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Wondering what's the most successful YC-rejected company. Datadog?

Now I'm even more concerned for the future of Flutter.

WFH?

Does anyone remember Pyramid of Peril (1985)?

Perhaps you mean DOS 5.0. If I remember well, DOS 6 wasn't different from DOS 5 internally?

Not, it's because Google is promoting fake stuff.

It was a golden era for games, but not for music

> they cannot rely on the graphics to sell themselves

Game reviewers have always been saying that games rely too much on graphics, at the expense of game design. It was already a trope in the early 1990s.

From that era I recommend Ultima 7 Serpent Isle

They can do this, badly. Is it a successful prediction?

Researchers should become practictioners to some extent, if they want their ideas to spread. Example : Donald Knuth and TeX. Racket programming language. etc...

Of course in this publish-or-perish era, this is probably no longer possible.

First time I hear of this, but one issue is that they've reviewed a pretty overwhelming number of papers, which dilutes their impact.

In general, practitioners would be interested in hearing from advances in academia, but usually don't want to read papers. Building fully working systems - programming languages or libraries - is more impactful, but much higher-effort.

A few of these French magazines have cult status these days : Tilt, etc. I wonder if that's the case in the English-speaking magazine world.

No, just visited.

For some reason it's become the place to be. I visited last November, it was incredibly crowded with tourists/nomads from all over.

The rest of Portugal is incredibly friendly, but in Porto I perhaps perceived some resentment from locals and small business owners, just for being yet another foreigner.

Looking at this from the UK : it's always astounding that US has an such a ligitious culture, and, at the same time, such a backwards health-and-safety culture. At least that's the impression I get from watching American tradespeople on Youtube.

Context matters here. This sounds like corporate advice ("managing up"), rather than startup advice.

The UK recruitment industry is extremely competitive/aggressive. After Covid, they realised they could even outcompete the Americans on their home turf.

UK estate agents are also expanding abroad at an increasing pace.

I guess it's to reduce the validation workload at their end. They'd rather receive numbers generated and validated by a piece of software, rather than numbers that may or may not make sense.

> Companies without direct access to the internet

Don't think HMRC accepts this in 2024.

HMRC will never launch a web app for this, as they don't want to be a custodian for company payroll data.

Probably a majority opinion, but it is a silent majority.

I was one of the (presumably few) people who used the Linux version, until it stopped working for some reason, a few years ago. After that, I got used to booting into Windows one a month to run my little payroll.

TBH, I don't think they should be spending resources on this port.

PS : hi Liam, we met at Fosdem a few weeks ago!

There seem to be conflicting reports as to who came up with the TPU https://mastodon.social/@danluu/109641269333636407

Not really ? There are clear routes to a visa (France, etc) for degree educated tech workers.

Another factor might be that, due to visa restrictions, many great European entrepreneurs have decided no to move to the US.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18131009 for an earlier discussion of scientific blind spots in Wikipedia.

I also wish there was a mechanism to prune certain Wikipedia pages that carry way too much detail, given the notability of their subject.

With the current state of Visas for the US, most countries are now more welcoming to migrants.

Wouldn't performance per watt be the correct measurement for this class of device ?

West Elm has a bit of a reputation in that regard

Correct. According to this 1975 catalog https://ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/ikea-catalogue/1975-ikea-c..., Ikea sofas could be bought for the equivalent of $1000 today.

Higher-end sofas would have logically cost much more...