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> They have no direct competition…

I don't understand this sentiment at all. Slack is a nicely-done, enterprise-y chat app with a lot of users, most of who liked the idea of not paying for anything. There are many competitors, including several open source options.
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How is Slack worth 27 Billion dollars?

No, really.

That's an unreal price. Slack benefits little from network effects. Deployment has no fundamental secret sauce.

This is a crazy number. This does not make sense.
Same here. And yet I spent...21 years programming before I finally got around to learning it.
I'm not super familiar with LISPs, but what the JIT is doing here is transforming bytecode into native code, which is what other JITs do.

What it's not doing, but is commonly done in other JITs, is any sort of runtime profiling and chosing of which modules to transforming; all modules are transformed when loaded.

As described in the article, previous JIT attempts with BEAM did have that functionality, and they did meet the project goals; profiling cost too much, the compilation step was too expensive, and mixing modes between interpreted modules and native modules added too much complexity.

I haven't looked at the code behind this, but from articles, I haven't seen anything that would preclude running the bytecode to native code transformation ahead of time (or caching the just-in-time transformation for future use), but it's not part of the implementation as of now.
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Maybe just take a few days and learn how to do backup with a few simple commands?

Fortunately we have tools like borg that is stable and does your backup encrypted easily.

My mind only rests when I have my data encrypted locally before being sent and are put on different providers and regions.

Cost of not trying to learn because clicking seems easy is a cost by itself.
I would also like to address the 'scarcity' claim - when cryptos are being churned out like in the last few years they're hardly scarce anymore ...
Personally, I haven't implemented this though I know I should... but I came across this idea in Robert Heinleins Double Star as a reference to Farley Files.

In essence, Farley was Roosevelts aid and kept files on everyone he met so before meeting them again Roosevelt could cram study and "recall everything about them" like they were a close personal friend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farley_file

For some reason this is how I think of Google/FB/et al keeping info on people.
Low-code/no-code is a very compelling pitch to businesses that see software as cost center.
"I’m sure you’re biased and it’s culturally unacceptable (to say the least) to say that you’d rather not have had kids,"

Why? I think not having kids is generally seen as the most responsible course of action. I adore my two but the planet is likely to be worse off, ecologically at least, for their existence.
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I agree Heroku has in this way been a model acquisition, but in this instance I can't see Salesforce being able to make those assurances – they likely see Slack as a key interface for their products and services, and integrating the two to support that vision will require oversight.

I can still see a world where Slack is a tool that continues to operate and serve its customers, similar to Heroku post-acquisition, but Salesforce augments their services with Slack tie-ins (and vice-versa).

Short: there's a middle ground I think they can strike.
It could just be something here. There's a lot of restrictions on ethanol here. It's pretty hard to buy. Most of what you can find in general tends to be isopropynol or methyl hydrate.
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For people looking for an alternative to switch to, we’ve been using Quill [0], which is pretty much a more slick, clean Zulip.

It has a great approach to threads, where you can make them mandatory or optional on a per-channel basis (even when optional they have names and are more useful than Slack threads).

They also support adding external parties to channels/threads by email or SMS and even more interestingly, their model is such that you can direct message people in other Quill organizations if you know their details.

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Microsoft must be cursing their decision right now..
> “They’ll like us when we win!”

Which would be fine except that history gets written by the winners. So the fact that the history books say you're a winner is not the indicator of success that Altman thinks it is.
This is much smaller than I suspected.

It seems there is room for competition here.
No good way to do this today. You are right in that you'd be forcing cold-starts. You could use a Lambda Extension to provide some sort of after-processing clean up of vars or /tmp space.. but thats hypothetical I haven't seen anyone do that yet.
I think the license for the Microsoft C runtime dll's precludes bundling although it does allow static linking. It used to cause me no end of problems because the silent install would often fail.
This doesn't reduce the number of players in the "team chat system" market, so I doubt it will be blocked given the current FTC.
Amazon is a big place and I can't speak for all of it, but while IT announced that slack was "available" a few months ago, I don't personally know anyone that has actually switched to using it. Everyone still uses Chime.

That may just be a peculiarity of my department, but saying "Amazon as a company switched to slack" is definitely overstating what happened.
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They got destroyed by Microsoft's pushing of Teams.
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Get ready for annoying nickel and dime'ing for Slack pricing.
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Great for Matrix though. I love Slack, and think this is one of the worst possible ends for it, from the users POV. I hope it was a profitable exit for the founders and employees though.

I am also surprised, as I'd think the COVID pandemic would have boosted its use. Though, after thinking about it I've seen MS Teams everywhere outside of Open Source and startups. A post-mortem of why they sold, and the events leading to it, would be an awesome thing for one of the founders to do.
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> Why would someone spend 1/25 of 1 percent of their income on something that they wear 100% of the time? That makes no sense.

If the product fulfills their needs why would they waste an extra $180 on a different product?
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The worst, IMO, is getting something that's similar to what they asked for, but not quite, and the distinction matters.

When I was 10, I really enjoyed Monopoly with my friends, but my parent's set was missing pieces and just overall in bad shape, so I asked for a new Monopoly set for Christmas. My grandma bought me Monopoly Junior, which was an entirely different game, and I was actually upset by it.

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The article mentions considering what YOU want, but that can backfire. My dad loved electronic gadgets, and wanted to buy me a GPS device in 2010. I had to show him how pointless that could have been since I already had an Android and had Google Maps in my pocket. A few years ago, he bought me this weather monitor that attaches to the roof of my house, with a little tablet-like display to put on my wall or whatever, and it never left the box. Why would I need this $100 device to tell me the current conditions when I can just pull out my phone?
I think I’ve done about three of them. All were good, but this one is my favorite. It covers both ray tracing and rasterization, and it doesn’t require any sort of development setup to jump in. Most important, the explanations are the best that I have found.
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Salesforce Is Acquiring Slack
When you can effectively spawn a new server with a command line you've got saved in your notes... it kinda feels a bit inefficient to be physically building and deploying them yourself.

It's also really pretty amazing to be able to spin up instances or services to test with for however many hours you need and then simply release them again.

Once you've got used to that level of freedom and convenience it's hard to go back, everything just moves faster.
Honestly I'm not a big fan of gift cards. The point of gift giving is to show you care, and gift cards feel like you're just trying to fulfil a social obligation without putting much thought into it.

I'd rather use them as a last resort, for people I don't know so well.
It's a compelling pitch, but when it comes to actually using low code/no code solutions... well, it's a conversation that we re-visit every few years for a reason. Everyone needs last-mile customization that requires coding and therefore some technical ability.
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I've read that the agreement the NSF has with the local government means that the site has to be returned to its natural state. There will be no replacement on that location.

Plus, if there was no will to fund basic maintenance how are you going to fund a whole new instrument?
Existing ETH will switch to it.
I guess it's the 21st century equivalent to being purchased by Computer Associates -- which was known as the place where good software goes to die.
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First, you start with Office 365, then you put some stuff on One Drive, you add a little list in SharePoint online, then you use Teams to access all that. You move to Azure AD.

And then you want to automate or do some nice charts, and there is Power platform just around the corner...

and then you find yourself limited so you go Azure Functions...
and then start one VM on Azure...
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> I shell out $200-$300 each year for the latest FitBit

Why would you update your Fitbit that often? Is it really that much of a difference from year to year?
I have not flagged any of your posts, but remember that "free speech" means freedom from government interference with speech, not freedom from a particular community deciding that your speech is disruptive to that community.

I notice looking through your comment history that you spend a lot of time discussing abortion and gun control, the two primary culture war wedge issues in American politics, and which are mostly off-topic for a technology and startup focused discussion site.

I tried to answer your question in good faith, and hope that you appreciate the information, but I don't really think this is the best forum for discussing the ethics of embryonic stem cell research.

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If you're bringing something new, people will misinterpret and take it in worst possible meaning. If they understand the value of it. Congrats, you've now got competitors!

There.

Now, I wouldn't conflate being successful and being loved by people.
We use λ with Go and the change between the service and its λ counterpart is really minimal.

FYI, we're using https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-go-api-proxy which supports most Go web frameworks.

Edit: We also use DynamoDB and there lies the real vendor lock-in with AWS imho.
> In a way, it surpasses democracy.

Is there any form of democracy in practice that doesn't involve money?

> 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.

See, many of us do recommend people to buy Apple. Because they're still very much the lesser evil among the Microsofts and Googles. If Apple does go bad, it's ridiculously easy to avoid Apple completely: Just don't buy any Apple hardware. Done. Not so easy with MSFT or GOOG, which is what we warn people about.

And that's something the other side on HN can't seem to be able to handle and tries to bury any opposing comments to give the impression of a homogenous echo chamber.
Amazon is more likely to buy Discord.
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Eh people will be salty about the Salesforce name but honestly their acquisition of Heroku hasn't caused me any pains regarding our experience with that platform. I'm as skeptical as anyone else, and I think there's more risk in a tighter "integration" making it a miserable experience. Might be a good time in the market for a new Slack competitor!
Yes, if I can't understand what someone is saying due to a thick accent, I will immediately close the window.
A long while ago I did a lot of 2d graphics work. I read a blog post on 2d rasterization of lines with anti-aliasing. The post was very long and detailed. I felt awe at how much complexity the most simple operation could take. Drawing many lines pixel by pixel in a performant way while also making it look good is a challenging task. Just another one of those things we take for granted once it is encapsulated in a library/module.
Wordpress hosting is expensive and overkill to do on AWS if you do it traditionalally.

Add simply static or a similar plugin, whip up a script to upload the static HTML to S3, set up Cloudfront with good cache, and you're done. Your site is faster, more secure, cheaper and can easily run on a t3.micro for peanuts.

Only gotcha is comments, but it's a solved problem ( disqus or any of the alternatives) and similar.
Google chat isn't a real competitor in the space. It has always been Slack and MS, and being #2 is a rapidly growing sector is still very valuable.
Someone using a FitBit as part of shifting to a healthier lifestyle may result in better health outcomes (and presumably lower costs) but there's no "will save thousands on annual healthcare bills" about it. Certainly just wearing a FitBit has zero effect on health if you don't do anything based on the collected data.
Unplanned.

"Unscheduled rapid disassembly", as it's sometimes phrased.

Though widely anticipated.