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Hi there kopiblanca, One of the founders of Zepel here.

We believe JIRA and most other project management tools have evolved from the core use case of issue tracking. While they might be great for tracking issues and ad hoc work items, when it comes to product development, bug tracking is only a part of the equation.

We believe 2 key aspects make product/feature development different.

- Unlike bug tracking, a feature needs to be conceptualized and the form-based interface of these tools make it ridiculously difficult to spec out the requirements for a feature.

- Shipping a feature involves multiple disciplines and rarely follows a single fixed workflow.

Our approach to solving these two problems is,

- A text editor like interface that lets you specify your features and making it super simple to change or update items.

- Multiple boards per project to capture every discipline and the flexibility to move items across these boards as per your use case.

We believe its painfully hard for product teams to plan and ship features using JIRA and that's why we have created Zepel.
The Windows GUI is a bit slow. I found that I disabled all the bars anyway though, so using the CLI version of GNU Emacs is acceptable even on Windows.

YMMV
There are different use cases for different laptops. I can certainly see the advantage of a laptop that's as light as possible, but that's never going to be a 15" laptop. On the other hand, some people want lots of power or a massive screen, and then making it as thin as possible just makes no sense.
Ask HN: How do universities justify buying technology?
Is it more the case that the technology is used in marketing to attract new students or does improving student outcomes actually lead to more revenue?

If improving student outcomes leads to more revenue, how does that work?
Neat packages of life are called "organisms". We're not all just one big undifferentiated pulsating vat full of chicken flesh.

http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/2012/08/this-is-he...

That’s the one great invention, I think: Chicken Little, the giant pulsing living blobs of meat that feed the planet. Pohl and Kornbluth understand the value of their own idea well enough to know that just talking about Chicken Little is not enough. They have to rig the plot so we meet it. Sensitive eaters, avert your gaze:

He swung open her door. “This is her nest,” he said proudly. I looked and gulped.

It was a great concrete dome, concrete-floored. Chicken Little filled most of it. She was a gray-brown, rubbery hemisphere some fifteen yards in diameter. Dozens of pipes ran into her pulsating flesh. You could see that she was alive.

Herrera said to me: “All day I walk around her. I see a part growing fast, it looks good and tender, I slice.” His two-handed blade screamed again. This time it shaved off an inch-thick Chicken Little steak. (Ch. 9)

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1002

Chicken Little, a huge mass of cultured chicken breast, was kept alive by algae skimmed by nearly-slave labor from multistory towers of ponds surrounded by mirrors to focus the sunlight onto the ponds.

"Scum-skimming wasn't hard to learn. You got up at dawn. You gulped a breakfast sliced not long ago from Chicken Little and washed it down with Coffiest. You put on your coveralls and took the cargo net up to your tier. In blazing noon from sunrise to sunset you walked your acres of shallow tanks crusted with algae. If you walked slowly, every thirty seconds or so you spotted a patch at maturity, bursting with yummy carbohydrates. You skimmed the patch with your skimmer and slung it down the well, where it would be baled, or processed into glucose to feed Chicken Little, who would be sliced and packed to feed people from Baffinland to Little America."

-From The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth).
Published by St. Martin's Press in 1952.
The rayon library provides a lot of the same features as those.
To each his own, in my opinion consumer market for laptops being a trash fire doesn't excuse putting malware on them.
You could just not void the warranty (more or less) for installing apps from other sources.

Your mom always uses the App Store, everybody else is happy.
I think GP was talking about limited snapping functionality not resize itself.

Those functions were expanded in Windows 10 lately too.

I haven't checked xfwm4 4.14 yet though. If these functions have been enhanced, excellent! If not, it's worth a request.
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair
Nice! This should really be the article link in my opinion.

Anyway I was wrong about the design. It looks like they implemented their own very simple finite state machine, but did use Clifford Wolfe's riscv-formal to specify it: https://github.com/SymbioticEDA/riscv-formal
Random Room (SSB Room by Andre Staltz)
> "Thinkpads don't quite reach the feel of MBP 2015 keyboard for me."

They don't? I was under the impression that Thinkpads generally had the best keyboards. They get praised for it all the time. Are current Thinkpad keyboards actually worse than 2015 Macbook ones?

Are keyboards a piece of technology that's getting worse instead of better as time goes on?
They have much better carrier mobility than silicon has. We can keep reducing power/operation by shrinking transistors but it looks like if we're every going to increase processor frequencies against we'll need to do a substrate switch like this. And we can't keep shrinking silicon transistors forever, anyways.
Firefox...
See? That's the thing. I agree that in the absolute that's a good thing, but done badly, that could just make us lose the fight against climate change by removing tons of forest to feed cattle.

That's why I wish we solve the environmental issues first, as well as the food security of the whole population.
Having written a large number of CLIs in the past, I've often come across this issue but never had a good solution. This is remarkably simple, elegant, and easily generalized into a CLI framework so it can be implemented with ease. Thank you for sharing this nugget of gold!
Yes there is! At least for Americans. I can not understand why these practices have not lead by now to a class action suit?
Three Tips for balancing side projects and a full-time job
The Windows version is complete unusable for me because of how slow magit is on Windows (though that's not the fault of magit or emacs).

I haven't yet tried WSL (I run Windows on a work issued laptop), so my emacs sessions run in a Linux VM to get acceptable performance.
> There's no fundamental difference between a news site and a blog.

There is a difference. A blog is short for web log which implies a personal journal. Anyone can publish a blog without editorial oversight. A news site implies that professional journalists are producing reports with editorial and literary standards. Clearly many media companies blur this line though to the detriment of readers and journalists.

> A lot of them even use the same software.

What difference does that make? The vast majority of web sites use the same web server software (Apache/Nginx)...and the same software elsewhere in the stack.
Scuttlebutt
Shell Energy’s ‘renewable’ promise highlights the problem with REGOs
Elixir, React and Redux: $10k investment returns over time
I've been using it for some number of years now on USB sticks that are larger than 2G (to avoid the 2G file size limit of Fat32) for file transfer to/from the work machine.

I have had zero issues with it from Linux or Win (I think I started using it when the "work pc" was Win7, but am not 100% sure of that). It has just worked, with no problems, for my use cases.

Performance wise, well, the performance is limited by the USB sticks (they are USB2 sticks) so from what I can tell, UDF is not the limiter, the USB2 interface or the flash cells in the stick are the performance limiter.
The price for the replacement is also higher if your battery isn’t actually in need of replacement. Basically apple subsidizes (compared to their higher pricing anyway) the other parts when replacing the laptop body to get the battery replaced.
Source? Didn't see anyone on HN saying this.
And, considering that the homeless don't get a proper social life, that makes them specially vulnerable to unhappiness.
He's actually working in the backend, not in the mobile app itself.
Apple seems to be in a bit of a lull lately. None of their phones have really impressed. Stuff like this. And then airpod 2 being airpod 1 with a promise of contains more magic inside that you can't see. And the 1000 dollar stand?

Their recent focus on additional privacy is welcome but not much use if the gear is underwhelming and overpriced.
Gnus is unusably slow for me. I wonder if that is related to Windows as well...
As if Kaspersky itself isn’t spamming.

To make sure you never find yourself in such trouble, use a reliable antivirus for Android app and scan your smartphone from time to time. (The paid version of Kaspersky Internet Security for Android scans automatically.)
A very cool thing to reflect on:

Valve held a tight leash on Steam for years. Games and apps had to be approved by Valve, and what they allowed was, at the very least, subjective.

After a while it began to gradually let go of control. Nowadays, there are just a few things that might get blocked and I haven't heard any more stories about developers who got blocked.

Funny thing is: Valve is privately owned, and Google is a public company. One should expect it to be the other way around.
Flash floods, mudslides, hail, wind damage, fallen trees to name a few others
Which sounds fine until your mom hears about this cool App Store from her friend on Facebook, downloads a bunch of crap, and winds up at the Apple Store with Apple having to fix damage caused to her phone. I’m a little less sympathetic with the repairability stuff, but when it comes to the App Store, daddy Apple is doing a job that I want them to do, and changes here are not to my benefit and would make me less likely to buy the product.
> overall I think Google's impact on the world is strongly positive.

I think the exact opposite, which is why I've went to great lengths in an attempt to de-google my life, but google still forces itself on me through stuff like recaptcha.

Maybe google once had a positive impact once, but not anymore. Now google just kills products, forces tracking on people who don't even use google themselves and pushes adverts in front of us, while de-monitizing Youtubers and pushing its political/social justice agendas.

The fact that you and your coworkers don't see the problem just highlights what the people up-thread were saying and is the big part of the problem.
even a fool knows to come in out of the rain ;)
I'm talking about "potentially" moving servers based on credible claims of upcoming changes.

In this particular case, we don't have any business interest in mainland china, so I'm willing to speculate based on other people's measurements. Acting on speculation is very different from planning. As smarter people than me have said: "plan for the worst; hope for the best"
Did we read the same article? Can you clarify, because he quotes the notifications he received and his appeal?
We want to make transistors ever smaller to increase their energy efficiency and fit more of them on a chip. Scaling down transistors made of materials like silicon hits limits, as the distances become so small that electrons can leak through the materials.

In a field effect transistor (FET), you have a channel and a gate. The channel is a bit like a bridge which can be raised and lowered as ships travel underneath. Ideally, electrons shouldn't be able to flow between the channel and the gate (falling off the bridge), and depending on the voltage at the gate (position of the ship), the channel should range in resistance between zero (completely open; transistor is on) and infinity (completely closed; transistor is off).

In a CNTFET, the channel is replaced with a carbon nanotube. The nanotube channel is very good at keeping the current carriers (electrons) inside, and so leakage is small. Additionally, nanotubes are very good at carrying current. To use the bridge analogy, the CNTFET has a bridge that is very wide, and so allows lots of people across, and has high walls such that the people don't fall in the water or onto the ship.
In NL we have "Tikkie", where you just have to give them a link, whether it's by whatsapp, email, IRC, whatever. Sounds slightly more convenient as it's not based around a phone number (but can be if that's what you have :)
Except that it has been demonstrated that no amount of 'anonymization' or 'pseudonimization' is effective at actually disconnecting the data from the person. With enough data, you can figure out who's who even with this 'randomID'.

Simple example: A random user with ID 'aaa' will provide location data throughout the day. This provides you with the means to figure out where they work, how late they get up, what their average walking speed is, etc. One day the user get's a new randomID 'bbb'. At first glance there is no connection between 'aaa' and 'bbb'. But from a specific day 'aaa' stops transmitting data, and 'bbb' starts transmitting data. 'bbb' will submit the same data and thus you can figure out for example their walking speeds and place of work. This means 'aaa''s data will match 'bbb''s. Looking at the datetime when the switchover happened you could deduce that 'aaa' and 'bbb' are probably the same. With more data points you can increase your accuracy.

IE: with sufficiently large datasets (which they have), no amount of anonymization works (which they know).
For us Macheads it looks like there's a brew formula in the works: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/43459

I do a fair bit of viz work, this tool could come in handy for generating color schemes I think.
Juvenescence Raises $100M to Increase Human Lifespan to 150 Years
I contrast this with the experience my dad has while traveling in NYC with his pro laptop in about 2011. The Apple Store needed 3 days to repair, and he was leaving the city before then. They simply recommended a 3rd party repairer who could do it within the day, which is what happened, and consequently giving my dad what he needed, boosting the Apple eco system, and providing better feelings towards Apple.

In the past 5 or so years, however, Apple has consistently been killing their 3rd party repair eco system, as well documented by Louis Rossmann. The idea that they may recommend a 3rd party repair source seems unimaginable, but further, most 3rd party repair basically involves sending the package to Apple repair anyways, as they’re not allowed to make changes on their own for anything but a small subset of issues.
This also explains the beneficial effects of pets.

After all, negative ions are cat-ions.
But there's more to the issue than just safety checking. The "App store tax" really is like a tax: it helps pay for developing the platform necessary for the apps to run on. Without that revenue, Apple would have to start looking for other ways of getting revenue -- for instance, selling my personal data.
...above a certain level of material possessions. You cross the barrier down, and that assertion becomes false real fast.
It doesn't change "drastically," only by a point or so. Knowing the way studies like this typically work, it could also be that if you are smart with your money (e.g. frugal and not chronically short on cash), you're just as happy as making someone more. I'm sure many of the 6's were in the "I'm doing okay, but man my life would be better if I weren't so broke right now" camp.

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/13954
A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 4
There was a programme where primary-school kids were taught Esperanto as their first foreign language for a year, before switching to French for N years. Not only did those in the programme speak better French at the end than those who had learnt French for the whole N+1 years (which was the hypothesis being tested) but it was also found that many of the kids translated arithmetic problems into Esperanto before solving them and translating the answers back into English.
Preach. After 30+ years of using Macs I switched to Windows after being swindled out of about $10,000 in MacBooks putatively covered by AppleCare at $300 per device yet mysteriously somehow not eligible for coverage. Apple, you labored long and hard over 2 generations of laptop stinkage to drive me away, but you finally succeeded. Congratulations.
I have family members who literally have to take whatever job they can find because their options are severely limited, even if those jobs are really bad and no job at all would probably result in homelessness. Some people really don't have the option to "not work there" and it seems rather callous to suggest that.
...but its entirely legal (and reasonable) for a business to stop doing business with an entity simply because they feel like it. No matter if they entity was relying on the service or not. It happens all the time.
This looks promising.

Any plans to have an option to shrink the note to a smaller vertical size? Right now, every note has a large empty bottom border (where the icons and timestamp go when in edit mode). It would be nice if the note "expanded" on edit (and with minimal animation!) and then shrunk down to a minimal size when exiting edit mode.

A couple other features I'd like to see:

• A preference to reduce the margin/padding around the four sides of each note to make it even more compact

• A way to specify a different "code" font (Pragmata Pro!)

• Reduce the height of the main SideNotes window (where you select a folder) so it's just tall enough to show the existing folders

Keep up the great work on your apps. Your company definitely makes some useful tools. :)
Does anyone have a view on air ionisers and their usefulness with regards to mood?

From what I gather, commercial units are sold based on how well they remove odours but nothing much is mentioned about mood elevation. Can the benefit be had from buying a $100 machine or is this just goop science being sold in an electronic box?
> IBM released nothing in

Neither AMD nor Intel shine though, if they were the target of the comparison. For the past 5+ years Intel more or less released slightly tweaked versions of the same CPUs and all those tiny bumps were just wiped out anyway so we can basically just count on marginal power improvements. And up until Zen in 2017 AMD had practically been a no-show for 6 years.
I am not sure if they do regulations like this in our time. With At&t one could argue that this was a regulation that was dealing with a single country; with google & friends one can argue that this is a global thing and that export interests are at stake.

of course the law is supposed to deal with objective reality, and that considerations of context are not relevant here; however I am not sure that this is still true when things get tough.
More Airlines Are Banning Some Apple Laptops from Checked Luggage
I love everything about my hexacore 32gb MacBook Pro... except the keyboard. In fact I rarely use my MacBook now because the keyboard is so infuriatingly bad. I have a 2014 model that I let my kids use and it’s vastly better to type on.
Both is being done of course.

However, I'd love to hear your solution on how to prevent data collection by the very app you're running on your pocket computer.
However, it's important to note that although the sources for RHEL packages are available as open-source, that still doesn't make CentOS an exact replica of RHEL, and therefore doesn't make RHEL itself "free".

RHEL 8 was released almost 4 months ago and there's no CentOS 8 yet. Mainly because taking the "free" RHEL sources and rebuild them isn't a simple case of removing logos and other "non-free" material. The build process itself (the sequence in which packages must be built so that all of them build successfully and with equivalent functionality to RHEL) is a major piece of what makes RHEL, RHEL, and that isn't free (or even publicly available).
Who needs ride sharing if you have good public transport?

You go the far distance to a hub which has lots of parking space and switch to subway, tram, bus or foot traffic, or bikes, or the hip electric scooter.
And disadvantaged or disabled people get better accessibility.
Pity it is hard to retrofit into misdesigned cities.

See EU and how Uber is not making millions here. And taxis are relatively expensive.

Also check South Korea and how relatively cheap normal unsubsidized taxis essentially prevented Uber from getting a foothold...

It does not compete with owned cars at all.
> how slow magit is on Windows

I am relieved, though, that it's not just me.
That's one way of looking at field-effect transistors. A chip is a collection of channels with resistances controlled by each other.
I guess their talking about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20779004
Did you try a model which retracts the keys when it folds ? You can still feel the keys but you cant press and its not as big deal.

But don't expect real tabled experience - its too big for one hand use - the way we use it is like bed/couch browsing so we either post it up or something similar or we watch some shows on it.

For example we are rebuilding our apartment right now and scrolling through pages/clicking images etc. together with touch on a large screen is amazing and especially cool in pair - one person can navigate but the other can just take over when they want. For shopping browsing it's amazing.

Even in laptop mode I feel the touch is intuitive and useful, especially if you don't have a mouse - the experience is way better than a trackpad (even the MBP one).
You´re right. Meetings are bound by network communication constraints. It is a solvable problem in that it´s possible to compute how much time the meeting has to share information, and that helps avoid the problem of having an information collapse due to too many participants, but in the limit, networks and meetings have to learn to self regulate in terms of optimizing use of what is actually a very limited resource.

Judging by human behaviour at most meetings, this is still a work in progress for our species.
There are many names for it, and not all of them are based on body parts. Wikipedia seems to have settled on "Pointing stick".
I don't log anything. Deploy and forget. Sharks don't keep reliving their mistakes. Sharks swim fast, take a bite of whatever they see and move on. Are you a shark or a little fish? There's no time to answer that anymore, I've already moved on.
Non-root containers, Kubernetes CVE-2019-11245 and why you should care
Elastic cloud is not a great option for beginners, at least not at this point. For instance there is no purge of old indexes out of the box, a lot of configuration options are not available, performance issues are inscrutable.

I think it needs at least of few more months or years to be a no-brainer to choose.
Using crev / the problem of trusting software dependencies
Mobile developer myself and I'm scared that this will happen to me, too. I have a >600k downloads open source app on the Play Store and I got 2 warnings for other apps within the last 8 years on the store without any explanation or what so ever. The non existent communication from Google really stinks.