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I've worked with two startups now, both with low support volumes, which grew many times upon acquisition. In both cases, these acquisitions brought upon an influx of new customers. It's simply bad business to scale your support staff based on MRR in the long term.

When the tipping point between growth and headcount arrives, a dev is usually assigned to figure out how to slow the incoming requests. There are many ways to do this, and some of the best companies have figured it out and mastered it very well at scale (see Google, Facebook, etc).

Some ideas:

1. Offer self-help/self-resolution documentation or tools (Gmail's self help is quite good!).

2. Categorize support requests, capture low hanging fruit, deploy fixes (sign up deficiencies, UI bugs, etc).

3. Set up a status page to proactively notify customers for outages/maintenances.

4. Increase customer communication when large functional or UI changes disrupt users.

5. Automation/AI/Bots (Not easy, and hardly ever done right)

6. Offer chat to increase interactions served by a single CS agent.

An interesting method, that is often heavily debated... Only offer support to paying customers. I think businesses can only get away with this, if they offer plenty of self-help documentation/tools, and your core product is relatively rock solid. Operating on a freemium model always brings about interesting challenges.

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Classy.
It would be interesting to see the distribution on the Political Compass (https://www.politicalcompass.org/).
The FBI and other government institutions often ask for the help of the tech industry, and act like they want to build bridges but actions like this show a double standard.

They are like your annoying needy friend. Always asking you for stuff but never bothering to return the favor.
I don't know if it's available any more but there was a series on The History Channel ( from back when it had, y'know, history on it ) called "The Big House" with Paul Sorvino narrating that covers how this came to be.

I realized a massive high school being built in my (then) home town had an architecture based on prison design. Not only were prisons a political innovation, but they had a lot to do with how architecture developed.
The sole source in the UK: http://www.theoriginaldutch.com/

The founder is a pal of mine! He exhibited recently at the Caffe Culture Show in Olympia, London. In a huge hall filled with all the complex paraphernalia of coffee-brewing and consumption, his stand was situated at the periphery, in the artisan foods section.

Interestingly, with all the bustle (and hustle ;-) of the main venue, this section - arguably, the most interesting - had relatively light traffic. But a few savvy people came by to sample this unique coffee (and other awesome products in the vicinity), including one prominent coffee critic/blogger. His opinion: a very interesting flavor profile that was too earthy; not enough acidity. My friend patiently explained that this is the intention: to preserve the natural 'sweetness' of the bean. The critic wasn't swayed, but I was delighted: at least his product had elicited a strong reaction!

Most significantly, many people mistakenly equated 'cold brew' with 'cold drip'. Huge difference!

Visitors tended to love it. Some came back for a second and third sampling. We gave away a lot of bottles...
Not only has it been a massive boost to the German economy, it has been at the explicit expense of the economies of Greece, Italy, Spain, etc. And how people can see that and be ok with it, I don't understand.

The EU under the Euro is the Fourth Reich. Nothing more, nothing less.
Well if you really think all you ever need to know is in the language you speak go for it.

Or never contemplate going somewhere else
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I didn't say D wasn't suitable for writing OSes. Might as well throw Singularity into the list of GCed operating systems.

I did say D is unsuitable for real-time and soft-real-time programs, OS or otherwise. You can't write an RTOS in D.
I like the idea.
What if they claim they don't have one?

Or, I guess, what if they have two: one to show co-workers, TSA, and the like. The second for their friends.
It's also not 51% of the population - it's 51% of the turnout, which may well not be representative.
When I look for places near my neighborhood in Greenpoint Brooklyn, Google Maps pulls up places in New Jersey about 30% of the time, even if I type in the exact name of the place several blocks away. I haven't been to NJ in years (and only a handful of times).

And last time I was in Palo Alto using Google Maps to find a dry cleaners, it sent me on a 20 minute goose chase, and had me going in circles. On the third try of reentering the address (using copy/paste all three times, all 3 times the address was identical) it finally game me an accurate route.

I still use Google Maps more than Apple maps mainly because of the subway/bus integration and because I've been using it for so long, but in my anecdotal experience Apple Maps isn't any worse than Google Maps and has been less irritating when it's wrong than Google (although I use Google more).
At the risk of sounding a bit pedantic a vector or string isn't required to be on the heap.

You can use either a fixed size arena allocator, or one using alloca(you better know what you're doing) and still allocate those things on the stack.

In cases where you know the bounds of your input and runtime constraints you can get some really incredible performance boosts(multi-orders of mag) with those approaches.
Sorry, I thought my sarcasm was evident. To anyone who's tasted UK-grown fruit and veg, it must be.
I couldn't agree more and also prefer cold brew to iced coffee. I have actually seen instances of the inverse name-swap as well: places which serve cold brew but label it as "iced coffee" because their customers/market have been exposed to iced coffee by various chains but wouldn't know what cold brew was (or bother to explore new options).

Luckily the majority of independent coffee shops where I live (Houston) are particular about the distinction, and will pointedly list "cold brew" on their menus if it is such.
Nice... why hasnt the JVM ever done this?
Dolphin is amazing, plain and simple. It's been years since I tried to contribute, but it's got a great development community and it's a great place to learn, as you can probably tell from these detailed posts. Kudos to everyone on an excellent release for an extremely compelling project.
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In the name of 'security' we are making things less secure. Yeah sounds like government logic
> Not to mention the UK is ruled by a hereditory monarchy

No, its not. The British monarch, as the saying goes, reigns but does not rule.
No kidding. Next time walk in with a clipboard, some sort of name tag, and announce to the cashier that you need to perform maintenance on their ATM machine for the next half hour.
> It will be an optional data field

Looks like it will not be mandatory.

I'm curious who would want/care to provide it willingly, if it was clearly an optional field.
Recruiters aren't all bad, but the vast majority you're likely to encounter in the wild are.
I guess, I didn't bother to search for how it used to be exactly called.
Oh we do, it's just you're called out as racist when you point it out.
>This is what happens when major decisions can be determined a simple majority vote. What does 52 to 48 mean? It means UNDECIDED. Half the country feels one way, and the other half feels the other way. For a change this large, it should require at least a 60/40 vote. If the population is undecided

It's important to point out that most of the UK jvoted to leave, where as every province (do they have provinces?) in Scotland voted to remain. It's a tad ironic considering Scotland voted to remain in the UK the other year - but I think they'll be leaving the UK soon.

I don't think the UK should remain because the vote was close, as once the Scottish vote is removed, it's much more than 52/48
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It may make their problems worse, but the status-quo has been failing to make things better for decades, so they are willing to take a risk.
>Because the FBI wouldn't lie about stuff like this

This is sarcasm right? Otherwise you are an idiot
Based on the views in this subthread, it seems votes should be weighted by inclusive fitness.
Another excellent write-up ahead of implementation: http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector.
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This is a fair point, but the largest issue (IMO) wasn't directly related to communication time...rather it has been the risk of Tyranny of the Majority.

Even in the relatively recent founding history of the United States, the Federalist Papers discuss and try to address a variety of issues which can lead to this outcome.

And ultimately, I think this is what we see with the Brexit outcome and the current Trump campaign in the US. These aren't "new" concepts...throughout history we can see similar outcomes for similar events with similar reasons.

You raise an excellent point though, which is with the ease of communication in the modern era, why don't we have a more informed public? This is something I have thought about trying to tackle with a side dev project...but the issue is complex and difficult to address directly.

Side note, I believe the Roman Empire was a Republic, not a Direct Democracy :)
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I'm guessing because the transactions are essentially goroutines which the JVM doesn't have.
Interestingly, if it's 'throwback' coke with white/processed sugar in it, it's NOT vegan, as animal products (mostly bone/etc.) are used in the production of that sugar.
HFCS modern coke is generally considered vegan.
No, they are different things. Not that it justifies the price necessarily, but it takes more time and more coffee to make cold brew.
My point is simply this: maybe the author wanted to write an OS that he could use on his PC without rewriting all of his programs.

Maybe he did not want to do OS interface research.
"Transactions" here doesn't mean roll-back-able units like in a database, just small bits of code that terminate (and, the authors hope, leave some garbage behind that you can clean up without scanning a bunch of RAM). Request-oriented collector would have been about as good a name.

This is kind of a spin on generational collection, built around the observation that a lot of Go programs are HTTP/RPC/whatever servers.
> The problem is that 127.0.0.1 never replies and the timeout period causes the page load to stall.

You could try 0.0.0.0.
What are you talking about? Prior to Brexit, British citizens could live and work in European countries without qualification. This is not true for the rest of the world.
> Young people are still building their lives, trying to establish their career. They're likely going to be denied the opportunity to live and work in 27 countries.

Why? Do you think only EU citizens are allowed to live and work in the EU? Do you think British people are now banned from entry into the EU?

Most people - young or old - do not even want to live and work in another European country.

> I think it's pretty disgraceful that they've torpedoed our future based on their hazy rose-coloured memories of some supposedly-better past.

I think it's pretty disgraceful that people like you demonstrate such incredible arrogance that your minority opinion is somehow innately superior; constructing ridiculous fantasies of why people voted to leave, based on absurd generalisations and a childish, rose-tinted view of the EU.

There's nothing to stop you living in an EU country, if you think by virtue of those two letters it's such a utopia compared to the UK or any other non-EU country (aka almost every country on the planet).
If I understand it right, Christianity spread fastest among Greek-speaking populations, rather than the Jewish population. From what I understand, the various letters of Paul and the gospels were all written in Greek, rather than Hebrew.
For folks looking for a collector with a similar ideal (though with a potentially more useful constraint model), you might see the Pony language [1] collector [2].

The essence being to take advantage of some form of isolation in a concurrent system to dynamically infer something that looks like scoping/lifetimes.

[1]: http://www.ponylang.org/

[2]: http://blog.acolyer.org/2016/02/18/ownership-and-reference-c...
Not really, they're more functional, they have textual input and output, and can be chained together, but they don't really trade meaningful messages back and forth. Processes can be thought of as objects, and signals as messages, but the set is not extensible while OO allows the developer to define the messages.
Honest question, what percentage of the population voted to join the EU originally?
Closed binary demonstrates they can pull data.
Negotiations only end when someone walks away. The party with less power can't walk away.
I mean, Dragon Quest is basically 1 year older, but I bet they were both in development at the same time. I don't know of anything older than that with the top-down turn-based approach with overworlds, battle screens, inventory, etc.
HTTP != internet
If that is part of the threat model for your SaaS app, you may be over-engineering.
You make cold brew coffee without any heat at all by immersing grounds in water for a long time. There are different methods that produce either concentrate or ready-to-drink, and some chill in the fridge during the brew process and some leave it out on the counter. Lots of options, though the distinction is that none uses hot water.
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forgive me for my ignorance here but what is a DRM function ?
is there anything inherent in the Lua Language that makes it a good match for an in-game-engine programming language?
A fool doing research may conclude this to be a healthfood, given the sources they take in. For example, the packaging of the product.

"That's silly, who could ever trust the packaging?" -- well, someone who also suffers from that dunning-kruger effect right?
C++ was C with objects bolted on badly, it'd be hard to point to a worse Object Oriented language. Smalltalk is what OO was intended to be, everything else is a bad copy.
> But the leavers don't want "basically similar terms"

Says who?
Your google foo is week, try again. :)

[ed: Sorry if that comes off as mean, I was trying to be joking.]

Also the comment was "Does it account for the fact that the US receives a ton of immigration from Mexico and" The and means both statements are true, but as I posted the first is not just false in magnitude (little vs lot) but negative.

Some help average white male is approximately 5 foot 10 inches tall. Compare that to other countries. Now, does that suggest your hitting a genetic limit?
Cold brew doesn't make iced coffee. If you add ice to your cold brew, sure, but it can also be warmed like regular hot coffee.
> show a double standard

No they don't. Assistance that industry would provide would also be classified and honestly a penalty would probably be levied if the found issues were ever fixed.

So they found it on their own, results classified so they can't be fixed.

Needed help finding it, threaten penalties if the issue is ever fixed.

They're not trying to build bridges, they're trying to gain control of another source of information.
You can say pretty much the same thing about all electronic evidence. Ultimately it comes down to people involved in the chain of custody for the evidence signing affidavits, whether the evidence is an exploit or a simple log file.
I think the relevance is that the Aeropress allows you to use the "brew hot and instantly chill" method espoused in the OP. You pour hot water over the grounds in the Aeropress and then press it into a cup of ice.
Somewhat off topic, but since there are growing opportunities for golang developers, I'm gonna ask a golang development question.

Is anyone using golang with a different language like C, rust, etc? Are you using it through linkage or through microservices?

What libraries are you using with golang that's written in a different language. What does your company /app / system / software do?

Do you recommend using libraries in a different language or using related golang libraries?
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Maybe there could be 2 parallel branches, like the House and Senate, one of which uses this random sampling / testing system. The other uses something resembling a popular vote.
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They would have worked on something else, and someone else, preferably someone who doesn't believe in just snubbing labor laws, would have come up with the idea. Remember, Uber isn't a unique idea. There were at least 3 companies that came up with it around the same time.
Doing the right thing in response to backlash suggests that you would rather do the wrong thing, but couldn't get away with it. There are several other VR vendors; this provides at least some motivation to favor another vendor.
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I recently joined my dad's business, going from software to construction. I'm in charge of supply stone products for commercial projects, which typically long sales cycles. I have no real sales experience before this.
I ask HN community this because of our focus on building products to solve specific problems. In construction, competition revolves purely on price and somewhat on service, leaving very little room to compete on the product. How do bring the mentality of iteration, improvement and building products based on customer feedback to my new role in this industry?
All the people who think that if a form field exists, they have to fill it out. I bet they'll harvest an extraordinary amount of data by having this optional field.
I think it's difficult to come up with hard numbers, but these things are all indicative of very broad, high level trends. Countries are turning inwards, global cohesion is weakening.

You have a loud demagogue in the US arguing for building walls around the country. You have the UK voting for a divorce from the EU; and you have right-wing extremists in the EU applauding that decision (Marine Le Pen, etc). You have a totalitarian figure like Putin dominating the East for a long time. And fundamental indicators like the BDI seem to show a decrease in global exchange.

If not the whole world, then at least the West broadly speaking (North America, EU and Russia) is like that person who is gradually slipping into a nasty depression without noticing it, slowly becoming introverted and fearful.

A sign of health in this situation would not be further isolation and saber rattling, but a turn outwards, and increased cooperation, and a frank discussion about what's really going on. This holds true for persons as well as for countries.
Europeans colonized what is now the US and brought slavery with them. When the US united, slavery was still legal in most of Europe.
Thanks for your thought. Would you mean focus on shops who've implemented Tableau already or shops who implement Tableau for their clients?
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Great question. I perused Wikipedia a bit, and it seems like the relevant event would be the UK joining the European Communities, which eventually transformed into the EU. The UK government directly decided to join, but a referendum was held two years later, and "stay" won with 67% of the vote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Commun...

The formal entry into the EU was done with the Maastricht Treaty in 1993 and didn't have a referendum, but it was basically a direct continuation of their EC membership. Although I imagine someone opposed to EU membership might argue that this was the most important point, and the people did not have their say in it.
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"The withdrawal agreement would also have to be ratified by Parliament - the House of Lords and/or the Commons could vote against ratification, according to a House of Commons library report."

Amendments will be made. Then they will have to go back to EU for approval. EU will modify/apend amendments. Then there is the committee stage, and the Lords.

Could be stretched out for a long time quite easily, so will of people not ignored but end result not much different from now.

However, EU might want a quick process because of the internal politics they have to face. 'Twill be interesting to watch but possibly uncomfortable in parts.
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Dolphin's status update posts make it look like one of the best managed projects I have _ever_ seen, open source or closed. Really incredible work.
This won't help feds a bit to fight terrorism. Since no terrorist will give his social media ids. Just like the questionnaires which ask you directly if you are a terrorist. This won't help fight terrorism. The only two things that it could possibly change are: people who don't give they're social media ids are treated as if they were guilty and the government knows even more about innocent people.
It's voluntary so largely absurd. "Largely" since it's often unwise to take advantage of such choices -- you're better off not exercising your right to decline.

Any bad guy will just make a burner account. It need not even be obvious: a person who mostly uses vKontakt can just make a legit, if empty Facebook account.
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> I find it quite dangerous to think most people are too naive to vote on important issues.

I disagree. Sure it's possible to have a public educated enough to decide whether being in the EU is a good idea, (hi Switzerland), but the fact of the matter is that this doesn't apply to either the US or likely the UK.

It's possible to have a nation where direct democracy is effective, but I'd say it's more the exception to the rule.
No. This was a loss in the court of public opinion. If I sue my landlord and win, I do not give him/her credit for paying me the damages assessed by the court. In fact, in the above analogy, I would in fact take a debit...
There's a minor typo ("than" is written as "that") in the third block of main-body text on the linked landing page.
Sure... a packet/socket/port level interpretation works too.

The spirit of his point, though, appears to be creating decoupled systems from simple message passing protocols.
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But what's a "media campaign"? Does this include social media? How about public speeches, broadcast on youtube?

This distinction seems arbitrary and basically restricts the ability for someone or some association of people to promote their ideas.
And those who leave it blank will be considered suspicious.
There's another one of these loaded terms: 'heavy handed'.

In what way has the EU influenced your every day life, other than the freedom to travel? Where is this European oppression people are suffering under? Is the EU police beating people up? European army soldiers marching down the street?

The only answer people can come up with, if you really press them, is that they don't like all these foreigners. It's a vicious cycle. Headlines about foreigners doing bad things sell papers, so every bad thing foreigners are involved in makes it to the headlines. And with so many of thousands of Poles and Romanians in the country, there will be a drunk driver, a brawl, an accident, an incident every day.

People and media whipping each other up in a frenzy.
Agreed, those with hazardous occupations should be disenfranchised.