mikeknoop

Could you use a VPN on the device to make a remote server appear as a local server for network installs? If so, could you loop back an on device “server” through a remote proxy?

Here’s the paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280134421_New_Theor...

The 83+/84+ line has been ACT/SAT certified for over 15 years while enabling this open educational vector. TI’s policy change is a recent one from this year.

Great read and great work. TI’s move to disallow developing native applications is not good. By definition, these calculators are educational devices, not walled curated platforms. While I admit programming is a secondary function on these calculators, a large community of folks (including myself) learned to code on these relatively accessible machines and many took those skills forward to help build really cool and useful things for the world.

Something I don’t understand. Insurance companies seem to have an incentive (more profit) and collective bargaining power to reduce what they pay. Why don’t we see a downward pressure on healthcare prices, then?

The typical narrative I hear around large healthcare bills is “racked up large charges because insurance will pay it” which is the opposite of what I would expect given the incentives I understand. Do insurance providers have a non-obvious incentive to keep costs high?

Thank you for giving it a try! This project quickly went from internal tool to launch-ready. We prioritized getting something live ASAP to help teams going suddenly remote. And the simplest path was tying everything to a login. Feedback noted though and we're considering ways to decouple this going forward.

The primary feature is speed. We designed Zappy to work "in flow" and minimize the number of keyboard/mouse interactions. The critical path is: cmd+shift+1 (or whatever shortcut you want) -> drag a box -> press "enter" to immediately get a shareable image (or URL for paid) on your clipboard.

In addition to speed, it's an all-in-one tool that does annotations, GIFs, and screen recording (with optional audio and selfie camera) and we optimized those flow for speed, too.

Zapier's color is orange so we picked orange-red as the default for fun. Probably should consider a plain red though too. Thanks for giving it a try!

Yes -- I figured this would be popular feedback. We're considering how to do this!

Saw this thread -- thanks for sharing again! Here's some more context:

I'm Mike, co-founder at Zapier and head of Zapier Labs. Today our Labs team is launching a public version of Zappy: a fast, free screen capture tool that we built for our remote team. At Zapier, we have 300+ teammates working from across the globe with no central office—we've been fully remote since day one. We've learned that increasing communication bandwidth is crucial when you're working remotely.

I wanted a tool for screenshots/GIFs to supplement apps like Slack, but nothing on the market had the mix of speed and features we were looking for. So, built it internally. Zappy is a cornerstone of how we work at Zapier, nearly everyone at Zapier uses Zappy every week (voluntarily)! And we want to share it.

Why share now? People around the world just experienced a sudden shift to remote work—and we know life sans-office comes with unique challenges. We want to share our experience and make that transition a little easier.

Our goal with Zappy was to provide a screen capture experience that was so fast, people would actually want to use it to communicate. To capture something, you hit a keyboard shortcut, draw a square, and press enter. Zappy copies the image to your clipboard so you can paste it anywhere (or provides a path to your GIF/video).

You can draw annotations, record a selfie view, and stitch shots together. Captures support image, GIF, and MP4 formats. One of my favorite features is being able to grab past captures from the Mac menu bar, instead of digging through folders.

We're working on more features, too, like self-hosted captures on S3, sharing permissions, and a Zapier integration. :-)

Zappy is free to download and use for anyone (you'll need a free Zapier account to log in once). And, for paid Zapier customers, you'll get free capture hosting while it's in early access.

I'd love to hear your feedback and ideas. I hope you find Zappy useful!

Download link, since it's a bit buried: https://zapier.com/zappy

I agree. The software needs support for this too. I earnestly tried to use the iPad for a few weeks, and the placement of the camera was annoying (off center, angled up, no one looks good at this angle). But the software was the deal breaker. iOS and iPadOS disallow background camera use and there is no API to allow it except for FaceTime which does PiP in the corner when it’s backgrounded. Even side-by-side in the new iPadOS will disable the camera when you switch the input cursor to other app! Makes it impossible to review or take notes during video calls or look at reference materials.

Most reporting about intentional cut-offs makes vague claims about PG&E wanting to avoid future culpability.

All the reporting I’ve seen is missing a key, interesting fact. A judge’s court order from January requires them to do these intentional shut offs.

Source, w/ link to the court order: https://twitter.com/mikeknoop/status/1189400411175710722

Fun times. I did the same hand compiling back in middle school on a couple long plane flights where I didn't have access to a full compiler. Shame this never shipped: http://www.detachedsolutions.com/main/oldnews.php?item=58

Other Zapier co-founder here.

Are we competitive with Google engineering salaries? Probably not. But most Bay Area startups can't complete with Google on comp anyway.

Are we competitive with other Bay Area startup salaries? Likely. Six-figure engineering salaries, healthcare, retirement package, etc is the norm.

We saw several great teammates move away from the Bay Area and thought there might be others. This experiment is primarily to find people who already want to leave (for good reasons) but feel stuck because they like working for growing tech companies.

This experiment is primarily to find others who already want to leave the bay area for reason like family, partners, housing, or cost. We noticed several Zapier teammates do this, and thought there might be more.

If you're only after a $10k bonus, you're right, there are more effective ways to get that.

You have a valid reason for not using Zapier today because you know how to write code (though some still do).

The majority of Zapier users are not engineers. They can't make that trade-off decision. Their trade-off is instead "should I use Zapier or just not do X at all?"

I'd guess many of Panic board's users chose the latter (not do X at all) given they cited lack of integrations as one reason for shutting down.

The Panic status board is near to my heart. Back in 2010, their launch blog post was something that inspired me to try and build products for people instead of freelancing for a living.

It's really interesting/sad to read their second reason for shutting down:

> pro users are more likely to want a larger number of integrations with new services and data sources, something that’s hard to provide with limited revenue, which left the app “close but not quite” for many users

Because this is exactly what Zapier, the company I co-founded a year later, provides for free to other companies/products. Integrate once with us and automatically get integrations with hundreds of other apps (750+ and growing).

I love and use several Panic products (Transmit, Prompt, Firewatch) and hope this end-of-life enables them to spend more time on new ideas.

In case you're curious what tool he used to delete them: deletealltweets.com

The only reason I know is because that software auto-tweeted "I am deleting all my tweets using ..." and then got deleted a few seconds later.

I don't recall the source, but they identified the CRS-7 strut by using several mechanical vibration sensors placed on various parts of the rocket.

The deflection / explosion reaches the sensors at different times, and with precision timing, it enables you to reverse pinpoint where it must have originated: the failing strut.

I suggest shaking in 2 Tbsp chocolate syrup into the Soylet 2.0 bottles.

From my experience, the force touch trackpad cursor only works if you wait 1s between the last normal touch and the force touch.

I've been watching Josh iterate and build Grid over the last 2-3 years.

If I recall, Josh originally worked at Microsoft on the Excel team, and has a deep understanding of how tools can be construed into other use cases like project management and organization.

I bet it feels great to finally get this out the door and am looking forward to trying it.

Some APIs do support "upsert" functionality which is basically what you suggested. It's not very popular though and Zapier previously had to support the lowest-common-denominator which is plain creates.

Now that we officially support Search actions, we can do a lot more cool things.

Allow me to work magic for you: https://zapier.com/zapbook/delay/ (it's brand new today, too) :)

Zapier co-founder here.

This is seriously the biggest change to our product since launching the company. We've been working on it for a year (including a beta w/ several thousand users) and are very excited to finally release it. Before, Zapier only supported 1-to-1 integrations which limited it's power. Multi-Step Zaps open up a huge array of new power...

- transforming data (like dates, string manipulation)

- executing JS code in between steps (can do manipulation, extra API calls, etc.)

- looking up data inside other apps

- if an item isn't found when looking it up, create it

More details in our release notes: https://zapier.com/blog/workflow-automation/

How we built this: http://blog.invisionapp.com/redesigning-interactive-editor/

I know a ton of folks in the HN community use Zapier. Thank you so much for your support. I can't wait to see what you build now!

That's a smart thing we should add. Any other feedback? If you'd prefer to share privately: mike@zapier.com

Thanks for your PS reminder about smile.amazon.com (0.5% of all your purchases go to a nonprofit of your choice).

Paired with something like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smile-always/jgpmh... you can donate to the EFF without even thinking about it.

If you liked this article, you'll like this one too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6087935 ("forgotten employee, something awful forums")

Anyone know of the most comparable app for OSX?

I'm aware of many single screenshot tools but not something so configurable.