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What if the progression ends up being:

1. Publicly-funded font(s) created

2. Use on govt websites grows

3. Publicly-funded CDN used for said govt site assets

4. Other, non-govt sites use said font(s)

5. Govt becomes asset host for web basics across thousands of non-govt sites

This may be another step in CDN lifecycle of startup --> megacorp --> commoditization --> govt service.

As dumb as it sounds, the biggest thing I've missed is seeing the sender's image in the main view, where the checkboxes are in gmail.

It was so, so, so much easier to instantly tell who sent the message with an image there. Even the gmail app has this feature, so I really don't know why it's not in the gmail web UI.

Is there any way to add these back with a plugin like this?

Are you suggesting that going to Mars is easier than going to the moon?

They created a crypto startup that allowed you to purchase with stripe, then had a bunch risky transactions come through, which they diligently told stripe about. So stripe closed the account because it was high risk.

They were a magnet for fraudulent transactions and had a ton of support requests on how to block various things; I don't really blame stripe for not wanting to process them.

The article you link to literally says the cause is not known and does not mention any links to birth control...

> The exact cause of uterine fibroids is unclear. However, fibroids run in families and appear to be partly determined by hormone levels. Risk factors include obesity and eating red meat.

Just based on what you've written here, it sounds like this person is not slowing down the team, but rather isn't "pulling his weight" on the development front. Consider that:

1) He has successfully brought on quality dev talent (you) and could likely do this more as the company grows. He's willing to hire people better than himself, which is more rare than you might think.

2) Angel & seed investors, who typically invest heavily based on the team, have already signaled their opinion by investing.

3) He is likely taking on a meaningful amount of non-development busywork that comes with any small business and that is incredibly thankless.

If anything, I suspect your raising these concerns to the CEO is telling them more about your own level of workplace maturity than it is about the other person's development skills. Startups are hard enough without coworkers sniping and complaining about who's doing the most. If you're worried about who gets credit, it's going to be very difficult to go from promising concept to a sustainable high growth company.

> "Think of the children" is a common rallying cry for evil.

I'm not familiar with this line of reasoning -- can you elaborate, or are there any good examples?

I really like the idea of it if you can get critical mass. One concern I'd have is: given that people's livelihoods are often on the line, how do you keep it from devolving into Quora marketer-speak over time?

I don't think they were advocating for Safari either...

Now all LinkedIn has to do is apologize and work with regulators to make sure this never happens again... thus ensuring no future competitor will have it as easy as they did.

This would be more convincing without the first sentence.

These types of satellites typically sag out of orbit and burn up after a few years

Postmark doesn't allow marketing emails, so their reputation scores are better and hence they have better deliverability. That's their main value prop.

No, we use Postmark which delivers very fast.

We've had "magic" links as the primary sign in method for our site for about a year now. It works well but we very regularly get requests to allow password login. So much so that we'll introduce that eventually.

Seems like both in combo could be a nice solution, but I'm sure we'll just start getting support requests from people whose password doesn't work because they never set one...

Regarding the other comment: you probably meant "anecdote"

I have a natural tendency toward the type of logic you're pursuing here, likely because I am very technically minded and enjoy mental gymnastics. I may be incorrect, but it seems the same might be true for you.

For myself, I have found this type of reasoning to be an anti-pattern: simplifying the world to the point that I can wrap my head around it and (most importantly) arrive at a simple, clear-cut answer. I find that I can always make adjustments to my assumptions until I arrive at a world where the logic for my desired position holds firm.

I've personally gotten more out of incorporating the messy nuances of the world into my mental gymnastics (e.g. mega-corporation != small business != group of people) even though that almost always comes at the expense of a clear-cut answer. Just a thought; YMMV!

I'd disagree, with the comment that by ignoring existing human institutions like "business" and "legalities", ethics becomes more a thought experiment than a useful roadmap for interacting with the world. I personally prefer it to be the latter.

By this logic, it would be ethical for a mega-corporation to take any technology they like from any individual or small business, without payment, under any circumstance. That's not the kind of ethics I personally prefer.

So then wouldn't the mechanism be that less blood is able to flow upward due to pressure on the skin?

Because the torso is upright either way, and gravity doesn't care if you're sitting or standing

> Staying in a seated position for too long allows gravity to pull more blood down into the pelvis

I could concede that more blood might end up in the pelvis, but surely this is not the reason?

Unpopular opinion alert:

Maybe the "bullshit" is only bullshit to you, the thorny tech-savvy reader. Maybe businesses have tried the plaintext approach, and their business was improved by adding fonts, stylesheets, API calls, spinners, scripts, high-res images, and god knows what else. Maybe speed improvements are not important beyond a certain point. Maybe 5MB doesn't matter to most people. Maybe micro-optimization is costly in large organizations.

Maybe other people making these decisions aren't idiots, and maybe, just maybe, they're even thornier and tech-savvier than you.

What you've just described also sounds a lot like sleep apnea. Healthy, non-snorers can have it so might be worth doing a quick test.

Looks like a neat project. What is the ultimate goal of it? I gather it's to do a subset of what e.g. Vue does, with simplified API and a small footprint. Is that accurate?

> these hundreds of people are so close socially that their opinions will be very strongly correlated

Having raised a seed round myself, this is definitely not true. Opinions, approach, and attitude of individual investors varies WILDLY. For VC it is more standard, but for "rich person with money in silicon valley" it is not.

The editor is similar to CodePen, with the biggest difference being you can easily add what you've built to any website. I haven't ever used GTM but I think the "make changes without re-deploying" approach is conceptually similar.

Yes I can do that -- it's a platform for building software modules that can be added to any website or web app. Right now it does most of the popular build steps automatically (Babel, SCSS, Handlebars) so developers can just focus on actual code.

We have an open source library of ready-to-use modules that can be forked/tweaked or used as is.

It's called Anymod https://anymod.com. Hoping we can become something useful for developers.

I work out of my garage in Sunnyvale, building a platform trying to make the web better. I eat lunch regularly with friends who do similar things, and I've been a part of several companies (via VC work) that have desired to improve humanity and are doing it.

There are people out there doing what you've described, but it doesn't (and never did) get headlines because most headlines are paid for.

First, thanks for putting the work in on prettier! It's a great tool, and it's helping a lot of devs & teams.

I find your approach much more reasonable than the one outlined in the article, which to me feels like complexity for complexity's sake. There might be some minor win to breaking lines by analyzing billions of possibilities, but it just seems like overkill, and it's certainly not predictable for the programmer.