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charlesnw | 11 years ago

If you don't know what it's useful for, then it's not for you.

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Jtsummers|11 years ago

That's a bit condescending. Twilio and similar services may not be of obvious use to everyone, for example. However, once I explained what it could be used for (and the recent patio11 Twilio presentation helps), most of my friends, while perhaps not needing it, grokked why I was interested. Some saw the utility for their own projects, as well. A more useful response would be to explain what you would use this for and why it might better/different than other solutions. Even a short, one or two sentence project synopsis is more useful than a condescending response like this.

swah|11 years ago

Thanks for writing this up - that was indeed my point.

On a sidenode, my comments on this website haven't been well received. Maybe I'm not considering that writing does not have intonation?

I thought my comment above was friendly and easy to understand, and in reality it was completely missed.

charlesnw|11 years ago

It wasn't condescending. It was a succinct, insightful and on point comment.

Basically what I was trying to say is that if you aren't aware of your need for such software (from a pretty good description in my opinion), then the software isn't for you. Just a few seconds of review of the website makes it quite obvious what the software is intended for. Meh.

pests|11 years ago

Recent patio11 Twilio presentation?

unknown|11 years ago

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