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Ask HN: How normal is company-wide burnout?
I recently interviewed for position at a less-than-year-old startup, and they extended a solid offer. I was strongly considering taking it, but then one of the founders told me that everyone in the ~20 person company had gone through a period of burnout. This seemed like a massive red flag to me - in any other company I've worked (including early-stage startups), multiple employees experiencing burnout would be considered a failure.

I ended up declining basically because of that conversation, and everyone on the other side of the situation was taken aback. They seemed to think that because they're a startup, this is normal. Is this expectation/acceptance of burnout actually common? Do I need to explicitly ask if companies deal with burnout?
Tesla also manufactures goods. The material and labor costs are pretty clear.
Heroku is my choice too. The free tier is good enough, with backend, services like SQL DB, MongoDb, Redis. And of course the scheduler.
Slack is a great product (vs email or public chat alternatives). I wish them the best expanding their user base.

Are they worth 16B? None of the armchair investors here know their financials (addressable market size, user growth rate, expected ARPU etc). Until a careful analysis done, I would caution you against coming to a quick conclusion.
Just throwing out there but has Slack genuinely improved the work lives of anybody? I've used it for my past two jobs and have yet to find a way of using it that doesn't destroy my productivity or make me genuinely afraid of receiving a message and being thrown off what I was doing.
I want the multi-account support without a workaround.

People have been asking about if for awhile (a year plus) now.
Another area it's very sticky is 'SlackOps' - i.e. putting your devops commands and notifications into Slack.

Having done this at my previous startup it's very, very nice (in my opinion), but also, enough setup work that even supposing you were tempted to change to another platform you'd be reluctant to.
Cornell has an endowment in excess of $7 billion dollars, why wouldn't some of that have been used to ensure the "unique & special" didn't die? Politics?
> those aren’t usually “custom” in Rust programs

On modern hardware, RAM latency is often the main reason why CPU-bound code is slow. The fix is often changing RAM layout, i.e. modifying data structures. And when the code uses SIMD to process the payload portion of these structures, alignment requirements cause them to become really custom pretty soon.

> that’s still a very small amount of the overall code in a given project

That’s not universal across all software. Lately, I’m working in the area of CAD/CAM/CAE. Before that I worked on videogames, HPC, multimedia. In many of these projects, data structures were not a small amount, even relatively speaking.
You can send / receive faxes from konbini ( tens of thousands of stores open 24/7 ) as well, not even needed to actually own a fax machine -- I don't, but have to use the service a few times a week.

Edit : I can only confirm the relatively widespread use of it in Japan to this day, not sure what's the reasoning behind it myself.
And most of those communities don’t pay a dime not really helping the cause.
You could also just set your dock to autohide. That's what I do on my MBA 2015 and it's great, especially considering how small 1440x900 already is.
It is actually much more convenient for users. They can switch computers/phone/OSes and have the same experience. The same is not true with native apps.
We just use markdown on github
I use Thunderbird daily, to manage multiple email accounts, and I love it very much. I wouldn't, though, call its search functionality "good". For simple queries it works so-so, but for anything complex I end up logging into the Gmail or O365 web apps.

This is pretty much my only gripe with it. And for daily use, I dramatically prefer it over webmail.

One other thing that makes me chuckle more than anything... the scam email detection heuristics count cross-domain images to be indicators of scams/phishing. I have two clients who have signature images linked from a different domain, and every message has a red header that warns "THIS MESSAGE MAY BE A SCAM". More than you know, Thunderbird. More than you know.
In the 1950's, they were telling us cigarettes are good for us (not me, I came to be in 1979) because n doctors are also smoking it, etc etc. Check the ads from that era and you will find their persuasive arguments to be similar to what we have nowadays for certain other things.

Then also before this was Pasteur and his flawed germ theory. So they began boiling milk until it turned into something useless if not downright harmful. (Milk stops being milk when you boil past 70 Celsius).

Fastforward to early 80's: they began telling us fat is bad for us (it is not, check Eric Berg on EWEtube). So sheep that most people are who need to be told what is good or not, they wrongly assumed sugar was safe, since nobody said sugar was bad. That is also why you have low-fat milk and other such nonsense.

Further down the historic line, various fads appeared. Sexy girls wrote books on how meat is dangerous and persuaded the gullible that since the cattle are being pumped all sortsa chem, so being a vegan is the right healthy thing to do.. (flaw: just cuz there is bad meat doesn't mean all meat is bad or veganism good, check the death rates of young Vegans dropping like flies on catwalks).

So my point is that along come so many experts and tell us so many false things, that it becomes difficult to navigate the noise and latch on to useful signals. One such noise is the article, which extrapolates an anecdotal or Personal observation as true for all people.

To make it sound scary, they even add "professional" decline, with all the menacing undertones it carries. I know there is nothing wrong in preparing for older age, and for some it can be faster than for others due to so many factors (such as aluminum consumption which causes dementia and doesn't exit the body--good ole Al lodges in the brain cells).

What is wrong with this article is scare-mongering and becoming a cry-wolf story rather than an intellectually valid, science-backed article.

But then what do you expect of some journos. (No offense to ALL journalists). They get paid to scare us, so that our Amygdala shrinks and we make hasty and wrong decisions, or simply freeze our brain's plasticity. Even if what I just assumed is unintentional, it still just as harmful.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with using scare as a tactic as long as a positive side is presented so that the brain sees a balance and the Amygdala doesn't shrink. But merely scaring people is unfair. It may even work as a Placebo and cause people to decline faster given that the newspaper already primed them for it. Smh.
Got it, thanks for the explanation.

So C++ programmers are able to subvert the upfront complexity by ignoring C++ 11 features then, going straight to raw pointers.
You could always just export all your company's slack data to preserve it and make it queryable https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201658943-Export-yo...
Apple considers providing aid to struggling Japan Display
Devawesome: Facbook-Libra A simple global currency and financial infrastructure
One aspect of many SaaS companies that I am concerned about is their exposure to economic downturns. Slack charges on a per-user basis, so if their average customer reduces their workforce by 10%, Slack's revenue reduces by 10%.
Did you mean exaggerated?
Small scale educational and research sites tend to already be accessible.

The default behaviours of HTML and default CSS are accessible to a reasonable degree. PDFs that aren't scans are accessible.

It tends to be when one overrides behaviour that you start to become inaccessible.

JS is awful for breaking a site for a screen reader as the purpose and contents can change after or during it being read.

Scientists and researchers, in my experience, don't tend to futz with the markup, because it's just the delivery tool, not their purpose.
Wasn't the 180-and-return only possible if the pilot began the turn within something stupid like 10 seconds, and even then only if there was still partial thrust being produced?
What sort of screen readers are available for the dead-blind? Braille?
I doubt that Slack would ever offer subscriptions through the App Store.
I find the complete opposite, the less magic I have to deal with the happier I am, because it means maybe I can fix things when it doesn't do what I want it to do.
Canada becomes first G20 country to ban trade in shark fins
"Step out of your Silicon Valley bubble" ...
I have Business Fiber Internet package from Bell in my house in Toronto. Residential area far from city core with an old houses, definitely not a Silicon Valley. 1000 up and down. It costs me $80 Canadian pesos. Not bad.
"Corporate Export
On the Plus plan, Workspace Owners can apply to access a self-service tool called Corporate Export. This type of export includes content from public and private channels and direct messages. If Corporate Export is enabled for your workspace, Standard Export will not be available."
https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201658943-Export-yo...
Compare the source of a game in Dialog: http://www.linusakesson.net/dialog/cloak/cloak-rel1.dg

With the source of a game in Inform 7:
http://inform7.com/learn/eg/bronze/source.html

One of these looks much more like a programming language than the other; both compile to the Infocom virtual machine (or a direct descendant of it), both create Infocom-style Interactive Fiction rather than the choose-your-own-adventure style of Twine or ChoiceScript.
Don't forget, it is YOUR choice to have Slack open. Nobody is forcing you to. It might be an unspoken rule to do so, but I value productivity more. In the event someone has something important to say (rarely the case), come up or call me (or PM me on IRC).
As someone who has been following this some recently I think we are slowly building up to the point where there is official government acknowledgment that there are actually repeated real phenomena of something, so the next step is discussing what should be done to try and understand it. But denying there is something will becoming increasingly difficult.
Show HN: An old terminal HTML template
Broadly speaking, yes. Social class is probably more relevant than race: my own kids are mixed-race, with parents from different cultures who are both first-gen immigrants, and they identify much more with the country they were born in and have lived all their life than either of us.
Email is too open ended of a format with too many options so it is really hard to make something that would be 1-1 comparable. People mail signatures, specially formatted templates and you also receive emails from the outside world.

Slack’s more limited format reduces the amount of things you need to sift through in order to get to the information you need. Unfortunately we humans always seem to catch up with this and your team will turn slack into a firehose of nonsense within 2 months of adopting it.
I don’t want the same experience cross platforms. I don’t want the “Mac experience” when I am using Windows (see iTunes) or the “Windows experience” when I am using a Mac (old versions of Office).
This makes sense

There's extra vertical space on the lower half of a MacBook, and the dock wastes vertical space on the screen

I normally put the dock on the side, but putting it above the keyboard works too

Now if only the damn keyboard had a proper escape key. Who signed off on that. Honestly.
Good questions. Even if he really did drop out of school in elementary school, he would not be illiterate at that point. That aspect of the story seems reasonably questionable and is probably exaggerated for drama.
"Linux already has massive adoption in the server and embedded spaces, just needs to get better at office-related client apps"...

2019, celebrating the eleventh consecutive "This is the Year of Linux on the desktop"...
Every single union in the planet was formed because workers wanted to improve their own wages and working conditions. Nobody organizes to protect other people’s interests. Why should engineers be the only rubes on the planet using their bargaining power to help other people instead of themselves?
Yes, which means they hold your data hostage until you pay, exactly like I said.
Cool! I'm looking to pick up a VAX or AlphaStation on EBay.
Any leadership by EX HP employees truely enriches a company. I am very impressed. Thanks for removing my previous post.
It's just mislabeled as Caps Lock and has bad default behavior. A quick visit to Preferences can sort you out.
Really? That's your story and your sticking to that ?
If every gram matters why do they wear those little hats under their helmets?
With $16B valuation they can afford not to, of course.
Pompeo said the Trump administration would push for free flow of data across borders, not just to help U.S. companies but also to secure consumers’ privacy.

How does 'free flow of data across borders' help secure consumers' privacy?

Setting caps on H1Bs is the US governments prerogative though this will have adverse impact on US-India relationship.
For a recent cool example, http://everyoneishappy.com/portfolio/waifu-synthesis-real-ti... controls the mouth for sing-along syncing.
Why do you say that it's good vs email? In my mind they're for different purposes.

Slack for urgent matters, email for asynchronous communication that isn't quite as urgent. Email is also better for things that the recipient may want to refer back to in the future.

Regardless, I wish that my co-workers would stop sending a message only saying "hi, name" and then waiting for me to stop working to respond before they type their actual question. "not only am I going to interrupt you, but I'm going to make you acknowledge the interruption before making you wait while I SLOWLY type the actual incomplete question".

<Grumble, grumble, I hate when people misuse Slack>
The detail of how best to regulate is a subject matter for experts, not me. In principle precisely the same way we have legislated against pumping sulphur dioxide out of a chimney in the atmosphere. Same rules for everyone. Now go and compete. You get experts on pollution, mitigation and economics to advise on what will work best for the outcomes you want to achieve. Similar domain experts are required here.

Now I have no doubt that facebrick and the evil-goog will try for regulatory capture and employ their vast army of Washington lobbyists in rent-seeking activities but that is a separate problem applicable in every industry where market failure means you have to regulate, not just this one. (And yes it does need solving, absolutely urgently). If you don't have to regulate because the market is working, great! Don't regulate! That's not what we have here, this is market failure but we haven't yet regulated. It will come because there are clearly externalities in this market, Well it will come unless we give up on democracy first. Something with which facebrick and evil-goog seem really comfortable as long as they supplant it.
Yes. Working in a fully distributed team, irc+pictures is great.

It's on you to manage your interruptions (it's easy to kill them totally, or to customize what you see). If you just take it all, then yeah, I can see that being a living hell. So like, don't do that.
This is why being able to aggregate multiple channels into a single window would be a huge win. Right now you have to flip between multiple "tabs" to find anything.
Are these the first pictures of the “Switch Mini”?
> MIT license. Royalty free for personal and commercial use.

Nice.
macOS as well.
It has led me to think that the exciting part was never the actual implementation (or coding in this case), but figuring out the solution instead.

I think this is the key part. (See also: http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/11/25/west-side-project-s...

An opposite of this is moving between different technologies so quickly that you feel like you're forever a newbie.
I wonder if they even considered Ada/SPARK 2014, or are program languages like fashion trends, and Rust has the runway right now. I like Rust, but I would think the amount of work that has been put into Ada/SPARK 2014 would make it the better choice for the problem set.
No, what you want is the same experience. Which is what the web gives you. What you are describing is native apps trying to replicate the same experience and failing because they are native.

Edit: Native apps require more maintenance which adds to the delta in experience. If a single app is created (web) there is no delta.
Google inbox increased my productivity a whole lot more than slack does. From my point of view it was a holy grail of using email as a productive tool. But it also tied into google reminders and calendar and did a really good job of filtering noise.
A global currency uncontrolled by any government guards against capital flight. Let's say you want to give healthcare to your population, capital can say no and move their assets into an untouchable currency.

All hail our new feudal lords.
Yeah, I think it’s trying to connect to networks that are somehow “partners” with my provider, and for some reason there seems to be hundreds of these scattered around Tokyo.
Anyone with this problem should switch to physics, because it gets better as you learn more. I bet there are a lot of other things like that.
> 110° temperatures

110° temperatures has a tendency to kill off whatever crop you are growing. It's not a common growing condition and most areas with these temperatures regularly are not considered suitable regions for efficient agricultural production.
Yeah it's a total hog of attention. At the company I just left, you could walk through our office and 90% of people were just talking on Slack. What a waste of engineering time.

We were pretty invested in ChatOps which I thought was great. Being able to issue commands in any sort of war room situation with a group of people was definitely helpful for that sort of triaging. Of course, the downside being that depending on Slack to be up to do effective operations isn't super appealing to me.

Of course people have been doing this with IRC forever, but Slack is a definite improvement on this front over Skype.
I will say, Apple at least did a good job making the remap (Caps to Esc) a really easy preferences change.
The point of free speech is that it’s not regulated according to an opinion about “what is good for us all” or what is “needed.”
Not sure what you're talking about? Can you provide photos?
Credible, how would you know? Bryan Bender, the author is very into this subject and I think very level headed, but when we don’t know what, who, why this stuff “is”, hard to say who’s credible.
If I remember correctly, Sid Meiers would call up computer stores and ask if they had his games in stock because he wanted to buy it. He'd call several times and eventually the stores would reach out to him to buy it.
Absolutely. It’s allowed my 10 second questions to take 10 seconds, instead of 10 seconds of talking after 10 (non-contiguous) minutes of trying to guess when the person will be at their desk.

I definitely don’t feel pressure to answer Slack messages when I’m actively working on something, though. I imagine it’d be pretty bad if we had that kind of environment.
QC can simulate molecules.
I think you're mistaken. In 2004 Cervelo had just began offering their Aero bikes, but they were aluminium, not carbon. See the Cervelo Soloist Team.

The manufacturers using carbon like Time, Look were not producing anything 'aero'. Giant's TCR (ridden by T mobile) in 2004 was carbon front triangle with aluminium seat and chain stays. And again, not 'aero'.

Lots of interesting details from here: http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/teamtech04.php?id=tech/2004/p...
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Slack is what allows me to work from home, spend more time with my family.. avoid a 4 hour commute each day.. and be able to use my own high end computing equipment for work.

I mentor other people in my field via multiple slack channels.. and I have seen the results of that turn into new opportunities for work and new opportunities for my employer.

Slack has its problems, but what it enables for me is incredible.
I wondered what happened to Superhuman earlier today, did they ever ship? Same sign up page and inactive twitter for years.
It's a flat fee of $100/month, correct? What would be the best option if the amount of training you do is rather "occasional" (but simply using colab doesn't cut it anymore)?
If you don't let us steal all your user data, we won't brain drain your country. Sounds like a good deal for India other than the remittances sent back by citizens.
>The move, however, was not solely targeted at India, the source said.

>“The proposal is that any country that does data localization, then it (H-1B visas) would be limited to about 15% of the quota

It does sound targeted at India and perhaps China because they are the largest countries with English speaking populations and take a large percent of visas. I doubt the European countries or most other countries will be affected by this since they have way smaller populations and fewer people looking to work in the US.

Anyway I am not totally opposed to restricting new H1B visas to 15% since work based green cards are 7% max per nationality causing long delays. They just need to make sure that people waiting for green cards close to a decade while on H1B are not affected by this.

However, if this does happen, it will accelerate offshoring to India tremendously and end up benefiting work immigration friendly countries like Canada. Microsoft already has a large campus right across the border in Vancouver, and other companies will follow suit with setting up in Canada and India.
In a similar vein, I’ve been using TouchBarEmojis[0] which turns the TouchBar into a most frequently used emoji selector and really enjoy it now.

[0] https://github.com/gabriellorin/touch-bar-emojis
I find that odd that the VAXStation VLC's were being dumped because of Y2K. VMS has a 64-bit datetime data structure. The C run-time library still had the Year2038 time problem though...
Recumbents have terrible visibility (can't see over cars), suck for really steep climbs and sprinting, and are kind of unsafe for fast group rides with multiple cyclists packed close together.
It's more convenient for some applications, but it's not the case yet for many applications. Evolution of browsers will probably favour web platform for everything except the more close-to-the-metal ones.
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No, that's something completely different.

These writers aren't actively implementing the advertising software. They're not "following orders" in anything with respect to ad tracking simply by being a contributor on the platform. At worst, they're complicit by working for the company that utilizes it. Frankly though we all complicit in this stuff one way or another even if there's the illusion that we aren't by some degree of separation.

(EDIT: Deleted irrelevant argument)
That is horrific.

I don't understand how people can do that to family.
It is about 1000x better than Skype for Business.
Actually hipchat was quite nice to use, fast and responsive for awhile, and I loved some of their built in emoticons. I think they didn't really maintain it and keep it up to date with the competition.
Sorry, don’t do photos. Feels like an invasion of their privacy.
If you can't handle using a chat program you are a moron
Honestly I feel the same way about email. I work in an office culture where rapid email replies are strongly encouraged. But as a project-based worker, that kills my momentum. I've generally gotten away with semi-ignoring it by checking email morning, mid-day, end of day, and strongly encouraging people to call me in the interim with anything truly urgent.
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