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https://xkcd.com/927/

From what I understand, there's no standard implementation of the standard. So each implementation is unique in some ways. Therefore a "unified" experience is impossible.


The same is true for almost all (real) standards: There's no reference implementation for 802.11, Ethernet, 5G etc. either, yet nobody would claim that a "unified Ethernet experience" is impossible.


I had a fire 8 that I tried for a while. But found the low-res to make it uncomfortable. Is yours a paperwhite?


Yes an older one, but honestly it’s fine. You could maybe get the slightly fancier oasis but it works.


Funnily enough, I made a CLI tool recently that bookmarks SSH connection strings. https://github.com/IamFlowZ/ssh-bm


Status update: this was a fantastic question. One that I believe convinced myself and my interviewer even more that we were a good match.


Fantastic point. Innocent enough of a question but could serve as a canary in the coal mine.


when I grow up, I want to be a dev like you lol


This video provides a great lens for thinking about the cloud 'spectrum'. Using it as a lens, your product is living somewhere in the middle, and what you're proposing is at one end of the spectrum. Again siding with your CTO, your job is to deliver value, not infrastructure. Maybe you save a few dollars in app costs, but you'll more than eat through those savings in maintaining infrastructure.

https://youtu.be/k3bUvZf89k8?t=697


That's an interesting approach. Piggy backing off of something users were already actively reading to insert useful blips.


I do! I'm sponsoring this effort to catch linux trackpad software up to mac standards. Not affiliated with them in any other way, was simply blown away by a friends magic pad, right about the same time this project started. https://github.com/gitclear/libinput

edit: I also like to buy merch from OSS affiliated companies. e.g. mozilla hoodie, Neo4j shirt etc.


Hell yes to this trackpad work! How did you pick that dev specifically?

I also came across another dev on this: https://github.com/JoseExposito


They were pretty active here on hacker news tbh. They got a lot of people pretty excited.


Is anyone else exhausted by the constant barrage of "personalized" experiences? Its always been about click rate for advertisers, but now they push their monetization model as a feature and it just feels draining.


Seeing the name of this, I recalled Microsoft's Start Menu, Microsoft's Start Screen, Start.com, Internet Start (start page in MSIE), Microsoft's Start Something tagline, and so forth.

I'm surprised that MS didn't say Making it Easier, Faster, Better, More Open, and those things.


The layout is simple and clean... so beautiful!


Microsoft: making it harder, better, faster, stronger.


The result of automated personalization is yet another internet echo chamber.

Computers are pretty good at telling you what you want to know, because they work off of your existing feedback. What they're terrible at is telling you what you should know, and what is important.

If the same systems that recommend the news were used to deliver the weather, every forecast would be "Sunny and 72 degrees." In other words, useless.


More likely every forecast would be either extreme heatwave or bitter cold snap headed your way. Similarly useless but a higher probability that you to click to find out more..


Beyond exhausted. It's infuriating how these "experiences" are shoved down our throats. Often integrated deeply integrated into systems they should not be (and that we pay for) and turned on by default.


The less tech literate to prefer it. There are fewer things to learn and click on to see what they want. I am not a big fan, personally, but know plenty who are. My guess is that MS would much rather provide something that many like, others are indifferent or slightly dislike, and few extremely dislike.


No. I prefer it. Having a personalized feed is much preferable for me to the old way of having little freedom over content and just consuming whatever limited crap is on offer.

Maybe not this specific instance but in general having 5 newspapers to choose from and 15 channels was awful compared to now.


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