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They are just asserting the intent, not the result.

Addictive, fun, quick, yet interesting and subtle if you're into strategy games. I think you have a potential winner on your hands. Some polish and tweak may be needed based on feedback here, but a mobile app could make a killing

I fully agree with your example. I have disabled the return rule, and I am enforcing that we add an explicit return in our codebase.

Ruby is a tool that I use the way I want, not the other way round

perhaps because he gives himself credit[0] ?

Or do you think industrializing a design is not valuable ?

[0] https://twitter.com/NAK3DDesigns/status/1303470020450750472

No mention of involvment of realsexycyborg here? i'm not 100% sure of the story but she's quite involved in the new design

https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/130099753348578508...

At one point, I was helping a great speaker build her first conference, which was a smashing success. When we turned on the ticketing platform on, orders started pouring in

In parallel, I was building my first side project, or more precisely I was starting to add pricing for the first time to a side project

As a result I had, at the same time, a stream of several thousands of euros, and MY FIRST 19€ from something I BUILT MYSELF

I was incredibly more proud of the latter. There is a sense of pride, of accomplishment, in thinking that you've built something useful enough for someone to open their wallet for you

Good job on your part and keep sailing!

"L'enfer, c'est les autres". I don't know what "the Other" you're referring to, "the other people" seems correct to me in meaning. IANAPhilosopher tho

As with all usage-based product, when you start it is cheap (much cheaper than building on your own), then as you grow your resources will hopefully scale with the number of users.

If your resources don't scale with usage, yes, you have a problem, but I'd say not limited to algolia

It was absolutely magical even at the start

I was a very inexperienced developer with tutorial-level experience of Rails, and I learned javascript from Algolia client tutorial. I have a 50-emails support thread with their CEO and CTO when they were doing YC.

This level of patience and care at onboarding a new dev was incredible and I always rooted for them. I came to know them better a few years later (small world) and they are absolutely adorable, very down to earth and modest despite their tremendous growth

But one thing has not changed : when you implement Algolia in a project, it feels like magic. The speed + convenience combo is unbeatable

No it shouldn't (even if I agree with your sentiment about company, growth and probably life in general). People interested in coop model have a legitimate interest in proving that it can work for various business size

it matters but not in the sense that everybody should aim for a super large corporation.

It matters because it validates that cooperatives can grow very large, and refutes the claims such as "yes it's nice, but of course it works only for small ventures and could never grow)

you can buy bags of dry herbs in the supermarkets

Dashlane is somewhat ok. The mobile experience is broken (you'd have to use their browser I guess, never tried), and you probably cannot install it behind a corporate firewall

but I'm a happy customer for 5 years because of a killer feature : the ability to share passwords with my wife across our desktop and laptops, for all the websites we need to access both (from library to utilities, official websites, kids schools, etc, etc)

This looks like a very healthy process, of people questionning their own results ! The scientific method, as it should be. beautiful

Slack API does that too

(to their credit, the docs are very complete and clear, even if their API design is questionable)

The most interesting class I took in my entire studies (Soft Matter physics) was also the one with the most interesting exams.

Our year's 2-hour exam was the following. The professor gave us a small cup of water, a piece of paper, and a piece of toilet paper. There was only 2 questions - place one end of the paper in the water. Describe what happens. Explain - place one end of the toilet paper in the water. Describe what happens. Explain

The year before us was with a small piece of glass and a small piece of potatoe - breathe on the glass. Describe. Explain - rub the potatoe on the glass. Breathe on it. Describe. Explain

You REALLY needed to understand the class material to succeed in these seemingly simple tests

Thank you for f.lux, I enjoy coming home early, being with my family then working later in the night. Having f.lux installed on my computer has improved my quality of sleep tremendously

However to tie it to the article : do you know of the variability between individuals of lighting effect on morale ? I know a lot of people getting depressed when winter comes, but it has 0 effect on me

what if you assume that objectivity shouldn't even be a goal? I feel like reading/watching multiple sources of informations, of which you understand their bias, is quite useufl.

I feel like twitter is actually the best place to that process, and to "defragment" the complexity of information flow. You can follow "mainstream" opinion makers and "rebels", "experts/specialists" for narrow but deep insights, and so on

yes, speed reduction on the Paris belt was also done in order to reduce traffic jams. The argument was "peak speed is slower, but apart from night/holidays situation with empty road, you'll actually get faster to where you're going because of less jams"

That's not what the article is saying. They have tested ant flow on narrow bridges where additional lanes aren't possible.

From the article:

"they do this through self-imposed speed regulation. When it's moderately busy, for instance, the authors found the ants actually speed up, accelerating until a maximum flow or capacity is reached.

Whereas, when a trail is overcrowded, the ants restrained themselves and avoided joining until things thinned out. Plus, at high density times like this, the ants were found to change their behaviour and slow down to avoid more time-wasting collisions."

We'll be finally able to traffic jam free when autopilot will make us slow appropriately in high density conditions, avoiding accordion-like brake/accelerate/brake cycles

I disagree : Internet and emails are a structural change that challenge the fundamental raison d'être, the role of the postal service.

Same as Internet challenge the role of France Telecom as a communication provider

La Poste transformation is required, otherwise they'll quickly become obsolete. And "in theory" they approach it the right way ? What are the values and strengths of la Poste ? It's commitment to public service, its network of offices around the country, the relationship and trust between the agents and the public... Then based on that you can rebuild a new set of services offered by la Poste

But of course the difference between theory and practice is that they may do these changes in a brutal, top-down fashion that leaves employees burnt-out :-(

And also, blaming the European Union for everything is a bad reflex that halps nationalist and Brexit-like parties

There are people who eat to work, and other who work to eat.

I can totally see the need for simple, sandwich lunch, especially in rush periods. But sandwiches can be SO GOOD with the right bread and the right ingredients. Why waste an opportunity for a nice lunch, even if you cannot take a long lunch break ?

I feel like the (very valid) points you are making, are not contradicting OP

He did not say the workers had less to do, he said the company had to find new revenue streams... Like you I support this initiative if it also includes employees wellbeing

La Poste is like France Telecom 10 years ago. The landscape is changing, it needs to evolve with the new world, provide new services, find a new place & role, hopefully keeping the values of public services. We know that the France Telecom => Orange turnaround was a business success at the expense of the health of many employees. I am afraid it will be the same with la Poste because of the same rigid management practices

Hard disagree. I think of Bob Sutton's quote a lot (I don't think its his quote, he just use it a lot as well) : Speak as if you were certainly right, listen as if you were certainly wrong.

You need confidence to assume your choices, sell your ideas, and take risks. You need to avoid arrogance to avoid mistakes, learn, and build a healthy team

I came to read "and what about the men? Men are discriminated against too", was not disappointed

This feature is such a game-changer - I take the occasion to plug my own Slack app Smooz[https://www.smooz.io] which does the same thing, creating shared channels, even if it will probably be replaced by Slack native feature when they extend it to free plans

When it came out, it was really a big deal for our users, so I can understand why Slack worked so hard to add this feature. The engineering description is fascinating. Also, while it's never fun to see your app being taken over by the platform, I must stress that Slack API team was very fair and gave me a heads-up far, far ahead of release

additional question, maybe related to the question on noise : what is the Y axis? number of queries I suppose but are they normalized?

you can see timescale on top in a dropdown menu

That's very neat and interesting; I guess the two questions are - how do you generate keywords to search for ? - how do you filter out noise (or perhaps you don't filter it) ?

The study specifically mentions that they considered land not used, including for growing crops (they did mention using land used for grazing, but since cattle has apparently a significant greenhouse impact, I guess it's fair game)