have enough passion to figure out how to run Linux on it ;)
tomger··on Coping with Flexbox
This is a super helpful guide! Thanks!
tomger··on Temperature Conversion: Mental Calculation (2014)
The article refers to C = 2 * (F - 30) as an approximation
tomger··on Temperature Conversion: Mental Calculation (2014)
For weather purposes the approximation seems accurate enough. Here’s a table listing the differences: http://tomgermeau.com/tools/FC/
tomger··on Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design
I think the author of this article thinks a design team is run as some sort of isolated dictatorship. In reality design teams balance stakeholder feedback, technical constraints, timelines and so on.
tomger··on Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch
> Support for Cliqz integrated functions in Firefox is ending.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cliqz-recommendations-f...

tomger··on What design tools get wrong
I don’t think the author has spent a relevant amount of time with Figma
tomger··on Why New York City Stopped Building Subways
@Joerie the 2nd ave/Q lines has literally taken more than a decade.
tomger··on I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores
Most of your arguments are subjective and anecdotal. It’s also “case in point.”
tomger··on Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
This is great! Though I wonder if there’s anything more we can do than call our representative like the article suggests.
tomger··on Introducing Messenger Kids
Same logic works for any crime.
tomger··on US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data
So how do we get this voted for by the people of the US? This whole hackernews thread is full of nerds confirming if the lookup worked for their account. But what do we do?
tomger··on Facebook Lies
# Account successfully scheduled for deletion

Your account has been deactivated from the site and will be permanently deleted within 14 days. If you log into your account within the next 14 days, you will have the option to cancel your request.

tomger··on Facebook Lies
Glad I could help!
tomger··on Facebook Lies
https://m.facebook.com/help/delete_account states that it will delete your account permanently. Facebook’s current FAQ notes it’ll take about 90 days for your information to be gone from their system.
tomger··on Behind the scenes of a dashboard design
Thanks Ian! That's really good feedback. I completely agree, I hope to record more design steps/decisions to have a better base for this type of article in the future.
tomger··on Behind the scenes of a dashboard design
wait, what doesn't work on mobile?

If you're referring to the dashboard demo; Chartbeat published a mobile app.

tomger··on Behind the scenes of a dashboard design
DNS issue, should slowly be getting back up.
tomger··on How To Make Twitter Work For You In 5 Minutes A Day
> follow people you know and like. Look at who they talk to,

> follow those people if they seem decent.

> Talk to the people you follow as if they're your actual friends

< because if they're not already eventually they probably will be.

I love how you just wrote down an algorithm for "making friends" :)

tomger··on Google responds to NY Times article by improving its algorithms
I don't understand why people think the internet works any different than real life.

You don't just buy products in a dodgy shop, even if it's the first shop you see.

Google is as responsible for this as a phonebook company would be for giving you a bad phone number.

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