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lyonlim

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Lyon at my company, PigeonLab (.com)
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lyonlim··on Shanghai's 25M people under lockdown indefinitely
HK Free Press vs Global Times. Both on opposite ends of the media.. reporting contrasting results [1]

[1] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202203/1256596.shtml

lyonlim··on Show HN: Document and automate your operations playbooks and business processes
Looks great. Will try this out. Was evaluating Pipefy a while back for the same exact reason.
lyonlim··on Show HN: Learn Chinese with Live-Transcriptions of Radio Taiwan International
Would be pretty cool to then live translate that into English, or add pinyin pronunciation. Have you thought about adapting this for live audio transcription, or live TV?
lyonlim··on Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
I have the same frustrating problem. Only time I use Chrome is when I need to jump onto a Meet call. Anyone has a solution to use Meet reliably on Firefox?
lyonlim··on Flameshot – Simple, powerful screenshot tool for all major operating systems
Indeed. It’s indispensable really. Annotations are perfect too!
lyonlim··on Show HN: No/Low code in-app onboarding guides for SaaS businesses
Looks good and something we could use until I saw the pricing. If it’s guided towards onboarding new users, having the MAUs factored into the pricing structure means we’ll keep incurring costs even when the customer is a prouser.

Does MAUs only count when they are brought into a flow?

lyonlim··on Show HN: Diahook – Webhooks as a Service
This is a great idea, congrats! We could definitely use this, although I’m cautious about passing our customer data through yet another data processor.
lyonlim··on Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
More humility and reassessment of our way of life.

We need a fundamental reassessment of our impact on the environment and planet, and how to reshape our economies and lifestyle to avert climate warming, more severe hurricane and wildfire seasons.

There’s so much human ingenuity and i believe we can overcome these challenges.. but despite all the technological advancements, we still know so little of how our planet and climate work.

We think we are the apex predator, and yet we’re still held hostage by an invisible virus.

lyonlim··on Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?
Removing cashiers and automating checkouts just frees up the staff to focus on other in-store work. But the biggest benefit is higher throughput for checkouts. Self service checkouts or automated checkouts free up space for more such counters.
lyonlim··on MakeSpace – Virtual Spatial Chat
The biggest challenge is background noise cancellation... it can severely degrade the quality of a group call. Most of the others can already be done... and in this case, embed of q&a/polls, document.. can be defaults when setting up a new call.
lyonlim··on The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
I use Ad Guard and it works!
lyonlim··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)
Pigeonhole Live (https://www.pigeonholelive.com) | Singapore | FULL TIME, ONSITE, VISA

Pigeonhole Live is a real-time live audience engagement tool with q&a, polls and quizzes that makes meetings and events more interactive and engaging for both participants and speakers. Through anonymity, it also allows for a safe space where employees can raise questions and share concerns with the management.

Positions available:

  - DevOps Engineer (SRE)
  - Full Stack Software Engineers (JavaScript / PHP / Go)
Send your resume to lyon@pigeonlab.com
lyonlim··on The New Dropbox Sucks
It's a terrible move for consumers. I continued with my Dropbox subscription only because of their reliability and really good mobile apps. It's a big battle to compete with Google or Microsoft in the Enterprise space. Is Box doing well?
lyonlim··on Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
Looks good. Have been using Typora. Any major differences other than supporting attachments?
lyonlim··on Microsoft Clarity – a product to visualize user interactions
Is this free to use?
lyonlim··on Show HN: Penc – Trackpad-oriented window manager for macOS
This is great. It does take a bit getting used to pressing a key twice, but after that, I love being able to control my windows using my trackpad.

I currently use Magnet, but it doesn't seem to have any conflict with it, so will keep trying it out.

Would be great if it could handle two-third screens and one-third screens too.

Lastly, I'd recommend a proper domain name!

Solid, innovative work here :)

lyonlim··on Show HN: Strimpack – roll your own livestreaming portal, chat, subs, and forum
Looks awesome.

At my company [1], we work with organizations who do livestreaming to enable live Q&A, moderated chats and polls. If anyone's interested in hooking up such interactivity to your own livestreams, drop me a message!

[1] https://www.pigeonholelive.com

lyonlim··on Show HN: Unlimited Web-App Testing Service starts $99/month. First test is free
Looks good- hoping for more details. Just signed up #41!
lyonlim··on Fukushima nuclear disaster: did the evacuation raise the death toll?
FT subscriber here too. Wish there was a way to share articles too. Because I always use the app and am not signed in, it's annoying to come across FT articles and not be able to read it.
lyonlim··on Ask HN: What are you using for http load testing?
We use JMeter and run them on AWS load generators using redline13.com
lyonlim··on Show HN: Mux Video, a simple API to powerful video streaming
Nice! For companies streaming internal only videos, how do you satisfy their infosec requirements?
lyonlim··on Distributed Performance Testing in the Cloud with JMeter and AWS
We use Redline13 to help spin up load generators for stress and performance testing.
lyonlim··on Tweeting Made Easier
Curious how Twitter detects when it's Chinese or Japanese to restrict the length to 140 chars. What if it's a tweet that starts with English, then includes Chinese characters? Is that what the progress indicator is for, to let Twitter detect the language?
lyonlim··on Markdown Here – Write email in Markdown
Thanks for sharing! I wanted to get more information, but couldn't find it on the website (mobile, without downloading), until I found this series of screencasts. https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?list=PLC4ZkBr87CO0jmrQvGQ77t44...

Looks very interesting for power users. Going to check this out!

lyonlim··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
PigeonLab (Pigeonhole Live) | Multiple Positions | Full Time ONSITE Singapore, VISA | $65k - $100k SGD | https://pigeonholelive.com

Pigeonhole Live makes meetings and events more interactive and engaging for both participants and speakers. Customers use our live/crowdsourced Q&A, real-time polls and digital agendas at their town halls, conferences, webinars, conference calls and more.

We have several open positions:

- Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)

- JavaScript Software Engineer

- PHP Software Engineer

- Product Designer

If you're interested, please indicate HN when emailing lyon (at) pigeonlab (dot) com

lyonlim··on DataDog: Don't make the same mistake I did--followup; unhappy customers
This would definitely make me think twice about using DD.

I also just had an unpleasant experience with Salesforce renewals team when our contract was up for renewal.

lyonlim··on Ask HN: Which helpdesk/ticketsystem do you use?
Zendesk, but lately feeling a disconnect compared with Intercom's.
lyonlim··on Ask HN: How do you start giving tech talks?
If you're giving tech talks and interested to crowdsource questions from your audience, drop me a note. My company's product, Pigeonhole Live, let's you do that for free. If you need any of the paid stuff, happy to support you too.
lyonlim··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Gmail that are new, cool, etc?
I've been testing ProtonMail for a couple months now in search of a Gmail alternative. What's keeping me from fully switching is support for contacts and calendar syncing as well...

That's where I started looking at FastMail.

lyonlim··on Uber CEO to take leave
The newscaster did mention that he hasn't been at work since the incident, spending time instead with his dad. It's a challenging time for anyone going through this, even if he's overseen some questionable things at his company.
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