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> and helped sort things out

How?

Being overloaded for a long time is also sometimes a sign that the business is failing.

Which is horrible: It is when a founder is the most tired that he has to deal with the most unknown part of the work. For a simple project manager, it is often when you miss a deadline that you have to write reports and deal with stakeholder dissatisfaction, which cascades into missing other deadlines and having to implement more and more damage control to perform.

Sometimes the only way is to walk away and let it all crumble.

I have noticed this behavior on Ubuntu in 13.13. On the other hand, I kept the habit of expecting a script to fail when modifying it (most of the time, starting a command in the middle makes it fail) but it never seems to occur on macOS’s bash.

Even being a paying customer has little value. Remember that Jordan Peterson was #15 of Patreon with more than $1m revenue if I’m correct, yet he was removed abruptly, I think in the wake of being referenced in the Christchurch terrorist (together with his book being forbidden in NZ).

Even paying customers can be removed without trial.

A lot of businesses will hide their failure under the pandemic. This is really bad, since people with wrong business models in upside trends, will get access to benefits and help in downside periods by having an excuse for their failure, encouraging ineffective business models.

+ Deaths by obesity from staying home,

+ Home violence,

+ CO2-increased houses make people much less clever,

+ Demotivation/decrease of testosterone makes people durably less productive, further hampering our ability maintain the little flow of goods that’s left.

We are setting up ourselves for a much more deadly future.

Do you even need to be an official to do that? Perhaps a newspaper could do it, to accurate news.

Maybe those Youtubers were less popular because their predictions are less accurate and their logic is flawed, and people are able to see the difference? Why is biasing information the role of Youtube, shouldn’t USA and other countries educate their citizen to be resilient to inaccurate predictions, rather than cut any information at the root and only ever expose citizen to “true information”, which inevitably makes your citizen more gullible?

Saying the population can be misled is an admission that our school system creates naive dumbasses. MAYBE we should fix that first.

Youtube still profits from free content.

The American idea used to include anti-monopoly rules. Granted Amazon is not a monopoly, but the idea was to keep businesses small (and govt small) so no single superior entity would reign abusively on individuals. And that would make the federation stronger.

Maybe it’s time to revive it. Google, Apple, Amazon, all cause issues because they are too big and haven’t been broken up (or menaces of) for way too long.

We’ve scratched antitrust laws in 9/11, when Microsoft was recognized guilty but never sanctioned, because the domination of USA after 9/11 was important. But maybe that led to two decades of really huge corporations, and a bit more liquidity in the market (choice of platforms, etc) could be nice.

Maybe the NSA can decrypt RSA or Diffie-Hellman. We don’t know. Maybe they save it for when they’ll get the keys. Another way is to saturate so much the network with spy equipment that it’s futile to search and remove it.

I’m 37, I’ve had 1 year in my life around 33 where I went out to have beers in the evenings, 3-4 times a week. I never fully recovered my work ability.

Upside of Chrome profiles: Use a bright red theme for prod sysadmin profile, and blue for work. So you never type « p... » on your work profile by mistake... Don’t laugh, usage is widespread.

I have an iPhone 7 and I was reluctant to change because of FaceID, which I don’t like, and screen size of new models. This SE makes me think the opposite: I look forward changing. So it is a real game changer.

(I don’t buy Android because I’ve been bitten by the non-encrypted memory before, and Google isn’t serious about privacy).

Atlassian is not the only one who wrecked login by implementing SSO across all their instances.

I really don’t recommend using in-app dual logins (for example Gmail’s dual login), and stick to using separate Chrome profiles or Firefox profiles, so that none of the cookies are shared. Even with that, I’ve had surprises with my mobile phone number being the only shared information between two Google Ads accounts, and Google mixing my data, but avoiding sharing cookies is really important.

That is also what I recommend my employees. « You can use Facebook or Youtube at work, but not in the same Chrome profile. »

Same as OE/Πin French, then.

Some studies already say they survive 7 days on masks, and a flight is only a few hours.

HN is really becoming an echo chamber where there is only one leading trend, downvoting to hell the various opinions, and it is really bad for HN’s ability to help entrepreneurs anticipate on trends.

While using Twitter helped a lot to anticipate the events before confinement, I find that it doesn’t help much during confinement. It is saturated with people who are looking for information, while all there is to do is wait. Since there are much fewer people working, there is much less activity/information being created. The next question that using Twitter may resolve now is where this came from, « who did this », « who didn’t order the masks » and so on, it tend to be more conspiracy estimations or yelling at government than trying to anticipate on the crisis, and in that sense it now fits the negative description/addictive-inducing behavior.

There will be another scandal with infected masks, it is bound to happen. At one point, a large percentage of the population is infected unknowingly, and manufacturing masks in a pure environment won’t be easy.

This. I had revenue for 5 people but didn’t succeed to find them, just 1, so I feel very well off and I keep the positions open. However, we’re on a corporate market that errs in the side of luxury, and even with an incredibly safe runway, I can’t assume I’ll still have customers in one year...

Since we’re integrated between OS and hardware on Apple platforms, they could implement a “Turn on your microphone” dialog. I think this support excuse is too commonly used, when there is obvious value in the result. He’s not a minority, even my grandparents shared the photo of Mark Zuckerberg saying “If this guy hides his camera, so should you”...

Don’t change anything now. I’m not saying « don’t change », but I’m saying emergencies are a bad time to evolve on character traits, particularly because you may be believing an excuse that they used to fire you, when in fact you were just redundant or your boss arrived late at the meeting where they decided of the people to fire.

Secondly, I once asked your question and a friend answered that most managers land their position by necessity for the company. They were here when the team grew. Or created their company, so they had to manage it. Most managers just deal with what is happening. Most people don’t know what they are doing, or why they have been selected. Sometimes there is no rationale. So don’t sweat it too much, because being relaxed and easy to manage plays a good part in career success.

For me it was much easier to be a manager than be an employee, because as an employee you are expected to compete and establish your presence (such as speaking up in meetings); As a manager you have entirely different incentives, it was way more intuitive for me.

Funky bicycle masks with colors or logos were often 30-80€ in 2016, and despite not being even FFP1. There is an opportunity, but there is also a feeling that health apparel should be bland and ugly if they are serious. It’s like wearing a suit at a programmer interview: Often a hint that one aspires more to the commercial side than the technical side, despite both being competent.

I know no-one here seriously thinks about buying and storing a barrel in their cave, but it’s still worth saying: Oil is surprisingly very toxic, it contains a lot of uncontrolled compounds with sulfur for example, by definition (The goal of refineries is obviously to separate those compounds).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/that-time...

> if I see someone use a linked list

Or a hashmap to prepare 3 variables to pass to Json serialization.

Given a lot of countries are declaring the state of emergency, « state of war » for Emmanuel Macron (France), a lot of them can and will require the use of hotel, cars, or even « nationalize companies » (Italy and France). Why not also accepting that the confinement shouldn’t be an opportunity for copyright hoarders to become rich, and just temporarily allow or do nothing, so that entertainment at home be available. Perhaps even make them temporarily legal and end up with making them permanently legal.

Sometimes war-times measures become permanent (female vote in France, gun confiscation and the Tignes dam all started during the WWII) when they are good.

Italy has stopped providing respirators for 60+ year old people. They let them die. They give priority to the younger. Source in English: https://twitter.com/damienrieu/status/1238759988329418752

I can confirm: Since France’s president has closed bars, the psychosis became widespread, people now take real measures. Before that, everyone was keeping business as usual awaiting instructions, which is the worst way to let the epidemic grow, and they were even mocking those who took precautions as either racists, or weaklings. Ensuring the population is in « concerned » state is the first step, and only closing bars allowed people to visualize the emergency.

Example: For the few hours after announcing, the « McDonnalds » hashtag was trending. Which says a lot.

So Ubuntu is open-source, but if I fork it, it comes with « Ubuntu » in package names, therefore I’m infringing on their trademark?

So why do we cancel so many million-dollars events? It seems we’re voluntarily halting our economies, stopping the production of some goods but also of some code and research, in front of a tide that will come anyway.

Edit: I see the downvotes but that is actually a question, not a suggestion to not shut down them.

A sequence of numbers could be called, with a little approximation, a barcode. Which makes me wonder why credit cards don’t have an actual barcode to easily enter it on the computer.