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I feel this on a near-spiritual level.

Once you factor in communication tools (including but not limited to...project management, email, calendar, chat, VOIP, and CRM) alongside your "real" technical stuff that actually powers your services or products, you invariably end up with a ton of different tools because nobody has the time to even try to build all those different core components.

There's a ton of friction to doing anything differently. For example, I'm fairly anti-google. Therefore, I host my own email. Doing that, even in the most simplistic way possible, means utilizing several tools or technologies (mailinabox + a deliverability service being the most simplistic I can imagine). A larger operation would certainly have more specific needs that would require another approach - and the human effort of implementation and maintenance that goes with it.

We have a handful of people, in 3 different countries, each requiring differing currencies (USD, GBP, EURO). Our client base is global. Combine the operational complexity with everything else and even a small operation can start to feel like a fortune 500 company.
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>For comparison, when I did this five years ago,....

That is because Intel 14nm was first launched in 2014/2015. And we haven't had any node improvement since then. 5 years later 10nm is barely out. Without competition we have a stagnant improvement.
Car accidents don't increase in incidence exponentially in a matter of weeks.

The chances of being infected right now are kind of irrelevant to this discussion; I don't see very many people panicking that they're necessarily concerned about this very moment, so I think you're arguing against a strawman. People are simply extrapolating a bit, and the trajectory is giving some cause for concern.
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> The hero ingredient is luck.

This... 100% this!

I've mentored and worked with dozens of entrepreneurs and small businesses over the last few years and I mention this to all of them but it's not a case of "if I wait around I'll get lucky". You still need to be active and work hard and fix the right problem with the right solution and then, if you get lucky, you'll succeed.

I teach entrepreneurs to pitch and tell them to go to relevant events. Consistently. They may need to go to 200 events and pitch at them because you have no idea what one of those 200 events will give you the break you are looking for. And then at event 124 someone says "hey, I have that problem, let's talk"...

Now, it's not all about pitching at events but I'm trying to get across the story that you need to consistently do something for a while so that when luck strikes at that particular time you are there.

The chances of getting lucky right out the door are very slim.

Also, I make sure they understand this: Love the problem, not the solution!
What is the benefit of paying for GSuite for such a small team?

Also Github? You can now have private repos with up to three collaborators for free.
Thanks for providing that link. It's not very often I would come back to a thread just to comment on a website. The vast amount of content available quickly is impressive.

The tagline is podcast searching like google. How do you keep discovering new content like google, are you running your own crawler?
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Growing biomass removes co2 from atmosphere. Burning carbon from that biomass releases it back. Make the process efficient enough (with addition of external power) and you end up with no added co2 in atmosphere. That's not just a marketing gimmick.

Of course it is debatable if it is an efficient approach for doing things, but the concept is sound
I'm astonished at the lack of feature detection. I though that was common knowledge.

Using feature detection solves the SSR issue and as a bonus that code won't error if localStorage doesn't otherwise exist (old browsers, tests).

The best method of feat. detection of localStorage, IMO, is writing and reading back a test value in a try catch block. That will catch safari incognito which lies about support.
Haskell was written as academia's response to Miranda's licensing fees. Were Miranda freeware (but not source available or Free Software), it probably would still be well-known. It's still taught in many universities.

I certainly agree that most languages should be libre, but clearly it's not necessary for success. k has brought billions of dollars of profit, but is the most proprietary of all languages. C# developers are the most common in the world, for some reason. VBA is popular. Excel has the most programmers. Mathematica makes millions. Matlab makes millions.
Is this one of those “quit complaining about the collapse of the biosphere / rampant economic inequality / lack of healthcare and be grateful for your toys” post?
2% is very huge, it is every 50th person!
>And if you call in the next twenty minutes...
Sounds like a 2-d superpermutation. That is going to get messy very quickly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpermutation
It's definitely on the design road map, and the starlink satellites are designed to have relatively low orbits and short service lives. But it was too ambitious to jump directly to in the first generation. The ground footprint of visibility of a starlink satellite looking down, with its various spot beams, is a circle many hundreds of km in diameter. It's not like they'll need to put earth stations in a vast number of areas, just concentrated in small to mid sized cities with decent fiber connectivity that happen to be within a 300-400km radius of the remote areas to be served.
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How does testing and quarantine work for people in the US who are not insured?

I am seeing stories around the web of people having to pay 2-3.000 USD for a test and also facing major bills for hospital quarantine?
I mean, basically all desktop software is free if you’re okay with violating the license. Not something I’d advise if you’re trying to run a business.
I have for most of it elsewhere in this thread (I think you can find my answers by checking my /comments), but for what I didn't get to, I'll get to tomorrow. My responses are getting worse as I tire.
> The authors inability to take any criticism is stunning

Unfortunately I find that this is all too common.
2% would be over 6 million Americans. I don't understand why that percentage is often reported as insignificant.
Depend on where the scam is performed. CDC is better than WHO in the US, but not in the rest of the world.
I promise I'll respond to this in the morning, I'm very tired right now and don't want to give a good and reasonable question an answer that hasn't been thought out well, especially given that my responses have been getting less detailed and concise as I've gotten more tired.
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Do you have a citation for the desert bloom?

It was something I saw in a print magazine a long time ago. I can't cite it.

It's easy to pull out a single phrase, like "never celebrated," and nitpick it. In comparison to the handwringing in the news at the time about the imminent global catastrophe we were facing, the success of getting it out out and averting the level of global atmospheric catastrophe that was expected wasn't really celebrated.

We did the same with Y2K. The world expected a financial meltdown. People were stockpiling guns and give years of flour in their basements and then it became "Gosh, I can't program my VCR."

We take success for granted. We don't celebrate that we have 7 billion people with long life expectancy and high standard of living compared to 200 years ago. Instead, we complain about overpopulation and global warming and how we are hurtling towards our doom.

"How to lie with statistics" is a terrific book about how we can take the same data and say different things with it. We tend to frame it quite negatively.

In the end, none of us is getting out of here alive. We're all just dancing on this Earth for a short while.

There are people literally trying to find ways to solve death and wondering if we can be frozen and brought back and so forth. We're never satisfied and there's some evidence that it's partly because we choose to focus on the negative and with 7 billion people there no shortage of bad news, but not because things are necessarily actually worse in absolute terms.
Vaccines have already been developed, but testing can take months.
I'm using OCaml to make my own programming language. OCaml is good for programming language implementation because algebraic data types + pattern matching lend themselves naturally to AST manipulation.

I also like OCaml because it is both imperative and functional, so I can use the best of both paradigms.
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I assume you live in America or Europe. In countries hardest hit masks are almost entirely sold out from retail. I'm HK I hear some people are having trouble buying toilet paper or canned goods locally as people are stocking up.

One problem is that if masks cant be purchased, and here in Bangkok they are already almost entirely sold out, and someone runs out of masks, and the outbreak is bad, they arent going to leave their house. They wont risk it. I hope they also have enough food at home to last.
So u say, LLVM or whatever is insane because it's large. so what do u think about QBE[0] ?

0 : https://c9x.me/compile/
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Last I checked, they can only pass messages to the main thread as strings. All that (de)serialization can easily become a bottleneck, depending on the workload.
Carbon capture is one of the technologies I consider wishful thinking right now. It may well work but I haven't seen anything other than a handful of small scale trials yet people have been talking about it for twenty years.

I'm not particularly convinced by the green new deal either: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563467.2019.15...
A 20% death rate is highly unlikely.The Italian researchers who sequenced the Italian strain believe that the virus has been circulating widely in Italy since January, even before Italy banned direct air flight to China. This seems to be confirmed by the fact that almost all the new cases in Europe are originating from big Italian cities. If the death rate was 20% we should start to see a lot of death in Italy and it doesn't seem to be the case. Iran and Egypt also seems to be largely hit, as many tourist back from Egypt have been infected. Now getting the real death rate is going to be a very complicated game, especially if many infected patient remain without symptom.
I tend to believe the virus is already highly circulating in a high number of place of the planet where the health system is bad, and lacking testing capabilities. We are even starting to see untraceable cases in the USA.
Yes more people have died from the flu so far, but Covid-19 was only officially identified last month and is growing exponentially. Based on the studies we have seen so far, it is more contagious than the flu (R0 of 2.2 vs 1.3), and significantly more deadly (fatality rate of 2.3% vs 0.1%). We're still in the early stages of this and it is continuing to spread.
That’s a cool philosophy...btw how’s that Texas sized gyre of plastic in the pacific doing? Really excited for the hidden hand to fix it
The tool they are building appears to integrate heavily with slack.
I see what you’re saying. I can see speed being a factor... and maybe I’m uninformed... but I’m 99% sure in a true pandemic cost will not be a factor.
Yes the voice chat in roll20 sucks and everybody use discord instead, also for background music as it allows players to set relative volume of each player and music. You can easily keep discord in the background and do everything else on roll20. The system for rolling is pretty good for the games I played (D&D 5th edition and Pathfinder 1st edition).

There's some tips for 5e:

- set "always roll with advantage" in campaign settings to true, it removes the fiddling with the system by the player each time they want to roll, now it's just a click on a weapon or a skill, and it lets DM decide after the roll if it was advantage and change the interpretation without rerolling. You simply ignore the second roll if it was a straight test, take worse or better out of the 2 rolls if player had disadvantage/advantage

- install free chrome extension "vtt enhancement suite" - it allows for executing macros on all selected tokens at once - especially useful for starting combat with lots of enemies - you select for example 10 tokens and click on a macro that rolls initiative for each of them and adds them to the initiative tracker, you ask players to select their tokens and click the same macro - 5 seconds and combat with 16 participants is ready to go - normally I would have to roll physically 10 times, ask players and sort it manually and it would take a minute or 2

- use DM layer for hidden enemies/traps/secret doors/notes/etc - you can then easily move them to map/token layer when players roll perception

- reinforcements in a combat are easy when you put some tokens in DM layer - you can add them all to the combat tracker and the tokens on DM layer will be hidden from the players until you move them to token layer

- make players drag and drop their most used spells and items to a quick-use bar on the bottom left of the screen - it's 15 minutes to set this up on the session 0, but later it eliminates the problem "I closed my character sheet, wait 20 seconds for me to find the button to roll the attack"

- set up tokens to have hitpoints and AC bars on them (keep them hidden from players)
- when you click on hitpoints bar on a token and write "-17" it will automatically decrease the hitpoints by 17 points, don't need to substract in your head every time

All of this allows me to run combat several times faster than I could possibly do physically, it adds up quickly.
Wonderful. Along with original MIT Scheme it is a great teaching language and an example of clarity, brevity and conciseness which comes from a rigorously trained mind.

Beautiful piece of software.
The author of Joda was the primary person responsible for the new Java Date and Time API (JSR-310).
I guess you're right in saying that I probably only based my expectations on the defintition as written in the dictionary:

a person or thing that leads.

I actually wonder if the reason we have so many issues with leadership is because the definitions of a leader or leadership are out of step with reality.

We're basically tricked by the word and it's meaning.
Company I work for has grown to 10 people and the pricing per member things are getting out of hand. We had to drop some services, bc if there is a service that costs 10 per user for just one feature, it's they add up real quick (looking at you slack for example).

Some services have free tier or special pricing if it's only couple of members, but once you exhaust that, you are dropped to full pricing. I think there is a opportunity for different pricing for growing companies between 5-25 people.

It seems that this pay per member works for small companies, couple of people or huge ones. But if you are growing with limited revenue the costs are way too high while you are still also finding your market.
“28 other tools” on top of the two already working there? Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Oh ok. Then makes sense.
You can write code in a functional programming style in k/j/apl, the same as in Scheme etc., but they are imperative languages.
Parent is correct. But business would want to buy a licease for support more than fear of legal threat or Oracle shakedown.

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Well, I don't think those responsibilities are necessarily equal. So situations are so dire immediate action is the priority and some situations are mild enough that they are more like calls to future action.

That said, I'd agree that US leadership, in general, seems to have an attitude of total irresponsibility for anything. I think that extreme income and power inequalities are to blame - ruling class doesn't care, they don't have to.
Just looked up citations given the downvotes, and you're right, the employee wasn't confirmed infected. The employee is suspected to be infected, and they still shutdown the office.

https://www.cityam.com/coronavirus-chevron-tells-canary-whar...
Hello, I like your typography but how did you achieve small caps in Source Serif Pro? I use Adobe Fonts to deliver the same font to my blog, but it said ‘smcp’ is not included in the OpenType feature of this font.

What's more, how did you make the fantastic Gothic style drop caps? ‘WhatFont’ said it's Source Serif Pro but it looks far more different!
Not exactly the same, but I have sometimes wondered how many startups are just burning other startups' money, and would collapse if VCs tightened the belt.

For instance, startup X seems profitable but all revenue is from other startups not making money yet. Like a big ponzi scheme of sorts. Most products mentioned in the article are now mainstream, but for lots of them a few years back they were small and only used by other small startups.
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Thanks for the list. Curious how does Mixplanel compare to Google Analytics? Is it for similar use-case or different?
> in China they have been using widespread facial recognition technology to track who has been near who. From this you can download an app and be informed if someone you have been near has it.

You're severely overestimating the surveillance capabilities of Chinese companies.

When a new case is discovered, the government obtains their itinerary by asking them where they went and looking up which long-distance transport they used (tickets for that are tied to government ID, which is checked before boarding).

When someone wants to look up whether they were close to someone infected, they can use their ID number to check whether they were e.g. in the same train car, or they have to verify for themselves whether they went to any of the same places.

The process is significantly more manual than the pervasive location tracking via facial surveillance you imagine.

What the companies you list could do is to allow everyone who has been confirmed infected to publish their location history, and compare against everyone else's. Using self-reported symptoms instead of confirmed cases would lead to a panic, since most people with a cough right now are infected with something other than the coronavirus.
Wheee! Thanks for that.
Yes, do no evil is gone.
Additionally, one could sacrifice on features and use GitHub projects instead of Trello. That’s what we do at work. Not great, but pretty painless for tracking dev work
I've heard "rathole" to describe taking a meeting off topic.
They are free for personal private repos. Team private repos aren't!
Probably this: https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex
I love the positivity. It's true that a lot of minor improvements in products and services have added up to a relatively frictionless experience. He forgot to mention that GPS is ubiquitous and you can travel great distances with no prior planning, find great restaurants, book hotels, etc. You can also hail a Lyft or Uber with ease in most urban areas. And now, even grocery delivery is very commonplace.

Adulting in 2020 is child's play.
These elements, Javascript, DOM, HTML together portray a picture of modern web development. This is one in which developers are trying to handle more complexity and sophistication while improving their productivity and efficiency.
> since tmux gives you the same functionality

Unless you're browsing HN on Lynx I suspect you'll have at least a graphical browser running, which means you still need some way to manage graphical windows, because that is simply something that tmux does not do.

Also proper WM is unsurprisingly more capable/flexible for window management because it's not limited by a fixed character cell grid and other idiosyncrasies of terminals
The blame Java gets for checked exceptions its unfair.

Firstly, CLU and C++ were there first, so the language designers were building on something that they though was a trend that would carry on.

Most never having learned how checked exceptions were done in CLU and C++, blame Java for them.

Then even though it is more convenient to work without them, I do miss in other languages, because developers hate documentation, so I have to keep fixing code or just had a catch all handler, just in case.
Yeah Congress has already earmarked billions for this virus.
Yes. It's like a dark and dreary NYC but without the good food options. You can find good stuff but you really have to search for it.
> What is the benefit of paying for GSuite for such a small team?

You get Gmail and the other services on your own domain instead of a gmail.com address.

I'm an even smaller team (me, myself, and I) and I pay for G Suite for that reason.
You also use desks, and chairs, computers and displays. Cups for drinking water. Plates for eating.

This is an interesting list, but it thinks of software as somehow fundamentally different from non software products, which is a mistake IMO. It makes it seem like Software is super expensive or something, when in reality, if you think of all inputs into your business, these costs are trivial.
> He forgot to mention that GPS is ubiquitous

Hinted at with:

> we no longer have to worry about our car windows being smashed to steal our radios, or our GPSes

Which I took partly to mean that a Garmin gadget is not considered worth anything. Sure as hell can't fence it. Everyone's got GPS!

(But also yeah, lower crime rates.)
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How's the energy storage density on Hydrogen though? One of the main problems with Lithium is it's heavy and requires a lot of space to store energy.
Live chat on web sockets. I did it for the sake of learning web development and the basics of php, java script, html and css.
An appropriate use is as a progressive enhancement.

For example, I use a similar approach in an open source trivia game[0] to store the last categories selected. Then, when a new game is started, these categories are pre-selected but easily changed. It's not crucial to the game play, but it is convenient.

It can also be used in PWA's when offline.

[0] https://justtrivia.fun
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What I don't understand is how they miscounted so badly. Even ignoring Han unification, Chinese by itself uses more than 65k.

Or was there an intent to not encode some of these rarer characters? I haven't been able to find any info.
Or even better, GPS in our pockets with live maps

Ask me how I updated my old standalone GPS using a virtual machine + USB. Bonus points: when the update starts the USB device ID changes.