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Is there not functionality that can't be expressed in a twiML?

Like communicating to separate service or database within a given request from an SMS or Voice callback, etc... functionality that until today would have required web-hooks running on some other server (or cloud function)?
For anything complex it is better to use a real language, not bash. If you are a Scala developer then Scala is a pretty good choice. However lots of folks use Groovy or Python which have the advantage that a wider group of people can learn how to use them.

The JS everywhere crowd is rather narrowminded and don't seem to be aware that they are reinventing a wheel that others have already done better.

But if you spend most of your day writing JS and you find yourself needing to write complex bash scripts, give your head a shake and use JS instead. It is better to use a real programming language where you have test frameworks, build tools and so on.
Not in the same way as IE.
As a fellow founder my advice is to take a break - go on a retreat - yoga, meditation, ayahuasca, nature, etc.. Sounds like you are highly stressed. A break will give you some perspective. I bet those around you will understand and support a week or 10 day break.

Happiness mainly comes from appreciating what we have. When you are stressed and too close to the action it's easy to lose sight of all our blessings.

I'm happy to connect on a call and listen if you feel it would be helpful.
Why do you think google is pushing web-everything and chromebooks? They want to own the entire platform just as Microsoft did.
I really enjoy using chains of map.filter.foreach.map in scala, it feels powerful but also simple

I imagine piping in bash feels similar, so there's at least a common problem/solution between them
VC money or not, isn't the issue. It could be a single guy with 100$ who built that, it wouldn't make a darn difference. I mean sure, a single guy running the site would have all of eternity to twiddle with it, but without PMF, the site isn't going anywhere.

I mean, the K-factor is either greater than 1 or it's less than 1. If it's less than 1, you can have 100s of years go by without gaining a meaningful audience. If it's greater than 1, then they would have seen that in their retention/cohort/signup analysis. Even, if only a sub-segment of their users were growing at a >1 K-factor, they would not have shut down. Since their shutting down, that's clearly not the case.
Google definitely not standing still. I hope that doesn't change despite the near-monopoly status.
Ahh thanks for the clarification, I probably should have watched it full screen.

I suppose once you know how layout works with XML (Android) it wouldn't be hard to translate... assuming you've got the layout down... interesting to see their decisions whether to decide if thing are grouped together or work separately/positioned independently like a menu icon. Unless it's absolutely positioned and not responsive/dynamic.

At any case thanks
2004 was a dark time...
This is my dad's strategy. He's a pretty affable guy and often willing to help, but he has a way of saying "no"--and just "no"--that makes it sound like he's declining a second serving of ice cream. It's calm, terse, and inarguably final. More importantly, it contains not a trace apology. On the rare occasion someone asks why he just says "I'm not going to do that."
Tech-savvy users don't drive adoption. They provide insight on product direction to help a nascent company with an immature tech product cross the chasm to mainstream usage, saving it from the usual fate of foundering aimlessly until it runs out of funds.

These two suggestions -- Mozilla getting involved in meetups and not deprecating an API allowing vim navigation in the browser -- would take Mozilla even farther from relevance, assuming any nonzero opportunity cost to those actions.
You're missing the point. Follow his motivations and you may be able to anticipate or prevent his next move.
How many things we don't know from that age! I heard Indus Valley Civilization used to domesticate animals and had a network of sewage system in place. Pretty cool for 3000 BC.
I used Let's Encrypt for the first time today, awesome! Saved $9.00 haha
Also see the definition of 'block' in
https://github.com/01org/hyperscan/blob/master/src/nfa/shuft...
> (maybe even surpass?)

As Servo would be a mobile app itself, I think no ;)
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I have to say, it's been long since I searched for Hickey or clojure conf talks. Maybe that's just me and there are lots of new valuable stuff, but in a way it's hard to top cljs, core.logic, datalog in terms of brain wow.
400,000 bot-created anti-net neutrality comments filed with FCC
I like the show a lot, happy to hear.
Just accept the acquisition. Leave at the soonest chance you can. If they offer say 2 million dollars, but require you to stay 4 years.... then leave at the first "cliff" and walk with 25% (or whatever).

You will feel just as miserable if you leave and work at Walmart. Because the issue is inside your own head.

But you would be broke and your wife will leave you. Good luck getting custody rights if she paints you as a nutcase.

Take the money, pretend long enougb to extract capital and eject asap
It is great to see that the industry is moving from webhooks to Functions. We've seen this model succeed at Auth0 with our Rules feature [1] implemented 3 years ago. Recently productized this experience with Auth0 Extend [2]. It supports all node modules, a one-line of js emebeddable Editor, real time logs, vault to store secrets, custom programming models and crons.

[1] https://auth0.com/docs/rules

[2] https://auth0.com/extend/developers
My memory is so terrible that I dare not tell even white lies, so I am forced to tell the truth, preferably in a way that preserves the requester's dignity, not just a blunt "no."

The truth is usually along the lines of "Sorry, I would like to be able to help, but I have too much on my plate right now and more keeps being added to it every day."
On top of that, oceanic crust is all quite new, geologically speaking. Even if something large and oceanic did manage to fossilize, unless it was also in a shallow interior sea, whatever rock it fossilized in has been subducted and destroyed past a few hundred million years.
Not a show stopper, but will make it less likely people will spend the time trying it out. If things like "brew install x" were not important, it wouldn't had 7000 stars on github and used by almost any Mac developer. Yes, we can build all from source... but how many of us prefer doing it over using a trusted package manager? Ammonite is about developer productivity, or so I believe, so having to clone and build it from source is not going to increase the amount of people trying it out... part of shipping is security, and security should be there from the get go, it's not something you just add later.
Try Brave. It has built-in ad-blocking and tracking protection on iOS and Android. I use the iOS version.
Ahhh that bevel... I wonder why it's there, do they expect to drop it? Maybe a hand rest when you're drawing on the very edge.
Hilarious game arguement wtf
It happens to a majority of founders. I have panic attacks, i sometimes cry and I get sleep paralysis all the time. And unlike you, i am yet to even build a profitable business.
I don't have the perspective of a Mozilla CTO, but I feel like it's just history repeating itself. 15ish years ago, IE had "won", but eventually Firefox had pushed for better web standards with extensions, and then Chrome doing the same thing, but at the time, significantly faster and more secure than other browsers. But trends always change, and I'm sure in a few years (maybe a short few, maybe a long few) we will have a browser that will "win" over Chrome. The major advantage that Chrome has currently is that it's pushed heavily by Google, but that is also fickle, as evident by older search engines that went away like Yahoo, Ask Jeeves. I know a lot of people that won't use Chrome because it sucks on a laptop. The major benefit now is that we have all major browsers targeting standards compliance, unlike when IE was biggest.

Besides, why is it a competition? It's not a zero sum game to see who is the biggest, best browser.
> If you are hiring and then firing junior people fast, you are the problem.

I'm going to challenge this point of view. It is absolutely, and obviously, expected that junior people have a ton to learn, and they should be given leeway for that learning process. So yes, if you fire a junior person because you're not willing to put in the mentorship necessary, then I agree, you are the problem.

However, junior people really shouldn't have any problem with motivation and drive, and in those cases where I've had to fire people, I've always wished I had done it sooner. More importantly, their peers wished I had fired them sooner, too. A bad or lax attitude can be an absolute killer for team morale if the person in question isn't dealt with quickly and fairly.
I believe this article is talking about senior execs and you might be talking about general employees.

And your comments feel noble but a bit unrealistic to me as far as general employees go.

First, there's a cost to bringing people into an organization. Letting everyone in and then having some or most of them flame out seems like a huge drain on resources -- including emotional resources.

Second, the idea of being tracked daily against some firing metric sounds a bit hellish for employees. It seems like it'd breed a lot of negative reactions ranging from gaming the system all the way to nasty politics and back-stabbing along the lines of what apparently happened because of Microsoft's stack-ranking system.

So, again: I respect the ideas. But I'd be concerned about how they'd play out in real life.
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> The JVM just feels slow and cumbersome compared to what I'm used to (Node.js, Erlang/Elixir, Python)

In what regard? Because the JVM is faster than all of the above.
It is tone deaf. But he's right.

OP, trust us when we say that crying to your wife will cause more harm.

Take as much money in as short of period of time as possible (after acquisition) then eject ASAP and only THEN deal with your issues.

If you eject now, you will be broke, wifeless and still fucked in the head.

May as well have a few 100k (or more) in the bank and be still fucked up than being broke and fucked up.
Sorry for the late reply, but this condemning tone just really, really gets old.

This is a frigging open source project. Take it or leave it. If you want something, you send a frigging patch. Or you ask nicely.
Global warming. We're at or past the tipping point already, but electric cars and solar houses are definitely the direction we need to be going if we want to avoid disastrous and irreversible climate change. If--if--Tesla can help make that happen, it'll be worth a lot of sacrifice.
The real problem is not that Firefox has issues, but that it's a small enough market share now that more and more web services can get away with not bothering to test on it.
>My next company will have explicit rubrics for what it takes to get fired, and your status will be tracked daily

>You'll know at all times exactly how close you are to getting fired with how much severance

Good luck getting anyone to stick around! People want job security, they don't want to feel like they're walking on eggshells every day. You seem to think the only thing people want out of a job is money.

>Anyone we fire we'll sit down in the exit interview and write a plan for how they can get re-hired in a few weeks or months if they're interested.

I don't think you know what firing means. It's not a mutual decision and you really don't want that employee working for you at that point. It's a serious legal risk to re-hire fired employees.
You can tell who the white liars are. They have so many coincidences and accidents.
I believe in the value of this project, OP (lihaoyi). Your example of https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 and rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* erasing everything when $STEAMROOT is a blank string are spot on.

I remember spending a couple of hours one weekend getting this to work in Cygwin. I lost energy to pursue it further after getting it to work, which is typical with me :-) (Then I revisit things after 6 months or so, with some luck and free time).

Anyway, here are my notes from that attempt, in case someone else runs into the same issues:

a) I fixed the height and width in ammonite/repl/FrontEndUtils.scala so that it doesn’t go down the hell hole of Cygwin tput and tty issues

b) hard-coded repl.frontEnd() = ammonite.repl.FrontEnd.JLineUnix in ammonite/shell/Configure.scala

c) sbt '~shell/test:run' to run the fully-loaded REPL
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This whole EU thing...

Until today I had no problem throwing Google Analytics on a site, same with Facebook for a share button (not sure if this uses a cookie).

Recently when I figured out how to use cookies and now use it for tracking/faster lookup for site usage... I came across the thing of "asking for permission to use cookies" ahh... this is like the noscript/accessibility/modifying social media buttons thing...

Is this something to be concerned about? For me it's not a credentials thing, though it is an identifying thing, just for easier database lookup to update the user's interaction with a site ie. pages visited, scrolls, stuff clicked on... for data driven dev.

I do intend to put the question but it seems like an annoying thing for them to deal with. When I see it I'm like "Ahh..." and don't click them myself. But I've seen very few sites ask.

Edit: I think the most useful thing I've found for cookies is the persistence for example using guides to use your website to help people get used to how it works. Then they only see it once until the cookie expires.

I realize that's probably the definition/reason for cookies is persistence.
I like the article, and it has some really good ideas.
And it is not about making firing people easier or cheaper. It is about on how to decide when to fire someone.

About firing fast and easy, it is a bad idea.

I work in Sweden. I don't think I have seen ever anyone fired. What I have seen is some of the best hiring processes. The process looks at the candidate values, and skills. And there is a discussion about what we expect from her, and what she expects from the job.

I worked previously in Spain, I saw a lot of people fired for no good reason. And they were also hired without too much attention. Shorts interviews, no real testing, are part of a process that ends consuming a lot of effort from everyone after hiring someone that is not the correct person. Other times that people is good, and leaves, because was not the job for them.

Both seem related. Cheap and easy firing produces careless recruiting. And that is more expensive that people realizes.
They just couldn't have added a captcha...
That would make sense!

Alas, that is not the case with bash.
A lot of people who have never used the language sneer at Perl but I worked with it almost exclusively for the first 10 years of my programming career and still have a deep appreciation for the elegance of its design and the great mind that gave birth to it. Perl is the original linguist's programming language, superseded by Ruby, some would argue, which in turn was superseded by Perl6 with its built-in grammars.
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And the EFF (and potentially the ACLU)
You don't even have to go into SIMD and lookup tables: on 64-bit archs you can process 8 bytes at a time using a few bit tricks. Lookup tables work great in microbenchmarks because the tables are always in cache, but not so great if there's cache pressure from other code.

See this implementation of JSON escaping for example: https://github.com/facebook/folly/commit/2f0cabfb48b8a8df84f...

De-escaping is even simpler because you only have to detect two characters, \ and ".
I'm sorry if it was unclear but the second 'stand alone complex' in my comment was referring to the series itself

Meaning to say Trump is analogous to kuze is offensive to the people who developed the show
PUPPET IN DOCKER AS a SERVICE
A utility to help you wait for ports to open
What about PSDs? PSD to html is a big market and a product like this could be a good fit.
Step 1: stop it.
... and 134,468 gems at a rate of 33 per day (http://www.modulecounts.com).
Are you familiar with the concept of the False dilemma[0]? It seems as if you've limited yourself to an "either/or" situation when in fact there are countless other possible solutions to this problem.

Here are some possible alternatives:

- find a leadership coach and/or mentor

- delegate the parts of your job that you like the least

- find a way to reduce stress in your life (exercise, hobby, etc)

- try professional therapy

- share how you feel with your friends and/or family (maybe even leadership team)

- take a vacation

- work less

- define and respect clear work/life boundaries for yourself

- read about/learn how to manage stress more effectively

- create a project plan for yourself (what do _you_ want to accomplish for _yourself_ in the next 3,6,12 months)

I could go on and on.

Another thing I think that you should ask yourself is: would you really be happier working at WalMart? Is it really this specific job and role that's causing your unhappiness? Is there really nothing you can change to make you job more enjoyable? Is it possible that you're creating your own unhappiness?

From personal experience I highly recommend finding a great leadership coach. I had a leadership coach who really helped me tackle some potentially similar challenges I was having.

If you want to talk more feel free to ping me. Good luck!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
If someone is so bad you need to fire then after a day or a week then the is something wrong with your interview process. Especially considering the first day is mostly about learning what is going on at the company. But if you think a person should be fired after one day on the job, you should be able to discover that after a full day of interviews... By the same token of something came across in the interview that you liked, you should give the person a benefit of a doubt and give them more than one week. Even if you weaken your k interview process because of the easy firing
Bootstrap 3 and Foundation 5 are both really nice, mature frameworks.

Bootstrap 4 and Foundation 6 on the other hand seem to be having problems. I think part of it is that developer interest stalled with the explosion of framework-specific component libraries for React, Vue, Angular, Ember, etc.
And meanwhile I've been having no trouble with Firefox, but had to stop using Palemoon because too many websites were breaking consistently.
One of the privacy enhanced Cromium clones is called Iridium Browser.

https://iridiumbrowser.de/
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Trust me, I love Ruby and ngrok works well, but I think a serverless setup is a lot simpler (at least in my mind). I was actually using Twilio to test a Ruby library of mine and set up a text service for product registrations for a CRM. It works freakishly well.

But despite all that, I feel like setting everything up in one place would be a lot simpler.

Now if Twilio had a way to deploy serverless functions via git... that would be a clincher.
The desktop couldn't save them either. Remember their biggest source of funding and promotions came from Google. With Chrome out Google had no reason to promote Firefox anymore.

So now Firefox has to look for more partners but there is little sense in partnering with a browser vendor for anything outside of websites. Among those nothing is as lucrative as and ubiquitous as a search engine.

Now a OS vendor could maybe get funded and promoted by a manufacturer or a phone service company.
1 billion dollar is nothing compared to the waste and tax breaks the rich get in US.
IPv10[0] makes IPv4 an extension of the IPv6 space. It'll be interesting to see if this takes off, but it doesn't really seem to solve the whole problem. All nodes in the path would have to support IPv10 for it to work.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-omar-ipv10/
I find it shameful they ever let it become such an incredible energy hog in the first place. It's been well known for years among mini Mac people that you can get drastically better battery life by using Safari. I mean it wasn't like it was a 10 or 15% problem, it's orders of magnitude.

It's nice there working on it, but why didn't they ever care before?
You can easily your own extensions in Chrome by clicking the "Load unpacked extension" which can be just a folder from your computer that has a manifest.json file in. You can also easily inspect the extensions that you have installed with the chrome developer tools, ie. copy them and fix them if needed.

If anything, I'd say my experience between the Chrome and Firefox extensions are completely opposite to yours. For one, Firefox has some 1-3 different extension types/apis, so you have first understand which one to use from their convoluted developer docs. Secondly, when you submit the extension, some volunteer "reviews" it whenever they have the time, which can take days to weeks. Once I got feedback and got rejected because there was a typo in the extension.

With Chrome it's very easy to create an extension, you basically only need that manifest.json file and then you can submit it to the store and it's online less than an hour.
This is only true in some regions. The creation of Ozone in the troposphere is dependent on availability of NOx, and availablity of hydrocarbons. In the southeast US, forests produce large amounts of volatile hydrocarbons, so the system is NOx-limited. In California's Central Valley, excess NOx from nitrogen fertilizers makes ozone production hydrocarbon-limited (and also basic rain from the NH3). So from a pollution management standpoint, either could be important, but usually only one.
If you read this, I want to say, "it's OK". seriously.

I have depression episodes, had one while my company sold.

Today isn't tomorrow, tomorrow isn't yesterday. Accept how you feel and make the best decisions, holistically, that you can.

If that means letting your partners negotiate because you're unable to? In spite of you building much of the value? Then giving you a dime on your dollar of equity?

That's fine. Seriously. I went through that literal situation, and it was the most important thing I've ever experienced.