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Thanks, this is exactly the sort of feedback I'm after.

When you say "user's problem", is the software dev the user? Or the end user? If you are saying it is not an issue for devs, I disagree. Dead code / used code paths add to the mental load and mantainance burden. Whether this is a significant enough issue to make a paid for product is another question :-)

Does your IDE and Sonarqube really have the ability to detect that certain code is never run in production? I don't believe static analysis can ever truly do this, especially for a dynamics language like Ruby.

Yes, that would be great :-) I think static analysis can go a long way to helping with this, but again with dynamic languages it can be hard to cover all the bases. I would welcome hearing your ideas on specific tech debt you are trying to avoid.

I agree that it would be difficult to build a tool that could guarantee the code will never be called. Instead, I want to build a tool that can allow developers to home in on good candidates for cleanup.

I am proposing to monitor code as it runs in production. This will allow us to be confident in which code is actually getting called, and the inverse: which code is called infrequently. Then we could install probes in code that is suspected to be dead. e.g. explicitly log when the code is called. Then after an appropriately generous period of time (a month or two), if the code still has yet to be called, then we can be more confident when removing it.

Would it change your mind to know that a lot of BP service stations are small business franchisees?

It would make much more sense for Germany to pay for (or mandate) the installation of electric car chargers at supermarkets and at strategic parking spots in cities. Petrol stations will cease to exist, along with all those mandated chargers.

> petrol stations in Australia have replaced the corner shops

Are petrol stations somehow responsible for consumer habits? What about sky-high residential realestate prices that make cornershops too expensive to open? Or low density housing that Australian cities are known for?

> We don't have a single 7/11 in South Australia.

There are plenty of convience stores in Adelaide, including ezimart and nightowl. Perhaps 7/11 franchisee fees are too high?

Sure, but their owners do. Perhaps the majority of petrol stations are owned by big business, but I am not so sure. I think many are franchisees/small businesses.

I understand that, but I think electric cars will make total number of trips to petrol station much smaller. It doesn't matter what percentage of your profit comes from the store part of the business if your customers no longer visit.

I don't own an electric car, but I would think that if I were charging at home every night (or at more and more carparks), a trip to the petrol station would almost never happen.

This seems a bit unfair/cruel considering electric cars will probably decimate petrol stations. Most people will charge at home, or when parked at their destination (like work).

Edit: Curious to know why this comment is unpopular?

I had never heard this quote before:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/21/graveyards-full/

> Russian embassy and consulate first, then over the American one.

I like to imagine a few spilled spilled coffees that day. Thanks for sharing :-)

Sounds amazing, and also a little distracting! That must have made it hard to concentrate in class :-)

Sad to hear how that ended - and crazy to be performing low altitude flight exercises so close to a populated area.

> Mach Loop is among the few places in the world (Star Wars Canyon is another) where photographers can see combat aircraft flying below them.

Some amazing footage on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wzh7Hou30s

From the linked article:

> data suggests the vast majority of the population have taken to voluntary social distancing, which is the crux of Sweden's strategy to slow the spread of the virus.

> and now possibly NZ + AUS follow similar progressions

Where are you getting this from? All reports I have read show that NZ and Aus governments/people have acted quickly and effectively, and new infections are low in both countries.

> No country except Iceland or South Korea knows how many are infected, everyone else's numbers are horribly wrong.

Is South Korea still consideered an outlier WRT testing regimes? Not to throw shade on their great efforts in leading the way, but many other countries now have extensive testing.

> I'm going to make sure that I praise good ideas first

This is something I am trying to do in real life as well (although I don't always succeed). For some reason it's really easy for me to open my mouth to talk about weakenesses/problems with things, but it's not as natural to highlight the positive aspects. I also try to say aloud my positive thoughts about people when they pop in my head instead of keeping them to myself.

> It was neat, but always incomplete.

One of the features I was thinking of building was a slack bot to ask people to add/update term definitions.

> I think it'd be a hard sell to smaller teams,

Yes, I suspect you are correct, which is my biggest misgiving about pursuing this product too much further. Unfortunately for me, new/small growing teams are my preferred niche!

> maybe_ to organizations that are a bit older or larger and have accumulated a lot of internal cruft

That's an interesting thought. That segment is a harder one to break into for a "solopreneur".

> On a different note - have you considered doing some content marketing by making a public jargonaut for common development terms?

Yes, I have actually. When trying to determine what other "glossary" solutions exists I found that there are quite a number glossaries that people appear to have put together as part of their content marketing play. One of the niches I could see Jargonaut fill is the place to go to publish a public glossary, although I am not sure the monetization angle there (apart from adverts).

Thanks for the kind words. The system is still fairly MVP, but works well. I'm putting it out there early to determine appetite for a tool like this as I want to avoid going too deep before getting market validation.

TIL. Interesting! My google-fu let me down :-)

Time to do some digging. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks Tin, I'll checkout Slab soon.

Thanks, fixed! :-)

After noticing that the growing number of people at my day job seemed to be using our internal jargon differently, I decided to write a team glossary using confluence. The experience left me wanting. No crosslinking of terms, no enforcement of structure/format. Ugly/outdated styling.

I thought there had to be a better way, but I couldn't find one so I built Jargonaut (https://www.jargonaut.net). It helps you build a nice, crosslinked list of terms/definitions, and provides simple slack integrations to allow you to pull in a definition into slack.

I have lots of ideas to add more value, but I want to get a feeling from others on whether you would use such a specialized tool instead of your bog standard wiki. Would you consider parting with money for it for your team?

PSA: The Dow Jones industrial average is a terrible measure of the stock market. It tracks just 30 stocks, some which have an outsized influence on the measure.

This is not to say the stock market is not in freefall, but there are much better indexes to track general market movement.

> Unless he actually cares if he or Bezos is the #1 wealthiest person

He could also care about whether his actions have a negative impact on others.

After noticing that the growing number of people at my day job seemed to be using our internal jargon differently, I decided to write a team glossary using confluence. The experience left me wanting. No crosslinking of terms, no enforcement of structure/format. Ugly/outdated styling.

I thought there had to be a better way, but I couldn't find one so I built Jargonaut. It helps you build a nice, crosslinked list of terms/definitions, and provides simple slack integrations to allow you to pull in a definition into slack.

I have lots of ideas to add more value, but I want to get a feeling from others on whether you would use such a specialized tool instead of your bog standard wiki. Would you consider parting with money for it for your team?

Disclaimer: these are my own opinions, I am not going to link for supporting evidence. I am just shooting off the cuff and I have no real expertise in the matter:

1. from most reports this is spreading much faster than other diseases, such as the flu. Because of this it has a higher chance to overwhelm a countries healthcare services. Once that happens, mortality will spike.

2. it has a higher mortality rate, especially for elderly.

And most importantly:

3. it is still new and it is harder to predict the outcomes and people are scared of the unknown.

What you also have to keep in mind, the reaction isn't about the deaths that have already occurred. It is about trying to slow the exponential progression so that the demand for medical services are spread out over a longer time period, thus avoiding the overwhelming of our medical services.