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Ask HN: Making meetings compete with each other (not with your ability to work)?
I’m working on a meeting app for remote teams that’s unique in that it doesn’t allow people to select times for meetings. It makes meetings compete with each other for a limited number of hours dedicated to all meetings. This forces everyone to change their habits and embrace shorter, focused meetings with fewer people. As a result, the median duration of meetings is 10 minutes, 4% of meetings are 5 only minutes, and some users are reporting a 6+ hour productivity boost every week.

This is somewhat like CPU scheduling that makes the system efficient, fast, and fair. For some reason, this concept doesn’t resonate well enough with people of an engineering mindset to take action. At the same time, it’s these same people who suffer most from inefficiently scheduled and very long meetings.

Can anyone share any insight on why that might be? If you are an engineer, what’s your take on reading this?
Dapps haven't gone away. I'd say that trend has evolved into DeFi, which seems to be growing quickly.
I think the greater community would rather have it this way. Trying to get a bug in .Net 1.x fixed was not a pleasant or completely legal experience (peaking into .net assemblies, and decompiling to even get the to root of the issue).

Even if I only ever had to do it once... having the option is much better than not.
I used to reject the 'useless use of cat' crowd, I like to build my commands from left to right and the original file should be left most, not an argument to the first transformation.

But I changed my mind. The correction of `cat file | grep someting` is not `grep something file` it is `< file grep something`. The file is still the beginning of the pipe just as `cat file` and `< file` alone dumps the content of the file.

I still won't knock people's use of cat, but I'm using it less myself.
Not in this context.

"RX 7, The industry standard for audio repair": https://www.izotope.com/en/products/rx.html
I think there are 2 issues with Android and iOS development here - first is the steepness of the "on ramp". I learned web development using the "edit html page in text editor, switch to browser, press F5 and look" approach. That was really it unless you wanted to wait a few years then go down the FrontPage route. Android and iOS have a much steeper on-ramp, and the work required to get something simple (but not straight from the docs as an example) on your screen is considerably higher than in HTML. Part of this is due to web browsers benefitting from a full stack and complex browser, as another commenter said.

The second issue is around the abstractions used to make apps - I'll speak for Android here but I believe iOS is quite similar in outline. In Android, abstractions are incredibly leaky and require you to understand much more about the internal workings than HTML does. I can build a site in HTML without worrying about how the browser implements the functionality - for example, I can make an un-numbered list, or create a list box and populate it with items, fairly easily, even doing so dynamically from JavaScript.

In contrast, on Android, you need to start understanding ListView versus RecyclerView (apparently the latter is better to use?). Then to understand Adapters. Then to figure out how to get content into that ContentAdapter. At some point invariably you'll discover issues with whether your code is running on the UI thread (and blocking the UI from updating while it runs, which is obviously bad), or running off the UI thread (and thus unable to update the UI elements)... You can't (at least in my experience) just get down to focusing on your business logic, without reinventing the wheel a fair bit here. You'll also need to discover the "de-facto go-to library" sometimes, where the built in API isn't good. Bluetooth springs to mind, where I believe most people would recommend using a third party library rather than the included one. That's a discoverability challenge.

I don't think we should take this level of control away from anyone wanting it, but I think it's important we recognise mobile development seems to favour the approach of "bring your own batteries, soldering iron, and flux, as we don't provide any", whereas web has some available batteries and equipment you are free to use, or alternatively to build your own. It would be nice to see some default "batteries" pre-installed, so people can get started without having to learn the details of all the leaky abstractions needed to understand how to get an app to show up and respond to input etc.
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I'd avoid WTFPL if you are serious about this as an open source project.

Google publishes their internal open source policy[1], i.e., what open source licenses can be used in Google software. I think it is a solid reference for what a good corporate open source policy is. It explains the reasoning, it isn't some crazy enterprise things that bans all open source (I've seen that), and it isn't some free-wheeling startup that allows everything with no scrutiny.

They ban the use of WTFPL code[2], and ban contributions to WTFPL code.

[1] https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/licenses/

[2] https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#wtfpl-no...
The Right used to abhor postmodernism, and were properly mocked by the Left whenever they whinged about it.

Now the Right have embraced postmodernism, and the Left have no idea how to respond.

TV news corporations know how to respond, and they've done the same thing for five years now. They keep him (or his empty lectern) on TV as much as they possibly can. Ratings gold!
<pet-peeve-soapbox>"which the data does not support" should be "which the data do not support"; data is plural, does is singular.</>
Yes, this isn't legalese, but in what sense are these accusations "wild"? They're factually accurate.

And even if you disagree (perhaps you believe there was some form of Russian collusion, despite the Muller report) the accusations are certainly well within the bounds of mainstream debate. Nothing wild here.
Your blog post is about yet another X Transparency, rather than about Certificate Transparency. Because CT works well people tried to apply the same approach to lots of other problems, most of them obviously dumb.

CT is a narrow solution to a narrow problem. We had that specific problem, and so this is a very good solution. You almost certainly don't have that problem, our solution can't help you, we aren't sorry about that.
It takes about 10 minutes to read and I was able to comprehend it as a layman. I do suggest reading the referenced section U.S. Code 230 [0] beforehand and having it available for reference.

>genderfluid attack helicopterkins

Please avoid transphobic idioms [1]. Replacing "regular normal etc." with simply "laypeople" or "non-lawyers" would suffice.

[0] - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sexually_Identify_as_an_Atta...
Android emulation (I've tried both the bundled emulator and VirtualBox+RemixOS) is the most insanely slow piece of software I've ever seen in my life. It feels like if I were running Windows10 on an original 80386. My laptop is Core2Duo with 4GB RAM, IntelliJ IDEs and everything work great (especially after I've upgraded my HDD to an SSD), desktop and server OSes work great in VirtualBox but Android feels like playing chess via mail. Why does it have to be heavier than desktop Linux&Java?

I don't want to upgrade the PC as I love it the way it is and it's enough for everything else. I feel like I'd like to make a simple app for my phone occasionally (just for fun and to make something in my life easier) but emulation seems impossible.
Tech companies are way too powerful to be left alone. With great power comes great regulations, as they say.
I'm pretty sure that's not the case. Why I can't speak for him from what I have heard about him I don't think he is a fan of C++ either. So D wouldn't be his think either.
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You can already convert any format to man pages with pandoc if you so desire.
Look up the "Gish Gallop". Republican Strategy 101.
> What Twitter did is what a free press does.

Yeah that's the problem. If they want to do what free press does then they should be a publisher.

Calling the other side pathetic and using hyperboles will not win anyone over to your side.

Trump did not lie imo and if you consider his statements up for debate there are plenty of other political tweets that have never been flagged.

Twitter opened a can of worms, they shouldn't have stepped into the political arena.

- edit @ robotron -

Trump has been a political figure for a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEPs17_AkTI

He may not have been directly in politics but as a real estate mogul and CEO I'm sure he's networked in.

To summarize him as just a reality star is disingenuous.
I've been working remotely and from home for over five years now. I think the hardest thing for me about working remotely is dealing with differences in the timezones of my colleagues and the demands that puts on me and balancing that with non-work life. I think if you can get your work / life balance figured out and enforce decent hours, working remotely can be a massively positive thing for your life.
California students to wear masks, get daily temp checks under Newsom rules
Yes, why wouldn't you?

To the extent that you can remain solvent while trying to single handedly warm up the planet, it's in the interest of the rest of us to give you an incentive to shift that energy consumption to a sustainable provider.

This is a perfect example of exactly the sort of case energy credits excel at, since you can shift the consumption to a different time and location.
I would love to see a law that for corporations, once the corporation exceeds some commercial threshold (e.g. 1M customers or 10M/year revenue or whatever) then you are no longer allowed to discriminate against your users for any reason other than violation of non-discriminatory terms of service.

I don't think that companies that achieve near-monopoly status should have the right to arbitrarily cancel, shadow ban, hide from search, delete content, flag content, "fact check", label, or otherwise interfere with users' use of the service.

This is not a "free speech" issue, it's a "when you have monopoly power and positioning in the market, there are no alternatives" issue. Visa refusing to process CC payments because they don't like your politics, is not a power that I want them to have.

If you're a tiny boutique company, discriminate to your heart's content. When you get big, I don't want you to have that power anymore. If you don't like it, then eschew the current fashion of companies to value growth over all else.
It is a distraction. He doesn't want to talk about the economy or the plague, so he's trying to change the subject.
Leaky abstractions at its finest.
I find gnu info, bropages, tldr, and cheatsheet to be much more accessible alternatives to manpages these days, even though rtfm still applies.
‘Censorship destroys the diversity it was meant to protect’: ex-NSA agent
> this one strays pretty far from the legalese into just making a bunch of wild accusations

And for those who haven’t been paying all that much attention to the news, or aren’t familiar with Trump’s reference to “the long-disproved Russian Collusion Hoax”, that’s another blatant lie that needs fact-checking. So here it is:

“A bipartisan investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee has validated the January 2017 U.S. intelligence assessment describing Russia interference in the 2016 presidential election — including Russian efforts to help Donald Trump — describing it as accurate, thorough, and untainted by political bias.“

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/bipartisa...

I’m afraid that President Trump has lost the ability to tell facts from fantasy and is no longer capable of performing his duties as president.
A single HTML file would be an absolute nightmare for anything even slightly nontrivial. This oversimplification falls down almost immediately.
But why is the OP's website down? I get 403.
You keep citing cases regarding private malls. I previously pointed out that a reasonable argument can be made as to why that precedent should not apply. I don't claim to know what the outcome of such an argument would be in court, only that it is a reasonable one to make under the circumstances (and thus the situation is fairly complicated).

> Last I checked, the President is not a member of Congress, and cannot unilaterally override congressional laws.

I never claimed this? I said only that the current situation was not as simple as you made out. (I would also note that the president appears to be targeting Section 230 protections which is quite a different beast.)

> That's not at all what Packingham says.

Except... it is. In their ruling the court _directly_ compares social media to other venues for public gathering. I'm not claiming that they explicitly rule it to be one way or the other (they don't), but they do repeatedly make direct comparisons that would appear to lean that way.
however true the statement may be, it's not therefore an abandonment of pure functional programming. You don't have to program in `IO` or `MonadIO m => m`.

Expressing your state in terms of pure functions of input events, as can be done with an FRP like Reflex, means you can test all your logic purely. You can be confident that you'll only request to launch the nukes when the nukes need to be launched.

Then you have to make yourself confident that, when the system asks the nukes to launch, it sends the right signal. But that's mockable by running the system attached to device that reads the signal and reports its correctness.

And making sure the nukes take off, aim correctly, and land on their target is not my department (says Werner von Braun).
Its almost a year since I was banned from Google Playstore but am not giving up
TLDR : a number of my apps were banned ( honest mistake at my end ).
Rehabilitated and made compliant apps.
Account terminated due to multiple violation while trying to submit an update for the compliant app.

Have been trying to establish contact with the Google dev team. No luck no replies. Anyone has any advice on how else can I try to make contact and explain my situation?

Much appreciated and stay well!
Yeah, it's better. But still sucks. Check out this man page I wrote using mdoc: https://github.com/smabie/stag/blob/master/stag.1

I don't even have any idea what it says or means anymore.. There's no reason (anymore) for macros to only be at the beginning of the line. But will this requirement ever go away? I doubt it.
You mean like the microscopic bacteria keeping our teeth healthy described by the article? :-)
Your second form can be `<somefile foo | bar | baz` which preserves the order of your first example. And `<somefile` on it's own behaves as `cat somefile` (in my shell atleast).
When the Python source code is compiled into bytecode.
You obviously live in a country where people aren't sue happy. Half of the reason they don't respond when you fail an interview is because they don't want to open themselves up to legal liability if the first-year HR rep says something stupid when the person asks "but why?"
Multiple US municipalities have convened conferences and created sort of joint task forces to investigate the use of micromobility to supplement public transit.

The scooters and bikes could have been donated to local governments who could then figure out how to support them, and used them for programs to help disadvantaged citizens get around easier. But that wouldn't really help Uber's bottom line I guess, and might involve extra work.
In fairness here you probably need to add the Android SDK, NDK, and an emulator image or two, to match what iOS is giving in xcode. That isn't going to make the difference up, but from memory the NDK is around a 1.1 GB compressed download or so (if you need it), and you'll probably need at least one or two SDK versions for the releases you target.
I did not read as strong implication. Some but not strong.

the word "essentially" and my a-priori knowledge that OTA broadcasters have to also pay cash-money for the license and have other obligations.

I see the scares-resource as one of the many factors for OTA classifications different from webApp.

Fixes for this issue have to cover many legacy and many new complex factors
> pretending content is not often political speech
> This has zero to do with "kleptocratic business practices". What Twitter did is what a free press does.

The press has regulation though. The press can be held liable for false claims by those they affect. For example, Nick Sandman was able to sue CNN for the Covington coverage, and settle, because CNN was liable for publishing incorrect information.

Whereas, twitter claims to not be a publisher or part of the press, but instead relies on being a platform or utility like a telephone, to avoid this kind of legal liability.

If twitter is no longer just providing a platform for its users to provide content but is now providing content itself, then yes, it should be held to the standards of a publisher, much in the same way it is responsible legally for the ads it publishes.

Now, I don't believe the president has the ability to decide this liability exists, but I would hope that it already does in our common law system somewhere.
I agree that the idea that these are necessarily individuals with military associations is incorrect, but I also feel this is a false analogy because of how different the nature of a US Gov. association with a university is compared with a Chinese Gov. association with a university.
Type and wait is literally the main reason I do most of my actual work in VS Code now instead of Visual Studio... I can't stand the full vs experience... code is just nicer imo.
People seem to have forgotten or not realize that SaaS is just a sales model to sell a $2,400 software product for $100 on a payment plan without requiring manager approval. If you can't find anybody who will pay you $2,400 for this product, then you won't be able to build a business selling it for $100/month.
Somewhat saddening to see countries as diverse as Ireland, the UK, Netherlands, South Africa and Australia all promoting American rap over the output of their own people.

On the flip side, it's fantastic to see so many countries not doing so.
Just for a little humor...

Is this executive order 66?
'uppercased'
Gavin Newsom wants to close prisons as coronavirus shreds California’s budget
We are saving a fortune in lockdown. Our eating out has reduced considerably, and we are buying way less stuff generally.
One aspect of this is that introverts have been living in an world designed maximally for the liking and benefit of extroverts and now the tables have turned completely. It's one of those situations where you have a privilege you weren't aware of, and then lost it, so it feels like an assault.

To any extroverts really struggling, I get it. I understand how difficult it must be. I mean this with no ill intentions at all, but I've felt the way you're feeling my whole working life, working in an environment not suited to my personality at all. I hope you too can have empathy for the people on the other side who have had to live in your world.
I know this comes up again and again, but I'm so glad there are efforts like this. Enhancements to existing games are fun to make and to use. I've gotten so much value from this project and those like it. My nephews and I were able to play quickly and without a lot of hassle.

Also excited with the coming open sourcing and official remasters.
What kind of "honest mistake" did you make?
HN is not a homogeneous whole.

The top comment(s) are only representative of that subset of readers who both a) agree and b) bother to upvote.

I skim read the top few comments then minimise them, or minimise them immediately. I'm looking for what's different to my current understanding, and the top comment(s) almost always are perspectives I'm already familiar with.
Regarding section 230 it says:

> It is the policy of the United States that the scope of that immunity should be clarified: the immunity should not extend beyond its text and purpose to provide protection for those who purport to provide users a forum for free and open speech, but in reality use their power over a vital means of communication to engage in deceptive or pretextual actions...

So Trump would have to argue that Twitter is using their power to engage in deceptive or pretextual actions.

I'm no lawyer, that seems like a stretch.. And this assumes an executive order can just change law without other legalative bodies.
Doesn’t Ada have bounds checking?

This would be super useful, and prevent a large problem with buffer overflows. It would be nice to have some flag to turn it off, to increase the speed mode.
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That's an entirely subjective opinion - and one that should ideally be left up to voters and/or their elected representatives, not to any single individual (like our president, or unelected bureaucrats in the FTC/FCC/etc.). And I continue to maintain that it's insanity to be terrified of Twitter's power when the government can order any one of us killed or locked up indefinitely and there are zero consequences when they screw up.
If there was ever a time for a plague, this was the best time economically. People started off this plague with more wealth and savings than any time in the past decade. American business started off the crisis with more cash on hand than literally any other time in history.
I'm not sure I agree with this, though I think it's an interesting idea.

The threshold you've suggested seems way too low. 1M customers or $10M/year revenue isn't "near-monopoly", it's barely a player in the game.
Yes but the nanobots wouldn't be killed by my poor diet.
Years later there was another port of OpenSolaris to IBM Power computers called "Polaris": https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/10/solaris_on_power/

And even port to IBM z/VM ("Sirius"): https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/17/solaris_on_mainfram...
Good job, like to see some good tutorials.
Isn't that at odds with the whole point of this post (which I'm not even sure I agree with)..?

People want to be in the same space so they can have small, in-person interactions. Those have softer priorities than intentional communications.

Working in offices, people often do "swing by" and ask if it's a good time to talk about something. It's socializing the issue. If you say "no" and they come back later -- or you go find them, it has all worked out.
While cat could be argued to be overkill (... but not by me...), that's not a useless use of cat because if you pull it out (as you've done) there's nothing to actually read the bytes from stdin and write them to stdout. All you've done is opened two files and closed them again.

(Edited to add: unless you're using zsh, apparently)
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If that happens, it means someone doesn't understand HTML and CSS, and how they work to display in a browser.

Hint, it should never happen on a well designed site.
I digress, but I think the real turning point that helped YouTube was Apple requiring data plan for iPhone and convincing AT&T to offer unlimited data plan. So sometimes help will come from your rival :o
You could use pv, which I think gives a much better progress bar.