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Author here - a few months after the time of this story, we reoriented around a single purpose for the team, "Automate ourselves out of existence". It took a few months to remove a…

In my time in SRO at FB, we actually had an alarm that would fire whenever enough #facebookisdown posts were made on Twitter!

Yeah! By the end of my time on the team, checking the news when I saw a rapid change in traffic was second nature. And later on in my career becoming interested in markets, even mo…

Author here, and that's exactly right! I think it was in my second or third month on the job. And I really agree with your second point too! Without that in-person transfer of trib…

OP of that thread here. Wanted to say that the first paragraph of your reply is the perfect encapsulation of what I wanted to get across in that post. It's not about the disaster s…

Pardon my ignorance here, but do you need to pay gas fees or buy tokens to transfer/mint?

A currency is generally intended mainly for commercial purposes, isn't it? I think the word commercialized isn't quite right for what I mean then. So more specifically, I mean: "no…

I am not aware of any non-commercialized crypto anything (from my understanding, this is sorta by definition, but maybe I'm missing something). Do you have any examples?

Yeah, as other commenters have said - the curtains are for bright city lights I can't turn off. Personally, I have a simple electrical timer set to turn on a bright sunlight bulb a…

It seems like there has been a lot of buzz lately about the importance of reducing light exposure at night and the impact it has on your health. I can certainly speak to it anecdot…

That's all platforms - I also had my doubts, but if you switch to the mobile view, it does appear that Android has dipped in percent the last few years: https://gs.statcounter.com/…

Folding Ideas on YouTube put out a documentary on YouTube which I think is a great example of this approach (complete with a nifty and thorough visual experiment on the roundness o…

This book helped me learn how to be a better listener, I highly recommend it: The Lost Art of Listening, by Michael P. Nichols https://www.audible.com/pd/B01M0D1LT5?source_code=ASS…

Check out the Rock Band video game series, they had a really nice (non automated) version of this: https://youtu.be/pV9_O9bKiLg

Traditionally, the second one is viewed as terrifying because an alien race may see us as a potential future threat. In a lot of science fiction, they see some violent/awful news f…

Oh, and of course: Super Smash Bros. Melee, whose bugs & quirks led to the most transcendent and buttery smooth movement system imaginable.

Been thinking about this a lot lately because I've been reading that Don Norman book, so I have several examples on the brain: - 2000 Toyota MR2 Spyder. For me, it's the perfect ex…

This, and the comment above about 2 through a billion, seem pretty spot on from what I know from talking to people still working there.

Ex-FB here. My guess is that it's primarily a combination of two factors: 1) Someone / some org was slow to notice that this was happening. 2) Bureaucratic muck slowed resolution d…

DK! Happy to see a new project from you. I'm a die-hard Hide Feed fan. This reminds me fondly of using Vimperator macros and link hints to automate tasks back in 2007. It has alway…

Perfect, thank you. Looks like an invitation code is needed to sign up, if any generous soul would like to send one to glenn.hope[at]protonmail.com I would be forever grateful!

Does anyone have a list of good resources / tools / communities for solo creators? I recently decided to take a solo project and run with it. The technical promise is real, and I'm…

Several years ago, when I worked at FB, I ran into a similar bug on an early internal version of a Messenger rewrite. Sent pictures to one chat, showed up in another. My bug report…

Lovely! Really excited to see any progress in this space. I found long ago that I thrive most in a terminal-only environment when I'm trying to maintain focus. The browser is my pr…