skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of price: a price point that means a significant portion of my peers will also pay for Mathematica without too much hesitation. The value proposition changes radically when a tool is something "everyone" runs or which everyone can afford to run.

But pricing isn't the only problem here. The licensing model would have to be far more permissive. Plus I think any language that hopes to be successful would at least require an open source compiler, runtime and standard library.
> I can now read and exercise thanks to ebooks.

Woah! I've tried that and failed badly. :-D

Might be due to the fact that I'm lifting weights but I can't stand audio books while doing that. Need some Metal/EDM/whatever to keep me going, E-Books totally ruin it for me.
If smart people joined the police, they would probably cease being just goons for the state/those in power to use against those they don't like defeating their current purpose

Smart police aren't going to go around brutalizing peaceful protestors or framing minorities for drug crimes
Not sure what you mean.

There are no leaks by default now. If you want manual memory management, you can do that.

What's the problem?

And hello world hasn't been leaking for a while now, it was just an unfreed global const.

The issue you referenced, wasn't closed as a wontfix. It was closed because it was fixed.
Everybody keeps telling me about asdf, but I haven't yet come around to using it. I like to have manual control over my packages, but I guess I should really give it a try one day.
24 hours before Raspberry announce Pi Pico W on 40nm...
Not necessarily even single-player, I remember having fun playing some Worms clone with two other friends over Bluetooth back in the high school. One of them had an actual Motorola RAZR V3, no kidding.
> As a developer I prefer Jira over every alternative I've tried (Clubhouse, Trello, GitHub Issues, and Monday.com).

I also prefer JIRA, but that doesn't mean I love it. It just so happens to be the only available product with most of the features I need.

That being said, its UX is beyond terrible. The moment something else appears that covers some significant portion of its feature set, I can see a lot of people making the switch.

I think one of the biggest problems of competitors is to think that JIRA is bad because it's complex. Therefore they position their offerings as a simpler slim down version of JIRA.

Big news: it is complex to manage complex projects. JIRA has, I think, the right level of complexity and flexibility to tackle that.

If any competitor reads this message: please, go complex!
Best part about this was their CEO trying to play it down, he put his feet in his mouth several times. He said that the recorded calls could not be accessed by regular people, you needed some special keyboard commando movement to get in the back door.
it’s all greek to me!
> Git has lockin, but you don't hear of people avoiding branches in case they need to move to perforce.

Replace Git with SVN in the comment above.

Also replace Perforce with Git in the comment above.

Then you have a viable argument and a story of mine that actually is a case of exactly that - back when project management for certain projects was done primarily in SVN, there was the expectation to stick to the popular way of laying out repositories, with folders for trunk, branches and tags, a bit like the example here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2611237/subversion-repos...

Of course, you didn't really need to do it that way and certain other projects explored other options, such as having features under the root of the repository, like "/ISSUE123" or something like that.

Well, as time passed, it became apparent that SVN just wouldn't cut it (TortoiseSVN was such nice software, though) and that the projects would need to be migrated off of SVN and into Git, to import them into GitLab/GitHub or elsewhere. Those projects all still being in development and having the need to be trace back changes to particular feature requests/issues meant that all of the revision history would also need to be moved over.

The problem with most of the migration scripts, however, was that they broke when you had a non-standard layout and as a consequence of that, you simply couldn't finish the import process and were stuck on SVN. Back then I actually resolved it by rewriting the history of those repositories into the standard format, but it was just a massive waste of time and a headache.

Alas, a sentence like this would absolutely be false:

> SVN has lockin, but you don't hear of people avoiding non-standard repo layouts in case they need to move to Git.

So yes, despite there being certain features and the ability to do something, that doesn't immediately mean that you should jump right in and use them! I might also have a few horror stories about Git submodules, or maybe even using Git LFS with synchronized Git repositories across GitHub and GitLab (of course, the LFS contents weren't sent properly, so no binary assets were mirrored), as well as other such problems.

If you can, stick to a stable, boring and predictable set of core features in any software package.
They are probably sleeping in a 14 room mansion in an ultra king size bed being rubbed to sleep by three prostitutes. So yeah, they’re probably sleeping well.

But you expect anything different from a corporation? Their only purpose is to make profit. It’s just basic economics. They don’t care about politics or LGBTQ, they care about money. The only reason they ever seem to care about LGBTQ is because they saw the group as a market. A Market to exploit.
Julia isn't in the same class and workflow usually differs significantly from the others.
> But there is no competing product (suite) that offers comparable functionality. Many companies have built entire workflows (not just development related) around Jira, and have huge knowledge bases in Confluence. Switching would come with a lot of effort.

Exactly. Other products comes with opinionated workflow or are much easier (and simpler) to use. Once you setup Jira way you wanted (good luck with that) and able to maintain this setup for all of your projects you're stuck with Jira forever - you won't be able to export all of your content to another software. The whole process takes ages and its a nightmare of going thought totally different UX pages, unintuitive settings, slow UI, setting up extremely expensive plugins (why till today you need to buy tempo to get basic functionality like time tracking) etc.

It's called vendor lock. Nobody ever got fired for buying Jira

Other products are not for every business, have limited settings - but are quicker, saves you time and are able to be useful since day one.

All of the companies are using Jira differently, even if you're familiar with this, and you have been using Jira in all you provious jobs for years you still need to have onboarding on how does Jira works in current company - as for instance I've worked with Asana in 3 totally different companies and workflow was the same.
> Maybe, but a better successor would've evolved out of it.

> Matlab had Octave as an open source alternative. Not used much, but it inspired the creation of Julia. Based on how fast it's evolving Julia will be the superpowered-grandson-of-Matlab :)

That's a very contrived argument!

If Matlab has inspired the development of other products without ceasing to exist so can (maybe has) Mathematica.
Only bans I've heard of using Ripcord has been when people join servers on that client. Don't know how prevalent it is tho.
Peter Zeihan makes an interesting observation: the 2010-2020 decade was the peak of baby boomer employment. Boomers are now entering retirement en masse.

Without a source of income, these retirees - the wealthiest generation in America and much of the world - will shift their investments to less risky assets. This, along with higher interest rates, will starve the world of cheap capital.

Wonder how much of an impact this has had. The risk profile of a 60 year old senior exec at a Fortune 500 company looks different from the risk profile of a 65 year old retiree.
These temperature gradients obviously lead to convection.

Stronger convection means greater heat transfer, thus greater rate of cooling down.

But it'd be surprising if the inertia of the convection of the initially hot system didn't just gradually decline (because of friction) to almost exactly (little bit greater) the same level of convection (which the initially cool system had in the beginning) when it reaches the same average temperature.
Excel is built with programming language and can certainly be used as one, but that doesn't mean it is one. It's also a bit anal to classify Excel as a programming language, most people would say spreadsheets are a tool, where you could write programs, but again, doesn't mean it's a programming language. At most, I'd give you that Excel is a tool that can do "visual programming", but that's far of from being a "programming language".
JIRA's network effect is the amount of plugins and third party integrations that work with JIRA.

The author points at monday.com: I used it a few years ago and it only has basic and useless integrations out of the box, even for a service like Gitlab. You either develop what you need youreslf of try to so something with Zapier.
Remember, the cops announced they definitely didn't shoot any children. Totally unprompted. Yea, nothing suspicious here

Those cops definitely shot kids
>But there is no competing product (suite) that offers comparable functionality. Many companies have built entire workflows (not just development related) around Jira, and have huge knowledge bases in Confluence. Switching would come with a lot of effort.

Most companies don't need "comparable functionality" and most did not built entire workflows around it, and those companies will leave for competitors. The few that locked themselves into Jira will face sharply rising prices in next years, that will make them reconsider their choice.

They have bad products and they are losing 700 million a year, future for Atlassian is bleak.
> ...and have huge knowledge bases in Confluence.

I like to call Confluence a knowledge cemetery - in the huge datasets you have in mind, finding the page you are looking for is more a matter of luck than anything else. And once you found it, you can never be sure if it's still up to date.

> Anyway, they have 8000 employees... they can always drastically downsize and refocus, the company will be around for a while.

I'm actually wondering how they can not make a profit with the huge corporate user base they have?
> Is there any argument here in Amazon’s defense?

Can you phrase the attack you imagine they need defense from in a way that doesn't assume your worldview is the universal position (or that tries to achieve a universal position) everyone must adhere to?
TSMC, Open Source your 28nm PDK!
The "data" they mention are product descriptions. The issuer of the cease and desist appears to be NielsenIQ. And they don't provide price data.
Their main product is to provide standardised product images with a white/transparent background, and small product descriptions. Their customers being big E-Commerce stores.
I think: Yes. As long as the problem is representative of the types of problems that the candidate will be required to solve if hired for the job. Naturally the problems should be within the candidate's claimed areas of expertise.

I like to pose problems that have been solved a while back, but was the subject of some considerable debate. Given a whiteboard, I am more interested in how the candidate approaches the problem and the questions they ask, the concerns they raise. In other words, demonstrating a mature approach.
Yeah; they don't enforce it, though. From the article:

> Yet, when the AP reporter made the same exact post but swapped out the words “abortion pills” for “a gun,” the post remained untouched. A post with the same exact offer to mail “weed” was also left up and not considered a violation.
would be nice indeed !
For real, I don't think it's all about "each special snowflake's way of working" but there are legitimate needs that change

Each team can have a different workflow with Jira

Jira works for non-software-development tasks as well

I've seen it used on companies having 4/5 levels of stories deep (think Initiatives/Epic/Stories/Subtasks/etc. Different companies split this different ways.

The plugins sound inconsequential but they are very useful (almost a must) in several occasions.
In case of war on drugs, there was narco mafia on the other end. This one is easier, no one wants bums except bums themselves.
The functionality of JIRA is great. It's the UI that feels slow and clunky.
you should check the video where they translate doom source to V and compile it[1], almost flawless... the C2V is just a few days old feature, and it is incredible how well works. The more I read about V the more I cannot believe it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oXrz3oRoEg
LOL at "EU countries avoid those problems" - they all have those problems. From proportional thresholds to the sad joke that is first-past-the-post, all systems have issues here or there. Direct democracy doesn't really exist outside of rare referenda - which also have their own distortions, from eligibility criteria to quorum etc. Democracy is a set of compromises we make to live together in relative peace.

> to EU citizens moving to the American model is a huge step in an undemocratic direction.

No, it's a huge step towards a continent-size governance model, which inevitably requires new ways to interpret the popular will. We're still at the early stages of this process, a process that will probably never end - like it never ended for nation-size governments.
>thoughtless NPC's

4chan qanon mask off I see! Very interesting, everyone knows the type of person that uses these phrases

Are you red pilled or black pilled bro?
No wonder, given the "quality" of the software they deliver.

They claimed to support Markdown in Confluence – It does not work as good as any decent Markdown parser you can install in any mainstream programming language and does not understand, that within Markdown there can be HTML, for example for heading link targets and TOC. Same for Bitbucket. What are they doing? Letting interns code incomplete Markdown parsers and deploying them for everyone to haunt them with subpar quality parsing? The thing cannot even render a readme.md file correctly in Bitbucket.

Everything is slow to no end, downloading 20+ megabytes (no joke, no exaggeration!) for displaying a friggin git repo and the files list.

Wiki pages that the search function lists suddenly become unreachable.

WYSIWYG editor on Confluence is still a joke and annoying to no end.

Any technical person, who has ever used any decent alternative will run for the hills, before using that unholy combination of software, that is Atlassian. Jira is probably still the best among the bunch of utterly bad experiences and its UI is just terrible. Cannot find anything easily there.
There is a minor genre of YouTube content with people speed-running longer games (e.g. Fallout, Skyrim) to fit into the two hour Steam-return window.

Ironically because speed-running requires a lot of practice this often means purchasing two copies of the game - the first to practice with, and the second to be (potentially) refunded!
> That is, CTOs and CPOs loved Atlassian’s revolutionary Jira product so much, it was able to grow virally and organically without the business having to spend millions of dollars on an enterprise sales team.

Here people talk a lot about creating a good product, code quality, etc. It doesn't matter.
You don't need to build a great product: you need to find the market and exploit it faster than you can. The quality of your product is not important.

How is Atlassian with so many bad products is valued at $52 billion?
Jira is one of the worst products in the eyes of developers. But it does not matter.
Managers love Jira because with Jira it's "very easy" to create a workflow and micromanage everything. And managers decide what's good for the company, they have the power to buy Jira.

But Jira is not Vilain. The villain is the school of management through fear, micromanagement, etc.
I worked at a company that created an internal JIRA. It's worse than Jira. It was too complex to fill everything, we create a script to do this.
Raspberry Pi never put openness first.
As a proprietary language and kernel, it can never compete long-term with open source alternatives.

People have been saying this about Windows for the last 35 years.
I'm using Jira, too, and I don't think its slow. It actually works quite well and has loading animations for longer tasks, so it never feels laggy. Sure, it's not vi-levels of navigation speed, but it never bothered me. The UX works for me, too (although it took me a bit to learn it, to be fair).
These pills seem hard to swallow.
How do you format them? Mine look very verbose, I don't like markdown at all, but since Gitlab/Github renders them, you can't use anything else...
I don't think it's crazy. You're valuing the company as a mature dividend paying company - one that is paying out to share holders the profits it makes, not investing further to grow. But that's not a reasonable way to value Atlassian, they're a growth company.

I think the expectation of the market is pretty simple, Atlassian grow by 30%+ YoY for the foreseeable future, which isn't totally unreasonable, and that their costs aren't going to scale with that growth because they're a software business.

If they grow 30% YoY for the next 5 years they'll be pulling in $10Bn in revenue, and maybe sales scale proportionally so call that 25% of revenue, R&D stays more or less flat at $1Bn - let's double it to $2Bn to be generous, Administrative stays fairly nominal at 500m. Hey presto, you've got a company with a tidy $5Bn annual profit. Discount that back to todays prices and that doesn't sound crazy. And all that is assuming is that Atlassian is fully matured in 5 years and not still growing.

To be clear, this is all just very hand wavey numbers, but it's not totally incredible.
Three of their best ML engineers /devs left in the last 12 months or so. The backend for anything deep-learning is MXNet...which is essentially a non-starter these days vs PyTorch or TensorFlow. All these functions you cite are very low level updates not real feature updates.

I would say in 2018-2019 the ML / Deep learning stack was actually very impressive compared with what was available in FOSS. Now -- it's languishing. Badly.
bob build sytem also has a convenient way to change go version for your projects[1]

it uses nix under the hood so it won't mess with your local system

[1] https://bob.build/docs/getting-started/package-management#us...
What is a consent manufacturing bot?
Apple lets apps in South Korea use third-party payment systems
Suggesting bad runtime algorithms is the problem. You should try writing it so you understand algo complexity. If you do not understand Big O concepts after 25 years, I'm not going to try explaining it to you.

Racism & biases in NLP is only an analogy, all ML models have issues with capturing undesirable features of the training data.

My complaint is about you suggesting bad ideas are good ones. The `hof` tool is more like Helm than Copilot. My opinion is that deterministic algorithms are often better when the solution space is represented by graph-like structures. ML is not advanced or capable enough yet for problems that require exactness across time & space. I am interested in applying Copilot like models to the design space in `hof` (config/data rather than code)
> There are some types of games, including dungeon crawlers and "point and click" adventure games (or point and tap i guess :-P) that i expected to flourish in touchscreen devices like mobile phones and tablets, but that didn't end up happening.

ScummVM is available for touchscreen phones. Pointing directly on the screen doesn't work well, but there should be a mode where you can swipe around to position the cursor and then tap anywhere to send a click at the cursor's location.
The question in the title would get a different answer than the question in your post.

Do I trust solo entrepreneurs? Yes.

Would I use their software within my organization? No. Or at least, not for anything critical. Not because I do not trust the person, but because life is crazy and that product's bus factor is too high.
Your file just reminded me I have "broot" installed..

Its sad how I install all those things, forget about them the next day and cd/ls/vi like a caveman.

The problem is much deeper than you think, OP...
Only 'unprofitable' in GAAP terms.It has a very healthy Free Cash Flow margin.
And it still a 7x return from IPO.

All-in-all, a great success story.
(Whatever one thinks of Jira the product)
> The definition of a marker isn’t arbitrary, the question is what’s an equivalent good and where can you get it.

Correct. Exactly my point.

> That alone destroys the argument that retail is a single uniform market.

This is not my claim. My claim is that (at a bare minimum) the market Amazon competes in includes Walmart, target and other large retailers. The market is not “online retail.”

> Considering everything they bundle into Amazon Prime they are on serious thin ice.

No. Bundling is a totally separate antitrust issue. Also none of the items in the Prime bundle raise antitrust concerns.

If you want an example of a tech firm taking a serious antitrust risk with a bundled good, the best example right now is Microsoft teams.
Once in a blue moon I use Mathematica as an overpowered calculator. I keep it around partly for nostalgia, and partly because it makes me feel like a true computer scientist.

Every time I use it, I have this mental image of using a 500 ton press to crack a walnut. It's ludicrous overkill, but it brings a certain satisfaction to be able to use arbitrary precision maths when I don't need to, and use nonlinear fits for graphs where nobody looking at the result will even begin to appreciate the difference it makes.

This is the problem -- there is a "long tail" of people like me that have used Mathematica at university that are loathe to let go, but can't really justify the ongoing price.

This is why there are free editions of many paid tools. IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio have free "community editions", for example. More importantly, the build tools are generally free.

Even eye-wateringly expensive enterprise products with "call us" pricing have free editions! For example, VMware ESXi, Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server all do.

Wolfram is one of the last all-proprietary, no-free option, no open-source holdouts, especially in the space of "general purpose languages".
How cool would that be? You don't need containers for the water as they will just float, outer space is very cold. Perfect medium for this experiment.
> We do not offer refunds. Please make sure that you can login into your Slacks and that the app works for you by using the free test version.

From my experience when someone says they don't offer refunds it's generally a sign that lots of people ask for their money back. I've not once dealt with a company that had a no refunds policy that was a good company to deal with.
> Virtually nobody cares about trade deals.

I care about trade deals because trade deals are how many bad laws like the ever-expanding copyright are spread around the world.
Basic English?
I'm concerned at the quality of the support when they can't even write the date correctly. Should be "29th".
It's much faster than C++, Rust, Go and many others.