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totallynotabot··on Jupe: Off-grid shelters that pop up anywhere on Earth
Watch the Jupe + YC CEOs video on the site and tell me it’s not a parody. Dude dressed like a guru talking about a glamping tent like it’s as ground breaking as a Tesla and will solve world housing. Wild.
totallynotabot··on Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver
You know the answer to this question. Rationalizations may have included lines like “pivoting to enterprise will help us help even more customers” but it’s all about growth and TAM.
totallynotabot··on How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19
Yes it now has a built in blur background feature. (Pretty aggressive level of blurring in my experience.)
totallynotabot··on Uber lays off 3700 employees via Zoom
A manager 1:1 or immediate-working-team video call would have been more respectful way to end a working relationship, no? Something that includes some amount of personal communication/conversation rather than a mass broadcast anonymous message?

Treating someone as a person, rather than a resource. If it were happening to you, what would you hope for?

totallynotabot··on The spine of San Francisco is now car-free
Checked it out at lunch yesterday and the roadway seemed noticeably emptier to me. Yes, still buses and street cars but felt much less hectic. As a bikeshare user I’ll be more excited to use Market to get around downtown.
totallynotabot··on The Failure of the iPad
Out of curiosity, what app do you use?
totallynotabot··on A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]
You should know commercial chat solutions (for customer support, pre-purchase inquires etc) do this - agents can see what you’ve typed before hitting send.
totallynotabot··on Anxiety: An Interactive Story
Yikes, please tread carefully with this recommendation. I was on benzos and it literally took years and multiple attempts to get off them (yes, super gradual tapering and all.) My brain is not the same, definitely feel less focused and dumber even years after. I’d try any alternative.