It's a little strange for an article about robots in South Korea to have such a big chunk centered around a Japanese hotel chain. I just checked and they are up to 20 branches in Japan (and also Seoul and New York) [1]
Where are the home-ground American and South Korean novelty robot hotels?
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We're looking for 2 more full stack software engineers to join our small engineering team of 5, who are a great bunch and all excited to welcome some new teammates.
We try our best to offer all of the benefits of working in a startup, the freedom to innovate, to explore new technologies and to use your experience and ideas to directly influence the business.
Our main stack consists of: Ruby on Rails, ERB front-end for drivers, React+Redux front-end for mechanics, PostgreSQL, Heroku, AWS.
ClickMechanic (https://www.clickmechanic.com) is a marketplace for vehicle repairs. Our platform enables customers to acquire industry-standard quotes for repairs (a first in Europe), services and diagnostics, and quickly book a vetted mechanic online. Our mission is to bring trust and transparency to car repair.
We're looking for 2 more full stack software engineers to join our small engineering team of 5, who are a great bunch and all excited to welcome some new teammates.
We try our best to offer all of the benefits of working in a startup, the freedom to innovate, to explore new technologies and to use your experience and ideas to directly influence the business.
Our main stack consists of: Ruby on Rails, ERB front-end for drivers, React+Redux front-end for mechanics, PostgreSQL, Heroku, AWS.
This may just be the Guardian's wording of the data source, but it makes it sound more like the real conclusion is "parcels currently being delivered by cargo bikes are better suited to delivery by cargo bike than by van".
The subheading does add the caveat that they were only looking at city centres, but I can't help that think it's a little ungenerous to ignore some of the areas within city centres that vans might potentially still excel (eg: bulky items)
My initial impression was that Atlassian was joining in the Business Intelligence tool acquisition party after Looker and Tableau were acquired in the last couple of years, however it seems their motivations may be different as they are immediately shutting down Chartio without even dangling a possibility of an Atlassian replacement product arriving in future.
(I’m certainly not aware of Atlassian currently having any BI offerings?)
A lot of the questions listed heavily overlap with what I would expect to be covered in team retrospectives.
A team reflecting on progress at regular intervals will naturally bring up processes, meetings, tools, etc, and a manager or team lead can easily add these questions into the mix for reflection and/or discussion as part of this process.
The key distinction from this seems to be hidden in the line "Finally, turn all these questions into metrics" - but the article could definitely do a better job of highlighting the differences between their "solution" and retrospectives (as well as more general good management practices like talking to your team).
There are some interesting ideas in there that seem tied to their product (https://www.okayhq.com), but the article doesn't really progress far enough past the high level ideas to be practical and rather a lot is left as an exercise for the reader!
While I would certainly hope that it prevents spread too, I believe that the vaccine is only proven to prevent Covid-19 (the disease), and not to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes it).
According to statcounter.com [1] there are over 4x as many Catalina users as there are Mojave users (62% vs 14% of MacOS users), so I think it's just that the people complaining about Catalina are louder.
Anecdotally, I'm using Mojave and experienced this issue, a person I was trying to have a Zoom call with was experiencing the same issue on their Mojave.
I think there are enough comments scattered across Hacker News to safely conclude that it affected Mojave too - although it's possible the timeout behaviour / error handling is different to Catalina.
Isn't it fair to say that this brings Zoom more-or-less exactly in line with the privacy vs law enforcement balance of a normal telephone call?
Writing from the UK, I'm reasonably sure that (a) all my phone calls are not recorded and (b) the phone number and duration of every call absolutely is recorded (this has to be shown on your phone bill!) and is available to the police when needed.
Speculating further, with the right court orders / warrants the normal E2E encryption algorithm for a particular user could be replaced with a "law enforcement decryptable" one and, hey presto, it's a Zoom equivalent of a proportionate wiretap that only covers future calls. Certainly a lot better than encrypting the calls of all users with such an algorithm "just in case".
Why on Earth would you trust Zoom, a company which has repeatedly done extremely sketchy things, to implement their closed-source proprietary platform in this specific way?
It would be easier to just lie about the encryption being end-to-end.
Personally, I will never use Zoom for anything, a decision I came to when my OS vendor (Apple) pushed a security update for my OS to get rid of Zoom.
I wasn't really trying to comment on their overall trustworthiness - I just don't think you have to stretch very far to imagine how a conversation between ≥1 Zoom employee who genuinely does care about privacy ("our users are demanding E2EE") and law enforcement agencies ("we demand or are entitled to certain powers") might have resulted in the offering being announced today.
Where are the home-ground American and South Korean novelty robot hotels?
[1] https://www.hennnahotel.com