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I have regained a lot of focus by using the Unread filter. I don't think it's on by default, you have to go into settings. I use it to mark the events in my day where I go to slack. I just hit the unread filter, read through all that I need or want to, respond, and then decide if I'm going to be in slack for a while (e.g. A conversation that will be having a lot of back of forth) or if I can safely context switch back to whatever I was doing or something new. The Unread filter has keyboard shortcuts too, so you can navigate stuff quickly.

This may also be an opportunity to raise the issue. If it's not your style to be direct about it, consider just asking in your team channel for advice on this very issue. Maybe it's an important conversation to open up at your workplace.

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My father-in-law holds degrees from Stanford and Harvard, and has similarly struggled to find a job as he's grown older. When I referred him to an open position at my company, his un-edited resume matched almost perfectly, but the recruiter called him "too operational" -- and obviously had not dug in to who he was. I didn't push it but it seemed that his gray hair visible in his LinkedIn profile was a put off. I can't understand this. What is their line of thinking? That older people are too set in their ways? They command too much salary? They will not be a cultural fit because of an age gap? Can anyone describe the position of those who slyly or effectively hire a younger crowd only? (I realize this is a different context than VC world, which the author is talking about but I think it's similar enough to contribute to the discussion here.)

I wonder if all the traffic from HN every few years justifies the continued existence of these sites to the owners (unknowingly, not sure how granular they might be in their traffic analysis). Kind of like patronage at a museum.

True story -- I got hired at a startup, and sometime within my first few days we went into a team meeting. The Chief Product Officer plugs his computer in to present, and Slack is up, showing his direct conversation with HR regarding my salary. Team lead saw that I had been brought on for more than him and quit. Many others threatened to quit, and they had to give a lot of raises. I guess it wasn't a notification but easily could have been.

I don't live a life that will put me in a position to be embarrassed by notifications (at least not like on the site), but there is nevertheless a real business need for privacy that is not related to what some might call immoral behavior. I think to expand the reach of this product you might need to take that angle. If Muzzle is meant only to handle embarrassing notifications, I believe it will become embarrassing to have it/be using it. Just my 2 cents.

I feel like the email they sent is a master class in misleading. The feeling and subtext make you feel like nothing is happening or you'll be better off:

> To build for the future and welcome even more memories, Google Photos is changing its unlimited high-quality storage policy. Starting Ju ne 1 , 2 02 1, new photos and videos backed up in high-quality will begin to count toward users' 15 GB of Google Account storage, which is shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos.

> Your Pixel device will not be impacted by this change. High - quality uploads from your Pixel device will continue to be free and unlimited. This exemption only applies to uploads made from your Pixel device, not uploads from other devices or via photos.google.com.

Kind of goes without saying, but the flip side of having all of these tools under a single opinionated umbrella is that if any piece of it sucks, people are going to drop the whole toolchain. Hence this is a high risk project, especially because everything is being built from scratch.

Agreed. For the non-technical world forced into video-conferencing due to the pandemic, Zoom _is_ video-conferencing. It's the most well-known product to the general public, and therefore the one you use to make relevant jokes right now.

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Fascinating. Do you suppose there are businesses that actually could keep their employees but are just throwing in the towel because their human capital will be easy to obtain after people can go back to work?

Ironically, this leads me to trust the rest of the reviews on their site. Maybe they're not all fake.

Nitpick on the title used for this post: academical is not a word.

Most important question: Will you still be able to see user-submitted phrases explaining the npm acronym? (See upper left-hand corner of https://www.npmjs.com/)

I didn't pursue the idea in any meaningful way. My idea was basically expert advice codified into a flow/tree, available on demand through a mobile app. E.g., my kid is behaving badly, so I can go to the app, it asks me the questions my expert would ask me, I easily relay information back to it and receive helpful suggestions (how to control my own temper, how to interpret kids behavior, etc). Bite-sized stuff that you can use in the highly urgent/desperate moments parents find themselves in from time to time.

I bet your company, if successful, would be well positioned to make that at some point in the future. There are some tricky questions there, both in terms of effectiveness and ethics, about using an AI-powered chatbot instead of an actual expert. The experts are still needed but whether we're close to approximating human expert delivery of this type of advice with technology is an interesting question! Again, best of luck and I'll check you guys out.

I have had basically the same idea, after feeling the problem myself as a parent of young kids. There is so much garbage on Google. Social science is always going to lack the consensus of a hard science, but we can do better than content farms that have assembled articles from freelancers who probably don't have children and are mustering up advice that's barely common sense. I hope for your success!

This is a bit cynical (and borderline paranoid) but what if the reason for the rewrite was to remove privacy-violating code that was becoming a greater and greater liability? Also, wonder if they needed to do this to make way for end-to-end encryption we've been hearing about?

Source for these claims?

As the father of a newborn, grateful to hear this. Do you have a source?

I understood the point to be that to do all these things well is very difficult for a single product / company. I worked at a startup where our solution was to replace five other solutions. Only customers with the simplest use cases found that it worked. The complexity from the breadth makes achieving the requisite depth for a good experience difficult.

Was hoping there _weren't_ any but didn't want to verify. Thanks!

To me, saying there is nothing new about Instagram, is like saying the combustion engine is the same thing as fire. I can see what you are saying on one level, but this company and its impact on human users was bought for a billion dollars. There is something new here.

Yes, in some senses, but completely different in others. The availability of it to nearly everyone, and the sheer volume of content are unprecedented. It's also way more visual. Photos used to have the constraints of being developed and printed on paper. You might have a hundred photos of you in your life. Now we have that many in a year. All of these things impact societal expectations, which impact individual behavior. Sometimes it's a harmless impact, but it's a new ballgame to be sure. And it doesn't have to be a drastically different game for wellbeing to be dramatically altered for the worse.

I've done all my developing on a MacBook. This makes sense now. Thanks.

Somebody fill me in. What is the strategic value to Microsoft of making their own terminal? Especially when there are apparently so many out there. Also, why are there are so many? I guess as a web dev I've always just accepted the basic terminal and it's been fine for me. Am I missing out?

Turned out our backend team just had a graphql type def that was wrong. That resulted in a nullified value, and the server logic following that treats a null value for the timestamp to mean the task should be completed now. None of this was reflected in the UI however.

So all in all, my bug wasn't that exciting, but if you think about the early chaotic days of a startup, there are often nuances in dealing with date and time that don't get thought through, particularly with newer developers being pushed or pushing themselves to get things launched. For example, if you are doing all of your testing locally, you might not find out until you get a user or customer in another time zone that, hey, we should have thought about that.

Bottom line is, and I think this is really what I was thinking this morning -- I would never sink so much time into drawing conclusions with the early data of a startup like this. Life is too short. If I am going to spend that much time on something it's going to need to be a less risky investment.

I'm working on a bug right now where we have some timestamps that are wrong. Just saying.

Interesting -- I was thinking of the big name projects that a lot of people use, but this would be helpful too. Thanks for your perspective.

Not what I was expecting, but this would be interesting!

I can see what you're saying, there seems to be some debate about whether RSS is alive or dead, though. Even if it is, your point that RSS seems like a good fit means just finding a good fit in what the existing options are.

I agree this would be helpful, particularly the minimal interface. Do you think it would be best to have the companies provide the info directly, or to have a community source the info, or to do it internally?