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Our designers use Figma but the licenses are so expensive that people on the product team can’t even make small changes or illustrate concepts. Additionally the UX has tons of hidden features making it hard for non experts to discover how to do simple things like export mockups.

As a result the designers have a backlog of small busy work changes instead of focusing on the key design questions. No one else has licenses to make updates or knows how to use the tool.

The product team has started using Whimsical which is easier to use and is more reasonably priced for people who only use it occasionally or need to quickly illustrate low fidelity concepts. Now we have two design tools to essentially get around UX and pricing problems.

It amazes me that there is no authentication provided by governments in the US to citizens. They just accept a social security number as if it was some sort of password, when it was never intended for that purpose. Other countries give citizens an electronic ID to authenticate themselves. It seems this would prevent hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud and identity theft.

They also built a system called The Interceptor that cleans rivers https://theoceancleanup.com/rivers/

I really hope you adopt the latest models particularly streaming attention variants. I think you should validate with users the assumption that latency is more important than WER.

IMHO the WER is more important than latency improvements in the millisecond range. The most frustrating thing is having to dictate over and over and the transcription is incorrect each time.

Consider that the time to a correct transcription is the latency plus error correction. If error correction is manual it will be orders of magnitude slower, so optimize for WER.

I’m terms of competition, Siri has latency in the 5+ second range due to the network call especially in area with poor data rates. I think a client side model like yours will easily win in this category. If you’re already ahead here, why not focus on WER next?

Another great capability is to generate alternative transcriptions for words with low confidence values to allow for quick error correction. Do you offer something like this today?

Also, consider the long term view that new models are constantly being released and refined. It’d be best to have an architecture that allows quick replacement without a lot of hand tuning, or where the tuning can be automated to a greater extent.

Not always but many big company scale compensation to local cost of living including Elastic, GitLab and Buffer. See here https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/global-compen...

If PayPal wasn’t such a crap company they’d be the perfect solution for this problem. Just enter your payment and shipping info once and get one click checkout on any site.

Back in 2017, 60 minutes covered a group that was cured of sickle cell disease with gene therapy. How does this approach differ when they already showed success? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/could-gene-therapy-cure-sickle-...

I wish they would offer support for local DNS or let me run my own DNS server. Having to remember so many IPs is inconvenient and regressive.

This is pretty cool my biggest problem with micropayments is friction when browsing and friction for managing subscriptions. Integrating it into the browser should make it much more automatic.

It’s kind of a chicken and egg problem where publishers wont benefit until readers have it and vice versa. I hope this grant results in a killer app that generates some critical mass for the standard.

The founder of Coil is from Ripple cryptocurrency. For more information check out http://coil.com and the payment request standard here http://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/

Been waiting years for a windows version of wireguard and it’s finally available. Will give it shot soon!

Btw these benchmark results corroborate Wireguards own https://www.wireguard.com/performance/

We recently started using another scaffold generator from http://scaffoldhub.io. It’s similar to this but geared more for apps than for marketing sites. It allows you to build out a complete data model and backend. It’s got a lot more features but they add complexity to the code that might not be needed for everyone.

Huh interesting any reference on your claim that the tongue can’t get RSI?

I like to fantasize sometimes about having a giant house in Raleigh for the price of my one bedroom in SF. I just don’t know anyone moving from SF to Raleigh. The people I know are moving to Berkeley or the peninsula after they have kids.

It’d be nice if they had done data to back up their demographic trend other than just claiming it based on anecdotal stories.

We expect everything on the web, including our user agent, to be free as in no cost. The only way to pay for the development cost is to sell to third parties aka advertisers. If people actually paid money to develop more advanced user agents there would be a market for them.

Why do people prefer free over paid? I think people underestimate the influence of advertisers and underestimate the value of their own time spent researching and dealing with crappy products. It’s almost like a psychological bias.

I like the idea of a better user agent but would I pay for one? Judging by my refusal to pay for quality journalism I’m guessing it’d be a hard sell. That’s another thing I should be willing to pay for but don’t for some weird reason.

Just signed up for a Standard Notes subscription today. How does this compare? Seems they are both e2e encrypted with Markdown and code highlighting. Standard notes also has rich text and todo list plugins.

No one cares because the perceived cost is zero. Burning your recycling just externalizes the cost to the environment. If I lived in one of those cities, I’d encourage the city to increase disposal fees so they can do it properly. If people are too poor to pay the fees, then add a sales tax on wastefully packaged products to subsidize disposal fees for low income earners. If business can earn more profit or increase volume by using better packaging, then they’ll do so.

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You’ll work with the latest technologies and trends, which is a fun way to grow your skills. It’s a great feeling when the community loves your work and it’s an opportunity to grow your personal portfolio and brand. Due to our short project cycles, you’ll deliver work in weeks. You’ll get variety instead of being stuck with the same systems for years. No more unrecognized time spent on maintenance, fighting fires, and projects that get cancelled after months of work.

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Is the 4K resolution less strenuous for you than HD? I tried looking at text in VR a while ago on an older Vive and the text was too blurry for me to easily read.

Could this be a threat to open source software? If they require developers to insert backdoors to decrypt data, and the company uses open source software for security, how do we know they won’t attempt to weaken it? Most open source projects don’t have the resources or manpower to review every commit, especially when the person submitting is prevented from disclosing their true purpose and under threat from their government. This could be a threat to companies all around the world that use OSS.

People don’t work at jobs for life any more. It’s common for younger people to switch jobs every 2-3 years. In this environment, it makes more business sense to work employees hard because the company doesn’t need to consider long term health. This creates a kind of prisoner’s dilemma where’s its only advantageous to invest in employee’s long term health if other companies do so as well.

It’s hard to make a media program with wide appeal about computer science because it’s abstract and behind the scenes. No one wants the Carl Sagan of plumbing. With physics you can actually show the object being discussed, which matches better to TV format. It also answers big questions like where the universe came from and what will happen to it. These are questions people with any level of intelligence or familiarity of the field are interested in. I think people are more interested in the applications of computer science, such as what’s happening on Twitter or Facebook, than the science itself. The hard part is, how can you relate computer science to something that the general population cares about?

If fraud is such a problem for stores would it make sense to offer a discount for payment methods like bitcoin that don’t allow chargebacks? This could reduce the cost of doing business by gaurenteeing payment.

I think readability is a concern. Often when I'm learning a new technology I'd rather sit down with a good book on the topic rather than reading a bunch of forum posts. I can be pretty confident that it will cover the most important concepts, building up from basics to more advanced ones, and showing all the connections in between. A lot of times reading regular posts, you have to build all these connections yourself. We do link to really good resources and documentation where they are available though so if you have any to suggest please let me know!

I think the open source part of the title refers to the fact that we cover all different technologies from a variety of perspectives, not just a single vendor solution. Also, we allow contributions from anyone in the community. I couldn't find an easy way for WordPress to share or collaborate on source code, but if you think of a way, let me know. In the meantime, we're giving access to people who want to contribute.

Yeah I think most people store them for a limited time, such as a week or a month. Most issues that pop up will only be relevant that long. You can have permanent archives for individual data since storage is cheap, or even summary metrics. Better to start with ground truth because you often don't know what data you'll need in hindsight.

Hey guys I'm one of the technical editors for the guide. We created it because logging is really valuable for troubleshooting and monitoring systems. However, it's a complex topic and so many resources today are spread around on different forums. We wanted to have a place to consolidate all that useful information into something much easier to read. If it helps a dev or ops person solve a problem faster or easier than we've done our job!

There is still a lot of content to be written for languages like python, ruby, and more. We'd love to have more contributors, or even just suggestions for the site. I can also get in touch with any of the authors if you have questions for them.

I think that's a fair point. It's really something we want and believe will become ultimate over time as more people contribute to it. It's got a good start but needs a lot more work. I think it's useful to show the vision of what we want to become, because logging is a complex topic and so many resources today are spread around on different forums. That's why we wanted to have a place to consolidate all that useful information into something much easier to read. I think it's probably worth a adjustment to the tagline and mission statement on the front page to make this more obvious. Thanks for the suggestion!

Imagine customer support where you really need a record of the individual transactions for that particular customer. A monitoring solution won't give you that level of detail.

I'm one of the tech editors for the guide and we'd love to have contributors for nginx and ruby! http://www.loggly.com/ultimate-guide/become-a-contributor/

Great suggestion! I'm one of the tech editors for the guide and we'd love to have contributors for python and other languages! http://www.loggly.com/ultimate-guide/become-a-contributor/