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cientifico··on Ask HN: Recommendations for an SMTP Sending Service?
I can recommend https://docs.postalserver.io/
cientifico··on G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1, 2022
Is there any way to migrate one "google for your domains" account to a @gmail.com account?

I am looking on transferring:

* Google maps location history (have it there since 2009). * Google photos of all the family accounts + plus partner sharing. * Google drive * Gmail * Google extra storage (that I pay already for).

As far as I know, there are no way to migrate cleanly the data. Only crappy ways if possible at all.

cientifico··on Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day
This exact feature exist also in the pro(2€/month) version of https://ticktick.com/
cientifico··on Remix: On Rails
Rails was done by a product guy to solve one need. Most of the "the new rails" challengers are made by engineers.

Rails took a need: creating a blog engine; and make everything needed to have the simplest and most understandable way of doing it. Going through that example was like: -"Ahh makes sense.". Features were secondary and the focus was on the solution. It was about solving one specific use case and grow from there.

So far, any framework I saw that claims to be the new rails, is speaking about features and the million things you can do.

It feels like Rails was done by a product guy, and all alternatives were done by engineers.

From reading the article, remix feels like the best way to deploy to edge. An engineering problem. Not a user one.

cientifico··on About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.1
I wonder how many bugs they are aware and decide not to report.
cientifico··on Show HN: The fastest way to collect feedback from your meeting
Thank you for your feedback :-)

Right now the attendees receive 1 question in the email and two more in the website. This list of questions is fixed for this iteration and should cover 80% of the cases we researched.

We though of allowing the user to customize their questions as a pay functionality so we can adapt better to their flow. Does that make sense?

cientifico··on Show HN: The fastest way to collect feedback from your meeting
One of the authors here.

Hi. We are participating in an accelerator and as part of a hackathon, we just release Rate My Meeting and we are quite excited.

After playing looking for ideas we saw that we all share experiences related to inefficiencies in meetings. We asked ourselves if we want to improve meetings, how could look like the fastest user experience to collect feedback?

Basically, you invite to rate@mymeeting.app and we will ask the attendees for feedback once the meeting is over. One hour after, we will send you the results by email. We also send you a QR code in case you want to display it in one slide.

Check your spam, play with private events, and expect some bugs. After all, it was one weekend.

We don't know if we pursue the idea, but... what do you think?

Thanks :)

cientifico··on Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31
Is it only in Europe that this is already by law for every entity that stores personal data?
cientifico··on Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos
But that will mean that for every version of the algorithms, it have to read all the photos since 15 years ago... my phone battery will die soon.

And if I need to have other kind of client... like a nas to do that... Why I need the cloud?

cientifico··on Is there any place for monoliths in 2021? (2020)
In my experience, the architecture is not relevant at all for the success of a business.

It's alignment with the company structure is.

The same way Conway's law tells us that company structure and the communications should be in sync, the architecture should match the teams.

As a rule of thumb... the good architecture is the one that minimize the communication within the different teams.

cientifico··on Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid
Same here.

Your IP: 91.64.84.221 Error code: 16 > This request was blocked by the security rules

It might be requests from outside the United States.

Anyway: * The cache from google: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

* Arhive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030515/http://www.ercot....

cientifico··on ownCloud Infinite Scale: Go instead of PHP, microservices instead of LAMP
The problem is not refactor vs rewrite. What most people oversees is the domain knowledge.

If the domain knowledge is on the code, you can only refactor. If the domain knowledge is on the team, then rewrite tends to be faster.

Most rewrites fails because the team rewriting is not the team that did the initial development.

cientifico··on Go Type Parameters – Draft Design
I miss on this kind of design draft a literal diff to the language spec.

The go language spec is one of my favorite things about go. Is a learnxiny on steroids. In less than an hour, you fully understand the language.

I am curious to see how this functionality will change the spec. Will it double it in size?

cientifico··on VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
Thanks. Corrected.
cientifico··on VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
Tip: If you want to escape from any ssh session you can press this sequence:

1. <Enter> Press Enter.

2. ~ Press Tilde.

3. . Press dot.

This disconnects from the remote host.

If you want more: `man ssh` and look for "ESCAPE CHARACTERS"

cientifico··on Linux from Scratch
I remember coming back from school 20 years ago to see if Linux or glibc finished compilation.

I think is mandatory if you really want to understand how Linux base os works.

cientifico··on Ask HN: Can someone suggest an open source lightweight alternative to Chrome?
I can suggest qutebrowser.
cientifico··on Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?
Solution we found back in the days. Create a new user, and give user name and password to the contractor. This might force to disable 2fa.
cientifico··on Ask HN: Best ways to retain qualified employees?
1) Ensure they trust you, and you trust them.

How, depends on different factors. Without trust on the company, their manager and their peers and employee will be likely to quit.

Over the years, I observe trust being in direct correlation with 5 kpis:

* How often the word "politics" is being used in a daily base.

* Miss delivery (delivery something that don't fulfill the goal, in features or time).

* Miscommunication/misunderstanding. (The need of repeating the same message more than once).

* How often the word meeting is being used negatively.

* Times conflict was avoided.

Improving this kpis, by techniques mentioned in other comments, in my experience, will improve trust and employee retention.

cientifico··on You download the app and it doesn’t work
If you ask this questions, you shouldn't have an iPhone on the first place.
cientifico··on Refactor vs. Rewrite
If you are able to get the domain knowledge fast enough, sure.

Or as you said, the domain knowledge has changed from the original.

cientifico··on Refactor vs. Rewrite
In my experience, refactor vs rewrite is the wrong approach. Knowledge of the business must be maintained.

If knowledge is on the team because the company is stable, rewrite. 37 signals is a clear example of this.

If the knowledge is in the code, because multiple people or teams worked on the code base over the past few years, refactor. A rewrite will be the recipe for disaster.

I never found an exception to this rule.

cientifico··on Don't set the language of your website based on user location
What should I do if I have different markets? Should I translate all the markets to all languages?

In my experience, the problem is different. Company X does not want to translate into different languages, different markets. For example: Apple, Microsoft, Samsung. Amazon video. If you want to see German available products or prices, it have to be in German.

cientifico··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
www.delegatescreen.com
cientifico··on Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it?
After years of suffering the same problem, I found (so far) a solution that more or less works for me. Assigns days to projects. Max of 5 projects. The most important thing is: Don't work in the project unless it's the day. If there is a need, add it to the backlog of the project.

My curve of interest gets reduce over a day. After one week of not working, it is restore.

Curious if this works out to someone else.

cientifico··on A Message to Our Users
It's a matter of trade-offs. You deliver fast to have a product that sells or do the things right and hope people value that.

Most venture startups are focusing only on the first part. Slow-Growth focus ones on the second.

Once you get used to one model, is hard to switch to another.

cientifico··on Lead-Free Solder Is Better for You
Ok. When I said ban, I meant that back in the time, I went to the shop and they didn't sell it.
cientifico··on Lead-Free Solder Is Better for You
Not in Spain. I remember the change at around 2003/2005, where the seller just gave me the lead free version.

For what I remember, the lead free had a higher melting temperature. At least back in the days.

Took one week to get used to.

cientifico··on Lead-Free Solder Is Better for You
I think Lead Solder is Ban in Europe since 2003 or around.

I remember the change, where I was not able to buy the old one. I remember that it had a slightly higher melt temperature.

Can you buy it in America?

cientifico··on Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
It's weird that they forbid any user from Europe because of data privacy law.
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