Would you be able to say how your company accomplishes that?
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* We are not rolling our own. Whether we host it ourselves or pay for a service, we’re getting something off the shelf that best meets our needs.
* We are evaluating products, not protocols.
* We aren’t picking an outlier; whatever stack we choose needs to be a modern, proven service that seems to have a solid provenance and a good life ahead of it. We’re not moving from one idiosyncratic outlier stack to another idiosyncratic outlier stack.
Given other language such as "modern expectations" in regard to interfaces and being "spoiled for good options" as well as Rust's move to Discord possibly setting a precedent within Mozilla, the posters in the HN thread above don't have a lot of hope Matrix will be selected even via Riot.
>Don’t worry. They’ll totally fix Slack and Discord around the time everyone is using VRChat and VisualTeam. It’s always been this way. Accessibility is catchup work. The next big thing always destroys our gains.
The language at the end of the blog post "We are evaluating products, not protocols" and "We aren’t picking an outlier" almost guarantees we're looking at solutions as heavy as Slack and Discord which I would not have been able to run on my laptop back when I was involved in the switch to Firefox Quantum. It's challenging enough having to advocate for "niche" (my words) features and work out their implementations, but IRC was also necessary to keep track of which builds on what dates would introduce which breaking changes, since this information was published nowhere else, and also to minimally participate in decision meetings that ended up in video chats anyway. If they do move to a heavier, but closed, solution, I hope they also find ways to make contribution less reliant on chat.
For what it's worth, I thought Mozilla had a fairly decent wiki page for IRC[0]. I always believed a streamlined quickstart section, suggesting one or two clients at most, walking through steps to registration and configuring authentication with ghost killing, and how to get activity from when you were offline either via bouncer or just logs[1] would more than adequately address ease-of-use without rolling out a newer, modernized client. Even working from libraries wasn't an issue for me using web-based clients like Kiwi IRC.
I didn't even think it was an English word before I watched Rich's (great) talk.
It seems the parent has luck with word drawing, but I remember looking into alternative keyboards a couple years ago and not being impressed. The most enjoyable and fastest writing I've done on a mobile device is with 10-key Japanese input[0]. Unfortunately I do not regularly talk to anyone in Japanese.
[0]: Couldn't find a good article or webpage on this. You can hopefully grasp the core concept from http://miku.sega.jp/flick/en/. Since Japanese phonetics all end in -a, -e, -i, -o, -u with the exception of ん ~ n, the flick directions are symmetric. Coupled with how more than decent Japanese IME is and a few extra keys to navigate the suggestions, modifiers and other common input (brackets, commas, etc. operated by the same flick motions) you can get very fast and precise. I don't get to use it often, but it's a joy when I do. They even made a game out of it :)
I do agree with other comments that if big clients like Gmail abstracted PGP signing nicely for their users, it would put more pressure for organizations to publish public keys and sign lest the people they try to reach complain that Gmail gives them a nice big warning each time they try to open one of their emails.
Did you forget to finish this thought or can you expand on it? I'm guessing it softens people's view towards you?
>Usually you can get a job where you can get your foot in the door based on the “must haves” that also have “nice to have” requirements.
Sometimes those "nice to haves" feel like "must haves". I try and get projects out to demonstrate competency with a tool/platform/framework, but as the parent suggests it's an absolute time and effort sink (lately I've been trying to wrap my head around a specific k8s configuration I want on AWS). On occasion I'll mention what I'm learning in my first email if its relevant for their interests but I've never felt it mattered and it never gets brought up.
>I’ll learn just enough about the nice to have technology once I get my foot in the door
In this case is your foot in the door first getting into talks with the employer (so you're prepared to talk about it during e.g., negotiations) or is it landing the position? It sounds like the latter, but just making sure.
Thanks for all your posts in this thread. I've been trying to start my career and appreciate you sharing your experience.
The evolving enemy concept made me look up an old boss-rushing shooter that selected the next boss's upgrades based on your performance[1]. Is this something you're interested in refining further?
Anyway, I was expecting murder when I went to the Candy Japan homepage, but there are changes they can make right now that would help. White text on light-colored header, doesn't use professional typefaces, as great as the animated candy SVG is it takes too long to see a real piece of candy, body text is too small and in the background (just unchecking the 80% rule improves the readability by a lot), testimonials distracting the body and flow, the list of past boxes is a list of blog posts that I have to individually click on to see the contents of (which is a shame since there is associated prose that I would love to be able to skim through quicker).
Just some of the things I would change. TokyoTreat seems to be part of a larger network selling Japanese loot boxes so it's seemingly stiff competition and maybe that's the key here. Perhaps CJ can pivot itself as something more personable and intimate? You can even make your own content (vlogs, perhaps) on how you go about hand picking a selection. You also already have a cute mascot.
I definitely agree arcades make a fantastic third place. Planning trips to e.g., Arcade Infinity (RIP) or a Round 1 is one thing, but having a place outside of school and home I can routinely drop in and feel welcome even when I have no particular business to do there was why I kept going to local mall Tilt arcades (and Borders bookstores while I'm at it). Even as more machines go online in Japan[0] or scenes establish other events for their game[1], I still think they're a worthwhile addition to a community.
[0]: https://medium.com/@sasuraiger/japan-trip-2017-2018-online-f...
The naïve solution would be to just limit nesting and order nested comments chronologically. Another solution may be to CC @postid in your messages and have posts display "responding to: id1, id4" at the top and "responses: id91" at the bottom with appropriate links. There's a question here about which post to write or display your response under. Finally, an extravagant solution would be to really represent discussion as a graph and I think a lot of time would need to be spent creating an interface with minimal frustration as I feel it can get really involved (i.e., a lot of clicking).
Curious what you or anyone else thinks.
https://forums.docker.com/t/is-there-a-built-in-kubernetes-i...
https://blog.docker.com/2018/07/kubernetes-is-now-available-...
I just installed Docker via package manager so I guess I never really learned about the organization's offerings in total and didn't know which product I had (CE for Linux). Is there a more up-to-date/better practice for using Docker CE with k8s than this guide dated March[0] using Minikube[1]?
[0]: https://blog.sourcerer.io/a-kubernetes-quick-start-for-peopl... [1]: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube
>Participate in discussions instead of just listening. If you are wrong, then you learned something at least.
I feel being a part of the discourse is especially important and is still something I'm learning to do. There are a few times I wanted to contribute but believed what I had to say was already obvious to everyone else or to at least the people with more expertise and it turned out not being the case. Still, consider choosing your fights and
>Leave if the environment will never respect you anyways.
More on-topic, searching is a major weakness of Python's docs. What's that? Python just got multi-line strings allowing embedded expressions? They're called f-strings? Let me go read about them[2]. I can't link it, but even using Startpage the immediate results are a post from RealPython and PEP498 and while both are great, they aren't terse enough to be frequently referenced. If you search for "formatted string literal"[3] in the docs it takes 10 results before you reach something explicitly talking about them. And then you need to follow the links a couple times to reach https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#f-... (notice it is anchored as "f-strings" which was the first term we searched for).
While the Python docs, when I've found them, have been adequate for me so far -- although I still check up on how others do the things I want to do -- I'm partial to docs such as MDN that cover parameters and return value in one take for reference with more in-depth information as you scroll down, if needed[4].
[0]: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
[1]: Here's a start for reading. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8689964/why-do-some-func...
[2]: https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=f-string
[3]: https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=formatted+string+lit...
[4]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I sync to a server with vim and vimwiki installed and on my phone I just mosh[0] in. I don't generally do extensive editing on the go, though. Did the solution you have in mind include a specialized editor for touchscreens?
[0]: https://mosh.org/
Any idea how they hacked your Gmail account? MITM/intercepting your password? How did you find out? Did Google inform you some IP in a bizarre location signed in?
My take: gradual shift in user base especially since HN has gotten more popular, not to mention just a difference in zeitgeist. This implies the old guard have changed how they communicate or use the site as well. So just the same as anywhere else.
The model I have in my head is that the average Japanese who doesn't know your deal will put you in one of two categories:
A) You are a temporary visitor. A tourist on vacation or business trip.
B) You are a full fledged member of Japanese society.
So the more "foreign" you seem, the more likely you are to be considered "A". I'm particularly interested in Southeast Asians: are they expected to be more Japanese/Asian or "other"? I guess the temporal nature of their visas helps cement them as the latter.