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jesseddy

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Mover and shaker, product maker, hacker at ♥. NYC based UX design consultant, Co-founder of http://tweat.it - I make ice cream too! http://phinandphebes.com
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jesseddy··on Ask HN: Has anyone tried to debunk the myth that Facebook is listening?
Maybe local text-to-speech is not plausible given the heavy processing and battery drain. What if instead there is a list of words/brands being listened for; my phone is always listening for "OK, Google."
jesseddy··on Ask HN: Has anyone tried to debunk the myth that Facebook is listening?
All I know is that things that I have talked about with my phone around 1-2 days prior, I suddenly see ads for. Things I did not Google or mention on the Internet. In one case I started seeing ads on Instagram for a product that I posted a photo of and did not even include the product's name in the post. Dishwashing liquid that I would never even buy (I'm not the target user so it wasn't target marketing).

It's all a little too much for me to believe it's a coincidence.

jesseddy··on Ask HN: Startup CEO giving employee grief for quitting
Not all startups are like this, this is an issue with the CEO. Some "leaders" take leaving a company personally.
jesseddy··on What's the Easiest Programming Language I Can Learn
Thanks, didn't know about Flask I'll check it out!
jesseddy··on What's the Easiest Programming Language I Can Learn
Thank you.
jesseddy··on How We Grew Our Blog to 5,000+ Subscribers in Five Weeks
It's nice to see a company writing posts with this much transparency. While it's not simple to grow a blog presence like this it does take persistence and knowing a few solid techniques. Thanks for sharing.
jesseddy··on MailChimp threatens legal action against an open source side project
I personally can't blame them. It's an exact copy of their site, which makes further replications very easy and encouraged. Their letter to Luke was very nice, hardly pushy at all.
jesseddy··on Ask HN: What apps do you use to present mockups?
I usually present in person and don't have any huge pain points around doing it this way. I think tools like this that allow for comments to be left on a mockup is interesting but not a deal breaker: http://redpen.io

I use Dropbox the most to share files with clients. Recently I've been working on a concept for presenting mobile designs - I think this process is more broken than other types of design presentations.

jesseddy··on Please help provide feedback on my SaaS experiment?
John, thanks a lot for responding - really appreciate it. All good thoughts.
jesseddy··on Show HN: Wordsmith - jquery plugin that adds on-demand word definitions
Hey everyone, this is one of the makers - great feedback so far just wanted to say thank you.