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When you're uninformed and don't know what you're facing, things seem complicated and cloud solutions tend to look very attractive but what is so hard about running a web app?

For sake, just spin up a single server somewhere cheaper and run it all in there and vertically scale up after you've put the appropriate monitoring to know when you need to scale up.

And put your money where it's worth it.
People have been wondering where the extra time is for a century, probably more:

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/

I think Keynes talked about it a lot too.
Voting with your wallet is the crudest & most direct form of power that people have. In a way, it surpasses democracy. So yes, if enough people do it, it does make a difference.

The HN crowd in particular has a sizeable influence on other people with regards to technology. Because we are the techies, people ask us what they should use/buy. People observe what knowledgeable people do, and they tend to learn from it. You have more influence than you think. It just takes time to see the changes take effect.
>>As soon as the competitors are eliminated you jack the prices up

And then you provide a competitor or startup another opportunity.
It's a major opportunity for them, for sure. They are still missing some features I find critical, but they really have things figured out with integrated voice/video communications in the app.

The one feature I wish they'd clone from Slack are threaded replies. I know they're rolling out a new way to reply, but it still makes the chat flow messy. I really enjoyed the way Slack allows for breakout threads/replies to a particular message. It was a great way to display enough context, but not make the flow confusing.
You do realize slack has an entire enterprise product offering, even for HIPAA businesses and industries.?
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This was clarified this year. I think the author's context is moving from Bare to one of the Sv modes.

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-manual/commit/866326d938c...
Heroku's consistent user experience post-Salesforce-aquisition gives me a little hope. It would be nice to hear Salesforce offer some assurances of product independence, though.
Well I base it off the fact that how could the possibly monetize a video of some guy walking his dog or a vehicle going by. I can opt out of their marketing material and everything can be saved locally to an SD Card.

In my opinion the hardware prices are cheaper because it's sourced out of China and the product is at the lower end but worth every penny. I use to source widgets out of China that were amazing quality. I would have them delivered to my factory in Canada. The price of the finished product delivered to my factory door step was cheaper than the cost of raw materials in Canada. There were no duties involved since the HS Code of the item was duty free and China had Most Favored Nation Status.

So that's probably how they do it. The Camera costs them a few of $$ delivered and they sell it for $20 +. The only draw back is that the Chinese copied the design and would be selling in their internal market or markets where Wyze wasn't in yet.
They can seem not that useful by themselves. Their power comes from the integration with the rest of AWS services.
Teams seems to be doing surprisingly well. Considering how many businesses have it "included" with their Office subscriptions, it just has to be good enough to avoid someone wanting to pay extra for an outside service. If Lync was half as good as Teams is now, companies like Slack never would've gotten off the ground.
Congrats to the Slack's team.
Using a service with a TLS certificate error... probably not.
Well, Slack, it was nice knowing you. I wonder who Discord will get bought up by when it replaces Slack after a year or two of Salesforce mismanagement?

It's so sad that this is the cycle for software now. Start small, get big fast, get sold, get ruined.

I realize I am presupposing Salesforce will ruin Slack - but it's hard to see how they won't, unless they take the approach Microsoft took with Github and keep it as a totally separate business unit. Even then, there's often meddling (see e. g. Facebook with Instagram and Oculus).
>it's "Google" and "a messaging product", the two are like oil and water.

What are you talking about? Messaging products are so integral to Google's vision that they can't stop making them.
I wonder how people manage to hire people capable running their own development boxes...
> The transaction is anticipated to close in the second quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2022

It seems like it will be a little while before Salesforce can start integrating into Slack at least
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Having gone through many corporate chat transitions, I'm curious where we are headed next or when it will circle back. We already use Salesforce products so I don't see Slack going away unless something much better comes along.

MSN / AIM, IRC, Google Chat, Campfire, HipChat, Slack / Discord, ???
How do we know these are perfectly functioning devices? The average person wouldn't read studies and documentation or ascertain the quality - I barely can and check HN comments for many medical studies :) FDA approval is a very strong signal at least.

I'd rather avoid the supplements situation where manufacturers can essentially claim almost anything and most of the population isn't aware that it's a free-for-all. Manufacturers can still claim some function but at least there's currently a disclaimer that makes average people question some claims.

I don't really love the mix of deregulation and healthcare (even adjecent, see supplements).
Not true, many think PoS is coming to BTC in the future, or at least a hybrid. (Note: not the near future)
Serious question, is Discord making efforts to get into the "business messaging" (can't think of a better term) type space?
"I suffered, so they should too". That's all I have to say about your fury.

As for the other part:
I was told, explicitly, that thinking about college as a jobs-training experience was the wrong approach. Learning how to think, how to write, how to organize ideas, that was valuable in and of itself. And maybe at some time, it was true. With a degree in the '70s, you could get in to a lot of sensible middle-class jobs, even in art-history and psychology.It turned out not to be true [edit: when I was in college, not in the '70s], but I was ill equipped to understand that.

I also suspect that you have only the most superficial understanding of your cohort's motivations, yet seem absolutely confident in your analysis. I wonder if a course in psychology or philosophy would have benefited you some.
People making demands of their government en masse, not just placidly accepting a binary choice once every few years.
"Salesforce to Acquire Slack for $27.7 Billion"
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/technology/salesforce-sla...
Or Ruby Receptionists:
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Last time I had to switch between my Mac laptops I wrote up an Ansible playbook that does (almost) all the configuration on the new machine - pulls the dot files from git repo and installs everything I need. It takes less than an hour to move to a new system for me now.
I don't understand what the strength of being misunderstood is.
It's pretty obvious that Salesforce is going after the same model as Microsoft - bundling enterprise software to create a stronger moat against competitors offering unbundled, standalone versions, and to strengthen the value prop when selling to customers.

Will be fascinating to see this rivalry pick up steam as time goes on.
Besides the extremes, there's the pragmatic in the middle - interoperability in general. RenVM supports Bitcoin and many other coins on multiple hosts, not just Ethereum (eg. Polkadot):

https://renproject.io

https://mainnet.renproject.io
Discord also caters to small-med non-gaming online communities almost by accident because the kinds of moderation features you'd need are the same as if you were a streamer with an audience.
Retail is the lion share of revenue but AWS is over half of profits last I checked.
My company uses mattermost for over 100k employees.
This is perfect, because there are good options at virtually every price point for virtually every recipient. Beer, wine, tea, coffee, golf balls, tennis balls, olive oil, vinegar, stationery, art supplies, etc. These are especially good gifts to ask for, since you can clear up any questions they have (do you only use a particular brand of golf balls, etc.) and people like the feeling that every time you use the gift you will think of them.
I see no way anyone could make this bit of hardware this cheaply without some pretty nasty exploitation going on somewhere up the chain. Count me out.
If buying a business would put Amazon in the position of having to introduce a new end-user customer support burden, then they are unlikely to do so.

Eero devices require this customer support, but that can be merged with their IOT support team for all other in-home objects. I think Amazon made an exception to their “user support is never our priority” choice because they know it’s the only way to get a physical foothold in our homes, with Kindle and Echo, and I think the burden of Eero support was worth it to them for the mesh networking technology that has been harvested for Sidewalk.

Slack customer support cannot be easily integrated with any existing Amazon support team that I’m aware of, and does not offer a world-changing advantage to that degree.
>Yes, I know Chime exists. But I don't think I've ever heard of anyone using it, and Slack is still rather popular.

I think even Amazon realized how awful Chime is, given that they, as a company, switched to Slack just a few months ago.
Quite the other way, they're a cloud company with a gift shop.
Just messing around. Diagrams are cool though. Especially sequence diagrams can clarify important processes that otherwise are not so clear. I like the text-only aspect to notes and documentation, as that tend to remain accessible and light-weight.
I generally give people things I'd like to have.

This year everyone's getting an iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit.
They might not need it now or ever but I like encouraging
self repair (and often "self" ends up being me).
I would say Amazon’s main business is commerce. They want to be involved everywhere people are buying/selling things. AWS & Amazon.com are coincidences of them starting up around the same time as the internet.

Before long, they’ll own the entire feature for “oh, I need to buy cereal. Alexa buy me cereal. Ok, done. <few mins later>. I’m passing by the Amazon Go store on way home, Alexa. Can I return these shoes I bought last week and pick up my cereal there. Sure.”
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this is a good reference, thanks
Bitcoin is the gateway into crypto. Check the marketcap, and all the pairs are tied to BTC on most major exchanges. It's also the most secure and has the largest community. It's use case is different than Ethereum's.
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I doubt they care. What I suspect Salesforce realised long ago was that they don't need to appeal to their end-users, they just need to appeal to the managers in charge of signing contracts. In that regard, Slack is a fantastic fit.

Sadly I suspect the people saying "we need to find a Slack alternative" today are the same ones that have been saying "Slack sucks" this whole time, to little effect.
The general trend seems to be winner takes all single suppliers in each market segment. They have no direct competition so eventually become a tax on us all.
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please stop with this meme ? meme is not tech first for whatever definitions of /tech first/ you have.
Discord could be interesting as Amazon has already shown interest in the gaming / streaming / online community space with their Twitch acquisition.
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To me felt like an 80% loss of my time and a much more restricted life.

Its a unique part of life that no other part of life will really offer you. Its a trade-off in that respect.

I don't think it's for everyone, and that's ok. At hard as it is it also has it's upside.
This is all based on how the RunTime API worked already (pre-dates this launch by 2 years or so). We wanted to not change too many bits.

Since function code has no listening socket/port as it were you need something (like the bootstrap script in a custom RunTime) to pull the local interface for the runtime API. That runs on the underlying worker and communicates with the API for Lambda.
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"SlackForce" here we come.

The clash of meaning in those two words says it all.
I'm a bit confused by what this means for WORK shareholders.

"Under the terms of the agreement, Slack shareholders will receive $26.79 in cash and 0.0776 shares of Salesforce common stock for each Slack share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $27.7 billion based on the closing price of Salesforce’s common stock on November 30, 2020."

Lets say you own 100 shares of WORK. Does that mean you get both

1. $4,434 in cash (100 * 43.84 current value of WORK)

and

2. 7.76 shares of CRM (100 * .0776)

Edit: I can't read!
You can, but if you consider knives an uninteresting kitchen tool, then you have just given them a $300 knife that they will feel bad about every time they use it open a can of beans.

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> TV didn't have the damage on our society that he expected.

I wonder if those who decry FOX or CNN would agree.
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We switched our company to zulip wholesale after covid forced work from home onto everyone, and wow, talk about a force multiplier.
My experience has been close to yours. The wife and I have a 3 and 5 year old. We did tons of research into different methods of sleep training methods and arrived at practical ways to make sure they understood that bedtime meant staying in their room and in their own beds, even if they weren't necessarily sleepy yet.

The 5 year old is in his "big boy bed" and we use a color-changing nightlight on a timer that is a soft red when he needs to stay in his room and turns blue when he can come out. The 3 year old is still in his crib for another few weeks, then we will transition him to the same setup.

Apart from the predictable times here and there where the older one sneaks out of bed to see what we're up to, it's worked out really well and gives us our sanity back from around 745pm to whenever we go to bed.
MySQL has worse guarantees in several cases, though. For example, using `SERIALIZABLE` isolation means your queries can deadlock when run in parallel.

Likewise, selecting a column not present in a GROUP BY leads to random values being returned.
Exactly. As they say, first step is always the hardest. The switch from PoW to PoS was monumental and I'm glad they took the time to execute so well. This is a great step forward for Ethereum
When possible, this is when gift cards are great.

My niece is an aspiring artist, and rather than trying to find out what art supplies she wants/needs, I got her a gift card to the art supply store that I know she shops at.

Of course, "when possible" is a key word here. Not every store sells gift cards, and sometimes the well-known stores aren't the best deals. Like, I might be interested in making fun electric gadgets, so a gift certificate to the Adafruit might seem like a good idea, but I tend to prefer to buy my stuff from Aliexpress or Banggood because the prices are significantly lower.

> I suppose the point of the article on this point is that if I just asked my friend, they would receive the value of the gift

Simply asking really is the best course of action logically, but the idea of gifts being thought up on your own has been so romanticized.
Ask HN: Top Advances/Discoveries in Science for 2020
What are the top 10 advances or discoveries in 2020? This could include scientific and mathematic advances, as well as cosmological, archeological etc. discoveries in 2020.

To get started, I got:

-mRNA COVID vaccine
-AlphaFold 2.0 CASP results
-various CRISPR and gene therapy firsts/advances

Any suggestions?
Every moment they are awake and not explicitly in the care of another for the first few years.
Seems like the difference between being fine being wrong in the short term (the "strength" part) in order to be right in the long term.
It's a reasonable perspective, and one a lot of my friends share. I guess I look at value/cost. I drive a $2,000 car and use a $1,000 phone because I get a lot of value for the extra $500 in the phone, but wouldn't get more value out of having a nicer car. Like you, I also find it nice to worry less about the car because the replacement cost is low.

But I view the value of smart watches in the $100,000+s if not $1M+s. How much is your health worth? How much is it worth to passively keep an eye on your heart rate, and stress levels, and oxygen levels, and sleep levels? Granted, I still think it is very early for smart watches, and the value we are getting now is ~1% of the value we will be getting from them in 5-10 years (if they aren't replaced by a "smart tooth" or "smart necklace" etc). But I think at this point the value is definitely there and easily worth 10x+ the cost.

Making a single actionable decision based on data received from a wearable could have a life changing impact.

And again, speaking in probabilities here, and it depends if you look at the data and adjust your life based on it, but I think expected value of these is huge, and probably the best single health measure anyone can take.

I would say try the cheap one, and think about upgrading if you like it.