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Salesforce is tied into everything too. I bet this works out great. Wish I didn't sell most of my shares at $25...
Nice, congrats!
I think only Audi would make sense to be bought by Tesla. That would be VW, Audi and Porsche then.
Wow, thanks for tracking that down!
Holy hell, Lync is one relic I haven't heard of in a long long time.
Given some of their moves with Google Workspace tying together Gmail / Meet / Chat, I doubt they could get away with this without significant antitrust issues.

They still haven’t fully closed on their Fitbit acquisition, so I’d expect they’d have a tough hill to climb for a Discord or a Slack.
Any political or economic system built on the expectation that people won't be assholes to each other (and work with others to be assholes) is a flawed system.
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I see comments here asking is it open source, is it federated, why not mastodon etc.

Why would you build an open source, federated, mastadon like product? None of these things have led to great success for social networks have they?
Maybe something with the settings of your SSH client? The server only has an ssh-rsa key in it, so if your client is configured to not accept that, then that might be the source of the problem.

Sorry :-/. Wish I had a better idea. Would greatly appreciate any ideas.
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personally, i find the 9 day battery life to be pretty darn impressive in this day and age.

i also like the heart rate monitor, great for runners.
Haha, it reminds me a bit of Microsoft Account, MSA, Windows Live ID, Microsoft Passport, .NET Passport, and Microsoft Passport Network.
C#? You've got to be joking.
> To think that this turns out well displays either staggering ignorance or the naïvete of an infant.

Unfortunately, so does thinking that the alternative, trying to have governments spell out everything in advance and dictate outcomes from the top down without being able to take into account the circumstances of individual cases, turns out well.

The unpleasant truth is that if you live in a community whose members are not good people, you won't have good outcomes, no matter what kind of system you design.
This is a great take. If I may piggyback, one of the things that’s been important in my own development (personal, social, professional) is to recognize where my lack of confidence is inhibiting actions or improvements I want to pursue, and try to get closer to risking failure without hesitating. Mistakes can be embarrassing or even tragic, but they can still be a source of growth. And they can reveal that some anxieties are partly or wholly unwarranted, either because I have more strength in whatever area than I expected or because... it’s really not so bad when I reveal that I don’t.
> The "gumdrop shaped macs" were the first iMacs and were released in 1998

Ahh, my bad. This was early-days for my "paying attention to macs". I only used them at all because that was all the school had, I was a die-hard, PC-master-race, build-your-own-computer, windows user at this point. So yeah, we had the gumdrop shaped iMacs and then we upgraded to the chunky white-bodied-on-a-stand iMacs. We did have a few Mac Pros in the library (for video editing) and in the shop class (for 3D modeling), the cheesegrater style ones.
The ones on the receiving end of QE. Mike Pence has delivered a stellar performance and executed completely in compliance with incentives objectives.
Such bugs are extremely difficult to prevent at scale. Even the most talented engineers make such mistakes and programming quality varies significantly even within top engineering teams which are usually comprised of people with different skill sets (+ junior engineers that need training).

Safe languages are the only way forward to drastically reduce the problem. It can’t be guaranteed to be eliminated 100% obviously because there are still escape hatches available, but it will be significantly improved because you can limit the surface area where such bugs can live.
I'd recommend CTF'ing a bit stronger than the other commenter. While there can be a distinct gap between the vulnerabilities in ctfs and real world applications, CTFs provide a great means of deliberate practice (work on a problem, potentially figure it out, and then read other peoples' write-ups after the competition ends).

Checkout https://ctftime.org/ for a list of ctfs. There are also intro ctfs like https://picoctf.org/
So question: which of all the alternatives to Slack has text as a first class citizen?

We don't use video or audio chat at all; just text chat, pinning important info to channels, swapping small files, searching chat history and a few plugins like reminders and github. May be important to mention that we have a lot of separate projects going on and we separate each in its own channel.

We absolutely want mobile and desktop clients, not a "web UI" that happens to sort of work on all platforms.

Could the hive mind give me some names of alternatives to consider?
I'm pretty sure that nobody as Slack is going to be unexcited about a 50% stock bump.

I've been on the receiving end of boring acquisitions, and I can assure you that the financial upside can excite people quite effectively.
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Developing yet another Ethereum wallet when there are so many on the market would be a waste. It’s better for the foundation to provide a list of high quality wallets that already exist.
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Hey there, cool service! While looking into it I noticed the green blocks on the home page have a z-index issue with the header I encountered when scrolling down the page on Safari.
Fair. I've seen shops like that and I feel bad for them, but that's an organizational limitation, not one imposed by the cloud provider.

If you want to buy server hardware, there is always the spec, testing and sales process no matter what. Hardware buying eats so much time...but at least the fancy dinners are kinda nice.
And there's a proper way to do the accounting for it as a depreciating asset vs buying cloud (and most public orgs actually prefer the former).
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Amazon acquiring EDB and rolling some of the currently-proprietary bits like the Oracle compatibility layer into open source Postgres while increasing resources to developing them could be an interesting play.
> or anyone with a 2-year old

have been there around 18 years ago. and I think GP's point still holds. time with young kids is special in a sense that I felt it would never end. it was awesome but it was also a tunnel without a light. at least that's what it felt like. all of what you said plus the sleep deprivation, stress with the partner because there isn't enough of "us time" and the constant feeling that whatever you do it won't be enough.

the reason why GP point still holds is that one day you'll look back to all that and very likely miss every moment of that hard time you thought would never end. only in 2 years from now life will be so different that you'll likely feel "wtf did I miss out on? I was only absent minded for a moment now they're in school"

If I could turn back time the only thing I'd change is to appreciate the grind more (all the boring mundane stuff including having my hands up to the elbows in diapers and shit). I would also project a more calm image to my partner and argue less about stuff about the child that anyway sorts itself out (traveling back in time I'd still be unable tochange their stress-level but I can change my reaction to them, but coincidentally that would also reduce their stress).

looking back: these times were the best times ever. my kids are grown up now and I'm proud of them. but those moments will never return. best is that I don't even remember the hard parts. that is I only do if I actively think about it, but usually my focus is just on the good stuff. today all I got left is in my memories so I wish that I've had invested more in living in the moment. cherish the moment especially the bad ones even it friggin sucks most of the time and it seems it'll never end ...
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Do you think that's what's led to Slack's success though, that enterprises don't want federation?

I don't really think so. If Slack had exactly the same UX as it has but federated, I don't think that would have deterred very many customers. Maybe a few that have come on only after Slack already got so big.
> I can think of few things more terrifying than a community seeking to impose 'justice' emboldened by the absence of law.

I can think of few things more terrifying than "law" being imposed on citizens by legislators and bureaucrats who themselves have no skin in the game and suffer no consequences if the laws they impose are bad. We have another name for this too: tyranny.
The false premise you're using is that smart contracts provide more utility than sound economic policy does.
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Obligatory shoutout to https://thelounge.chat/

Self-hosted an instance two or so years ago and have never run into issues, besides the occasional kick to my reverse proxy. You can create accounts for your friends/family/coworkers, the web app is fast/clean on mobile, and chat logs are persistent.
I dunno. I know any number of woodworker friends who are tickled pink to get e.g. Lie-Nielsen gift cards so they can get what they want for themselves once they accumulate enough. I think this perfectly nails the point of the article though, about how the giver has different motivations than the receiver.
C#, Go, and Java all go in the same category (roughly)—they wouldn't work for kernel code. Rust will be a valid replacement for C++ kernel code in the near future, I'm sure.
What exactly does this fresh, original observation have to do with the company being acquired?
Rust is a very compelling environment for many kinds of scientific computing, also due to the features noted in the article:

“Unlike the many compilers and ancillary utilities that programmers use to build C code, Rustaceans can use a single tool, called Cargo, to compile Rust code, run tests, auto-generate documentation, upload a package to a repository and more. It also downloads and installs third-party packages automatically.”

Fetching required packages in this way is very convenient, something one notices rather soon when writing Rust applications. There are already many dedicated packages also for highly specialized applications, and with cargo it is easy to use them immediately.
Aluminum fabrication?
(Author here.) I think you're confusing a couple different major classes of languages — declarative versus procedural. I said specifically "most expressive ever for querying and manipulating data", and I'd stand by that.

The nice part about SQL compared to the languages you've cited is that you just need to specify the "what" and not the "how". I tell it what data to fetch, where I want it from, how I wanted it grouped/sorted (etc.), and the engine figures out the best (and probably a very efficient) way to do that. This is different from a procedural language like Python or Rust where it'd be on me to also define every implementation detail — get data from here, join by doing this and with that algorithm, sort what comes out, ...

This gives SQL a number of very nice properties:

* It's very fast and succinct to write.

* Even very complex queries are likely to be executed as optimally as they can be (because database engines tend to be very good at this).

* It's so high-level that it can actually get more performant over time. See for example Postgres 12, which eliminated an optimization fence for CTEs (common table expressions) [1], which means that a lot of queries got faster automatically, without the user having to do _anything_.

I love a lot the languages you listed, but SQL is a different animal, and amazing in a way that's quite unique.

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[1] https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/with-queries-present-futur...
Don’t forget about the new Google Pay, which has its own messaging feature for some reason
Ask for them to donate to a specific charity on your behalf.
+= XMPP, don't forget us ;)
Not giving my money to Bezos is value-add enough for me.
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Keep in mind that a lot of this stuff is really owned, at the end of the day, by capitalists... in the literal sense, by institutions and individuals who command capital. Auto gig workers typically rent or lease the cars, then work to pay them off, living on precarious margins. Sure, they're responsible for maintenance, but at the end of the day, the cars will vanish if they don't make their payments. Most of us rent our houses or have mortgages on them, but they're not paid off.

Which is why people are working so much in the first place! There are payments to be made, on a strict schedule. You could lose your home and burn bridges if you don't keep up. Quite a few people actually do lose their homes and burn bridges. It's common to think of this as being their fault for being lazy.

But this whole arrangement is unsustainable for the people and for the planet.

And this is the whole point of Thomas Piketty's famous book a few years back that caused a big stir but is all but ignored by political and economic leaders in the US.

There are very good reasons why cultures before banned usury. Sure, rent and debt are powerful economic tools, but with great power comes great responsibility, and I'm still waiting for the lawmakers and business leaders where I live (the US) to go ahead and exercise that responsibility by creating sensible countermeasures to protect people from exploitation.
| you already use Office, why not Azure?

Not sure why using Office would be a reason to prefer Azure over something else. Can you elaborate? Are there some useful integrations one can benefit from?

Regarding Amazon buying Slack. My guess would be it's too expensive. If you look at Amazon's acquisitions history, you would see they almost never spend more than $1B. The one exception I recall is Whole Foods which they paid ~$13B for.
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You're about right, but I think not recognizing the value of having a UX that the average person feels comfortable with Both for daily usage and initial setup. IRC, for all its strengths, does not achieve that.
In that particular case, you heard words and took a relevant action; in my book, that made you a better listener in reality, not just in appearance.
You can call Java from Oracle's PSQL, so that makes it a super set including Java, right? :P (I've done things I'm ashamed of)
There are plenty of ICU nurses looking for employment all over the country.

And ironically due to lockdown, lots of nurses being laid off/furloughed.

And there is field hospitals for covid being dismantled because there is lack of use.
You are probably an expert in your area but the original poster was talking about much smaller shops. That's the point being missed for every multi-million dollar spender there are thousands of smaller projects paying 10x the cost because they think they will be you one day and it is cheaper to build on that stack from day one.
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These are just phones that you are officially permitted to attach a root shell and kernel debugger to, like to any other device that's not an iPhone. Researchers have been working around that for years by using private jailbreaks / exploits to get similar levels access, and with checkm8/ktrw you yourself can get similar access to any vulnerable iPhone 7/8/X.

No sources or structure layout or symbols, so you're still stuck waddling through megabytes of compiled code to reverse-engineer everything from scratch.

It's Apple drumming up absolutely nothing, and from my point of view it's mostly a PR stunt.
> Start small, get big fast, get sold, get ruined

Why does every business have to be a $100G business? Can we support a model in which we have a lot of $100M businesses that are doing great things and delivering quality instead of quantity?

Investors seem to not like that idea, but customers would love that idea. It's unfortunate that our markets are not optimized for customers.
Considering that Slack itself complained to the competition authorities that there is fierce competition from Microsoft and others, eating Slack's lunch, it seems hard. Salesforce can easily claim that the acquisition doesn't reduce competition, because Slack has a very small market share, or even that Slack would soon be bankrupt and needs to be saved.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/22/slack-accuses-microsoft-of-a...
I do not disagree, but I think it really depends on your definitions of "poverty" and "middle class" here. There is a big chunk of people in between those.

Middle-class people (in UK/European terms at least) are likely to have had some exposure to long-term wealth management of some sort: owning a house, having a regular income that allows for significant savings, small investments, small businesses, pensions, etc. Hence it's easier for them to "turn out fine", as parents will have taught them the basics of interest and investment, the value of recurring income, inflation, and so on.

The working class, though, is a step below. They have stable paychecks but that's it. There is less of a long-term view, and there is a concept that money is entirely linked to performing work. They are not necessarily poor or ignorant, but they are unprivileged and unfamiliar with "money issues", if not downright hostile to the concept of accumulation - because they'll never be rich, so might as well live a full life instead. A lot of athletes start from here. It's not poverty, but it's also a situation where there is no familiarity with, or propensity for, significant long-term wealth.

And then you have utter poverty, and that's definitely a killer like you said. Some athletes come from here, but not all of them, I would argue not even the majority (although I don't know the stats, and it probably varies across countries). However, from what I read, the issue of well-paid athletes that end up bankrupt after a few years is widespread, and going well beyond the limits of people coming from really poor backgrounds.
The timing of this is impeccable. The Dreamforce (Salesforce's annual developer and user conference) keynote is tomorrow (December 2nd 2020).
Here's a recent walkthrough of a Android messenger exploit, by the same organization as the main link: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/08/exploiting-an...

And a second: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/09/attacking-qua...
I'm imagining a meeting a few years back, at Google:

"Ok, you know our motto, 'Don't be Evil.'?"

Heads nod.

"What if ... what if ... what if we simplify that?"

"How so?"

"Just cut off the first word, 'Be Evil.' Simple, elegant."

"I like it!"

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Jokes aside, I think Google does a pretty good job of keeping the major products steady. Our little cohort on HN isn't a great sample for determining what "major" is.
I still know quite a few people who still use their old version of WordPerfect. At some point it became feature complete for them and they've stuck with it ever since.
>The market has decided Tesla is more valuable than legacy automakers.

I think a more accurate way to describe this would be "The market is speculating that Tesla will eventually be more valuable than legacy automakers."
I stand corrected. This rando comment on a niche bbs is clearly indicative of a mass political movement that is unstoppable. I will dutifully report to the reëducation center.
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You could check out Discord - they’ve been pivoting pretty well into an all round Slack competitor with some slick features IMO.
This is a good observation. There needs to be some kind of feedback loop to suppress the tyrannical bureaucratizing tendency of the modern state. It is obvious that our own society does not have any such feedback loop.

However, the answer is not some kind of local unaccountable justice system where a judge basically rules based either on the will of the crowd or his own personal interests, and then calls it "community reconciliation" or some such bullshit. It's like the person who wrote the article literally never contemplated the reason for written law to exist in the first place.

> The unpleasant truth is that if you live in a community whose members are not good people, you won't have good outcomes, no matter what kind of system you design.

I think this is also basically undeniably true. But across all of history, I really don't know of any politcal system that had a noticable positive effect on the moral quality of the individual humans it ruled over. So this just leaves me with a sense of metahistorical pessimism.
The question is different. Are these reviews informative? Are they helpful to other people?