46Bit

The existence of most of those apps has long seemed crazy from a UK perspective. Our bank transfers take seconds to hours, to pretty much anyone. Payments are one of the banking areas where the US has been stuck far in the past.

“Never believe anything until it is officially denied” is a great phrase about this.

Cynically, this dispute could be a smokescreen for Apple’s financial incentives to build its own ecosystem. I’ve seen plenty of “serious disputes” disappear when political winds change.

Same - I’m often surprised how little attention this gets. They still don’t support OffscreenCanvas too. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OffscreenCa...

I previously had this problem - their privacy wasn't working on my .it domain. I talked to them and they fixed it quite quickly

> The internet tells me that caller IDs are easy to spoof, which I didn’t know

I really think that security engineers should know this.

Indeed, judging by the response it seems like a very successful protest (aside from the reports of lost NGO files.)

Not something I’d have done, but I understand the idea.

I don’t know the details of this incident, but the GOV.UK website uses relatively old infrastructure — they’re working to move onto a containerised platform, but still rely heavily on VMs and Puppet.

I worked on this for nearly four years. It’s a great fit for a lot of government needs: they need a stable, reasonably secure platform that helps them build medium-complexity websites.

It’s based on Cloud Foundry, a “run your own Heroku”-type project. That’s starting to show it’s age now but it’s been a great model and had major benefits in government.

Happy to answer more questions.

Firmly agreed. I've heard AWS discuss making the status page better – but they get really quiet about actually doing it. In my experience the best/only way to check for problems is to search Twitter for your AWS region name.

They're doing that as well https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/jobs/

I strongly agree. I'm remote for the next few years because family has taken me outside a big metro area. But when I move back I'm gonna be open to working in an office, just so long as it's actually good. If I have to be a sardine in a deskfarm then I'd rather WFH; if the office has flexible spaces and enough desks and good equipment then maybe.

> return to work

Awful phrasing

I've implemented this recently (https://github.com/46bit/distributed-systems/tree/main/rende....) Does anyone know a similarly accessible guide to adding ordering (e.g. Vector Clocks)?

Very cool. How are you doing the peer-to-peer browser connections? WebRTC?

fire for cause, file a police report depending on what the photos are, and support the victims

> I can move to Tulum for 3 months and get ready for interviews, no?

I've worked with plenty of sysadmins who suddenly had no choice but to become software engineers. That learning is brutal for some of them–years long process, maybe never. 3 months may not be enough if you coast for long enough.

Maybe not forever, but that kind of salary would be great to build up a house deposit. Could be worth it for a few years.

> what will be the best way to escape from such a mess?

You have a few options:

1. Do nothing. Your most employable staff will leave to escape the abuse.

2. Try to manage the relationship. For instance have all communication go through one person who is empowered to terminate the contract. Set boundaries that if they behave abusively you will terminate the contract. If the client is heavily reliant on you, consider raising your price immediately as you're going to be doing a lot more work than you'd expected.

3. Dump the client immediately. Your staff will thank you but may worry about the company's viability.

4. Keep the client for now (maybe do #2), very actively look for alternate work, and bring the contract to a close once you have new clients.

Whatever you do, express clearly to your staff that this behaviour is not OK, and share what you can about how you are going to shield them from it.

> This thing ONLY EXISTS in the first place because of Apple's continual vertical integration push

This seems pretty grounded.

> The whole reason why they're able to beat Intel/AMD is because they don't have to cater to the exact same generic market that the established players do, but instead massively optimise for their exact needs.

I'm less convinced of this. Their exact needs seem to be making laptops... and so these chips would make interesting candidates for other laptops, if split off from Apple.

It's never going to happen, and an independent company might struggle for R&D money, but if these prove to be better laptop CPUs there is a market there.

Thanks, this is much more what I meant.

The thing I valued from my latest upgrade was a better camera. But the phone cost the same as two decent DSLRs. It just doesn't make sense to upgrade again.

> Continued GI issues

Ditto.

> I expect government housing to be nothing less than a backstop before homelessness

This is not at all the historic situation/expectation in the UK.

> Netflix's chairman has said working from home has no positive effects

No positive effects for him. Maybe. And even that is pretty dubious considering we're in a pandemic and nobody is at their best.

I did a Masters project on this sort of technology and yes, I think it makes fantastic demos but hasn't found a killer usecase in the real-world (publicly, anyway.)

Their techniques are at least patent-pending if not fully patented by now, which is going to limit adoption.

Also, tuning parameters is hell.

If it's a week away and massive? Not much.

If it's years or decades away, we could try.

> I have ZERO evidence

The protection of antivirals is variable too. The value of Tamiflu itself still seems controversial.

I am no expert in this but have worked at a few early-stage startups so hopefully my advice can help a bit.

Marketing is really, really hard. Even user research is an entire profession. You've done well to attract your first signups, but looking to grow organically from zero may let you down. If you can trial this with a real person then you have a user and case study to write about. You can start thinking, talking and designing for users rather than analysis.

The https://www.korabo.io homepage looks like a holding page rather than a signup page for a live product. I think a lot of this is because the background is too stock-image-y. It isn't fantastic that it leads to a signup form with no context, but one improvement at a time.

For a new product it probably isn't worth building a flashy homepage. But you need to have some sort of intro to draw people into the site and state that it's a functioning product. Taking https://basecamp.com as an example, the top two paragraphs say a lot in very readable language. Compare Flesch Reading Ease using https://datayze.com/readability-analyzer and try to come up with a pitch that does better than your blog post :)