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I suggested this to my superiors and to HR in reviews (blockers). They all liked the idea but in the end it wasn't implemented. One other suggestion I had was to limit the number of "virtual rooms" in the company. When we were working onsite, we were constrained by number of meeting rooms. When we all moved remote due to pandemic, there is no upper limit to a number of simultaneous meetings so number of meetings increased.

Meetings in my opinion are mostly useless. Especially if they are not heavily moderated and action focused.
Oh no, I remember reading this sometime ago and most of the complains were either subjective or proven wrong by the author themselves.
wow, whitelisting & bandwidth metering - I never saw a university SO strict.
That's a very naive article, pricing strategy is almost never the reason a company succeed. Some companies offers a free plan some don't. In both of those case some companies are successful. If you are wondering what pricing strategy you should do, just do whatever you feel is the good way. Usually in b2b enterprise there is no free plan, but look at Segment they have a free plan. Usually in b2b smb there is a free plan (I can't think of one which don't have it). And usually in b2c there is a free plan , but look at Netflix they don't have one
I've always used private playlists to organize things. They look like swiss cheese with all the deleted videos.
An interesting decision. What have you learned since doing so?
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Nail on head. I have a cousin in Croatia who is very progressive and an artist. He's by far my favorite family member. But he lived in Osijek during yugoslavia and during the war and his animosity for serbs runs surprisingly deep.

While he doesn't dwell on it or let it consume him, if you ask then he will reveal that he still resents them for bullying and war crimes over 25 years later.

And in my view that was a relatively mild conflict compared to others like Israel and Palestine for example.
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Given it's the Terraria YouTube account it has to be either stupidity or accidental, both on Google's part.

My imagination fails trying to picture a scenario where you could justify suspending that account.
Yep. Also the approval process on Stadia is very complex and you need to set up so.much.stuff. It's not like their playstore where you can release almost anything. Even if you have an already fully working game on Stadia, just the process of meeting all technical requirements and setting up the pages on the backend and all the hooks can take months. It's far too much effort for something that wouldn't even go through the submission process, or if it did it would be removed immediately.

Same reason why you don't see knock offs on Playstation - the approval process is complex, very long and pretty costly.
I guess that's the AI we should really fear.
I hope nothing really important ever relies on a FB, MS or Google account.
But I guess it's too late.
From what I remember, it comes from him having quite the dismissive attitude.
You're right, I apologise as I missed that.

The back-story here is that there was a draft policy that got leaked, and there was outrage about it. Given that it wasn't published yet, gov was able to retract it, and say that the draft was fake.

Whether it was genuine or not, remains speculative I suppose.

The eventually settled-upon directives were better than the initial ones, and the article at [0] seems balanced enough (Points 3-7 are most relevant).

[0] https://www.lexafrica.com/2020/05/bbbee-criteria-for-governm...
Microsoft (used to?) pick up the phone if you called about an issue with Windows. If you actually called them, then they lost money on your consumer Windows license.

Say what you will about how crappy Win 9x was, but they definitely drove the average tech support load to much less than one call per machine.
The recent Parler incident is proof otherwise. If you happen to cause any inconvenience for them, you are at risk of being cut off.
Beliefs are a spectrum. There are no two people with the same beliefs, which means there's always disagreement.
And also FLAP, my personal project: https://gitlab.com/flap-box/flap
never had to worry about being pulled over by a cop for "driving while white"

I was pulled over twice in three days in Los Altos a few years ago for a light being out, both times by non-white officers.

Last spring, I was pulled over in Sunnyvale for expired tags (I paid on time; DMV was horribly behind) by an Asian officer.

While I was politely volunteering my documents and proof of payment, a second unit responded with a Latino officer.

They held me for 45 minutes for what should have been a wave-off. To justify their time, they wrote me a fix-it ticket (which required two trips to the courthouse and 5 months to clear.

Now, I'll wager that if the ethnicities were reversed, the average driver has been sufficiently conditioned by narrative to assume a racist motivation... even if pulled over from behind at night, where it's impossible to know driver ethnicity before the stop.
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Do you see a situation where the word left means something different if you are talking about national politics versus international politics as a good idea? Because that is the situation you are in if you won't acknowledge that the Democrats are centrist. What then do you call left leaning politics outside the US? Left left? Foreign Left? Communists? This misuse and redefining of words is one of the reasons we have people crying Socialist or Communist of left leaning politicians.
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When I was buying domain I immediately blacklisted Google Domains. I was scared about tripping something and getting Gmail account banned.

(yes, loss from not handling a single .com domain is minuscule for Google - but I wonder how common is to run away from any Google service due to risk to entire account)
I was referring to more subtle gene mutations in terms of the “average healthy human” kind of range. But you knew that.
How does that square with AZ charging SA "nearly 2.5 times higher than most European countries"?[0][1]

The Guardian claims that an official claimed that they were told by AZ that the discrepancy is due to European countries having paid for R&D, but anybody in the chain could have been lying.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/22/south-africa-p...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-safric...
> Give a user a choice though, and they dismiss the update notification because it's naggy and annoying and usually involves restarting your app or OS (I'm mainly thinking of operating systems here).

...or because it doesn't justify its right to be there. As a user, the updates mean to me a high probability of getting more bloated, less usable app with important functionality moved or missing. The security implications are abstract. The usability impact is real.
Here's some free/low cost suggestions...

1. Listen to all of 10 hours of rain and thunder on Youtube whilst working every day. I get into a state of flow much easier listening to that than practically anything else.

2. Text important people in your life to say you're offline until lunch and then turn your phone off and put it in a drawer.

3. Get a water jug so you don't have to keep getting up to fill your glass of water.

4. Create an alternative profile in Chrome or Firefox without your usual social profiles and add a site blocker blocking social media to it.

5. Print 4 rows of 10 boxes on a piece of paper and tick a box for every hour you successfully do work without distractions and put a cross for every hour that you are distracted. If you hit 40 hours without distractions give yourself a prize.
Popularity cannot be dictated, unless you're suggesting something like a regulation that would limit the total number of users a website is allowed to register.
This is not about accounts on media consumption services - those can be easily replaced. From the tweets, this is the problem:

> My phone has lost access to thousands of dollars of apps on @GooglePlay. [...] My @googledrive data is completely gone. I can't access my @YouTube channel. The worst of all is losing access to my @gmail address of over 15 years.

This can be literally the end for a small company which started relying too much on that environment.
There is no other service with feature parity on the UI alone out there. I've searched one for ages and would switch the whole org over in a New York minute if there was an (ideally open-source) "copy" of the Gmail UI available as front-end for one of the other mail servers. Features we can't do without nowadays are tagging; advanced filter and forwarding rules; split inbox with tabs for ads, newsletters, social media; support for multiple domains (10+) and dozens of aliases per user which you can easily switch between; 30 sec undo after sending an email; send later function; snappy UI that's not from the 90s.

Also, unfortunately Gmail/Gsuite is very cost-effective for us. We've looked at ProtonMail which seemed nice and potentially worth supporting but they would have cost us probably ten times or more what Gsuite costs (for email service only!) thanks to having to buy a ton of add-ons to get feature parity (they actually do charge extra for pretty much each custom domain and alias you want to use). And buying 100 GB of storage costs an eye-watering $120/month ($1.99 on Gsuite). I really don't know why their pricing is so weird. I know they can't probably scale as well on storage but adding aliases does not cause any measurable additional cost for them...

Anyway, if anyone decides to make a Gmail UI clone with a reasonable spam filter and pricing that's at most 2x what Google charges: Please let me know, I will migrate 120 new users to you within a couple weeks (not much on a grand scale but it's what I can offer...) :-)
As a Brit there's a certain relief in seeing some other governments are even worse organised but good luck with it all.
Google Cloud actually has pretty good and reachable support including by phone in case you have login issues.
There is no "the camera app"; the manufacturer often provides their own. It may well be in recent versions of GCam, but quite often it requires you to bail out to Google Lens for some reason.

Android is like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates: you never quite know what you're going to get. And sometimes it's stale.
I find https://appsco.pe/app/qrsnapper a simple pwa that works fine for me
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Both recommended apps use the ZXing library. So it is a small world, and if someone overtakes ZXing (assuming that it is not malicious right now), then all apps become infected.
Otherwise no security and bugfixes, no improvements, no version upgrades... who knows how long this library will work?
Still less than all the recipes, which would also be a valid search so I don't think this point stands.
You can't just tell, I've used the product for free and I've recommended the product to paying customers so that it's worth it.

How much do you cost the company by using the software for free? How much cost the thousands of users that use the product for free and don't recommend it to paying users?

Free plan doesn't have a one sided answer. Sometimes it is a good idea, sometimes it is not. Would Salesforce benefit from having a fee plan? This is not obvious to me
The 1991 computer game Crystal Caves had a sign saying “Kilroy was here”. As a kid I never got the reference but learned about it much later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Caves
If that’s what you want, I recommend fastmail.

For storage, I’ve successfully reached human tech support at synology and backblaze.
Actually they do if they have Google Assistant, which I imagine anyone with Android 7 or later will. If you use the Google Lens feature it will decode barcodes and QR codes. But unfortunately this feature is pretty much self-discovery rather than a publicised function
OSS supports mmap, at least on FreeBSD.
SMTP is among the things I wouldn't self host. Chances are your entire ISP is already blacklisted for some reason and mail ports are blocked. You'd have to create a relay host on some cloud provider and secure it to avoid having an open relay then navigate through all the configurations related to spam and malware filtering, gray lists, DNS registers and so on.

Dealing with mail servers is the only thing I don't miss from my classic sysadmin days. Although it should be noted popular MTA software nowadays are really solid software.
But that is exactly my point: we have legalized lot of substances bad for health and yet we cannot buy steroids freely. Steroids have at least an upside compared to vodka.
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Amateur yogurt maker here.

What you think of as "Greek" style yogurt is literally just normal yogurt run through cheese cloth or another similar filter (at home, I assume industry has a much more efficient method) to allow liquid to drain out.

The difference in the process is simply that once you're done making "normal" yogurt, you strain it to remove some liquid whey.

You can take this to varying degrees. While I was still dialing in my process, I made some yogurt so dry I questioned whether it was actually cheese. It made you thirsty to eat it. I've since reduced the time I spend straining it to something a little more moderate so it's still kind of creamy but not wet or runny.
Indeed as you mention, complex apps like Taiga are quite time-consuming to package in a way to ensure proper updates for the future. In fact I am right now in the process to iron out the update to Taiga v6 and that price-tag allows us to focus on such things so our users get a smooth experience without missing out on updates (disclaimer, I am one of the Cloudron founders :D )

For sake of our vision we surely would like to make it more cost-effective in the long run, however we are bootstrapped and thus walk a thin line with a focus more on long-term sustainability not just blind growth. (10x cheaper though would realistically even pose an accounting problem with micro-payments or plain transaction fees taking large chunks)
There is also a unique application ID string but unfortunately that's not displayed, probably in the name of "user friendliness". Just showing that in the play store alongside the app name would go a long way.
Female bodybuilding is about the masculine physique. Feminine physiques don't require testosterone injections or lifting heavy weights.
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This comment is the live example how colonisation is not always a bad thing.
When he was obese, people were like, ugh a fat slug who needs to stop eating 2000 calories a sitting. plus his nose is kinda crooked. When he got fit, all the sudden he started looking a pretty sexy guy who's got it together. that slightly crooked nose? now a cute quirk that makes his face more unique and charming.
That's actually an interesting point. If it is tied to the same Google account, will he still get money from apps sold through the play store? Can he pull an app from the play store if he cannot even log in?
Trello is a service I would probably pay for (before purchase by Atlassian, now don't trust) but never have because the free tier covers my needs adequately.

For me free plans work best for products that other products can be built on top of, because if I think I am going to build a product I want to have enough of a free tier that I can build the service and when I start having to pay for it I will have enough progress to know that it is worth investing money as well as time in it. Basically when I start paying for a service like that I want to have my product in release and at least a customer or two.

Of course I have only ever achieved this once.
Take a look at migadu.com
But your website has millions of views right? That's quite a public website.
Which "different operating systems"?

Only some Linux distros use SysV init and they're not any of the big players (Fedora/RH was the distro creating systemd), Ubuntu adopted systemd as the default 5 years ago, SUSE did the same 6 years ago, Debian 5 years ago. Almost everything else is a hobbyist OS (I've never seen Gentoo or Slackware in production anywhere else than at small companies where the server was on the critical path for maybe several tens of thousands of dollars, at best, which is peanuts on a global scale) or a niche OS (Alpine is used 95% as a container distro, and who freaking cares about the init system in a container? :-) ). Basically anyone who "puts there money where their mouth is" uses systemd.

SysV init was never adopted by BSD.

I think Solaris used to use it but it's been using Service Management Facility for the past 16 years.

HP/UX and AIX use SysV init, I think, but they're so vanishgly rare that 99% of developers and sysadmins out there could have the most successful careers in history and both HP/UX and AIX could be nuked from history for all they care.

And my point was that nobody even bothered to standardize SysV officially, though it was supposed to be a standard. That's how little everyone cared.

Poettering might be annoying, but he cares, he's opinionated and is actually knowledgeable. I've been using his software for a while and it's quite solid and his vision makes sense. POSIX isn't enough for a modern operating system.
Same here. Every now and then some app stops working or politely asks me to update, so an update it'll get (and at that point I have time to look it over and rethink whether I even need the app).

Last time I went on an "update spree" and updated everything I tend to use frequently, I got the new Firefox mobile update, which is frankly utter garbage, and now I regret it.

(Why it's utter garbage? It's much more laggy across the board, and there are issues getting uBlock Origin to work on it. And this tends to be the story with updates - I haven't seen the app that got leaner, or faster, or more ergonomic with an update. Not a single one.)
Note that many people have Google accounts.

30 000 random bans per year without justification are entirely consistent with Google Cloud revenue in billions.

In similar way as people keep doing things despite (sometimes tiny!) potential for death, mutilation or bankruptcy.
Why would the 8086 encoding be inspired from the 8080 when these two are generally not meant to be compatible in terms of their encoding? There is no gain from any of that.

This is like a urban legend that i have never found the source for. I stopped believing it after learning that the 8080 encoding order is BCDEHLMA, with the accumulator being last at position 7.
Then again, if all high profile accounts were exempt from being auto banned then there would be even less chance of problems being brought to light.
Notably, it also happened to an employee's husband:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24791357
The instructions read “Your domain will disappear forever in 3 days.” Does that mean that in three days, not only will https://forever.tusk.page/ be inaccessible, but nobody will ‘ever’ be able to recreate the same domain?
> Talent isn’t a measure of how good you are now. It’s a measure of how fast you improve with practice.

Spot on. Hard work matters, but people stating hard working geniuses as examples without mentioning there are many hardworking individuals without an even close result is just not right.
I have done exactly this with Fastmail and my own domain, and the experience was wonderful, as in "why didn't I do this years ago".
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HN is no place for this kind of comments. Either be civilized or go away. You're polluting this forum.
Slack was the "aha" for me on understanding an underlying mechanism here for freemium->paid.

Freemium needs to cover trialing up until the point of an adoption decision. However, the adoption decision isn't about continuing to use the tool. We're in a 'prosumer' world, so the purchasing decision flip is instead about when a user both operationally and mentally phases from b2c -> b2b, meaning changes both in how they're using it and the value they're noticing.

Ex: In Slack's case, it is a team liking it enough that they start having substantive conversations, and when prompted, view paying for a search history to be more than reasonable for a work environment. If they aren't getting commercial value from those comms, they can keep using for free until they do.

Ex: In ^^^ Notion's case, a 1000 block limit may not signify anyone cares beyond entertainment value. But as soon as you want to do secure sharing with colleagues for a lot of work, you're probably doing valuable stuff, and are fine paying as long as reasonable.

Ex: Twilio is ~free for developers as they prove value, but org pays when it gets real.

So it is less about trialing -> addicted, and more about trialing -> committed & appreciates generated work value. The lazy version of this is "addicted individual -> addicted team", so I expect pricing models to roughly follow that. Sort of like a modern version of "Enterprise means SSO so charge more for that", except now more closely aligned with utilization... which is a good thing.
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Maybe we don't talk more about this because nobody here has deep insights into the current vaccine production chains (and therefor into the actual bottle necks), so we have no clue how many deaths could be avoided?
> Then move off.

Great, let's legislate that you can switch providers but you have to be able to keep your email address, like we did with phones.
I don't discard also using them in the future to some extent slow aging effects but it's hard to find good info.
The Play Store Terraria is a different publisher. It's likely not his decision to make - and he shouldn't care considering that makes dealing with Google on that front is not his problem.

Also the revenue of the PC version should be roughly 4x all of the mobile versions combined (twice the amount of units sold, double the price).
Funny. Shame it's just an Ad for yet another shady trading app...
Mine got nuked somewhere along the way too.
Hum, Google is a bad example, Google doesn't have a free plan. They monetize their users. It is a complete different topic
I agree that people on HN downvote reasonable opinions and questions that do not go against HN guidelines.

It is the reddit effect. At first Reddit was like HN populated with highly educated people. As it got more and more users it democratized: The vote of a know-it-all 16 years old is the same as the one from a PhD in the field. In fact there are thousands of non experts for each expert, so they always win in a public space.

We add to that that we are using text, we do not carry intonation and other emotional information and lots of people will misunderstand whatever you say.

So the more popular a place like this becomes, the most degraded it becomes.

Do not take that seriously. I had great karma when I posted my real identity years ago and now lots of my comments are downvoted too, and I am the same person. I did not care then and not care now.
You can't even generalise England on this measure, let alone the rest of Europe at similar latitude.

Those of us from southern England are allowed by the northerners having "tea" (dinner) at half past five.
I think this is a filter bubble thing. Considering the difference in the time of the posts, I'd say the user base that was previously commenting was mainly from the USA where Apple is king and has its own bubble. Around the world it might be different.
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If I have the inode number: 263167, what is the meaning of 2, then of 6, then 3, and so on until 7...?

I did a research, but I didn't found something like this.

I want to know what is the purpose of every number of an inode. Maybe it is strange because I didn't saw this explanation before, but I know that every number has a special meaning.

Thank you all!