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Interesting TIL. Definitely not how I perceive marketing though. I always saw it encompassing promotion and brand.
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Only now realising that something had changed. I've spent days thinking I did something wrong that has made Slack more annoying. But of course more annoying is basically the spec for every new feature.
With the state of statistics literacy in this industry, "usage metrics" often mean whatever the person citing them want, with no malice or deception intended. Accidental, inadvertent p-hacking is shockingly common.
Zulip looks great, but it also looks like the sort of thing I'd have trouble convincing everyone to switch over to because even though it might be more useful in the long term, in the short term its a bit more complicated (even though we're on the free slack, so we're looking to move elsewhere)
That style of communication where a corporate entity pretends to be friendly and concerned even as they're downright shutting you down is extremely annoying. It comes across as dishonest and condescending. I wish this type of PR would go away.

If someone who's reading this works in social media, here's what would have been less annoying:

- Saying "it's not possible right now, but you have a point and we'll reevaluate this" (even if it's a lie)

- Saying nothing
That's a very good observation. I think it's true that having the free option changes the context very much.

There are people who pay for paid password managers when free alternative products available. I myself pay for a number of services (very reasonably priced) when I could have used free alternatives. The difference is the guys I pay don't offer a free edition without ads and nonsense like that. They just build a great software and ask to pay for their effort.
That’s the standard warning for extensions that inject their scripts on every page.
My concern is that they'll count any interaction with this new forced editor as a "win" and pretend it's an A/B test when in reality it's a lark.
It transfers to your Venmo balance and not directly to your bank account.
What’s that stand for? I’m guessing something along the lines of:

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> We are talking about core principles by which people live by, that difference is nonnegotiable.

No. Why should they be nonnegotiable? If I live my life by different principles than you, am I a fool? Or are you? If one of us is a fool, if we talk to each other, that one might realize it. If we only talk to people who agree with us, neither of us will realize it.

Or, we might neither of us be fools. Even if we never agree on anything more, realizing that the person with the other viewpoint is not a fool still has value. It humanizes the "other" to us. Our society deeply needs that. I think that we, individually, also need that.

More, even if we don't abandon our core principles, we still might learn some things that are useful. We might see that, while we still hold our position, the other side actually has some points also. At a minimum, from a purely utilitarian standpoint, we might learn how better to interact with "them".

> Most people do not have anything profound to say.

True. But that applies also to those who agree with you. Find those who are worth listening to, and don't throw them out because their starting position is not the same as yours.

There's a verse in the book of Proverbs that I paraphrase as "The wise man gets lots of advice." In the very next chapter, there's a verse that I paraphrase as "The fool listens to most of it."
If they didn't care what designers thought when they shipped a new logo featuring a colorful pinwheel of erect, stubby penises and dangling testicles, then they won't care what users think when they deploy the equivalent feature.
Hi YC friends—

We’re Eric and Eric (or @shelkie and @karj) and we built Pixaver. It’s an app you’ll hopefully install—but never need to use.

Last summer, Google uncoupled Photos from Drive. When they did, I got a little antsy. I didn’t like the idea of all my photos being in one basket. (Admittedly, they already were, but this change broke any illusion of redundancy.)

So, I went looking for a backup solution, but they all involved too much admin. This led me to build something for my own use—and (of course) we figured there might be a product in there.

Pixaver (pic + saver, get it?) is so easy to use, anyone can put it to work.

You create an account, link it to your Google account, and you’re done. It does an initial backup of up all items, then automatically maintains an external backup of your Google Photos library as new items are added.

It doesn’t replace Google Photos in any way. It’s just added peace-of-mind. Let’s say you accidentally delete a bunch of images on Google Photos. Or, you lost access to your Google account. In either of those situations, Pixaver would offer a way to recover your images.

We soft-launched a few months ago. Then we applied to the Google Photos Partner Program (in part for more API calls). That has now been approved and we’re ready to accommodate more users.

If you have feedback, questions, or criticism, we’d love to hear it. :-)
This new hive mind of corporations empathising with the poor common man needs to stop. It is outrageously frustrating, condescending and patronising. Every CS rep is trained to say “I understand” more often than they breathe. Corporate blog posts wax poetic about their understanding of the struggle of modern life in the first world. How sorry they are to be doing exactly the opposite of what somebody would do, who actually empathised.

I will be the first to admit to a temper, but honestly if I hear one more CS drone tell me how much they understand, I swear to god I will reach through that phone and quiz them on it. Do you really? Explain it to me. In detail. So help you God if you forget anything.

Ugh.

You know, say what you will about the mob; at least they don’t treat you like you’re three years old.
Speedy CPUs with lots of cores are cheap enough that the time taken for garbage collection may very well be worth it.

On the other hand, I do still love code golf and other speed/size/wonkiness competitions. It's a lot like the early demo scene whose sole effort was to show how much they could do with very limited resources.
I'll just go ahead and admit to shilling. Zulip is amazing and I tried to get my company to switch to it. The only thing that stopped us from switching is well, the fact that people have to switch. They have to learn another tool, and Zulip sadly is not too friendly when you first start using it, though it's amazing for power users.

I literally believe it's the future of enterprise chat. There's no better tool for getting actual work done.

edit: I guess I should clarify about the shilling part. I contributed a single feature to zulip, once. So I guess I'm not really a shill, but I love the product.
According to the some preliminary studies, yes, people will use self-driving cars for more road hours than existing models. Apparently a similar effect was visible as ridesharing services became popular.

https://jalopnik.com/zombie-miles-and-napa-weekends-how-a-we...
"Solutions like S3 require uploading, a separate CDN configuration, a manual review of raw data logs, and tedious cache flushing each time you make an update."

I love all types of automation that lets me avoid doing any of the above. The pricing plans are also very generous... Time to start playing with the free tier :)
Are you using price negotiation as an example or are you reducing negotiation to price? Because these writers will say negotiation is everywhere (in relationships, dating, friendships, corporate politics, getting good customer service, any sort of search for a favorable compromise in any sort of way).
Some people don't care, but the ones who do care and don't like the change, tend to really not like it.

Personally, I think the importance of not upsetting the established userbase far outweighs the probability of maybe growing that userbase a little.
my experience with Slack technical folk (on some tricky auth bugs and other issues we've hit over the years) has been excellent. They're fast, knowledgeable, never pass the buck, and communicative. If it's the PMs doing this, they're letting down an otherwise great team.
Also, I don't know what anyone expected from a company that looked at HipChat and thought, yeah, let's buy _that_.
It's interesting to think about how an ancient society was capable of what would be a billion dollar project today, even with modern tools and methods.
The difference is whether the person is expected to manage the situation on their own. If I said that to a buddy of mine who I know works on his own car he would be upset. He imagines himself capable of working on cars and I just communicated I don't think he can handle it.

Nobody wants to be the person that other people see as a basket case. Just because someone is upset doesn't mean they can't solve the problem.
I read that first excerpt twice, and couldn’t find anything that supports the idea that they were well treated. Help?

Awesome sources! That diary looks fascinating.
Airliners rarely use welds because they're very hard to make with consistent high quality and are also very hard to inspect. Instead, they're riveted together.
People sometimes leave the room during commercial breaks. Advertisers realized this and started increasing transmitting much louder audio to make sure the audience can't get away. So I use the mute button and the problem is solved.

What if broadcasting companies sent signals during commercials that told the TV to disable these features? "They've enjoyed the movie, now it's time to make them pay. Don't let them change the channel, mute the audio or lower the volume". How long would it take before TVs that didn't follow these intructions entered the market?

Browsers have features publishers don't want people to have. We can download copies of "their" content. We can delete their ads. We can filter out their user tracking malware. This is possible because the browser serves us, not them.
echo "<ctrl-v><ESC>c"

...is still in my memory.
Your first point reminds me of this talk about consistency in training and why russian wrestlers are supposedly always the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fbCcWyYthQ

I've been applying this concept 5 days a week to do 20 min of exercise. It's so much easier to do more in the long run by doing it everyday and not going all out exertion.
You're likely thinking of dream induced lucid dreaming, in which you've trained yourself to run routine reality tests such as looking at text carefully, and if the test fails, you are triggered into greater lucidity from within the dream.

OP was talking about falling asleep in such a way that you never lose waking awareness, you just watch as your sense of the world as it was is replaced by a dream world, and then you can explore the dream world as you like. Also known as Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming.
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This is why all my invoices and my first contact with my clients’ accountants always make them aware of the problem and ask them to confirm any account details changes out-of-band via another medium (Slack, phone, etc).

It won’t help if the attacker spoofs the first invoice but hopefully will raise alarms if future invoices are spoofed and contain different bank details. I guess it could also give me a legal argument that I’ve explicitly made them aware of this risk and that they should’ve known better and that they still owe me money and should pay again (as the first time they haven’t actually paid me but the attacker).
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> 5. If you are one of two founders: Don't have sexual intercourse with the wife of the other founder of the company. He will find out and because you have 50/50 shares in the company, everyone needs to pick a side. This destroys the company.

This sounds juicy...
Look, this was somebody's OKR so it had to be shipped. Can't you people understand that?
I mean, it's probably not bad feature for a lot of people. But for goodness sake, why not make it optional?
> I guess that’s what growing up poor is like...

Basically yes. Some skills are only available to those who grew up rich (on average, of course exceptions exist)
I read this title as "NSA thinks they are getting close to enough qbits to mount real attacks, please don't switch to PQC before we get a return on our investment!"

In other news, your totally-trustworthy not-at-all-compromised neighborhood NIST is working on new PQC algs!
According to Christianity (and a number of other religions), no one is good enough for heaven. We have to be perfect, and no one is perfect. So, if Christianity is true, one cannot be a 'good atheist' and hope to get an eternal reward, i.e. being a 'good atheist' is not a loophole that works in both worldviews.
I think it stands for _Highest Paid Person's Opinion_
Postgres has all sorts of great stories for customisation. It does custom aggregates better than MySQL or SQL Server, for example, because you can just write them in SQL with not hassle.
That's actually a legitimate feature of a swimming pool if the building doesn't have another water supply (e.g. mains water or a pond) nearby.

In Australia they are a tax deductible expense as a water facility: https://www.theland.com.au/story/4330059/cool-pool-20k-tax-w...
I believe his wife speak Cantonese mostly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_Chan), and Mark learnt Mandarin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2fucDSilWE. Even both are Chinese, but has huge difference in pronunciation.
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That's exactly how I'd explain it. It took me about 3 hours to be extremely comfortable using it and feeling productive. But first impressions by all of my coworkers were "It's so confusing", "There's no way we can use this, it's terrible", etc. But it's amazing. Just absolutely fantastic.
The skin is the pressure vessel, double walls are a waste of valuable mass.

They gave up on carbon fiber awhile ago.

*I think they still use small composite overwrapped pressure vessels for fluids they need less of than CH4 and O2, just referring to giving up on carbon for the main tanks.
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It is strange that a creator would understand the motivations of his creation.
Am I the only one who is obsessed with performing my life as if I could be a kind of prodigy someone might film a documentary around in many years time?

Socially it probably doesn't do me much good, but it's a side effect of being overly self-conscious.
And those natives would need to return it to other natives, who would need to return it to other natives, and so on for a thousand or so generations.
It does sound like SQL Server and SSMS have some very interesting choices in remoting models, based on what I've read of Azure Data Studio's development.

Azure Data Studio's the VS Code-based SSMS-like tool focused on Azure SQL and Cosmos DB. At one point the development blog was talking about it as if Azure Data Studio might some day be the eventual replacement for even SSMS itself, but they seem to have walked that back, at least in part due to how many crazy things SSMS does and how SSMS is one of those tools that certain types of users would possibly go into some sort of costly meltdown if their cheese moved.
I convinced a vendor they needed to stop being Chrome-only. The sales guy was sitting next to me, I loaded the page in FF, and turned to him and said, "Seriously, you want us to install a browser we otherwise refuse to use for this?"

It was fixed that week. Unfortunately, this trick does not work very well on non-enterprisey sites or after you cut them a check.
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Come on, I am a nobody Chinese living in US, and China doesn't need my single prop up.
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Depends which ones. UK Faster Payments are pretty much irreversible; now the law says that it’s illegal to keep money not addressed to you (if someone fat-fingers the account number for example) but it still doesn’t mean the transfer can be magically reversed; if you take out all that money immediately there’s nowhere to get the money back to reverse the transfer; your only option is the law which won’t work for an actual attacker who’d use a hacked account, stolen identity or money mule’s account.
I find a lot of online ecommerce sites to try to associate coupons or discounts directly to your account/email maybe to avoid these coupon sharing platforms.
The problem here is that generally the arrow keys are in awkward positions unfortunately.
They can have highly competent researchers and still be institutionally stupid.
Some conservative votes could be had if this this were seen as a state's rights issue. Libertarians should be all in too, except for this bill includes a tax.
Most likely though the problem is getting enough "law and order" centrists of either party to think outside their box.
Ask HN: Just coming at of university/college got any tips?
I just got my results back from the exams I sat two weeks ago, and I found my self just about crying over how scared I was for the future as there is no real set path from here on, I honestly don't feel prepared at all. So what tips do you guys have for the future?
I wouldn't be so sure. I don't have the quotes, but even Trey Gowdy and Mitch McConnell have admitted that, while they don't approve personally of cannabis, they cannot deny that the proliferation of state-level legislatures decriminalizing and regulating cannabis has completely lapped any federal attempts to manage and enforce the Controlled Substances scheduling system.

It is really easy to nod and agree that Mitch will kill it, and I can already hear the typical blowhards warming up their bellows to remind us how un-American cannabis consumption is, and how bad it is for the youth. But the pressure is enormous, and several senators have expressed understanding that the pressure is one of a federal government being unable to lawfully manage its interstate commerce and state-level systems, to say nothing of keeping up with medicine and science.
Congrats on the launch. This is a very beautiful landing page. Did you use a landing page builder or is it all hand-coded?
Ok so does that mean phones are atomic and also consistent across languages? If so that makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the clarification!
This is a mistake. The hard-to-edit, assembly-language-like nature of PDF is a feature, not a bug.
So the company is doing this to protect employees who don't want to unionize?
A new high water mark in "they paid $x for a company I never heard of?!?"
That’s understandable. I’d imagine at some point you’ll need to decouple the monolith a bit in order to work effectively as you scale. Best of luck with the challenge.
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Paypal effectively has a monopoly.
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> The goal is for workflows to evolve

This exchange is a pretty good summation of one of the biggest purely practical reasons why I'm so obsessive about tools, and why I'm so willing to put up with the initial cost of learning systems like Linux and Vim/Emacs.

Outside of fundamentally better workflow improvements, most professional fields don't randomly change their tools. If you gave a professional artist a new pencil that had to be gripped differently for no reason, they'd throw it in the trash.

But in software, we tolerate buggy tools that change all the time for no discernible reason. We tolerate software that simultaneously targets professionals and casual users, serving both segments poorly. We tolerate software that can't be customized or adapted for specific workflows. It's tough to put into words, but if you watch a musician or a painter interact with their tools, there's a very clear difference that emerges, and over time you start to realize how much better all of their stuff is.

In most professional artistic settings, workflow changes only happen because they have a clear benefit -- drawing from your shoulder instead of your wrist, changing your embouchure if you play an instrument. And even in those fields, it's generally accepted that over time people will end up with very specialized setups that are very consistent and refined and that remain constant for years and years.

Only in the software industry would someone tell me that my professional tools should change because change is inherently good. Only in commercial software would an elegant, consistent interface like Markdown that allowed me to build up decades of muscle memory until my computer was an extension of my fingers and I didn't need to think about the way I typed -- only in software would that be considered a bad thing.
The explanation for Cantonese in that Wikipedia article could be used just as well for Mandarin by simply replacing 唔→不, 冇→没, 唔好→不要, 咪→别,咗→了 ... so the rules are pretty much the same, they're just instantiated with different vocabulary.
Out of curiosity, how old are you, if you don't mind me asking? I recall going through some reasonably similar stuff when I was 19. Curiously enough, in my case, I found biofeedback to begin to start pulling me into some similar terrain.

Now, ten years later, I feel much further away from it than I have before. However, your experience isn't the first I've read where breathwork allows you to control mental "elevation" (for lack of a better phrase) at will -- it makes sense, given the way that breathing integrates into the mind/body connection.
Almost all textbooks and dictionaries use their own transcription key, I haven't come across plain old IPA in language learning textbooks, only in linguistics textbooks.
>>it doesn't appear that it's the British monarchy that's been principally embroiled in recent offshore banking scandals

There's no evidence that they have neither is their evidence that they haven't participated in that kind of activity. Perhaps they don't need to (at least not while they are still popular in their country). Perhaps it's just a result of lack of exposure in the Western press - I wouldn't put it past the economist to not cover it if indeed they were involved in something like that. Look at the (lack of) coverage of the Epstein case for years for example. Your comment is trying to be balanced and impartial but is a little (maybe unintentionally) biased.
I think it’s good. Better to find the flaws now and do a resdesign, instead of having astronaughts being blown out into space ;)
It's more a case of doing something everyday, eventually you become that thing. It's just a matter of time and consistency.

Faking happy could very well be one of those things.