I wonder what would need to happen to convince the management that actually they could run on Linux? I mean, 3 years ago the belief was we couldn't work from home because that would harm productivity.
We have a number of staff who use little ultrabooks for what is essentially a chrome kiosk(for documentation) and frequently discuss moving them over to Linux or Raspberry Pi because they would barely notice the change.
Not exactly related, but some time ago I realized it's not ok to make fun of people with physical disabilities but somehow it's totally acceptable to make fun of people with lower IQ.
I think others are confusing your "lower IQ" comment to mean "people with intellectual disabilities", which I don't think you're defending. It's obvious that "stupid" people (those seen as "normal stupid") are one of the last publicly-acceptable targets of ridicule. It's common for even the most well-mannered public personalities to speak derisively and dismissively about the stupidity of others. The most common insult toward someone you disagree with is to call them "stupid" or "an idiot". No one says "retarded" in polite company anymore, but it's essentially the same thing.
Funny that you mention it, but at one point "mentally retarded" was a gentler term for the then rather harsh clinically-used terms "idiot", "moron", and "imbecile". Now these three words are considered much less offensive than their one-time euphemism. What a world.
I don't think it is? Making fun of people that do one stupid action is I think okay, but making fun of people that have a harder life than other people because of how they're born doesn't seem okay to me.
Not OP. FWIW, I think OP isn't referring to individuals with intellectual disabilities; just those with an IQ one standard deviation down from the mean e.g. 85.
In my experience, there's often no backlash against jokes or even serious talking points about "stupid people".
It isn't necessarily about fiber. I don't eat much because I've been trying to keep off all the weight I've lost over the past decade. Consequently I have a lot less volume to deal with so I don't poop much.
Same <1/day 'issue' here. Perfectly regular, just nicely consolidated~ ;)
The answer is yes, and since I always buy in bulk, I literally go years without purchasing more. I was running lowish, but even the few I have remaining should let me weather this storm.
As a current Startup School, Europe-based participant [1], this raises an interesting question: if the whole program can be run virtually in a remote-only fashion, then perhaps it can be open for startups from anywhere in the world?
YC has always been open to startups from anywhere. They've funded hundreds of international startups, if not more than a thousand by now, and certainly well over a thousand international founders.
YC-funded startups have never been required to stay in the US after the batch, so it's easy to answer your question. (I've not got any inside information and just found out about this by reading HN like everybody else.)
That doesn't answer the parent's question. The requirement to come to the US even for a single hour, either before or during or after the batch, can be a huge hurdle for some founders. That's why the "fully remote" part is interesting. 99.9% remote is very different from 100% remote.
I'm scratching my head trying to see how that doesn't answer the question. By definition, a remote batch means people wouldn't need to come to SF for a batch. There's never been any location requirement otherwise. What's left?
Well, the announcement hasn't been as clear as "By definition." They only said that "some or all of the batch may take place remotely over video."
If the coronavirus pandemic is under control in the U.S. by June, and YC decides to run some of the later parts of the batch (such as Demo Day) offline in SF, that could be a problem for foreign founders who might still be stuck in their own countries or can't get a visa on time. The deadline is drawing near. Without a firm assurance that there will be no location requirement whatsoever at any time, a lot of foreign founders might decide not to take the risk. But YC is not making themselves clear. As I said, there's a huge difference between 99.9% remote and 100% remote.
Anyway, I just saw your more recent comment about over-interpreting the word "may" and I fully agree with what you said there.
As a backend developer that occasionally needs to add a nice looking front-end I can say that the biggest source of divs comes from the bootstrap templates I use in my projects. Not sure why the semantic syntax is not more popular among these template creators.
XaaS has many benefits, but uptime is not one of them anymore. I self-host my repos, had a few downtimes but thanks to this DDoS my local services have better uptime. ( Disclaimer: I know it's not apple to apple comparison as scale is massively different)
distributed source code management theoretically doing this in a robust and replicated manner quite a bit easier. if you ignore partitions, it seems pretty straightforward to make a git push-all, and a recovery process for stale nodes coming back.
