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Netfolks, gentle and otherwise:

If the internet is made in fact of "tubes" or "pipes" of data, then I humbly submit:

If an item is totally congruent with the finest properties of the internet and its inhabitants, would that item not in fact be "tubular"?

This is a bad practice and you should not do it:

I am still very angry with whatever dick in product management felt that it was necessary or appropriate to combine the following two sentiments:

"I am so excited about the upcoming product release! The date has been pushed up! THIS IS WONDERFUL!"

"In order to accommodate the upcoming early release of this product, some features were dropped. This very popular feature was one of them."

This results in "I'M SO HAPPY YOU'RE NOT GETTING THE FEATURE YOU NEED TO DO WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU DO, BUT AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU'LL BE GETTING A NEW CRAPPY VERSION SOONER?"

No. No, I am not happy, and I am angry that you are so happy about this. Please go rinse your inbox with an appropriately destructive kind of acid, and let's never speak of this again.

When announcing something that you know is going to be bad news, on the ticket for the feature in question, the early release of version mango-shitting-cockatoo (the upgrade from destructive-parrot) is a neutral thing at best, not a good thing. You can be as exited as you want on the main blog, or in the press releases, and you can link to the main blog or press releases, but on the bug itself, this is a neutral thing.

It might even be appropriate to apologize for the inconvenience and disappointment. But "I'm excited to announce", multiple exclamation points, and "cheers" in the ticket itself? What the actual fuck, man.

43 tweets for 2012-12-5

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Wednesday, 0009: @semanticist Indeed. Freaking gmail.
• Wednesday, 0009: RT @flyingthesky: @azurelunatic I'm just imagining someone with a labelmaker whispering "oh yeah, you're such a sexy label" as they stic ...
• Wednesday, 0102: My fitbit #fitstats for 12/04/2012: 2,056 steps and 0.9 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/23LLYD
• Wednesday, 0128: @arkeiryn Whaaaaat the fuck even :(
• Wednesday, 0141: RT @markjaquith: I like the phrase “rabid anti-vaxxers” because it has a non-negligible and inflated chance of becoming literally true.
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