Twilio Acquires Electric Imp • Hacker News Board

Re: Twilio Acquires Electric Imp

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Post by fiveguys94 » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 3:45 PM UTC

mellosouls wrote: post #3

Completely OT but these announcements for acquisitions, new releases etc: Why are they always excited ? We are really excited that Electric Imp is now part of the Twilio family. : Now that Twilio and Electric Imp have joined forces, we’re more excited than ever to see what you build. I get professional pride; it just always seems a bit overdone and insincere when it's phrased like that - though I'm sure in some cases…

That's marketing for you; a good proportion of Electric Imp are brits, and we generally don't get "really excited" by anything short of the prospect of a good curry and a nice pint.

Having been through other chains of acquisitions (empeg was acquired by Rio who then went chapter 11 and were acquired by DNNA who sold the engineering team to Sigmatel) where the plot was lost entirely over the passage of time, I'm entitled to play the "meh" card if necessary.

In this case though, I'm personally really excited about the possibilities. Watch this space :)

Re: Twilio Acquires Electric Imp

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Post by secondaryditto » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 3:56 PM UTC

bittercynic wrote: post #48

dragonwriter wrote: post #39

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> The average level of American "OMG so excited to meet you" is usually reserved for actual celebrities in Europe I've been an American all my life, and I've never seen anyone say they were excited to meet someone other than either an actual celebrity or someone who has been significantly talked up in advance to the level of being at a quasi-celebrity level in context (and even in the latter case, “I'm glad to finall…

Things are very different from one part of USA to another, and even from one social group to another. Though I haven't participated in any social situation where "OMG so excited..." is the norm, it is easy to imaging it exists.

my experience (as us-born/bred) is that this exists, but is more a personality trait than anything else. And some personality traits can co-exist among others with the same trait more easily, and that 'so excited' outward expression can often get amplified in a group, but even individuals can be like that. I don't see it as uniquely American, but... it may be somewhat here. By comparison, traveling in Russia, public displays of enthusiasm/positivity/emotion were far less common at all (although in small groups of friends they came out).

Re: Twilio Acquires Electric Imp

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Post by duskwuff » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 4:09 PM UTC

squarefoot wrote: post #45

duskwuff wrote: post #5

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Same here. I remember hearing about their SD-form-factor product, like, 5 or 10 years ago. Then cheap wireless microcontrollers like the ESP8266 came onto the market and made them irrelevant.

They had that SD to WiFi card which was interesting to have say a non connected camera send directly photos to a server through an access point. An ESP8266 or ESP32 might probably accomplish the same by implementing SD card emulation on some of its GPIOs. But the form factor would be much less convenient.

Are you sure that was an Electric Imp product? I'm pretty sure those were from other companies, like Eye-Fi (and later others).

Re: Twilio Acquires Electric Imp

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Post by pythonbase » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 6:08 AM UTC

vadym909 wrote: post #9

mellosouls wrote: post #3

Completely OT but these announcements for acquisitions, new releases etc: Why are they always excited ? We are really excited that Electric Imp is now part of the Twilio family. : Now that Twilio and Electric Imp have joined forces, we’re more excited than ever to see what you build. I get professional pride; it just always seems a bit overdone and insincere when it's phrased like that - though I'm sure in some cases…

Its an American cultural norm- which often seems 'fake' or 'posing' to Europeans, S.Americans or Asians who are little more reserved and stingy expressing such levels of sentiment. It was a shock to me when I started interviewing for jobs- and an American friend told me, its very important in the US, when interviewing to say "I'm really excited (more than you really are) about the opportunity to work at XYZ." The tru…

Same in this part of Asia. Companies are 'pleased' to notify that they have fired so and so on misconduct.

Re: Twilio Acquires Electric Imp

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Post by squarefoot » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 1:02 AM UTC

duskwuff wrote: post #53

squarefoot wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They had that SD to WiFi card which was interesting to have say a non connected camera send directly photos to a server through an access point. An ESP8266 or ESP32 might probably accomplish the same by implementing SD card emulation on some of its GPIOs. But the form factor would be much less convenient.

Are you sure that was an Electric Imp product? I'm pretty sure those were from other companies, like Eye-Fi (and later others).

You're right, thanks for pointing out. They made a SD looking MCU board with WiFi, but that didn't work as SD emulator they just used the connector because it was cheap and ubiquitous.

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/electric-imp-breakout-h...