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Customers with HipChat installed on their own servers will be able to use it for an extra few months or as long as two years, depending on the version.

Slack and Atlassian will make it easy for customers to move, but they won’t be forced to switch, Butterfield said.

So they are not forced to switch, but if they don't then their chat will cease to work?
I am certainly no physicist, but quantum physics really makes me wonder if we're living in a simulation, and QP is just the actual resolution of the simulation.
BNCs provide a semblance of persistence. But the real problem with IRC is smartphone persistence, I think irccloud is the only service that solves this. But alas, it isn't free.

So can this be solved for free? Is it even a good idea to solve it?
you could bootstrap instead. literally and figuratively beat the pavement to move your product.
I was offered a dev job at SparkFun. I really liked the work they offered but the pay was a little low and I got a much better offer from a well-funded project. That well-funded project went bankrupt and SparkFun continued to grow. Sometimes I think maybe I made the wrong decision. There may have been more money to be earned in the short term, but SparkFun is one of those really snazzy companies and I feel like I may have missed out on a great experience.
What difference does monolithic vs. modular really make? If Intel has a core on their 28 core die that is defective, they just disable it and sell a 27 core chip. Perhaps it's easier for AMD to find 4 8 core chips with no defects than for Intel to find a 28 core chip with no defects, but Intel can just make a 34 core die sold as a 32 core chip with better yields than AMD's 8 core dies.
0.7 times sounds like a lot? If the Earth suddenly received 70% less light I think entire biomes would shift.
I might be a grid-noob, but let's take a super-duper common situation:

I want to left align one element and right align another, keeping them in the same row.

Flex makes this very easy:

<div style="display:flex; justify-content:space-between">
<div>Left</div>
<div>Right</div>
</div>

Does grid also make this easy?
To raise you have to talk to lots and lots of people.

To build a company you have to talk to lots and lots and lots of people.

So one reason funders try to make it hard to talk to them is to see if you can grind out all the conversations you're going to have to have with people that you have no connection to. Hire staff, lease buildings, sell products, get more investors, get accountants/lawyers/bankers, develop channel and consulting relationships....

So make connections with people. Get to know your local angel community (whether or not they write actual checks there are people who think they are angels), find people from your school or area that have built a company, find people that are in your space (customers, competitors, experts...). Meetups, conferences, twitter, hn, slack channels, youtube+++

I know a firm that got a capital markets fintech funded by pitching a commercial real estate investment firm (who bought strip malls and such) and getting $5MM from them. Not someone who would be in your top 1000 prospects but it worked and it was all just from talking to lots and lots and lots of people.
I have a few reasons to list:

1) It constantly minimizes for seemingly no reason (at least once a week).

2) The "Teams" and "Chat" menus are separate. They're in the same window in Slack, and that just makes sense.

2.1) The "Teams" menu won't list more than 4 channels per Team by default. If you want to open a channel there you have to open the menu or favorite everything. I know this can be fixed by good sanitation by Team admins but Slack's way of doing it encourages it automatically.

3) Can't invite outside users like you can with Slack.

4) The chat history is so short it has to load after maybe 10 lines when scrolling up.

5) The "thumbs up"/message menu covers the message when hovering over it so it's impossible to highlight a message to copy/paste starting from the right to the left. You can go the other way but I never have until Teams.

6) Updates take forever to release! I've googled issues that MS staff note as "on the docket" for adding but months later it's still not added.

7) I frequently don't see the toast/popup notifications for some reason. I don't know what's going on there and it could be me but I don't remember it happening when I used Slack at work.

8) When it updates it shuts down without notification.

9) This might be the Android "work profile" in play but if I get a call or sometimes even a message the Android notification will not go away until I restart my phone.

I mean, Slack isn't perfect but I didn't have any complaints about it except that the call functionality would disconnect randomly.
Why is that strange? It's very well established that people hate choices (regardless of what they may say) when you actually measure it:

https://sheenaiyengar.com/the-art-of-choosing/

And it's very good for the company, as they don't need to do as much competition with HipChat so they can slow down innovation and raise prices. Win, win.
It's technically compensation, so why wouldn't it be taxable?
Emoji licensing: :cry: (2013)
Unless you need most of the features that Hipchat onprem has - then you get to pay $39/user/year.
For some inexplicable reason, in the absurdly big Hack Reactor alumni slack, it's considered cool to scoff at people asking for conversations to be taken into threads.

There's like 3000 people in there. Sometimes shitloads of conversations are happening at once. The people that refuse to use threads aren't cool, they're just co-opting literally the entire channel for just their conversation.

I see it as a forum, where you browse threads and click into the ones you want to discuss in. I guess other people see it as a bloodless Colosseum, may the loudest win.
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I don't have a question, I just want to say that I really have enjoyed using Discord. It's been a pleasure. And I'm traditionally an IRC die-hard.

Thanks for all of your work.
The small news things like this can have decent impact on the price, would be good to setup some kind of sentiment based price predictions :D

Checkout https://bitbank.nz for some super up to date forecasts
When I watch Naked & Afraid, they seem to suffer a lot from rain. Can you really protect yourself from the rain using just items from nature in a survival situation?
HipChat internally uses Postgres and Redis, not some proprietary undocumented blob store. While I'm sure that a working applicative export function would make things easier, I don't see why you can't give Mattermost the relevant read-only credentials to those datastores and let Mattermost read directly from the source.
The big fish (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple) will continue to buy smaller companies until governments steps in and breaks them up in an anti-trust suit. The EU will lead that charge. The writing is on the wall.
Agreed, but that's a different nuance than what the author and other posters here seem to be stressing, that it isn't just reinvesting in your business, but _writing your own software_ that is creating this magic multiplier. That's the part I think is an unsubstantiated stretch. Possible, but I don't see the data presented in this article.
> The ban wouldn't be retroactive, however, so on-site food at companies like Google and Twitter would still be available

Cool, so start-ups lose a potential hiring perk to the incumbents.

(Does anyone know the story behind this bill? Which politicians and restaurants supported it? I’d like to avoid the latter going forward.)
> E.g. they could simply prohibit countries incorporated/owning/owned by countries in tax havens from selling in the US.

Yea, I don't think there would be anything "simple" about this, for all of the reasons listed in my reply above.

> Seems to work well for China.

We have very different definitions of "work well." I assume you are referring to the recent tariffs, in which case we gave China an ultimatum, and they said go for it, and are imposing retaliatory tariffs.

If China had actually changed any of their trade policies to be more fair, I would have considered that to have "worked well."

What we got instead was a trade war, which was to be expected. Basically ultimatums are always an ineffective negotiating tactic as they force politicians in the receiving country to reject the offer, no matter how reasonable.
The real answer is that you need to get your product noticed by having spectacular growth. If you have that, no one will care what your background or connections are.
Marqeta is the API first leader in card issuing. Stripe just entered their space.
> For one, you often start a field with a specific book. If you pour a lot of time into that book, you often feel more attached to it. Then, when trying to evaluate another textbook, it's hard (impossible?) to go through that same experience and understand if you would have had an easier time with the material. There are definitely some obvious cases, but it isn't always.

Exactly what I noticed about other types of comparisons. People conflate familiarity with quality. That's why loyalty wars, like vim vs emacs, verilog vs vhdl, python vs ruby, etc, have significant components of subjectivity. It's not a purely objective debate about vim vs emacs, rather a debate between a comfortable user of vim and a comfortable user of emacs. That's why when someone decides to learn the rival tool properly before bashing it, they end up not being too radical in their views.
Those measurements inherently makes more sense than hand-waving; and although mathematically I agree with you, the world is not mathematically pure.

Regardless, I stand that implying that it would be exceptional to be able to write 100 lines of bug-free useful code is ridiculous. I'm not stating that it is easy, nor that most of chunks of 100 lines are written like that. Just that not only this is possible, but this is accessible. Now depending on the field it might be more or less difficult, but in general I suspect there are tons of chunks of 100 lines that have been developed correctly on the first try, and those metrics tends to, non-formally I concede (but if you dig enough what is even formal enough?), weight more in favor of my view point than in favor of the difficulty level being astonishingly high.
? It just had a release back in April.
I don't think there's any precedent for requiring such a supermajority in this case. Actually joining the EU required the support of 0% of the population in a referendum - there was no referendum on joining, the 1975 referendum was merely on whether we should remain in. The same arguments against leaving were made back then too, and if leave had won there'd probably have been exactly the same kind of pressure against following through on it.
Here's one better: I want to filter out an artist from ever appearing in my playlists. I would love to block artists from my music universe.
We moved from Slack to Mattermost, and Mattermost is garbage. Messages are delivered late (by hours), if ever. You don't get notifications correctly. It takes seconds (more than 10 sometimes) to load a page. Sometimes the page goes blank. Much of our office has reverted to email and phone calls for many things that would have worked fine with Slack.
I applied to Sparkfun about 8 or 9 years ago - they had some kind of Github easter egg in their application process or something. It was an IT role. I applied and recall being pretty glib; my application was about "me" and how I would benefit, how good I was, etc.

The receiver of the resume was beyond unimpressed, and took the time to write a 2-3 paragraph response to how unappealing my tone and application was.

I remember it being a sobering and humbling moment, and truly appreciated the time someone took to set a conceited young applicant straight.

Sure would have been nice to move to Boulder, though.
They could just offer paid cafeterias like Microsoft does.
I don't see how you need to reconstruct your personality to avoid tinkering with things. Just don't do it. I'm a tinkerer too; all you have to do is realize that you have limited time and attention, and then consciously decide to focus your tinkering time on only specific projects, and ignore other ones. Make a priority list perhaps. This takes some willpower obviously, but it's no different than any other undertaking where you're deciding to make a change in your life and do something different (e.g., you decide you want to eat better, exercise more, try socializing more, act better towards people, etc.).
Having worked on that team, it always felt yucky. The product has been a train-wreck for years.
is herpes one instance of a general class of proteins/virus/bodies that causes amyloid alleged defense response or is it exactly because of herpes ?
Remember when The Daily Express said that 150 new EU laws were “Ruining Britain,” and these were their top 8 of those laws?

https://mobile.twitter.com/StuartWilksHeeg/status/4814529276...

Tag line of TDE article* The merciless grip of Brussels on the lives of millions of Britons is laid bare today by the Daily Express.

So merciless. It seems like a lot of the “anti-EU” sentiment expressed amounted to dog whistles for anti-immigrant sentiment. If it’s not that, then I guess Leavers just hate labeling juice. Or maybe cockneys simply can’t enjoy a laundry day that doesn’t positively reek of phosphorous? No, I think it was the immigration issues.
Your suggestions may work inside a company. E-mail is the only federated system we've left. If you need to contact somebody outside it, you're screwed. XMPP/Jabber could have solved some of this, but it's pretty dead right now.
Thanks for the link. Discoverability has been my biggest complaint with Apple Music so far.
I used to use this pretty thoroughly but a few issues have caused me to stop altogether now:

* Flash app means that in newer versions of Android (edit: 6+ IME), even with an old Adobe Flash for Android apk loaded and with Firefox, the functionality no longer works in mobile (input functionality is broken.)

* Cards used for time-limited recurring expenses (subscriptions that I intend to end in 1 year, for example) would arbitrarily fail transactions resulting in hassle. Since each number was locked to the processor who requested the first transaction, I suppose one reason this happened was if a business switched processors mid-stream.

I have always wondered why no one has created a nice mobile solution for this very useful feature. It seems that credit cards want each customer to just use one number and trust that their risk department will stop data leaks - seems like a bad solution.
Most of those ads aren't about Turkey's beliefs, but rather it's mere proximity to another country with different beliefs.
Large companies get larger due to the inefficiency of larger companies. It's like trying to get another 5 mph after hitting 200 mph.

After hitting 201-500 employees, it becomes almost impossible to avoid politics, bureaucracy, wasted time communicating, oversight, management, etc.

Based on a graph that showed peak productivity with a team size of 6 (https://www.getflow.com/blog/optimal-team-size-workplace-pro...), one layer of management results in 43 employees (1 CEO + 6 managers/executives + 6 * 6 individual contributors). Two layers results in 259 employees (1 CEO + 6 executives + 6 * 6 managers + 6 * 6 * 6 individual contributors). More than two layers adds more inefficiency/employee than is taken away and such a downward trend continues.

If a fictional 4.6 team members is used, those numbers become 26.76 and 124.096.
We do not use Slack, we use IRC for direct and fast communication. We do not use it for things that need RFCs and technical specifications, for that we use gitlab and other tools.

IRC is great and I am using it for 14+ years already. It's stable, fast, efficient and secure with lots of options. I've written a lot of IRC bots in many languages because protocol is so easy and every language have library/bot for IRC that can be easily expanded with your logic/code.

Before there was a cloud and big data, we used IRC for handling distributed services as high availability central orchestration to which many services/servers connected that had IRC bots running on them. We had control over many machines and services from IRC channels, with full authorization/authentication, logging channels, you could run commands on one server or on many same time, you've seen real time error reporting or when node went down.

It worked great and still works great.
Conway talks a little about this distinction in his talk at Google, at around 40 minutes:
https://youtu.be/r1bDSlt1n9M?t=2401

The crux is that randomness is indistinguishable from a large collection of pre-determined hidden variables (imagine rolling all the dice for all of the outcomes of Physics ahead of time), but not all of the behaviors of quantum mechanics can be accounted for by (local) hidden variables (Bell's theorem.)
It's a real thing, if Bill Bryson is to be believed, although he never elaborates on its precise nature: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/brysons-ame...
It's probably a good thing that a standard isn't designed around Vulnerability of the Day, no?

Some time in the (near?) future those vulnerabilities will just be a footnote in some history book and having to support mitigations forever (due to backwards compatibility) probably isn't the best thing to encode into a standard.

I'm sure some intrepid security researcher will find some new Vulnerability of the Day which can also be exploited through wasm and then they will need to add mitigation to the standard yet again ad nauseam until it becomes some giant bloated unusable mess for which we'll need yet another standard.
No, thanks
Garbo is referenced in one of my favorite David Bowie songs “Quicksand”.

“I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes
Living proof of Churchill's lies, I'm destiny”
See what's coming in Kotlin 1.3-M1
To be fair, it now has actual useful zero setup functionality like screen sharing and file sharing.

Before that though yea I didn't get the point.
The talks have been ongoing for a decade now. Few parts of the talks have been finished, many haven’t even started. And seriously, if Turkey ever comes around to fulfilling all of the requirements, it will have to become a very different country than it is today. Yes, talks are ongoing and some reason for that is politics - the talks are one of the ways the EU can influence turkish politics. Some of that is quite open, some of it may be hypocritical. But Vote Leave is peddling xenophobia, which is quite a different accusation.
You just pick out their corporate tax and then state all this like it's the only tax in existence ???

This is not what I mean. Replace Microsoft tax with an auto repair shop's taxes. Everything produced and installed and serviced locally.

1) Sales tax/VAT. On the full amount of the sales, not just the lowest they can get away with. That's 10-27% depending on the location. No interstate commerce exception. No import/export exception.

2) Corporate tax in the local jurisdiction. That's the 14% tax rate (and there are jurisdictions where this is 35%). This comes on top of the sales tax of course.

3) Capital gains or profit tax in the local jurisdiction, on the company side (there is ALSO capital gains tax on the investor side, it's not either/or everywhere). This is going to be somewhere from 0% in some (few) places, 15% (normal) up to 58% (in jurisdictions where capital gains is taxed like income) (note that this will be charged before buybacks or dividend payouts are allowed). Auto repair shops don't get to pick ... why should Microsoft ?

This is ignoring lots of varied taxes, TAX DEALS, real estate investments, owned real estate, depreciation for machines being allowed or not, any investment/loan taxes, ...

Now we have a minimum of 35% tax, up to 81% tax, on any amount of money that shows up in the share price or is paid out to investors.

THAT's the figure to be compared to the 14% tax rate. THAT's why Walmart and "brick&mortar" retailers feel slighted.

THAT's why everybody should be angry as hell at people like European Commission president Juncker, as he was one of the pioneers of allowing companies evade tax within Europe. Of course, that's also why it won't ever be fixed without replacing most/all of the political establishment in Europe (but US is not that different)

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/04/08/trump-is-right-ama...
You said: Saying "Men are more likely to be bad drivers" is a factual statement. "All Men are bad drivers" is a bias one.

Let's change it up a little. Take the statement "Black men are more likely to be criminals than white men". Is that factually true? A dataset with a statistically significant sample would say yes, in fact black men are incarcerated at a higher rate per capita than white men.

But look how that data came to be -- by police making arrests. And there is also plenty of data out there showing that black men get arrested more often than white men for the same crimes, and get longer sentences for the same crimes than white men.

So clearly, the dataset that shows black men are more likely to be criminals is biased, even though it is accurate.

Now imagine building an AI (or actuarial table) based on that data. It would necessarily identify black men as "more likely to be a criminal" simply based on the fact that they are black. So now you've magnified the bias in the data.

So yes, the data is accurate but that doesn't mean it isn't biased too.
> an alternative could be 'they buy up all the restaurants in the area and make them exclusively available for FB staff'.

If Facebook is willing to pay substantial amounts of money for a restaurant, while at the same time guaranteeing customers to those who refuse to sell, it would seem the number of public restaurants in the area will explode.
My program required a course in QM and recommended a second.

I will say I found Griffiths incredibly difficult (it was the official text for the first course). Admittedly this is in part because my maths background was not as strong as it should have been (the quality of my school's advising was poor, and indicated that I didn't need linear algebra - among other faults). I found myself regularly consulting Eisberg and Resnick's Quantum Physics which had a nice logical structure and fully worked paradigm cases. I thought Zettili was an excellent reference as well.

I'd like to revisit all this at some point. If anyone has a link to a recommended course of study for refreshing physics majors, I'd love to have a look.
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Just had my last day today as the CTO.

I quit b/c we got bought by a corporation about a year ago. The purpose of this purchase was to integrate our technology and our customers into the stack of that corporation. So basically we got dumped with requirements to add features only relevant to that corporation. That totally overwhelmed the capacity of the IT team which already was working at a limit. Some days it all felt like a big house of cards just waiting to collapse due to a little inattention on our side. I mean if an IT department is forced to push the envelope all your best practices are being thrown over board. That just took a toll on me. So to protect my health I decided to leave this company I very much enjoyed working for and help building up for three years.
New Spectre attack enables secrets to be leaked over a network
I think it's far less about marketing and more about lowering the barrier to entry. I work at a real estate company. They were using Slack before I got here and did not have a single technical person on staff. This company would have never considered IRC if Slack didn't exist.