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7 votes
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The productivity pit: Work communication software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t.
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Apple is telling lawmakers people will hurt themselves if they try to fix iPhones
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Car hackers say that if you want to keep your autonomous vehicles secure, you have to create realistic threat models
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A conspiracy to kill IE6
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How do you say "you're welcome" or "no problem" with reaction emojis?
Someone pings you in slack or github (or discord or on a forum post or wherever) asking for something. Perhaps some advice or a code review. After you help them out, they say "Thanks!". In normal...
Someone pings you in slack or github (or discord or on a forum post or wherever) asking for something. Perhaps some advice or a code review. After you help them out, they say "Thanks!". In normal conversation, I would respond with a "You're welcome" or "no problem" or something.
The problem I have is that while I want to be polite and acknowledge their thank you message, I don't want to generate notifications or otherwise distract people. Responding with a github comment will notify and probably email any involved persons. Slack and discord it depends on the channel, but many channels have low enough traffic that I will check every time theres a new message in that channel (and I'm sure I'm not the only one monitoring those channels).
Its not really a big deal and no one is going to get angry about it - but it can distract people or ruin their flow while working and I want to avoid that. In my mind, a reaction emoji is perfect for this. It acknowledges the comment or message if someone looks, but doesn't send notifications or light up the channel name.
...but which reaction should I use? I've never seen a "you're welcome" emoji. I've been typically using a thumbs up (
:+1:
), but that can look as if someone is seconding the thanks rather than me trying to acknowledge it.Is there a better way to say "you're welcome" or "no problem" in this situation? Is there a better reaction emoji on github/slack/discord/your communication platform of choice? Should I stop worrying about possibly savings other people an email or small distraction and just say "np" or something?
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Introducing auto-delete controls for your Location History and activity data
7 votes -
Remote code execution on most Dell computers
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Librem announces Librem One
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Instagram is the new mall
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Facebook is redesigning its app and site to put more emphasis on Events and Groups
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Preventing harassment and increasing group participation through social norms in 2,190 online science discussions
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Nine APIs for the geekiest of programmers
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Backblaze hard drive stats Q1 2019
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Vodafone denies Huawei Italy security risk
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The once-hot robotics startup Anki is shutting down after raising more than $200 million
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Buying from Amazon: Three steps to find what you need and avoid fake reviews | No Sweat Tech
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The hundred-tonne robots that help keep New Zealand running
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The telegraph was America's first singularity
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Where to research IT salaries
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Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked
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Wikipedia’s refusal to profile a Black female scientist shows its diversity problem
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How technology could revolutionize refugee resettlement
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How lobbyists rewrote Washington state’s privacy law
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Magnetic micro-robots
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Safe Schools scare campaign targets Chinese-Australian voters
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Mark Zuckerberg & Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation
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The woman who plotted a Valentine's mass murder shares how the internet radicalized her
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The five biggest lies about 5G
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Ireland is blocking the world on data privacy - it's the designated lead regulator for many companies under EU privacy law, but it's in bed with the companies it should be regulating
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Walmart unveils an AI-powered store of the future, now open to the public
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MuseNet, a deep neural network that can generate four-minute musical compositions with ten different instruments
6 votes -
Samsung Galaxy Fold teardown
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Tesla’s autonomy event: Impressive progress with an unrealistic timeline
7 votes -
Facebook's email-harvesting practice is under investigation in NY
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Cox introduces 'Elite Gamer' internet fast lane
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"It's not play if you're making money": How Instagram and YouTube disrupted child labor laws
9 votes -
Invisible malware is here and your security software can't catch it
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Joint investigation of Facebook, Inc. by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia
9 votes -
How Twitter users compare to the general American public
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Faceless together - What is 4chan
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It’s Complicated: Mozilla’s 2019 Internet Health Report
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People are manipulating you on Facebook
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Fei-Fei Li & Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation - The Coming AI Upheaval
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The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities, from DeviantArt to Tumblr
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Facebook releases Q1 2019 earnings, expects to be fined up to $5 billion by US government
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Samsung delays Galaxy Fold indefinitely: ‘We will take measures to strengthen the display’
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The only way to rein in Big Tech is to treat them as a public service
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Meet your iPhone’s grandparent
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Experience with coding camps for kids?
HIVE MIND Hey folks! Have any of you: Sent your kids to one of those “coding camps” Gone to one of said camps as a kid Worked at or for one of said camps Mostly he's looking for experiences from...
HIVE MIND Hey folks! Have any of you:
- Sent your kids to one of those “coding camps”
- Gone to one of said camps as a kid
- Worked at or for one of said camps
Mostly he's looking for experiences from the past five years or so.
One of my authors is writing an article on the topic, so please get in touch! jfruh@jfruh.com!
4 votes