The way I did was to install vim mode in VSCode. Because running head first in vim without any plugin would slow down any serious dev work that needs to be done. Every addon you add has it's own learning curve. So at least with vscode you're in a familiar environment and you can still get work done.
- The ability share a local service to your peer by simply forwarding a port.
- Remote debugging. Participant 1 can start a debugging session and Participant 2 has access to the full debugging introspection without interfering with the host's session.
We also use VSCode quite a bit at CoScreen and it works great in combination with it. The issue is that VSCode Live Share alone only enables you to collaborate on code and partially on CLI.
But if you need to debug e.g. in Chrome inspector, review logs in some other browser, explore a design in Figma, etc., you need a tool like CoScreen to go beyond code.
VS Code Live Share is one example of what I hope the future of remote collaboration will actually be: sharing of high-level semantic data rather than mere pixels and input events. The former is way more accessible with screen readers and other assistive tools, for one thing.
They’ll probably use that argument to justify their action. “See we saved you from yourself, look how low it got”. But who knows what would have happened if the trades weren’t stopped. The system is rigged.
I’m not sure it’s that simple. They pissed off their most loyal and active customers. I doubt they’ll be back. What to say RH will not do this again in the future?
They picked their company name evoking a certain moral ethos, and the first time their customers consciously acted on that ethos, they pulled the plug.
Whether you agree with that ethos or not, I think we can at least agree that RH lacks the courage of its convictions.
And, much like Facebook, if you fail to deliver the product (customer data or customer trades) to your actual customer, you're still done. Their customers are surely thrilled by this Harakiri-maneuver.
Look at Facebook and Google, they keep abusing their users, but without a good alternative, there’s very little to do about it.
Edit: eloquently put by a sibling comment, the issue isn’t having an alternative today, but what would happen when those other alternatives are faced with the same conflict of interest as RH is facing, and the answer is that they would probably react the same way, here’s the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25947300
There numerous retail equity brokers that now offer free trades, mobile apps, and every other feature provided by RobinHood. Unlike Facebook, there is no network effect and unlike Google vs other search engines, different brokers are largely fungible.
This suffers from the illusion that there always is some "choice" or power average people have if a big entity pushes them around in the market.
>doubt they'll be back
Going where instead? Perhaps going to nowhere and not investing anymore, but if that's the alternative RH won't lose much on the margins vs if the "free market" wasn't really just a meme.
We live in a financial oligarchy. If we didn't, this blatant corruption with no recourse wouldn't be happening.
To another brokerage? This question doesn't make sense. RH isn't the only brokerage around, and there is a mass migration of people into other brokerages. Their app is currently at 1.0 stars.
If other brokers had the mass of users attempting this same trade, it would have been halted there as well. I guess time will tell.. we can't run the experiment over again.
But the fact RH would simply throw its customers away to appease hedge funds tells you something about who's in charge.
To be clear I'm not saying people won't "want" to go somewhere else that let's them trade how they want to trade (though the low friction and UX on RH itself needs to be re-implemented to equate a like for like substitution), and I agree they should and RH deserves to get ruined by users leaving en masse... I'm saying they won't be allowed to do so if another instance of this same dynamic occurs. Additionally, that there are calls for censorship of wsb, the future co-ordination on social media is also in question
All the pretty UX in the world doesn't mean a thing if there's a pretty message in the app saying that you are not allowed to do the thing you want to do.
I'm not sure. Plenty of brokers are still allowing trades. I can buy and sell on Vanguard in my brokerage account right now. If there's an issue with my trade I can call them, they show their phone number on the confirmation page.
They have some warnings amounting to "this thing is crazy, we'll do our best", but they haven't stopped me from trading. Other brokers are the same.
I think Robinhood cost themselves their business today. Anytime someone says "what broker should I use" the first answer is going to be "not Robinhood, they screwed everyone over" regardless of how true that statement is. I think the industry is about to come under fire too. Heads are going to roll on this one. Action across the board is widely supported by both sides of government. If it is even close to as bad as it looks, Wall Street firms just cost themselves much more than their short positions.
Schwab has a note that they're limiting volumme on specific stocks today. I agree with the point that any of the major brokers would have done the same, but I think that's more an indictment of all of these organizations than a defense of RH.
I'm just not sure about that until I see the volume and see that as a reason for them to not let me buy a security. They can have their systems go down... I mean obviously that's not ideal but that's something that could happen due to volume - but Robinhood didn't go down. Vanguard didn't go down. I can still buy via Vanguard right this second - what does the volume have to do with it?
There are plenty of brokers which are being migrated to right now that are not stoppping trades. European brokers not at all, and in the US Fidelity and Vanguard are still accepting trades (and handling the massive sign-up influx).
Furthermore, the fact that EU brokerages are not stopping trades is something to be considered, no?
Great idea, however the main page is pretty loaded in terms of information. There's 9 tiles, 4 button each, date/pictures/tracks/likes.. I just don't know where to look.
A simple reorganization would make it a lot more usable and less overwhelming.
I recently interviewed for both Shopify and Hashicorp. Their technical assessment were clear, not tricky and allowed for any tools or documentation. The recruiters also explained what to expect at each stages and how to prepare. I didn’t make it through either but it didn’t leave a bitter taste in my mouth.
