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by Saaster 6y ago
Hmm, literally the only paid feature left on the Teams plan we're using is Draft PRs. I am worried that as it looks like I won't need to pay for this service, that I, my team and my code will become the product to monetize at some
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by Saaster 6y ago
Companies receive so many "First, you have to be on the other side of this airtight hatch, then you..." reports that anything that looks even remotely like it will just get summarily closed. My personal favorite ones start with so
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by Saaster 6y ago
For reference WhatsApp is ~70MB (that's considered small) and a Facebook app is ~380MB on iOS.
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by Saaster 6y ago
There are major unknowns about the long-term viability of everything from airlines, hotels to ice cream parlors. Consumer behavior will change as a result of this, and more so when the second (and third...) waves of the virus start to hit i
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by Saaster 6y ago
Also cancelling your credit card does not cancel your subscriptions! Try explaining to Salesforce that you don't really need to pay that bill, you see you cancelled the card... Then explain the same thing to the factoring services, and
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by Saaster 6y ago
There's an interesting article in NYTimes on how heart attacks are way down https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/well/live/coronavirus-doc... People just not wanting to go to the emergency rooms
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by Saaster 6y ago
The Fed won't be unloading those assets in your or anyone's lifetime.
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by Saaster 6y ago
And how's that working out for Sweden? 20x death rate to date compared to neighboring Finland which has a lockdown in place, and an ever accelerating rate of infected. Cool, cool. Also China today is nothing like China pre-covid. Manda
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by Saaster 6y ago
Because it makes literally no sense for 50 states to compete and outbid each other for a scarce set of resources when you already have an umbrella organization, the Federal government, that could coordinate the purchases and the allocation
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by Saaster 6y ago
Zoom's updates also runs though the entire installer again as of today.
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by Saaster 6y ago
Chrome uses an DMG, and the result is that people are using ancient versions of it straight out of their Downloads or Desktop folders. Zoom uses an .pkg, and have now removed the one-click install script. So every update to Zoom now runs th
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by Saaster 6y ago
I work in a tech company. The number of people you see who have their desktop filled with permanently mounted DMGs, launching their apps by opening said DMG and launching their trusty old Chrome version 53 by double-clicking the icon would
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by Saaster 6y ago
Look at almost all successful companies and they're pretty "boring" under the hood: GitHub and Stripe are Ruby on Rails, Facebook is PHP, Google is Java (still almost all new code written in 2020)... it gets the job done. Yes
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by Saaster 6y ago
I'm surprised at the 12 deployments per day, if that's truly to production. There's bugfixes etc., but feature wise Slack has been... let's say slow. Not Twitter slow, but still slow, in making any user visible changes.
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by Saaster 6y ago
Plain EC2, backend in PHP.
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by Saaster 7y ago
None of the WebRTC based options just work, they're all glitchy and cannot scale up to even moderate amounts of users. We have Google Hangouts Meet for free for our org, and we still pay for Zoom because It Just Works.
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by Saaster 7y ago
So you can get the loan to cover up 2.5x monthly payroll, use that to pay your employees for 8 weeks, then the loan is forgiven? Is there any reason a software company < 500 people wouldn't want to or couldn't take advantage of
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by Saaster 7y ago
Oh my sweet summer child. As a pro having done this thing for decades, the industry standard in 2020 is to randomly throw margins, negative margins, and paddings on _everything_ (probably in JS/JSX) in the vicinity of the thing you&#x2
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by Saaster 7y ago
In my previous company we had 20 million daily active users and we ran that on 4x M4.large EC2 instances. 4 instances not because it had any significant load (probably ~10-15% sustained), but purely because of high-availability and the abil
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by Saaster 8y ago
I updated my web service (solo dev, side project) with a GDPR compliant terms and privacy policy, got this form letter already from a few of my users. I have to tell, it's seriously depressing and I was contemplating shutting the whole
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by Saaster 8y ago
Most people are using whatever is the default browser on their mobile phone. And if they do use a desktop, most users still struggle with the single-vs-double-click, never mind the right-side mouse button.
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by Saaster 8y ago
It's a common misconception, but consent is only one of the 6 recognized lawful basis for processing specifically recognized by the GDPR, and a company may contact you when any one is applicable. For example, if you have an existing bu
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by Saaster 8y ago
Pointer events integrate inputs from mice, touchscreens, and pens, making separate implementations no longer necessary and authoring for cross-device pointers easier. The one input API to rule them all! Except... of course Pointer Events do
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by Saaster 8y ago
I wish I could switch to the iPhone, and I've tried several times. The hardware is excellent. But these are my deal-breakers that keep me on Android (I've only ever had Google Nexus / Pixel phones): - Lastpass or any other pa
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by Saaster 8y ago
Unless you have presence in Delaware (offices or employees), you don't pay corporate income taxes there just because you formed as Delware LLC or C Corp. You pay a nominal franchise tax, and you're taxed in the other state(s) you
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by Saaster 9y ago
Passengers won't care, they'll be busy playing with their phones or working. All that useless time spent driving is suddenly productive, as if you were in a nice private train car. If a car passes the train on the highway outside,
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by Saaster 9y ago
"One day when I was a junior medical student, a very important Boston surgeon visited the school and delivered a great treatise on a large number of patients who had undergone successful operations for vascular reconstruction. At the e
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by Saaster 9y ago
The pricing page https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/pricing/ is a bit confusing. "First 500 GB / month, $1.00". Not bad! <Looks at pricing example>. Oh... $1.00/GB :) On the other hand, 250
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by Saaster 9y ago
I'm almost sure they will. They don't have much of a NIH problem (look at how many DBs they support, anyone remember SimpleDB?), ECS hasn't exactly taken off, and they're generally very good at giving whatever their cust
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by Saaster 9y ago
You don't have to actually offer reduced redundancy to have multiple price points. Amazon could have added an option for big corporations to pay more for the increased SLA, the existence of the improved service agreement itself being t

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