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Yet these leaders sit on Twitter all day engaging in petty nonsense, but demand 12 hr days from workers. How productive are they during those 12 hrs?


How do people with elderly parents, or young kids or other responsibilities outside of work deal with such awful schedules?


Great work, op. As others have said, encryption is vital to such a project. In fact if your ethos is privacy, it would be great marketing material to assure users that this is in fact resistant to basic infiltration. I think recall is a fantastic idea, even for professionals and corporate env. But the kind of sensitive information that is handled by employees cannot risk being leaked from such a tool.


Thanks for the advice. I will work on this feature.


That's not the point, though. It's not how generous he is with his money. It's how he sees money, its purpose in his life. People who see wealth as a force multiplier don't gorm habits of being careless with it. Just like you see people who have no money live pay check to pay check, take on debt just to assume a class they don't exist in. Yet you used to see Bezos in a camry and Buffet in some equally run of the mill car. It's because these people place value on everything, a car to themis just depreciating numbers. They formed a habit of critically assessing the "why".

Back to the topic at hand: Tipping is a ridiculous notion that the wealthy can see through, while the rest of us are too brainwashed to objectively analyze


> Back to the topic at hand: Tipping is a ridiculous notion that the wealthy can see through, while the rest of us are too brainwashed to objectively analyze

Oh yes, the wealthy are superior to us unwashed masses in every way. How I wish I could see through and objectively analyse, but my bank account won't allow that.


The phrase, penny wise and pound foolish comes to mind, though probably doesn't strictly apply. I don't spend my life reading. I read then live.

I don't see this hyper-optimization as a good thing. Externalities and so on. Of course dragons hoard coins. They look nice, bring good things, and who is going to stop them? "Game theory" is broadly applicable

All this to say: if tipping is a life altering decision for you, I have news. You're closer to the townsperson than the dragon, outlook is grim. Now the cycle may continue!


> Tipping is a ridiculous notion that the wealthy can see through, while the rest of us are too brainwashed to objectively analyze

Tipping culture is quite different in the Americas than it is in e.g. the UK. I don't think it takes much effort to analyse that the winners of tipping culture are the restaurant/bar owners as they don't have to pay their staff properly and can avoid tax.

Whilst I don't like tipping culture, I think there's a different reason as to why billionaires might not tip - greed. Normal people would never get to be a billionaire as it takes a particular kind of greed to have millions of dollars and to be determined to hoard even more money when you know full well that it's often made by exploiting the employees that made you all those millions. It's a very nasty, selfish form of hoarding that hurts society, so don't be surprised when billionaires demonstrate that they don't care about anyone else.


I take it you meant form habits?


... go on..


Yes, please continue. What else did your friend tell you?


This is truly horrendous, some people say that it can generate a woman lying in the grass!


Til 7z posts quarterly sources in archives. We'll that's a bit sketchy


What's sketchy? It's a less common model these days, but GNU traditionally did that.


Same thing happens with Bash: The guy pukes out a new tarball or a new diff every few months if he feels like it.


And again: What's wrong with that?


Keeping a clean, public vcs is a pain in the neck. If you're working on anything less than a large open-source project with many devs and random contributions, it's a pointless hassle. Can you tell me how that makes it any sketchier than leaving a public github?


Public Github with CI means the binary was built unmodified from source. You can turn off issues/PR and push only release branches with squashed commits.


Assuming you trust Github, of course. I think if someone is seriously worried code has been altered between source and maintainer-provided binary, his big concern will be the time it takes to audit the source code (which he also shouldn't trust). The build time will be inconsequential next to that.


The Reproducible Builds project is working on trustworthy builds:

https://reproducible-builds.org/


And I thought I was once a clever 15 year old... this was brilliant. Sharp kid.

Though his pondering of 'why do companies use third party support systems instead of rolling their own' gave his age away :)


See the comment below yours answered in fewer words and provided more information. Berating people to read something is just noise. Improve the SNR


No. People asking about things which are answered by the linked page is noise and a waste of time - both for the person asking it and for the people reading the thread.


You’re not improving the SNR. ;)


For one, we don't have to pay for basic amenities like security and alerts. To heck with gouging the customer for basic feature sets. Aws have their faults, but enabling teams to get the whole elastic experience without the weird nickle and diming is a blessing. Good on Amazon and boo elastic.


This is a reason why you prefer it but not evidence that the brand has overtaken Elastic's.


This evidence can only come from financial accounting. Amazon does not report OpenSearch results separately so you’re looking for data that does not exist in a public form. It’s a waste of time.


> This evidence can only come from financial accounting.

That's not true—we're talking about brand value, not financial value of the product. If AWS switched over to offering ElasticSearch again (not that they will) and ditched OpenSearch, I have no reason to believe that their financial numbers would go down a bit.

Brand value is nearly impossible to measure, but to the extent that you can it'd be by measuring perception among those outside the company, not through an accounting of the company's actual revenue.

Think of it this way: the brand LENRUE [0] is worth approximately zero. The company that makes these products could rebrand tomorrow and their revenue stream wouldn't take a hit in the slightest. But the company presumably actually makes some amount of money.

For Elastic vs OpenSearch, the brand value of the two products should be loosely comparable by looking at some measures of public perceptions, and I can't find any measurement that would suggest OpenSearch is in the lead.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/stores/LENRUE/page/24E9713E-AC7E-4269...


When it comes to fruitful discussions that leaves one with satisfaction and contentment, this ain't it. This is the polar opposite. Cheers


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