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Highly recommend reading Designing Data-Intensive Apps [1] and Monolith to Microservices [2]. I can't remember which (maybe both?) but I definitely took away the idea that if servi…

Yes, OTel has autoinstrumentation libraries for some language that can pick up a fair amount by default. Though it's unlikely that that would ever be sufficient, it's a nice start.…

Seems like the key shared characteristic of these examples are small communities where people care about each other. As you say, it works at smaller scales. But free rider problems…

Another way it's been said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_the_other_cheek

I was surprised to see no mention of automation tools like IFTTT and Tasker. These sorts of overarching automation oriented tools let people solve a lot of problems by stitching to…

Not all companies (stocks) have the same sensitivity to inflation. Depends on all sorts of things that are business specific. One example is how easily price increases from supplie…

My tip on life insurance: don't buy it from your existing auto/home insurance company. In my recent experience it's far cheaper from a dedicated life insurance company. I also got …

"Executive officer" - used in the military, from what I am aware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_officer

IntelliJ lets you expand links from patterns, so if in our codebase there's a BUGREPORT-12345 link, it's blue and clickable and goes to jira.

They rewrote it from a native app to a web app, and it got a lot slower. Limits on the size / number of videos active. Status was not as flexible as we wanted (i.e. reminders when …

We used to use Sococo and got frustrated and abandoned it a couple years back, actually. If you hit the Slack button it opens a link to that Slack chat. If you are in a room with a…

I'm happy to see more virtual offices being built! My company internally built and then open-sourced Qube[1], which has a lot of similarities, but just integrates with Slack and Zo…

I'll second The Witness as a great game. Very different, and beautifully designed.

Telegram has great features. It's fast, available on every platform, and the clients are open source. I've had good uptake on it among friends and family, especially with the optio…

You might want to look into Google Voice. Free number for texting, calls over data. I receive and send texts and calls from a browser too.

I've heard you can activate Windows 10 with a key from 7 or 8.1 [1]. [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/windo...

If I had to guess, I'd say that Apple and Google have the leadership and financial cushion to be more forward looking than all the PC manufacturers, who are in most competitive mar…

This is my use case too. It makes such a difference.

Yes!!! Thank you!!!

I have this exact problem with LastPass. One of my few pain points with it.

Good habits tend to feel good afterward. Bad habits feel good now. I find that thinking of my future self as a separate person that I can do nice things for helps me feel the long …

Android has had per application permissions similar to iOS since 6.0. It took way too long but it's no longer a problem.

What about the multi-window support coming in Android Nougat, will that enable more out of the box functionality?

The indexing itself is great - I use Everything [1] heavily. The client on the other hand? It's baaad. [1] http://www.voidtools.com/

There have been rumors that Google is planning a new, entirely separate messaging service, with bot integrations etc. http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/22/google-is-reportedly-devel..…