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by noirbot 4y ago
I have the middle of this - I have a couple Gmail adddresses/accounts. One of them is reliably getting spammed, often to the order of messages every hour some days, and has been for months. The others are all clean/getting their s
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by noirbot 4y ago
Most people don't use gestures in the windows ecosystem because neither Windows, nor its OEMs have put any effort into making them useful or supported. Apple did both, and then apps like BetterTouchTool took it even further.
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by noirbot 4y ago
Who cares? Pretty much everyone gave up on actually using signatures for any form of serious verification ages ago, and that's before you get into people who can't do more than initial for various physical reasons. Outside of th
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by noirbot 4y ago
I really love Organic Maps. My biggest wish is that its bookmarking/tagging system for places was a little bit better. For how cluttered Google Maps has gotten, it's still the only maps app I've used that does a good job of l
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by noirbot 4y ago
If you go anywhere where they hold a tab open, such as a bar, you can't do that with tap/chip. Not that that's a blocker, since worst case you do a bunch of single transactions, but it's an annoyance.
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by noirbot 4y ago
That seems strongly bad-faith as an assumption. I'd assume they hired people for what seemed like good reasons at the time, but things have changed and now they need to have less payroll. Any hiring or new initiative looks "carele
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by noirbot 4y ago
I don't disagree with you, but Zoom is also providing a pretty different service, and Teams provides a lot of enterprise level stuff that Discord doesn't. Discord is better for us perhaps, but it's definitely doing worse as
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by noirbot 4y ago
Is that true? I feel like every past discussion about Patreon, as well as from the folks I know who use it as artists, they're not really getting much in terms of marketing or assistance/management. I certainly have a hard time be
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by noirbot 4y ago
Have they outperformed Zoom and Teams? That feels like a stretch, even if I prefer Discord to either of them Plus, they had a small team, but I met most of them back in the Hammer and Chisel days and they were already a 20 person team at
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by noirbot 4y ago
Only once they lay off another 400+ people. If anything, the fact that Jack had anyone but himself to lay off isn't proving OP right. Being over-staffed is different from "one person can run this as a saas business"
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by noirbot 4y ago
Most of them? Can you give an example of a 5 person competitor competing with a large company? And of those, how many of them can only do that because they're outsourcing most of their needs to some other company people regularly compl
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by noirbot 4y ago
If I had a nickle for every time someone on HN claims that a sizable company could be replaced by 1-5 devs, I'd have enough money to start a competitor to most of them that did it better with more devs/staff, as evidenced by the g
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by noirbot 4y ago
That said, it's curious how often some fractional subset of those "frivolities" are something genuinely important. Far back in history, the basis of a lot of science and cultural advancement was through Elites "wasting t
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by noirbot 4y ago
For sure, but you at least need to plan to maybe have work to do. Either to proactively support new features/devices or any necessary updates. If you're hitting September and your app is still broken, something has gone wrong.
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by noirbot 4y ago
The issue is the other end of this is Microsoft having essentially eternal backwards compatibility for everything in Office and Windows and the major security risks and code baggage that come with that.
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by noirbot 4y ago
Marco did have a pretty massive rant this year about how terrible the beta process was and how he was getting told that bugs filed in July were "too late" to be fixed. It's certainly not a friendly process for small devs, b
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by noirbot 4y ago
That's been how it's been for years now. Every year. I'm sympathetic to the argument that that's not enough time, but if your company has a mobile app on iOS and you're not planning to do this work every summer in t
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by noirbot 4y ago
I guess the question is if they felt like they could continue with their current staffing. Obviously this is a really big funding round, so they clearly decided to aim for more than the status quo, but I've seen plenty of projects wher
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by noirbot 4y ago
When 10/year is often less than .01% of even a junior developer's salary with benefits, then yea, that does kinda mean we can't have nice things, if nice things require a few devs to implement. We've all gotten so used t
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by noirbot 4y ago
It's also useful for things like secure temporary password delivery. I set up your account for the first time with a new service, generate a temp password you have to reset on first login, and then share it to your Password Manager spa
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by noirbot 4y ago
-4F is pretty cold, especially compared to temps in VA in the US. I'd be a little surprised if VA got to below 10F in the last 10 years.
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by noirbot 4y ago
Ah yes, the roof of my building where I'm on a middle floor. I'll start lobbying the board to install solar for just me to use. The problem with a lot of this is that the more "responsible" you're already living, th
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by noirbot 4y ago
The difference is you're hiring most other trades-people to do a generally fairly routine bit of work and then be done. A lot of programming is about doing unroutine work that has no clearly defined end-state. I've been on teams w
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by noirbot 4y ago
I mostly agree on this - my extension to #3 is that estimates are fine as long as when you inevitably sometimes miss your estimate, you're not held to the fire for not being a fortune teller and asked why you didn't get it done la
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by noirbot 4y ago
Yea - It's something I've seen brought up recently that really helped me think about these issues. Yes, annoying people or just insulting them is valid speech that I wouldn't necessarily trust a government to decide on the le
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by noirbot 4y ago
I'm not sure the "reliance" on having the phone was as much on businesses as on your friend though. Every time I've been in NYC in the last 2 years, I've made 2-3 paper copies of my vaccination card for exactly the
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by noirbot 4y ago
Yea, using a contactless debit/credit card seems like the way to go anyway. Much less annoying than mashing your expensive phone on the panel until it works. Even my basic local credit union has contactless cards these days.
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by noirbot 4y ago
Really? In my memory the cards last for 2 years. I've got one I got last year that will work until 2023. That seems like a fairly reasonable amount of time for a paper card to last for. I don't live there, but I regularly get 2-3
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by noirbot 4y ago
Yea, it strikes me as the sort of situation where monetary policy does somewhat intentionally live in a vacuum compared to more general policy. Changing the interest rate doesn't dictate what companies or people do with the money they&
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by noirbot 4y ago
That's why they said "IF the way out". It seems like OP is asking for exactly the same numbers you are - do we need to invest more in making sure things are available/produced? Or will more money just lead to more demand

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