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I as a developer asked for it. Always tried to develop UWP but Microsoft has made it the hardest possible to. SDKs for UWPs are many and each of them is someway incompatible with their other revision. There used to be at least 3/4 competing different "versions" of "Universal" windows platform SDKs at the same time, each of them with different features and device support (including the latest which is like Windows 10 but only from certain major updates).

Sadly, even this just looks like XKCD #927 all over again.

It's honestly so ironic how little universal any of it is, in the end.
People from Microsoft or from the startups?
Author here, love the comments. The biggest criticism that makes me want to revisit and edit the article is the 2-month -> 4-month API example. I remain convinced that the Scrum process that I describe is OFTEN responsible for slowing down projects AT LEAST this much.
That said, I think I need to come up with a better example. It's honestly hard to explain in words.
This is a great step. Will they ever have a pure subscription product without advertisements? I really want to see a news outlet that serves subscribers.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23231237
Notion gives you a number of options for structuring data (tables, datatypes, formatting) and collaborating (great comment/tagging system + nice doc hierarchy). As a builder I have to say that it's a really nice product. The interaction design is extremely good, but.....

IMO the biggest issue with these sorts of better-mousetrap documents/business tools is that they add another application to your organization. They're almost all slightly better than Confluence/GSuite (and I say that as a GSuite fan), but my team already runs our SSO/Email etc through GSuite and our issue tracking through Jira. Even with better functionality, maintaining another tool can turn the value proposition negative for scaling companies due to time spent on enablement, vendor negotiation, change management, wrangling of docs, security, etc.

Of course, these products like to sell/market via guerrilla, bottoms-up strategies propelled by their great design and natural appeal: the people introducing them to organizations are typically insulated from the negative logistical externalities. This allows them to dodge a top-down procurement process that would have much higher requirements. There's a whole organizational question of whether it's best for your company to accept new bottoms-up tools that incrementally improve efficiency, or accepting "worse" tools that simplify the overall logistics of running a team.

Fwiw my team also used Dropbox Paper in the early days of the product, and the story then was quite similar to Notion (we weren't customers of Dropbox's storage product).
Mail is to Data as Video is to Data. Youtube is a private data service. We are in a discussion of the comparable consequences of competeing private mail services.
It sounds a lot to me like OneNote, where you paste in bits and bobs of standard Office formats.

It feels like we see a new Office app every few years that's supposed to enable some magical flow of business, but every Office app I actually see used in offices has been around since 1995 or earlier.
This is going to be a bit of a roundabout answer, so please bear with me.

Our first task is to prove we there we can provide sufficient value through objective info, and in helping people figure out which tools to invest in.

This is a bit of a convoluted way to say that we aren't 100% sure on long-term monetization, but we do know it probably won't be wirecutter-type affiliate nor paywall. We fully subscribe to the pg thought process behind this: http://paulgraham.com/good.html. That said, if we can accomplish our goal, we believe we can make money somehow, whether by offering value-added services or something else. Keep in mind that we're software developers ourselves, so we're in a position to build something once it becomes clear where the opportunity is; we're not just review-writers. For now, we're focused on producing as much value as we can by writing useful reviews. Speaking of which, we'd really like to hear what would be most useful to you in evaluating SaaS products!
The one thing that bothers me about Notion (and Slack and other "everything in one place" tools), is the lack of encryption. I might have FAANGophobia, but whenever there is a free tier without a form of end-to-end encryption in place, it feels like a data puddle waiting to become a lake.

That being said, having clear-text data would allow features like an API on publicly shared pages/blocks, to use Notion as a CMS. I have seen some attempts [1] at reverse-engineering their internal API, but an official one on a paid plan could be a nice addition.

[1] https://github.com/splitbee/notion-api-worker
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As a fan of Wirecutter, this looks really useful.

Small nit: dashes over underscores on URLs and looks like you don't have metatags properly set (Facebook, Twitter etc)
Second this. It works for me. I'd recommend being brief and not to go overboard on the sales chat, just a simple and clear ask.
Now they've taken to pitching me pretty extreme propaganda from the likes of The Epoch Times.

Seriously, why can't we say No Thanks to a company's ads and let them stop wasting our time and their money?
Every time I run into bugs, and feel like I'm doing everything right, but it's just behaving unreasonably for some reason, but then find the issue and feel stupid. This one is one of those
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Overleaf.com uses websockets for collaborative LaTeX editing. I personally think making a nice git workflow for non-technical academic types who are stuck using LaTeX might have been better.

Slack and probably any other chat app.

A certain hardware vendor for networking equipment uses websockets to tell device's when a user wants to establish a connection to that device. Websockets are used to broker webrtc/p2p connections in that case.
>basically the only person that is qualified to suggest what was asked to be changed is the person fired

What? By this logic, it would be virtually impossible to fire anyone who was willing to lie about what was said behind closed doors. Not saying the person in the article is lying, but I hope we haven't devolved to a state where individuals can make claims about wrongful termination and just automatically be assumed to be telling the truth. We have courts of law and discovery processes and things like that.
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Yeah, the man churns through equipment and tests at a rare pace. So much I'm concerned for his sanity sometimes. So clear, so to the point.. pure service.

One great channel is the aptly named "Tool teardown":

- he even compares Harbor Freight entry level variants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1keZFiKQhPc

- and the HF high grade vs dewaldt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK3wsTsauq0&t=441s
> Microsoft Lists is designed to be the next evolution of SharePoint Lists [0]

Exactomundo!

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21263400/microsoft-lists-...
I don't think you'll be able to control occasional or not.
This is a Pandora's box [1] situation. Either you open it or you don't. And having alternative languages as direct competitors to Emacs Lisp, available for interactive development, would certainly be blowing the box apart.

I wouldn't mind Scheme as an alternative, the only alternative, except I don't think I'd use it myself since I would still see Emacs Lisp as domain-superior.

Agreed on the rest, except as I said, none of that materialized from the Guile camp whilst we had plenty of that goodness emerge in core Emacs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box
Sounds more like it's OpenDoc reborn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc
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I have to support IE8 at work so this wouldn't work.
I think you're expected to be using an Office 365 account, not a generic Microsoft account.
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I really don't mean to be rude, but why don't you just read their homepage (and the one posted here)? It should answer most of your questions. (Hint: It really is _way_ more than "just-another-note-taking-app-that-supports-markdown-and-embedded-pics".)

https://www.notion.so/
So many domain names I bought and never used. Haha the idea seems so great at the time. I suppose you just have to go about trying different things until you start to have some traction. it's just important to recognize that it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking something is going to be super simple, and then starting to execute without any sort of detailed plan. The result ... Wasted time and money
HN trending expectations: how eBPF works

HN trending reality: How I make a zillion dollars a day with a yet another SEO/web scraping/reselling domains business
That would make for an awesome "saw a coupon, this is what they shipped!" story. Probably good resale to an FBO.
> So we need a code path that is specifically for calling the str() function on ints. I would argue that this is prohibitively specialized for an interpreter,

I would argue it isn't. It's actually less about the ints but about the tuple allocation:

"Now that we've removed enough code we can finally make another big optimization: no longer allocating the args tuple This cuts runtime down to 1.15s." (down from 1.40s)

It seems to me that having special case for one argument, avoiding the tuple allocation in each call is nothing "prohibitively expensive" and would benefit all the functions being called with one argument, and there are enough of such.

Regarding ints vs something else -- somewhere in the code there is anyway different code that does str of int vs str of something else. It's just about accessing that code for that type, it doesn't have to cost having today's speculative execution in the CPU's. The people who produce compiled code know about that and can use it.
Notion is the embodiment of busy work --> false sense of being productive.
I wish that companies would not release information about their apps until they are ready. Perhaps Microsoft is attempting to head off current Office365 subscribers from putting their workflows in AirTable by telling them that a similar product is on their horizon, but it I just don't know what to do with dates like "Coming this summer" and "later this year." Either I have the need now, in which case I'm probably using AirTable, or I'm going to sort of forget about this software until someone else on my team gets everyone together and asks them to migrate to it.
Food is also essential. Do we have municipal farms?
I too was happily paying for my personal plan.

Recently they have been hiring aggressively and expanding their templates for specific use cases. Coming from a cynical HN perspective, this looks like another promising startup falling into the vicious cycle of using VC money to fund hyper growth.

However their founder Ivan Zhao has been outspoken about not taking more VC money than necessary, and creating sustainable growth. So for now I'm approaching this news with cautious optimism.
Ah yes ok I get it now.

There is feedback from the attention centers. In particular, when you pay attention to things, those connections get reinforced. So the real feedback occurs on a bit of a different timescale than the rest of your cognition, though there's probably some shorter term feedback too if I had to guess.

In a sense, I think there's a center of attention/awareness that consists of almost all of what we usually call consciousness largely because it's contents also get fed back in as an input. There's the self-awareness component.
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Same, though I think the BikeTours/GoSojourn thing may just be an imperfect example of a point that is correct.

A better example (for me at least) would be backroads.com vs. something like biketourstoday.info. The former is distinct, trustworthy, memorable, greppable, and just good. I thought a lot about these things in starting my business. While capiche.com doesn't say anything about SaaS, I think it resonates with people more than, say, saasreviews.io or whatever would've.

btw, this post is highly relevant and is one I reference often: http://messymatters.com/nominology/
I'm curious, I'd love to know more about the business model in this space? What's the revenue model in the GIF business?
Hence the utility of court cases, with people under oath, and penalties for falsehoods.
That there is any significant confusion at all means it is not de facto (and if something is right and true based on a definition I don’t think you can call it de facto either...).

The distinction really doesn’t seem that important for most use cases so it’s not that surprising a weaker, possibly more useful interpretation has become common...
No, thats flawed thinking. When you invest in a company, you are investing in an organization that will (at least its their responsibility to) try to succeed. They want to make money and/or grow. On average, investors are virtually guaranteed to make money. Thats why you call it investing, you are taking money and putting it into an asset that creates wealth. the strategy for success is in your hands.

when you buy a lottery ticket or place a bet in a Casino, on average you are guaranteed to loose money (unless they are bad at their job or you are cheating). you are just hoping that you will not be one of the majority of losers, and this is at random. success is in the houses hands.

your way of thinking on this is poisonous and its important you understand the differences, or at least make the world a better place by keeping your mouth shut on this subject. Telling people investing is gambling makes the world a worse off place.
Yep, and this fiasco was easy to predict: of course nobody (enterprises and hobbyists) would rewrite decades of legacy code to a platform that 1. wasn’t supported on the most deployed Windows version at the time 2. didn’t provide feature parity with Win32 3. imposed an ugly toolkit not adapted to desktop apps (i.e. 100% of Windows device at the time, and probably still >90% nowadays) and 4. imposed a distribution model with a very significant "store tax".
There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate_of_the_World from 2011, which is still rated "Mostly Postive" on Steam.

It is very hard! As it should be?
For me it's a case of "you only get one chance to make a first impression". I'm interested now. By the time it's released I might not hear about it or I might have lost interest.

At least always provide a "notify me" email option.
Alpaca streams bars not ticks.
Don't victim blame us here. This is 100% Google's fault for abusing their position as a monopoly.
No, you're mistaken. We don't hold payments at all (we are not licensed to intermediate). If you use the browser to tip a creator who hasn't signed up, your browser holds the tip and retries every 30 days up to 90th day.
It feels like Notion but less sophisticated.
I have never heard a satisfactory explanation for why this isn't what's done. When I'm reading about lawyers I might be looking for lawyers, when I'm reading about rolling pins I probably want a rolling pin.

Three weeks later I've hired a lawyer and bought a rolling pin and I don't need those ads anymore, they are perhaps the least profitable ads to show me.
I don't think it's especially great at note taking. I'd prefer a different directory structure for that.

The love for it makes more sense if you think of it as a really simple website builder. You can have a database of pages with structured data, unstructured data, and nice layout. That sounds simple, but it covers a lot of use cases.

If you check out communities talking about Notion, you'll see the layout stuff is huge. You might even think it's overboard, to the point of productivity porn. But if you're the kind of person who cares about that (think the girl in middle school who took notes with 6 colored pens) or you want to make something pleasing to use for a tiny organization, you can end up falling in love with it.
100% expected this to just be a jpg of all the hands pointing to home for corona virus lockdown.

built something similar back in '06: http://thisispete.com/weatherclock
Will Linux fix their mouse support as part of this project?
The most common issue is that municipal governments treat service providers as a revenue source. They charge high fees per utility pole, foot of trench, or resident serviced. These fees are then passed on to the user, who thinks the provider is responsible for the high costs.
Because I have read their homepage (multiple times) and I find it to be nothing more than marketing speak that doesn't actually explain what it does or what it's good for, nor does it convey actual human experience using the product (which HN is excellent at discussing).

"With Notion, all your work is in one place" is a terrible descriptor of a product.
It's opt-in, we do not and will not turn it on by default. If you want to try it, click on the triangle in the URL bar on the right. Thanks.
The logistics just aren't there.

You'd have to find people willing to take them, transporting them, slaughter them, and distribute the meat.

We are talking about slaughtering and butchering millions of animals in a non-factory setting, not practical. On top of that transporting animals and/meat at that scale is not cheap or easy.

This sort of operation is very difficult to do on an ad hoc/emergency basis.

If an organization would just pick up any unwanted animals on demand, I'm sure the farmers would be happy to hand them over.
Knowing their aversion to VC in their history, I had the opposite reaction — this feels like a play to boost raw user count in order to attract an investor.
What about uninstalling apps?
"Plenty of folks have implemented Emacs in various languages (using the same "abstracted out" definition) and guess what, all of them went nowhere."

If they were:

1 - Lispy

2 - Faster

3 - Fully compatible with existing eLisp packages.

I think people would switch.

Guile Emacs is all of those except (at this point) faster.. when I tried it, it was unfortunately way slower.

If the speed could be improved a lot and the remaining bugs ironed out, it would be a very strong contender.
Burlington does, seasonally.

However, Vermont gets very cold. Unless you want to hide out in someone's basement all winter to survive it's not really feasible to be homeless all year round.
Was it ever mainstream in the sense of non-techy people using it?
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It's in Google's best interest to let the company pay them for showing you irrelevant ads.
I want to have a right to know how much money was paid for my clicks and views. At the very least, I should have access to all data regarding my clicks and views and have the right to ask that to be removed completely or for a date range.
See the article and links therein
> The unemployed can be trained to run fiber,

I feel like this is a bit arrogant. This stuff is skilled work. A fiber splicer is a $5,000+ piece of equipment. There are electrical, optical, environmental, and safety considerations all in play. It's not something you can just teach people to do whose other employment options are flipping burgers.

A couple of years ago, I got to watch the whole fiber installation process in action when I had Comcast Gigabit Pro installed in my house. Leaving aside the months it took to get county permitting, it took a team of guys a whole day to run it from the nearest splice point 1,700 feet to my neighborhood. Another half day to run it 200 feet to the pole by my house. Another half day to trench it under my driveway and into my basement. And another half day to install and configure the CPE.

For those people who own homes: Think of how much money it costs to get a team of skilled laborers to spend a couple of days doing anything around your house. I just had a new heat pump condenser and air handler installed. I could buy the parts online for well under $3,000, but with install it came to $6,700. Almost $4,000 for two guys to complete work that took a few hours. I bought marble countertops that cost $2,300 for a slab, and another $2,000 for a day's worth of work to do finishing and installation. Tomorrow, I'm going to spend close to $500 in labor for an hour of work to get a sump pump replaced. Renovating a bathroom can involve $5,000 in materials costs and $10,000 in labor costs for something that takes someone a few days. I suspect my fiber install--probably six man days--cost Comcast close to $10,000.
I'd love to see more work on real-world city simulations that allow normal people to play around with them as well. Most realistic simulations right now are only accessible to experts (and even those don't tend to be at a scale to try to simulate an entire city or more). Anyone aware of others?
Why provide that antique gcc? Better to not provide gcc at all, and an ability to install a recent GCC at user's discretion, than to provide a 12 year old gcc in the base system.

Why is their clang/llvm stale in a new release?
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Do you happen to know of any peer-reviewed sources stating this? Up to now I've not been able to find any.
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In France I believe this may very well have been the case. But I would not be surprised if they plugged that hole with recent laws.

Somehow, I believe piracy is prosecuted under counterfeiting laws there.
"Business principles" does encourage a capitalist view into the problem, which necessitates growing capital as profit until you have surplus to invest in further growth. I think that's as far as you need to go with it -- utilities need to "play the game" because they're embedded in a capitalist system, but they are not subject to the same pressures regarding that profit and who decides what to do with it. It's not really a "business vs utility" dichotomy as much as it is a question of "where does the excess money go". You could argue they're the same thing but setting utilities up explicitly as "not businesses" encourages wonks to throw wacky ideas at the problem and doesn't do much to help the operations day to day.
> Proper role of government is to actively encourage competition, not destroy market by subsidised public service.

This is neoliberal ideology. It's possible to build good public sector services as shown by the rest of the world.
As mentioned in other comments here and I discuss in my build log. There's Apple's Find My Phone service, but this is iOS only. The authentication API for Find My Phone changed while I was working on the project and Life360 has really good support in Home Assistant.

There's OwnTracks (https://owntracks.org/) and Google location services. I didn't try those.

I opted for Life360 because it's supported on iPhone and Android and I just wanted the location data to "just work." I had enough technical hurdles, I didn't want to add debugging why someone's phone stopped sending location updates.
M? Are you sure?

I get a 58kB HTML document, plus 2kB each CSS & JS, 3 * ~400B images, and a 7kB favicon.

Edit: Oh sorry, RAM. Leaving comment just to compare page size to RAM use for interest.
What is your process/disclosure when signing up for these services? When they look at onboarding you as marketing instead of sales, does that affect things?
Im a little confused what the impact of this is... We will finally have 3D acceleration on WSL?

Does this mean I can "finally" train TensorFlow stuff on WSL?
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