Readit Newsskywritergr commented on Is success tied to having rich parents? old.reddit.com/r/startups... · Posted by u/doppp
Once you don't have to worry about not having to pay rent, not having to pay electricity etc then your appetite for risks grows. To get to that point you either need to start from a rich household (parents) or get to a certain age, have some money to support you (from previous work) and then go into entrepreneurial experiments. This is a big reason why you see older entrepreneurs embarking into that journey.
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In Greece Athens wasn’t always the capital. For a brief moment of time the capital was in the city of Nafplion.
skywritergr commented on KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web katex.org/... · Posted by u/haneefmubarak
I used Katex on my GatsbyJS blog and it worked nicely. Felt like doing latex but less confusing.
skywritergr commented on Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft slackhq.com/slack-files-e... · Posted by u/mattmarcus
The additional problem I see with Slack is that their calls/video chat option is really inadequate and almost everyone is opting for Zoom. Zoom + Slack is a very steep price point for a lot of companies, especially in an era of cost saving and insecurity about the future.
My company opted to move to MS Teams because the experience is better as it integrates calls + chats and we were already using office365 for emails and documents anyway, so it was "free". As someone said already, it's hard to compete with free.
I can't see Slack getting out of this in one piece. I see Amazon being the obvious choice here.
I'm not sure about finding a coach, but having a person that you respect to talk about your problem, issues or frustration with work is really important.
Whenever I've talked about something that bothered me with a very few people I respect, and look up to, I made better choices. I really recommend to everyone to find this person.
That seems like a pretty low-key announcement for what sounds like a blockbuster (no pun) deal?
If I were Disney, I'd create my own service. HBO claims such a thing is hard but I don't buy it. Charge $50-100 for some ever-changing sub-set of the library. Profit. Still provides plenty of room to cut deals with all the movie services and maintain some artificial scarcity.
They did in Europe. It's called Disney Life. https://disneylife.com
skywritergr commented on Introducing unlimited private repositories github.com/blog/2164-intr... · Posted by u/fuzionmonkey
> This will affect enterprises - but then they're either already on Github Enterprise or are used to per user pricing anyway
my organization currently contains 15 github users. 2 of which are used by error reporting tools to open bugs (Sentry, Crashlytics), one of which is used by Jenkins, 3 of which are outside contractor for which github now will get the money multiple times as companies move to the same billing method.
We had 9 repos on github (and about 20 smaller ones with less collaboration on a self-hoste gitolite installation), so we paid $300 per year.
Now I have unlimited repos of which I still only use 9, but now I pay $1300 per year, whereby 3 of these accounts I'm paying for aren't actually real people and another 3 of these accounts I'm paying for even though multiple other companies are also paying for them.
Aside of the nearly 5x increase in price, I think it's also unfair having to pay for practically unused bug-reporting-only accounts and having to pay for accounts that are already paid for by a multitude of other companies.
I don't think this is good pricing for me.
Also as this isn't just a moderate increase, but a whopping 5x increase, I also strongly consider moving back away to a self-hosted solution because increasing the price by 5x is breaking the trust put into github as a third-party provider.
Increasing the price a bit is fine. But 5x is excessive.
It sounds like it would be a big help if github offered unlimited read-only/bot accounts. Not sure how technically feasible is that but it doesn't sound impossible.