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Ask HN: What to do with non-commercialized tech?
I built a time-travel debugger for JS/TS.

It works really well especially in serverless contexts (think Lambda, CloudFlare workers, etc. where there's a web-based version of VSCode).

It provides breakpoints that can cycle backwards and forwards.

My little startup basically has too many good options to run with this in the short-term.

Open-sourcing it doesn't seem that attractive as by its nature this would likely lead to a lot of requests for free integration support. Or (worse) nobody would ever find and use it.

Breakpoints that go forwards and backwards feels super futuristic and it's a shame for it to just rot on the vine.

Curious if anyone has ever sold/licensed some under-commercialized tech?
I'm a member and regular user of ~21 Discourse-based forum communities. I also use a phpBB forum where there's currently a discussion about moving to something more modern, Discourse vs GitHub Discussions being the main options debated. However, I'd have to say that Discord and Reddit have either replaced or supplemented most of these (largely software and technology) forums.
What kind of workload are we looking at, do you care for the Australian accent?
I am curious about this. Has there been an analysis comparing the contents in the two respective countries? Something that would be illustrative of this claim. I am not doubting you or your statement. Just looking for information to back it up.

My search consistently yields marketing stats. Perhaps I am using the wrong key words?
https://github.com/ericfortis/quick-reference
another network effect of Jira is that it's usually set up using AD, so once it's installed and configured, anyone in that org can go and look around without having to create an account.
We have tried many things and jira is just the most future proof. The others all fall short of with this ‘do one thing and do it well’; that is great but life is dynamic so that one thing doesn’t fit growing companies or small companies (depending on what you use). Like someone said before, you can run small teams with basecamp, but when you go into the 1000s of devs and other skills that all need to be managed on different levels over different skills and departments, it won’t work while in jira it does. Some people will say; use basecamp for the small teams and other solutions for managing; sure but then people have to switch environments or you are making custom stuff on top. Why if jira already does that? And you can also build those custom things on the jira rest api by the way.

It is not great but the rest is just not any better (as far as I have seen that is!).
I knew I shouldn't have provided my personal identification number on those phone calls.
After installing noscript I was amazed to see how many trackers my bank account had on their online service. I would think they could do their own analytics without potentially sending banking history to Google, Facebook and Adobe, but apparently not.
i do agree it's fair, but it's also true that the service provider could argue that they are supposed to be in total control of the service, including the front-end.

It's by societal consensus that this can be made fair, and to convince people that it is fair, there needs to be a logical, indisputable argument that it's fair. Otherwise, the service providers can always just hide behind the counter-argument of being in control and TOS etc.
> the total package of how a chassis is developed must be tailored to suit the pilot if it is to win consistently.

It is probably not a coincidence that Ross Brawn (which you mention later) won so much when paired with Michael Schumacher, which even got out of retirement to join him at Mercedes.
I worked for a large department in a large bank that changed from Jira to MS Teams Scrum, as the new licence for Jira was too much. No way that it had as many features as Jira, but it worked fine, maybe was simpler.

So it ain't nonsense, users do switch.
I just checked and self hosted Jira is $42k/year. Not cheap.
Jira is slow and Confluence too. I 120% agree. It's the biggest issue for me. The longer the page in Confluence the worse it gets. I use it for weekly meeting notes and every 2 quarters I need to start a new document because editing the current one causes the CPU to go brrrrr.
I don’t think it does make sense since some people may take a little more time to solve a problem well even if they’re more qualified.
>>But there is no competing product (suite) that offers comparable functionality.

But not everyone needs 'comparable' functionality - an awful lot of people use just some features and not others - because of the awful UI and terrible user experience, these people are ripe to be picked off by a competitor (existing or future). I agree, if a mega-corp is completely in bed with JIRA, its harder to switch, but for a company not making any money (Atlassian), having their small and medium sized customers peeled off bit-by-bit for better products is going to hurt.
Recent regulations lobbied by Christian fundamentalists result in many, many more deaths. Why are they allowed to hold ceremonies then?
What did I do to mobile game developers to make them hate me so much?
The comment has been edited as if to be deleted. Does anyone have the original?
By far the most popular programming language in the world is propriatary -- Excel.
NATO Launches Innovation Fund
Loads of companies make great money selling ads. Sure, most don't make billions in profits, but even apps like Snapchat are able to do billions in annual revenues every year selling ads. And many companies are able to make tens or hundreds of millions selling ads.

Also I was just using ads as example of how digital real estate can be monetised. I'm not a Substack user so I might be mistaken, but I believe most of their revenue comes from their subscription model. The point I was making was just that if you create something that millions of people use whether or not you're aggressively monetising it today, there is still some theoretical value that you can assign to those eyeballs and that engagement.
I use zsh-histdb[1], which records my entire shell history for all time in a database, which also stores:

• The start and stop times of the command
• The working directory where the command was run
• The hostname of the machine
• A unique per-host session ID, so history from several sessions is not confused
• The exit status of the command

This the working directory of the command has been especially useful for me to get the context of what I did, not only the command itself.

[1] - https://github.com/larkery/zsh-histdb
kernel_fpu_begin() / kernel_fpu_end()
> Instead of “resist”, I might instead say, “see clearly” or “recognise”

Thank you, that's definitely a better way of wording it.
for me as a german angry german sounds hillarious

https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3-voices/blob/master/sampl...
Two startups I’ve worked for uses Linear as well, but is it really scalable though? Like is there any big company (200+) using Linear?
> Why do we even have linear physical and virtual addresses in the first place

Mmmh, there was a time when PC's had non-linear memory [1]

Coding for this was IIRC an effing nightmare.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_segmentation
I love nim, but I disagree with the "quick compilation" point here. The compilation is horrendously slow. (by default it compiles down to C, then to exe from there).
Programming languages are not heroin... people want a tools offering some features and they use whatever has them and is not too hard to learn a new one.

Matlab-class languages are <1 week for anyone smart to learn and usably prodactive at then it's a smooth learning curve up. They're not Scala or Haskell or enterprise Java frameworks...

When Julia gets all the advatanges currently in the Python ecosystem (and it's just a matter of time), it's game over. Ppl use Matlab instead of Python bc Python is weird and slow at many linear algebra stuff... AI/ML ppl are OK with Python bc they rarely write low level numerics code and when they do it has to run on stuff other than regular CPUs so it's C anyway.

If Matlab looses (fairly) we all win. But Mathematica/Wolfram is a different thing... there's all the symbolic computing stuff and the idea of integrating access to a general real-world-knowledge-DB into the language itself in there that will take decades to re-invent...
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>> with minimal cost (other than the initial hassle of switching to a new system)

The first part does not realistically connect to the second part. Surely the author is aware that switching to new systems is actually quite expensive monetarily and operationally - definitely not “minimal”?
"my cheat sheet is google"

Useful information disappears from the internet all the time.

If I find something useful I record it myself so I can easily find it again instead of wasting my time searching for something that may no longer exist.
They want you to make good quality audio recordings of you speaking about 20 000 phrases. It could take 40 to 80 hours of speaking and recording, maximum 4 hours per day.

https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic-recording-studio

https://mycroft.ai/contribute/
The same way I am resisting (in-efficiently) things now in democracy: by voting and trying to raise my concerns on public forums.

Yes, government could do things which prevent me doing so. Still, I am not capable to manage everything by myself and at the same time I think it is better to let things to be managed by (good) government than corporations.
All people should enjoy equal protection under the law.

We hold these truths to be self-evident.
Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM they said.

How is Oracle doing these days anyway?
> Your source could be human conflict for all of recorded history.

Can you compare the human conflict for all of recorded history between China and the US (+Europeans who influenced the US)?
It has to be low enough for mass adoption. I’d guess $2/mo or $10/yr.

I paid for the $200 license back in high school 10 years ago and it was absolutely amazing; Really ahead of its time and well worth the money. But today as a software engineer the only feature I’m missing in Python is the ability to run natural language expressions in the middle of my code. Besides that, Python is far superior thanks to the community investment and the ability to easily deploy my code.
I really liked this setup. The only point of friction for me was adding the links to the index via the crawler everytime. So I created a Firefox Extenstion to do it directly from the address-bar.

If someone is interested, you can download it from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yacy-it/

Limitation: It currently supports only YaCy running on localhost and unprotected. You might have to configure CORS as outlined here -> https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it#configuring-yacy
EthOS: Ethereum Mobile Operating System
I can't say that Biden is inspiring. On the other hand, he has a barely usable majority in the Senate.
Worked there from 2008-2013. So early-ish employee here. I still have a chunk of shares from the original ESOP program. Saying that for full disclosure because I'm biased and this feels like a hit piece to me.

When I worked there, they disclosed all financials in our internal Confluence site. There was a policy of full transparency with the employees. The owners (Mike and Scott) had impressive business discipline. They were profitable every quarter. They had many many opportunities to get vc money and go wild. When they finally took VC money, It was a modest amount ($60M I think) and the purpose was explained to us as setting up an ESOP program and putting Atlassian on the path to go public.

A year or two later, Doug Berman, the founder of Great Plains software became chairman of the Atlassian board. He gave a presentation to all of the employees at the Sydney office. One thing that stood out was that he said, it's actually bad to be profitable when you're growing. I'm paraphrasing here but he essentially said, you're leaving growth on the table. His thesis was growth is more important than profits.

So whether you agree with that or not, that is obviously the idea they are operating on rather than uncontrolled spending and helicopter dropping stock on employees heads out of desperation.
Have you ever bought a book? You often get a choice between cheap paperback and fancy hardcover.
This is a really interesting comment with which I have a lot of sympathy but disagree in large part. I too yearn for an updated ‘home computer’ but with powerful modern hardware!

Firstly, I don’t think the PI’s can be seen to have failed. I’m not close to their use in schools but I do think that for hardware to be useful on this context if needs to engage with the modern computing world and that includes all the ‘messiness’ of Linux etc.

Secondly, I think the Pi Pico W - which can drive a display using one of the cores (see link) - has the potential to be the basis of a system close to what you describe.

https://picockpit.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-pico-video-o...

I wasn’t aware of the Commander x16 which looks interesting but I was a bit disappointed to see the 6502 based CPU. In the 2020s I think we need to be using a modern architecture and that means Arm or RISC-V.

Finally, the Colour Maximite is also close to the sort of thing you’re talking about.

https://geoffg.net/maximite.html
You don't need most of those comparable functionality AND you can get decent UX

Simply put, Atlassian sucks at building products because their culture is not good. They got lucky they had the right idea when they were young and didn't have competition.

Nowadays there are just better products out there.
I can't learn like that. Just getting in front of a problem and asking me to fix it.

I need more guidance on what are the problems, how the problems are fixed, examples, etc...

Hence, I can't be a better writer just being put in front of a text to correct.
What if I prefer a more Chinese society than traditional western society?
static types in Elixir would be fantastic
How I Mastered the Art of Ventilating My Home (2020)
Recommendations for Belgium: do not drink the hot water

For Geneva: you can drink the hot water

For France: you can drink the hot water but it is disgusting

All of them talk about the same effects (fisdolved oxygen, piping ,...) and come to different conclusions.

My take on that: nobody questions the potability of cold tap water so I will use that one, there is nothing to gain (possibly a shorter time to boil? that trumps the extra cost?)
Again, this doesn't matter to the discussion. Even if they were fully grown humans this wouldn't "override" pregnant person's right to decide about their own body.

(Also, you're conflating 'being homo sapiens' with 'being a person'; you've already tried this method of derailing the discussion two days before.)
Toys, Secrets, and Cycles: Lessons from the 2000s
> Are you talking about this?

Yes, that's what I'm talking about, although brusselstimes seems to report it weirdly (sounds like they want to extend itsme).
https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20220627_97617861 -> They want to replace itsme with something build by the government.

> The Belgian government already has an implementation:
https://www.csam.be/en/egov-profile.html

You're confusing a couple of things here. CSAM isn't an identity provider. It's like a gateway/umbrella to multiple identity providers like eID and itsme. You can have eID authentication without CSAM and vice-versa.

It doesn't make sense to claim itsme doesn't support linux. It's only a phone app, you dont need desktop software. I can login to proximus.be using itsme on linux.
Low millions? Where are all of the people in the hot areas of India, China, Africa, and the middle east going to go? How are they going to migrate? Do they have money? Will it be on foot? Will they have resources for the journey?
This reminds me of mailing lists over 15 years ago that had at least one gmail account owner CC'ed in. Good bye privacy for the rest of us. ;)
MATLAB seems to be rapidly being displaced by python is my observation.
The article talks about this. The problem is that growth is not there.

What you're left is a company with 8000 employees and a system to problematic to change.

With the recession incoming, the time for free money is over and tech startups are bound for a correction. I'd sell or get ready to wait 10-20 years.

Even in the wait scenario, you're basically hoping that a huge corporation will transform itself and rediscover their startup roots - which is not likely to happen.

It happened with Mashape (sold their unprofitable marketplace to the RapidAPI people - geez, what a bad deal, it was painful to watch) and they managed to reinvent themselves with Kong.

They literally did a bunch of experiments and went on with what succeeded, ignoring their main, flawed, business model.

That's what companies should do to chase success, they need to act like venture incubator, don't bother their teams with corporate BS and hope one of their teams will succeed. If they behave like mammoth corporations they're doomed to fail.
I just navigate Slack entirely by search and redirect all conversations to public channel as as much as possible, and I find that pretty natural. CTRL+K to navigate between convos and channels, CTRL+F to find things based on content (if I don't want to think about whether something was in a DM or a channel, and just go back to the same one).
>CTOs and CPOs loved Atlassian’s revolutionary Jira

CTOs and CPOs affection to useless crap designed to impress clueless managers and hated by everyone who actually has to use it is kind of a common pattern.
In the case of Discord, for example, the terms of service doesn't even mention third-party clients. Also, these services are accessible from web browsers, which are made by third parties. There are more reasons, like users being able to run whatever they want on their own computers, but just the ones above are enough.
We’ve reached peak wellness and most of it is nonsense (2019)
Not sure that's a great example - roller coasters aren't thrilling because you're not in control but because you're experience crazy g-forces,... sitting on a train is pretty relaxing usually.
was it atleast profitable to founder. Say working as an employee in a top tech company vs 20 years of unprofitable company.
Big cats in urban jungle: LA mountain lions, Mumbai leopards
> revenue for the past nine months grew from US$1.5 billion to US$2.04 billion ($2.95 billion) (or around 24%).

Forgive my math skills at 4:07 in the morning, but isn't that actually 36% growth?

> Atlassian’s legacy Jira product ... is no longer loved by developers.

As a developer I prefer Jira over every alternative I've tried (Clubhouse, Trello, GitHub Issues, and Monday.com).

> users can switch to a competitor product like Asana, Basecamp or Monday.com with minimal cost (other than the initial hassle of switching to a new system).

That seems like a pretty big hassle though. My company is way too busy to undertake switching ticketing systems.
I just find most stuff works better via GitHub tickets. Let the managers use whatever tool they want and then put actual work on GitHub.
I suspect that in a world where half of the kids died of banal diseases and even a strong young person could die from smallpox, rotten tooth or tuberculosis in a few weeks or months, human lives weren't valued as highly. War was just one of many ways to die young.
Author writes that Atlassian has no network effects. That is BS.

Atlassian has massive network in its ecosystem. There are Jira Consultancies, 3rd party apps and plugins and deep integration into customers processes. If one element grows the whole ecosystem profits.

Secondly, Atlassian is not a bad company just because it's stock is overpriced. It might be a bad investment!

Over the short and midterm Atlassian is in some trouble because it has problems to scale the development while shifting from legacy to cloud. They will solve it. Still i expect some bad news to come.

These bad news will beat down the stock and maybe create an opportunity to buy a great company at a great price.

PS: The Atlassian invoice of my employer tripled over 1 year. You start cheap and simple and with every plugin and product you add the invoice grows. Thus to value Atlassian you have to look into revenue per customer over its life time, which is far greater than this year's revenue of the customer.
Pill color and other visual characteristics affect the placebo effect. This affects design even outside the US.
> While this is nice as a thought exercise, not having at least "enough" money is very painful in my experience.

Of course. Consider this - when you're poor - it's not specifically money you're after. You want the baseline items to survive, and money is a convenient way of obtaining them.

But your end goal is not the money - it's what you need.

But beyond that, especially in society, the money has a tendency to become the end in itself. Just get lots of money - it must be valuable because it appears others value it.

Same with power and recognition. Lots of people fantasize about promotions because of what it'll do to their self worth as perceived by them and their peers.

So ... it's not a thought experiment. It's the stone cold truth - money and power are the thought experiments.
> What I have done to mitigate the issue, is give each workspace a different color theme. At least, it helps me to avoid crosstalk between organizations.

Ok yeah the different workspaces in one window is more of a pain than just different channels and chats in one window for me, at least the way it's done in Slack. I haven't felt that way on IRC, for whatever reason.
The design workshop with a Surface on the wall is going to be tons of lego-colored fun !
In Colorado when I was I kid, one heard "goat roper".
Why are there no 2,3,4,5 tier bunk beds on airplanes?
> If you have a pulse and can barely pass fizz buzz you’re employed with 200k salary, so yeah.

Tell us you don't have any experience with hiring, without telling us you don't.