richman777

For what it’s worth I’ve been using HA for 5 years and don’t deal with any of that and it generally just works. I was dealing with worse with overlapping hubs and ecosystems.

All my switches are unicellular and ceiling fans and lights are their fan hubs as well. Over a hundred devices and it generally just works.

They are. Looks like the creator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38090161

Note: I’m not forming an opinion on it or saying to use or not use it, was simply curious because I hadn’t heard of it.

It took a bit down to get to someone like me too. Have had no issues since day one and now I'm going to be insanely critical of them.

That's the point. He said one of those things on April 13th, the other he said, presumably, yesterday, May 6th.

It made a rough transition for me because all of the things going wrong were all too familiar.

Then when it wrapped up very nicely I felt like I was bad at my job. "Wait, how did they fix it so fast!?!" (hyperbole here but it was sort of a gut punch)

A lot of this was covered in "The Phoenix Project". A good read but a bit idealistic in the expected outcome. The fake company was essentially able to right the sinking ship after the band had already stopped playing, in 2 quarters no less.

However, the core tenets were valid from a general approach. My fear when reading was the potential to go overboard. We have all met over-zealous scrum masters. Same could be applied to a lot of the stuff they were essentially transferring from manufacturing to development and more specifically devops.

Compared to today's tracks it's insane to me that Nürburgring was widely used. The logistics at the track are clearly very high stakes and seeing how we could look at how huge that track is and think that's a good idea just shows how far the sport has come.

I don't quite get why you can't disable these notifications at all. I really don't want to see the things I missed or it finds interesting. And they're purposefully pushing you to look at it to dismiss those notifications.

This launch event was very odd. It seemed like a launch event geared towards the general public but about a media platform for the media. No real launch details and no pricing structure with no previews of shows.

Given the recent debacle with the airpower lack of a launch date I can't help but not really trust that this is going to come out in the fall...much less "what" is coming in the fall.

I wonder how much the proliferation of start up failures has to do with this very fact versus a poor product/model/founder/execution/etc.

Not saying that the employees are to blame but I'm sure there's plenty of good ideas out there that just don't have the right people trying to implement it.

Or that's such a small amount that it really doesn't contribute.

Really just wondering what that number is.

This is purely anecdotal but lately I've been getting more and more delivered via Amazon's own carrier service. 100% of the time it is late. Some things have completely disappeared and never left the SF carrier facility. It's made me not order from Amazon a handful of times this past week out of being burned on a consistent basis.

It seems very un-Amazon of them. They clearly have the metrics to track this so I'm shocked they aren't diverting or doing something to fix the problem, whether that's incentivizing slower shipping or using other carriers (I realize the carrier deals they have are very complex and affect a whole load of other data points).

It's just odd to me that consistently the Amazon delivery service is what is being used and that it's consistently bad/delayed/etc.

I'm pretty sure this is directly in response to them pulling the Youtube App from the FireTV devices.

This is using the wrong tool to solve the problem. Could it work? Sure. Is it a good solution? No.

Less than 2.0 is more or less an alpha imo. I use 2.0 in production and love it. But not sure how they’re going to get over all the bad PR 1.0 and 1.1 generated.

Every single AMZL package I've had in the past month has been delayed. What's more frustrating, there's no actual reason for it being delayed.

The last one that was delayed was delayed for 2 days. I contacted chat and apparently it was because they couldn't get into the mailroom and were waiting on delivery instructions.

I don't know from whom, because I was never contacted.

Typically you’re fired when you do something bad. I wouldn’t consider what Tesla did as firing anyone.

Poor performance isn’t typically a “bad thing” in this sense. For instance, if someone went and pissed in the coffee pot, they would be fired. If a big group of people were simply told to not come in anymore it’s laid off. Tesla specifically said this wasn’t laying people off so I’m not sure how that works.

I don’t know if there’s any legal or contractual grounds for one or the other but I’d guess it would matter what state you’re in.

I know for a lot of states collecting unemployment benefits does require some sort of reason for termination that is related to the above distinction.

Running outside, I definitely don't want to carry my 7+. It's large and I have the watch.

This is why I've finally accepted the fact that for my own personal tracking, nothing beats a post-it note. I'm not going to spend the time to put down all the real information I should and dealing with an app is another barrier preventing me from getting stuff done.

I would argue that Apple's core competency isn't hardware but the Apple "experience". In the same way that Google uses search to sell ads, Apple uses the hardware it sells to sell everything that goes with it: music, iCloud, software, accessories, etc.

I didn't get the feeling that was the Sun business model, but I didn't follow it super closely.

Need an advisor?

What is this in reference to, the title? That's perfectly acceptable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma

I dont see why they're marketing this so positively given the Digg fiasco. I feel like it's "remember when digg was redesigned and everyone hated it and came to Reddit? Well we're gonna redesign the site too!"

You didn't read the article did you?

The amazing thing about the entire discussion is how it really was a scientific discussion that evolved over time.

There are clearly scientific ideas that we take as simple truths now that will be disproved in the future. They are clearly going to be a little more nuanced than planetary motion but it's great to see how the scientific community has and will evolve.

Just don't use the ski lift....(if you didn't read the article it's a 30 year old retired lift)

Everytime I fly cross country, which is every 3 weeks. So yeah, this is a pretty big deal. I also charge my phone while I'm doing that so when I land in CA my phone has a full battery since I have a full 8 hour work day there and my iPhone battery doesn't last.

I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in thinking that if they made the phone a little bit thicker to make if flush, we could get some crazy battery life (and a headphone jack).

Yeah, this person doesn't seem to understand that PayPal is a huge merchant provider for a lot, and I mean, a lot, of people. And that doesn't mean "using paypal" when you go to a website. They handled invoicing at my last job.

Almost all security audits in an enterprise/corporate setting are done in good faith. This is a person they hired and I'm assuming have spoken on the phone with so it's not unsolicited.

Trust me, I've had similar things happen. I don't know how there can be security auditors who don't even understand how password encryption works but I've had to explain it a few times. It's awful.

Missed this comment but I don't take offense to it.

In all honesty, if you have a well designed system it's pretty good at what it does. I've used it without any issues on small personal projects and it was great at what it did. Although getting it to work with Postgres is needlessly "complicated". Not complicated per-say but not as easy as it just working with SQL Server.

What happens when you take a legacy system and move over to .Net and try to use EF on a poorly architectured data model? Chaos.

"Oh you want to search for orders that have these attributes that are stored in a bit-encoded string field that is only joined from 3 different tables?"