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As a good consultant and contractor, Slack great at holding people - particularly decision makers, to account.

Oh you forgot you told me to do this? Here's the message from 6 months ago.

I'm excited to work with organisations who have executive staff that use Slack, but from talking with employees - even Stewart Butterfield stopped using Slack over the past few years except for company announcements.

Companies that embrace open decision making, blameless (to a degree) culture and transparency who embrace Slack, and good work-life balance, are far and few.

People who get mad about having too many channels simply are putting too much pressure on themselves. As long as you look at your DM's, when people tag you directly - or your close team's channel - you're using Slack correctly. If people expect you to view or have seen something elsewhere, you should have known about it through your manager, through direct tags/DM's or whatever your #very-important-announcement channel is. That's it.

Would be a trivial way of pretending the user is active and preventing sleep, useful for miners or ensuring the device is accessible when the attacker is online.

However, Apple has made substantial changes to how it handles hardware and system-level extensions, and I doubt this would be possible without exploiting either the OS or existing software on the system. It would require a sysadmin to install, as the approval process requires accessibility access.

alex?

This is what happens when you work for a public company.

You're working for shareholders. You're working for MBA's. You're working for data analysts and economists.

Your colleagues aren't these people, but the person who decides whether or not you have a job? That's not your colleagues.

It only becomes mold by sitting and growing. If the A/C dries it after use, it doesn't have any time to grow.

Yes, over time - any amount of moisture will produce some mold. But it will be negligible.

As a consultant, I love this.

As an employee however; nobody on my team, nor my projects, nor my wider organisation will spend the time to keep these updated.

We can barely keep public-facing API documentation up-to-date. Diagrams like this are an order of magnitude harder to keep up-to-date, and Solution Architects will refuse to go to this level of detail, as they'd actually have to think through the problem and do some actual system design.

But as a consultant, I'm going to use this in my kick-off projects and my proof-of-concepts, and it's going to dazzle everyone. But maybe 5% of my clients would pay me to do detailed diagrams or documentation like this.

EDIT: OK, unfortunately the initial onboarding is overwhelming and underwhelming at the same time. I'm used to ArchiMate, I'm used to draw.io, I'm used to Visio, I'm used to plantUML. You've taken some of the existing design patterns but made them different enough it feels uncomfortable.

The initial onboarding needs significantly more work. Dumb down the default, initial view. I don't need "Start Trial", I don't need "Help", I don't need "Invite", I don't need "Embed", I don't need whatever the fuck "Landscape recommendations" is, I don't need wait what the fuck is "Link to reality" and how is it different to the "Share" part of "Embed and Share"? Why is there some sort of animal I can't make out with a party hat on it next to it? Oh Link to reality is a "fun" play on syncing with a backend repo.

Yes. Consultants.

Garbage tier roadmap.

"It'd be a shame if.. You had an accident.."

I find it pretty distasteful that they scrubbed their comments (thankfully Archive picked them up https://web.archive.org/web/20210719115639if_/https://github...), deleted their GitHub, and are still employed as the Director of Strategy at Muse Group.

I can't find any examples where Daniel Ray, the author of these comments, apologised or acknowledged these. They simply scrubbed them, and their employer continued to employ them.

Disgusting, if I was associated with Audacity, Ultimate Guitar, MuseScore, audio.com, StaffPad, MuseClass or ToneBridge - I'd be pretty revolted by discovering this now, after-the-fact.

That's a hell of an assumption. They'd have FU money, they don't run a charity.

They do other things.

They just don’t do them well enough for adoption.

It’s been great to generate ideas rapidly without having to search. Google is 100% going to build this into their engine somehow.

This is really only relevant for buildings with 24/7 supers which are qualified electricians and trained in this particular product.

Very large apartment blocks.

I'd never choose to buy an apartment in one of these.

Great time to leave. Very smart move on his behalf. If I was Bret, I'd be laughing all the way to the bank on this exit. The board and the executive team is a virtue-signalling version of Oracle circa 2000.

Once the recession has settled, looking forward to the next wave of cashed up VP's and Execs who'll follow suit. Great time to start fostering relationships if you're a young employee at that organisation.

Owl scare of the 80s? What?

Based on HackerNews' current policies, it is impossible to address your concerns surrounding content posted.

HackerNews leadership have chosen to not allow anyone to delete content after a period.

Regardless, it would be pointless given how easy it is to scrape this website (on purpose).

They definitely aren’t. Pantone books expire after 18 months or so. Color accuracy is near hell at the best of times and even today we’re dependent on humans to validate matching. Printers don’t rely on digital tools for this because they require constant calibration.

Consider that the next time you see a wheelchair ramp.

This is the most American take I’ve seen on the debate yet.

They only legislated this in the 80's directly after the US serial killer craze started. Golden State Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Stranglers, Ted Bundy, etc.

Richard Ramirez became popular a few years after the law was enforced, and at that point it solidified for everyone "this was the right decision".

Many parents in the 90's let their kids walk home alone, and explore their neighbourhoods on their own.. And even today it's popular in rural areas. But the nature of where people live now is more related to cost of living and jobs, which everyone changes every few years - so nobody knows their neighbours or their community.

Now it's normal to shame parents who do this. And schools automatically notify the authorities if they're told about it.

Would kids get taken away from parents for this? Unlikely, legislation only pushes a $2,000 fine.

Yes, kids have been abducted in New Zealand. Yes, kids have been assaulted in New Zealand. It is a possibility.

Do you do a school walking train? If not, be careful. Under 14 unsupervised, even walking home, is illegal. Some parents have started reporting this to schools in AKL and WEL.

It grinds my gears that people still believe that shit, even here..

I think he doesn’t care. He knows he’s not going to do much prison time, and he 1000% has fiat stashed given where he incorporated.

Sorry - that sounds horrible, what island were you on that snows during Easter? Also, always assume some asshole burnt down the hut. Apart from that being a semi-regular occurrence now, it also just .. happens. Assholes book and stay at DoC cabins too. Also lots of drinking and illegal bonfires.

For anyone else who's worried about making a similar trip, please use this govt-made website which talks about what's recommended, as well as has an online service for logging your walks. If there isn't anybody to tell that you're going on one of these hikes, that means you shouldn't go. It isn't optional.

https://www.adventuresmart.nz/

For anyone in other countries without this service - if you're backpacking in hostels, or have a booking at a hotel after - ring and tell the staff before you go. If it's through AirBnB.. Well, I hope you make friends with someone who can check in with you before you leave!

And a face scan when you're going through the gates, which is better than fingerprints and iris scans these days, given the improvements made in LIDAR.

> except somehow I managed to survived.

We don't have many deaths from hikers and trampers. Most are from falls, others from drowning. I'm sure you prepared for the hike, many tourists do not and it's often national news when someone goes missing off a trail.

If you go for long tramps, you take your own food and shelter. And hopefully either an emergency beacon or check the area for cell service.

The fact you were there for 3 days, I assume you either never told anyone where you were - and they weren't aware you were stranded, and you didn't have any method for contacting emergency services.

If you did have a method for contacting them, if you have food, they'll quite happily let your suffer for up to 5 days as they know hypothermia is unlikely, you'll either be a little dehydrated or hungry - but provided you're not injured, they'll let you trek back on your own - they'll only send people out if you don't come back after a few more days. If you were injured, they'd have sent the Westpac helicopter to you within a week (when it's convenient or you're on a flight path convenient to other rescues). Most of the time that helicopter is used for immediate evacuation scenarios (strokes, heart attacks, etc) - and hikers usually aren't in that bucket.

They might be miserable, but being hungry with a shattered ankle, you're not a priority.

Floods are pretty regular, but in places like the Hauraki Plains and Canterbury, mostly regional farming areas. Main people affected are farmers, livestock and farming infrastructure.

If you can name a global organisation that doesn't get the lion's share of revenue from US organisations, or doesn't make major purchasing decisions out of the US - feel free to correct me. If you're a startup, you should only be going after low-hanging fruit, and that's only your existing network, and in the US.