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Yep, I see that I tend to agree with the diagnosis of many such books.

The solutions, not so much.

But they're definitely worth reading.

You're discounting the applications far too readily !!! I'm absolutely convinced there's lots of open space for video apps.

Heck, maybe the Zoom ubiquity might have removed barriers for entry !

My nephew had the same issue, had to work in English, Spanish and German.

Fortunately there are several names that work in all three, they ended up choosing Max.

80k is a lot of money, but this must suck, especially if you feel like you were an integral part of the company's succcess - some German researchers found that compensation perception is more on "fairness" than the actual numbers, if you'd made 80k and the founders 200k, maybe you'd have been OK with it.

Microsoft has people whose job title is literally "evangelist", which are tasked with engaging with the tech community.

They get paid to produce tech demos, give talks, engage with the community, alpha and beta test the latest and greatest tech, etc...

https://careers.microsoft.com/professionals/us/en/c-evangeli....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJMuh0ZiDZQ

If you connect with people who are Microsoft MVPs, they can probably put you in touch with them. I think engaging with some through Twitter would be the way to go.

I think putting this kind of thing across the table at the beginning is better and can save confusion.

I was spared having to confront my cofounder (of a now failed startup) by applying for an incubator that had us sign the split up front and have us have those conversations as part of applying, but that definitely helped.

Sounds like a good opportunity if she's succesful! Business acumen is NOT to be discounted!

Honestly, I don't think it's that much of a moonshot :) , they're probably starving for things to showcase in the store.

You probably need to contact some evangelists and maybe they'll point you in the right track!

They also like to send "success stories" on e-mails and such, aim for something like that!.

I use TreeSize for this problem, which does use the business model you're mentioning.

https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free

I have not paid for it, but I probably could have been convinced to pay for it AFTER using it, with the right psychological appeal (and not during the current crisis unfortunately, I'm on furlough).

It´s very sad that Google basically has such a monopoly on online ads that people have to resort to creating their own ad platforms.

Maybe that's a space worth disrupting? Google is getting fat and lazy (but still has a scary warchest and resources).

Maybe some subreddits, but on other subreddits you get actual top people - I´m in a couple of card game ones and I sometimes get answers from a top 50 player. You also get advice from not so good players too of course.

I live in Uruguay, and my mother in Canada.

I agree that for those fringe cases, healthcare in the U.S. might be better (Uruguay is also bad with tough to diagnose diseases).

But for 99.99% of the remaining cases, Canadian or Uruguayan health system is way better.

And I think there has to be a way to reconciliate the very good U.S. top of the line healthcare with the way better general healthcare most of the rest of the world has.

My sister lives in San Francisco and there are several benefits I regularly use which you basically can't access in the U.S. except if you're a millionaire - like doctor visiting your house when you're sick, and I mean things like a fever or a flu, and ambulance coverage included in basic healthcare.

I work for the owners of vacation.com , but to be honest the owners have never managed to leverage the domain into a great funnel. They're a multibillion dollar business but not thanks to the domain name.

Many LetsEncrypt users are one-man shops or side project owners, they don't WANT another burden like monitoring certificates that doesn't add to the bottom line (yes, I know a non-working certificate will be very painful for a side project).

This ammendment will mean annual price increases on .COM domains.

Verisign and ICANN may agree to amend the .COM Registry Agreement to permit an increase to the price for .COM registry services, up to a maximum of 7 percent in each of the final four years of each six-year period

First time I see the foxes and lions thing, thanks for sharing.

Found this link:

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2017/3/6/paretos-two-types-of...

I'm using Application Insights, but our tool is very Microsoft-centric.

Standard recommendation like mister_hn said is Elastic stack, Logstash and Kibana or Grafana.

In a course, I also saw recommended Zipkin and Jaeger.

Same for Uruguayans (and almost all Latin Americans), there are a lot more in Miami, NY and San Francisco than in Worcester, Maryland (although I do know of one there haha).

Edit: I am impressed, there ARE a lot of Uruguayans in Leominster (1200 out of 40.000 inhabitants), as a whole Miami, NY and SF have more, but it's indeed where they're more concentrated.

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/leominster-fitchburg-&-gardne...

And Jobs WAS a sociopath. He was also a ruthless genius.

I went to a talk by cognitive psychologist Dan Ariely, and he very much agreed: said that he tried to get girls into computer science, in Israel they had a 6-week introductory course, and that class SUCKED at getting kids interested (actually negative effect).

Ariely said there are actually better ways to get people interested, which is to show them something meaningful.

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1yNGapZbZElKj (see minute 15 and ahead)

They do that very often. I once drove the wrong way on a one-way street because some troll had changed the arrow's direction.

Fortunately there was almost no traffic.

Signs get vandalized or stolen all the time here in Uruguay. Mostly vandalized.

That's a good idea. I did the University of Maryland Coursera course and I liked it a lot:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/android-programming

Google can (and frequently does) link burner gmail accounts with your real e-mail account.

Thank you. I agree with your assesment on the "too technical" message.

I'll think about your post.

Thank you for your advice and taking the time to write this.

I'll definitely think about it.

Thank you for your answer. It's hard to get one here in Uruguay, but I'll definitely look for those.

Thank you for your answer. I've raised it with management at my current company, which is a good one, but not a software company and thus limited in growth for technical team members. My current manager was honest in his assesment at least.

In a previous job, they did promise me a management position, there was one I do believe they meant for me but the planned expansion was canceled, and I was passed over for another position which was the reason for me leaving.

I live in a city which is among the best in Latin America but nothing like the U.S., architect positions are very rare and management positions are not usually posted. That's why I'm tempted to take the PM position, as it is for a software outsourcing company. Maybe I can raise my expectations during the interview process.

This sounds like the kind of risk someone running a startup can take.. do you really advocate limiting MVPs due to potential GDPR violations? And English ADA equivalent violations?

He probably should think about all these things, for sure. And maybe have taken more than 4 hours :) , they're not necessary risks for sure, and since you've pointed them out, now he can fix them :)

Not sure what stack you're using, but Azure Application Insights is very nice for logging. And they have lots of tools for what you're mentioning (but you have to pay for them). If not, maybe you do have to build them (and it might be monetizable even!)

We're using Azure at my current workplace, and the amount of legwork you can get done is pretty amazing (as long as you're willing to pay for it). We have an ARM template to set up environments, deployment is painless with Azure DevOps, etc.

Same here. We used Slack and liked it. We're now using Teams, it's tolerable but Slack had significantly better UX.

The Android app in particular has trouble. And muting is all-or-nothing.

I've also had corrupted channels, I even escalated to Microsoft once.