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First, I want to say that this tool does look good, has a nice UI, and I'm sure a lot of hard work went into it and kudos to the team who worked on it!

That being said, I'm wondering what this tool adds that current MacOS not already offer built in to your Mac already.

1. Capture with a shortcut - Mac has various depending on what you want to do, Command-Shift-4 being the one that matches what Zappy does but Command-Shift-5 is my new go-to as well.

2. Highlight what’s important with annotations - On Mac, as soon you take a screenshot you see a little thumbnail popup, click on it and you can annotate it with everything available in the Mac Preview app. Zappy seems to just take away one click and the UI looks simpler.

3. Press enter to save - Once you take the screenshot it is saved, dont have to wait for enter.

4. Upload captures instantly (Paid Feature) - Personally I set my mac to send my screenshots to a google drive folder, so they are immediately shareable from the cloud if I want them to be, plus it's free. Can do the same with Dropbox, Box, etc

other mentions:

- Create GIFs and screen recordings quickly - I like the idea of Gif recording, I've been using LICEcap[1] for a few years now but it would be nice to have it all in one place

- Stitch shots together to show the full picture - Would like to see an example of this

- Grab past captures from anywhere - "Stop digging through disorganized folders. Just click a capture to copy its link." I feel like there's some disconnect between this feature's title and it's description. Don't you have to find the past capture to click on it?

1. https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
Well Kushner did such a good job on Middle East peace having "read 25 books" I'm sure he'll do a stellar job on managing a coronavirus surveillance system...

Proof if ever that your parents can pay for you to go to Harvard, you can wear an expensive suit, marry your way into influence and can still be useless.
I still don't see why Google shouldn't have released it. I already pointed out that Wave's problem was that it never found its place, despite a solid implementation, which is just the sort of issue that makes itself clear after being released to the public.
MS Office isn't "banned" from employees' computers at Google. If you need it (and some do) you must request it specifically, because it costs Google a nontrivial amount of money for every user. Same thing with any piece of commercial software: for example, I have Adobe Photoshop on my Google laptop, and I had to request it because it costs Google a few hundred bucks, and most people don't need it at all.

Before Google Docs existed, many employees used MS Office, and when Docs was being rolled out Googlers were incentivized to switch to Docs by being offered kudos, swag, etc (ie, the carrot, not the stick).
It is highly dependent on your needs. It's NFS, and performs accordingly (though EFS has been rock solid in a few different scenarios from an availability standpoint and a baseline performance, assuming you use dedicated IOPS).

Should you run a database on EFS? No. Can you use it to back media files for a web application that are cached using a CDN, or for data files used for processing or temporary storage? Yes, it shines in those use cases... and it's cheaper than dedicating the time required to maintain your own NFS cluster.

Even Gluster or Ceph is, IMO, not worth the effort unless you (a) know how to run and maintain it, and (b) absolutely need the potential speed up that you can get, assuming a well-configured and well-maintained system.
Just in case anyone else was wondering, here's a web app where you can try WebRTC. https://appr.tc/
Really look at any significant benchmark or what types of projects use which languages. The evidence is extremely clear and makes sense due to how computers work.
> Buying healthcare as an individual is very expensive, since you're not buying in bulk

This is a common refrain, but it's actually not true. Individual plans operate as a giant "group" with other individuals, and the size of that group is often larger than most employer groups.

There are a host of reasons why healthcare is expensive in the US, and the "bulk purchasing" is not really one of them.

Source: I work in health insurance.
Mildly funny, but of course a terrible idea as this will wear out the lid and the USB ports. Sorry. :)

It got me thinking, is there a theremin-style music generator that uses wifi, bluetooth and other sensors? There must be.

edit: found only this: https://github.com/protocol7/foliehatt . the one second latency on wifi scan updates sound unfortunate, I bet there is a better way to get ambient data.
Uber is arguing that there are two tiers of workers, with disparate levels of labor protections, and that there should be a third tier in the middle.

Let's say that employees are protected at Tier 1 and independent contractors are protected at Tier 3. Uber proposed a new category of worker with protections at Tier 2, and it claims its workers fit in that category.

I'm fine with the idea of a Tier 2, but I don't think Uber's workers fit in this category.

Uber claims that there are several things that set its workers apart from employees, but the chief things are the ability to set their own schedules and the ability to work for competing companies.

As to the scheduling, there are lots of employees out there who get to set/request their own schedules; it's just that with ride-sharing gigs, it happens at a more granular level. But while they are on the clock, they have very little control over how they get the job done, which is a key differentiator between employees and ICs.

As to working for competing companies, there are lots of employees out there who work more than one job; it's just that with ride-sharing gigs, it happens at a more granular level. But it's not as if any driver is working for Uber and Lyft simultaneously. They don't get paid by both platforms for the same fare. They can be on-call with both platforms at once, but they're only ever getting paid for one at a time. They're just going from one part-time job to another in more rapid intervals than in traditional part-time jobs.

In both cases, the distinction seems more like one of degree than of kind.

What I'd like to see is the creation of a Tier 2, and then phasing out Tier 3, so that independent contractors get Tier 2 labor protections. But Uber/Lyft's workers should be Tier 1 from the start, because they're employees.
Proxy server usage would skyrocket if this became common - as it should.
> largely driven by governments ... tak[ing] real regulation steps

Which ones? I'm only aware of serious efforts in Germany and they basically torpedoed their own electricity use (their per-capita trends aren't good). There aren't that many governments who could stomach doing that to their people.
I've joined plenty of Zoom meetings without creating an account. Are you sure it wasn't just asking you to enter your name and email in the page so people on the call would know who you are when you joined?
Technically it supported it before, but you had to configure everything manually (or with your own automation). Having it native is a lot nicer, and brings provisioning of NFS-style volumes up to par with the current Kubernetes experience.
> In your case I would consider calling UPS and getting in contact with one of their Operations Management folks. What they can do is add a short note about the location of your door to the scanner, so that a driver who is not familiar with the area is able to find it. If you get ahold of one of the drivers they can also let the Operations workers to add that sort of note.

I've actually tried this! UPS operations management does apparently have the description of where my door is, because they can read it back to me when I call them, but the drivers don't seem to use it on the ground.

> As a driver I typically don't have your phone number.

This seems crazy to me! UPS and Fedex do have my phone number because I've registered for their delivery management programs. It boggles the mind that this isn't passed on to the driver.

Thanks for the inside baseball, it's fascinating to learn more about this process.
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Technological progress can be deceiving like that.
Congratulations.
What is better about your solution compared to, say Greenshot?
What would convince me to switch to your tool instead of Greenshot? https://github.com/greenshot/greenshot
I loved BlueJeans but I don't think they have a free option either.
It was really nice to just send a URL to someone and then have them pop into a BlueJeans meeting without a pre-installed client.
Fix shit anyway. You are never going to get time to fix your operational procedures, so just be working on project A or B, but really consider fixing your procedures part of those projects.
> The forging of a signature has always been a possibility

Yes, but it used to be difficult. If you can lift an image off one piece of paper and print it on another it becomes easy.

It’s no different than paper currency. If it’s easy to forge, then the real money becomes worthless.
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> they're not going to offer to give you cash in lieu.

The ICHRA[1], which came into effect on January 2020 allows employers to do just that.

There's even a YC company that offers ICHRA functionality for employers[2].

[1] https://ichra.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22527102
> There are 2 big problems with on-demand/ gig employment

The only developed country where they are a problem is the USA.

Other countries have healthcare regardless of employment status, and minimum wages high enough to live a good life ($19.48 AUD/hr in Australia, for example).

They can, and have been fixed elsewhere.
It's not as applicable to startups as you would think. The real calculation startups are making all of the time that this book doesn't mention is "is it worth making this particular piece scale/secure/robust before we run out of money?"

While it's technically true that the advice would apply to startups in the sense that it would improve their reliability, the elephant in the room is that it doesn't matter. The engineering skill at a startup is understanding what's actually critical, and this book doesn't speak to that.
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Why should energy costs fall below their current levels? There are billions of people who only consume a fraction of the energy that citizens of industrialized countries consume. If anything, energy prices will rise and coal will remain profitable. Energy will be needed to build all those roads and cars. And then there is the scarcity of sand. How can sand for concrete be artificially created but with more energy?
> But for #2, you seem to be asserting that there is some method by which it is possible to determine that a particular salary/wage is "fair" and that "fair" wage must be mandated for all people.

We have a nationally agreed minimum wage.

Expecting that the average person doing a gig job would be able to earn that minimum wage plus expenses is not unreasonable. Since gig type employers, this base wage would need to be 50% higher than minimum wage to account for other expenses paid by employers. (employment taxes being the biggie)
I did not say it shouldnt be exempted, only that on the scale of moral judgments insofar as we are equipped to make them, cheating is and should be far down the list compared to many other acts that individually or in summary could and in many cases should make someone worse than a "good person" by the normal standards of moral judgement that most of us accept and live by.
This.

Will add my experience.

The project is not the problem. The problem is the mindset. A mindset for business has, at least in my experience, a very different set of goals than one to make a hobby project, not even a product.

If you make a business, money must be your driver, your hobby time is just a mean to achieve an end. So it's transformed into a background task.

Also, don't forget that if your business fails, then you'll most probably have to stop your hobby project as well (too many bad memories...). You may have to kill your baby, which is very difficult to do.

A business oriented person transforms opportunities into business/money; another opportunity, another business. A programmer raise his program-child. If one has to make another one, he'll have to kill the previous one (unless he has infinite time to work on both :-)). Making hobby project assume you're emotionally involved in it. That's not compatible with business I think.

Ah, and doing business, you'll attract other people who're in for the business. The kind of people who'll put a price tag on what you do (which will be so less worth than what you think, very tough to ear)

So, be sure you have the business mindset.
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Agreed, but I wish I could host it in my iCloud account. The macOS tools are more than easy and fast enough for my tastes (no disrespect to the makers of this app, who were meeting a need that people have), but then once I've got it... where to put it if I want to share it with someone else, which is almost always what I want to do with a screenshot?

I used to use Dropbox, but as I started using other tools to sync my files I decided it wasn't worth the $10/month or whatever it costs now just to have a screenshot sharing tool. I pay for GSuite, but it's super difficult to host a screenshot there, and also to look at one.

Basically, I'm already paying for way more cloud storage than I need in both Apple and Google, and I already have a sufficient screenshot tool, so it's hard to justify (especially to my partner) that the $x/month line item on our credit card statement is for screenshot hosting.
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Ahh, so this is that "it just works" Zoom experience I've been hearing so much about recently.
So cool. Thank you for being willing to share!
Deciding what story to pull generally revolves around conversations during sprint planning or with a product manager. What commits you did means you're committing which means you probably (should) have had code reviews. Often times code reviews involve discussions.

If you're one of the few people that don't have person-to-person interaction on a daily basis - congratulations. However, that places you firmly in the minority.
>And it is important that those days can overlap with others - what good is a day of fun if you can't do it with friends and family?

Depends upon if those in charge of setting this up viewed family as a bad thing.

From the article:

>The ostensible reasons for the shift were economic. Its accidental social consequences, like families being unable to come together, or religious practice made more challenging, seem to have been seen as a bonus. In one diary entry dated shortly before the changeover, the historian Ivan Ivanovich Shitz wrote disparagingly about how the nepreryvkawould kill off Sundays and all Christian holidays, he wrote, and make it impossible for people to meet in groups, whether union-based or political, or as a family. Finally, he wrote, its primary function seemed simply to generate the illusion of a culture of intense work.
Can someone please explain how this is better than Snaggit where I just press PrtScr and draw a box and annotate + upload to my fav storage/share?
If major plays like WhtatsApp being capable of figuring it out and adopting it with hundreds of millions of users, then I fully believe any-sized company can where it won't kill their business model.

It doesn't need to be a part of Zoom's business model to watch everything so there's no excuse not to. And after that people will stop bringing this up every time their brand is named.
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It seems to me Zoom follows the "dont ask for permission, ask for forgiveness later" model. You don't accidentally send data to China. Zero excuse.
We were hosting third party software in an EKS cluster and needed a way to share state between components of this system. We tried EFS initially but it actually killed the EKS cluster with iowait under load. We found a way to divert most of the systems requirements to local emptydir volumes, leaving only infrequently accessed media files on EFS
It stopped working if the meeting has over 50 people.
That's similar to portuguese, which has saturday and sunday, then numbered days.
Microsoft too seems to be getting less hate than Google/Facebook.

EDIT: Ok MS is not FAANG.
I'm sure it depends on your internet, but I tried hangouts again recently and it was unusable, video mostly frozen and dropping or muddling most of the audio. Zoom was crystal clear, dropping some video frames every few minutes but audio was always good. I'm not sure what hangouts is doing differently, but it's night and day.
I'm not sure that God understands and can explain physics.
Also in the enterprise world, Webex has worked perfectly for me over the past 5 years or so.

I also have a B2B micro-ISV, and chose Webex for that too, largely because it just works, but also because it's almost expected in corporate circles.
Its not cheap but iPeng[0] is the most up to date squeezebox app for iOS

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ipeng/id767266886
Most importantly, does it support the “WAIT 6502, 1” easter egg?
The national agreed minimum wage is $7.25/hour. Every Uber/Lyft driver earns well in excess of that.
I feel like "herd immunity" is very speculative right now and not fully thought out. There are even reports and studies suggesting immunity might not be something everyone gets...

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3078840/coro...
Er... no?

I've only read the first Dune book, but the background premise is largely medieval Europe in space. Together with feudalism, prison colonies, and genocide.

I'm trying to figure out what might make it advanced or different. Their distrust of computers? The Fremen dedication to group survival rather than self? That might be close I guess.
I don't use Zoom myself, but some friends that do have been using this: https://github.com/arkadiyt/zoom-redirector

Seems to work for them, and gets around that whole song and dance you described.
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Would you recommend it for a CMS like system (Drupal) that's backed by a CDN?
> You do realize that in fact most developed countries actually have a healthcare system much like the US.

You're gonna have to work a lot harder than you are here to make this point pass muster. It's pretty blatantly untrue.

Yes, supplemental insurance is often a thing that exists. It's generally nothing like the US system's insurance though.
on #2, someone told me how much they made and I could not understand why anyone would do it - the additional wear and tear on your vehicle and depreciation did not seem to leave a net profit after the first month incentives/bonuses that all the gig employment places were using at that time (you have to be building enough of a profit margin to buy another vehicle at some point - just keeping your head above water seems like a waste of time driving instead of anything else to me personally but maybe I am speaking from a position of too much privilege).
> remove the tax break for employer based healthcare

This is a big part of the problem, but I don't think it would fix everything by a long shot.
There is an Anton 2 (no wikipedia article unfortunately)-

https://insidehpc.com/2016/02/anton-2-supercomputer-at-psc-w...
Yeah this should be higher. Also work @ G, and it's just the desktop version of the app that's been disallowed. We can still run the Zoom web app on corp machines.
It feels like the performance and cost is really built around a very specific use case that basically boils down to "write logs and only read a tiny fraction of those logs".

And then, I've seen way too many people treat it like a traditional file system, and stick things on it that don't expect to find themselves on NFS, and wonder why they get corrupted files.

And, really, I tend to avoid the AWS services with "Burst Balances". It's painful to get a system running smoothly only to have it grind to a halt when you use it under load because some burst balance somewhere went to zero. Your mileage may vary, of course.
@dang: there's a lot more comments in [1]. Suggest to merge both threads (although this one is slightly older).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22815453
> because it costs Google a nontrivial amount of money for every user.

Google is the fourth biggest public company in the world as measured by market cap.

A Microsoft 365 "E3" license is $20/user/month. They can afford it.

This restriction is entirely about eating your own dogfood.
Free + because it's so popular, when you have a problem, there are a million resources to find answers. Not even Adobe Analytics can match that.

My mate worked at Yahoo, and they used Yahoo Analytics, and he said it was great, but that when you ran into any issues at all, good luck working out what to do!

The reality of an analytics product is that a non-techy marketing person needs to be able to solve their own issues without wasting tech time (which is the only reason why TagManager exists), and that's a REALLY hard problem to solve.
I've used Webex for 5 years or so, and haven't experienced the issues you have.

Also, when I was evaluating conferencing systems for my micro-ISV, I tried several - the screen sharing on Zoom was laggy as hell, moreso than I saw with anything else. It was 1-2 years ago, so things might have changed since then.
> Partial function application

Do you mean like curried functions?
I am considering a kickstarter for a game this summer as the core gameplay gets closer. Anybody have any experience with this? I think a playable, good prototype and pre-creating a mailing list probably matters a lot
Unemployment though is structured as an insurance. Those employees pay unemployment premiums. There is no reason (other than a sloppy tax code) why the same thing couldn't be asked of gig workers (who do have to pay tax on their earnings anyway).
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What opposing strategy? Which people with R's by their names are not guilty? And what terrible things are they being falsely accused of?
> Full time employees get benefits like unemployment, health insurance, COBRA, FICA contributions etc.

A huge part of the problem is that full-time employees get benefits like health insurance and COBRA. They're all band-aids on top of one cardinal sin: that benefits are tied to employment.

We don't really talk about employees receiving car insurance benefits, or food benefits, or housing benefits.