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by gtf21 3y ago
> I wonder if there is a generally accepted quantifiable definition of programming language expressiveness. Here the author seems to equate it to closeness to natural languages. I was going to make a similar comment -- it seems there mig
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by gtf21 3y ago
(As someone who has spent quite a lot of my time, recently, going through this with a family member) the screening process is sometimes very demanding, but also often very opaque to those going through it. Our experience has been that, sinc
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by gtf21 3y ago
As a Linux user, I still call it X11, and it's in `/etc` as `/etc/X11`, so I don't think I'm that far wrong.
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by gtf21 3y ago
I was honestly trying to think of how an X11 bug could affect images and links in tweets until I opened the link and remembered that rebranding exercise.
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Show HN: Cultural event scraper and listing site (in Haskell)(culturevulture.london)
2 points by gtf21 3y ago|0 comments
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by gtf21 3y ago
Always nice to see another ConTech!
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by gtf21 3y ago
We ( https://www.converge.io ) both build sensors (and SaaS) and work with 3rd party sensors to analyse concrete operations and material performance for construction to help make it more efficient and sustainable. Hardware is defi
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Ask HN: Good mailing list software for communities?
1 points by gtf21 4y ago|0 comments
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by gtf21 4y ago
Putting a teaspoon handle-down into a bottle of champagne when putting it in the fridge in order to "retain the fizziness" which I did unquestionably as something we just "did", until I had to tell someone else to do it
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by gtf21 4y ago
This looks really cool! We recently embarked on designing our own authorisation service internally because we couldn't find something that did the sort of thing we wanted with the flexibility we needed. Looking at this, maybe we don&#x
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by gtf21 4y ago
Which the plumber has bought and paid for and then installs for you, which makes this pretty fundamentally different.
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by gtf21 4y ago
NFSN allows you to host websites but last I checked they won't just give you a server for you to run whatever you like.
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by gtf21 4y ago
I've been using Mullvad for years as a permanently-connected VPN and I find it excellent. I do use a subscription, but I have a friend who sends them cash in an envelope by snail mail and loves it.
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by gtf21 4y ago
Did you have to do much collaborative editing?
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by gtf21 4y ago
Most other startups I know use GSuite.
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by gtf21 4y ago
> Since you are a start-up and thus likely seeking an exit at some point I don't believe your conclusion follows the premise -- I'm not planning my business around an exit strategy, and we're gunning for being a large, pri
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by gtf21 4y ago
To be clear (as many people seem to think this is about money): this isn't about money. If we switched to LibreOffice we'd donate to the contributors and pay for support. This is about migrating tools before I have double the numb
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by gtf21 4y ago
I find that some of the models I get sent by the team won't open properly in LibreOffice Calc, so definitely agree with this. I very rarely get Writer / Impress compatibility issues, however.
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by gtf21 4y ago
How big is the company?
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by gtf21 4y ago
I'm less worried about their flexibility in adopting new tools (everyone has started using Notion just fine), but more that I would get people to move off Google, setup a whole new infrastructure, only to run into some usability issues
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by gtf21 4y ago
This is one of the major blockers for us, and why I chose GSuite in the first place. We really need good collaborative tools.
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by gtf21 4y ago
The problem is "having a standard way of sharing information". Google Drive/Suite is ... terrible for this.
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by gtf21 4y ago
I think I was probably not clear in my original post, because you're not the only person to mention this, but it's really not about cost for me (I will happily pay for LibreOffice support, fixes, and donations) -- I'm on Linu
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by gtf21 4y ago
Which features, for example? I've used both and never found LibreOffice particularly lacking for features (at least those I might use). This isn't about cost, but as I said elsewhere: > I have no aversion to paying (we pay Goog
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by gtf21 4y ago
Like some other posters, this is a great dream, but just like I'm not going to teach all my sales, ops, etc. people to write docs in LaTeX and do version control with git, I'm not going to take them off "Office" suites w
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by gtf21 4y ago
Yeah that's a nice dream and if I had my way everyone would write docs in LaTeX but I have sales people and ops people who need to be productive, and don't really care to learn to store things in HTML or CSV/YAML (the latter
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by gtf21 4y ago
If we go down this path we would donate as a company (and probably pay for support / fixes). I have no aversion to paying for good software, I'm just worried about switching an entire business over to bad software (I barely use of
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by gtf21 4y ago
This is the big problem for us -- we do a lot of collaborative editing. I know there's something called Collabora I think but I haven't tried it.
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by gtf21 4y ago
I don't mind M$ Office, but a small proportion of the team (including me) use Linux. I have no aversion to paying (we pay Google, for example) but I like open source, would like to contribute (financially) to LibreOffice or whoever is
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Ask HN: Has anyone successfully used LibreOffice for their business?
114 points by gtf21 4y ago|160 comments

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