Ficus Kirkpatrick

Nuance enthusiast. Helped create the first smartphone and the most popular one. Now building the small internet at | ひたすらイタズラ

[Ficus Kirkpatrick @ficus]

I started a company earlier this year. Not ready yet to say exactly what we're doing, but I want to share some thoughts about why. The first in a series, The Small Internet: https://t.co/FZQVRsKd2c

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@DKThomp The thing that struck me the most walking out of the theater was how it was very much *not* about Holmes.

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@rsms Genuinely lol'd

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Everyone is an eng manager now, like it or not. Doing the job the old-fashioned way quickly teaches you that people you can't trust are vampires on your time and attention. It does sometimes feel like I'm running a 10-legged race with a bunch of vampires.

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@charliermarsh Feels like we are in an uncanny valley right now: the only structural solution is moving up a level of abstraction, but the agents are not good enough yet to actually allow you to do it, "factory" influencers be damned.

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@charliermarsh Feels like we are in an uncanny valley right now: the only structural solution is moving up a level of abstraction, but the agents are not good enough yet to actually allow you to do it, "factory" influencers be damned.

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Whatchu know about this

[Chris Tate @ctatedev]

Duo is cool, I want one

But hear me out @johnternus

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@bcantrill Feels too reductive. As always there is surely some truth to it, but not every company culture was built in a way that does remote work well, and as I'm sure you know, that's an incredibly hard thing to change.

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@LudditeDesign @elaifresh Interesting bit of trivia: Reese's peanut butter is slightly rancid and this gives it some of its characteristic taste. They tried "fixing" the problem by adding oxygen-scavenging inserts to the packaging and people hated it!

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@roland_graser Counterargument: no u

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Peoples' attention spans are so cooked they can't even finish reading a single word anymore

[Roland Graser @roland_graser]

they got acquired by cursor earlier this year but they’re still raising series B?

that’s like the bacterium that got eaten by another bacterium but didn’t give up and became a chloroplast

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@danshipper Apple’s philosophy of keeping users safe at the expense of keeping them capable and in control has a long shadow.

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@stevesi Some of my proudest moments as an engineering leader came from rejecting a false tradeoff presented to me by my team.

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@threepointone Yes eventually I will be able to

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@kwuchu Most of my frustration with the process lies in the “7-14 days per round of feedback” part of it, which the agent has not been much help with

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The number of people I've seen quoting this post and attributing her opinion to "people in San Francisco" or "tech bros" (lol) couldn't be a more perfect encapsulation of the film's main theme.

[mgpi @SYNESTHEIZURE]

People in San Francisco have no model for how the average person thinks

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Obviously a different scale but when we shipped the first Sidekick in 2002 it had no persistent storage. We had ROM for the OS but all the data was just in RAM and everything was backed up to the cloud (or just “the server” as we called it then). If you drained the battery you had to download all your data again. One nice benefit: you could sign into a new device and it would be indistinguishable from the old one without all the setup you go through when you get a new phone today.

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@zacharynado

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@brian_lovin Many such cases

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@tqbf "Wow. This goes even higher than I thought."