jtwaleson

Yeah, that might be a good mitigation! It will never be perfect, but that's life ;)

I've seen some demos of VR based virtual worlds and it's really really cool. Downside is not being able to see facial expressions, and no one I ever have meetings with has a VR headset.

We run a pretty strict "mute when not speaking" policy and it's working very well. I think giving users automated feedback about the quality of their sound is a much simpler problem to …

Yes, but the point of all my suggestions is to make things automatic. Besides the feedback to the organizer part, there could be all kinds of stats about the meeting, compare to the stats of e.g. a sp…

Here's one: If you see high disengagement, you know you have to improve as an organizer or that the person should not have been invited.

Super cool! Having spent so much time in Meet in the last months really makes me think about the future. We should have technology that outperforms face to face meetings, rather than just getting as c…

I fully agree. The "I" in IDE (Integrated) has not aged well, just look at how many parts of the software development cycle are outside of the IDE. It's time to really integrate/bu…

I agree (having no actual knowledge). What would be the benefit?

Wow, blast from the past. I remembered building a website using image maps 13 years ago. Just checked and it's still being used even though I stopped being the webmaster 12 years ago, works great…

For a minute I thought this was the release of the "AWS for Everyone" product with a new name, but this is something very different. Interesting product though! I think everyone that's …

Point taken! I'm basing my point on a single negative personal experience from long ago (as a paying customer) as well as seeing similar posts over the years on HN. It's certainly possible t…

They can afford it, they just don't value it. If your org thinks this way, then Customer Support will not be a place where your best people end up (this goes for all levels in the organization). …

Sure, documentation & automation works for the majority of cases. The problem is with the other cases where you hit a wall and have no way to talk to a customer service rep to get your issue resol…

To add some more context: for every successful person that reaches Google via social shaming, there are hundreds of cases of people that are not heard. I don't know how to fix this problem at you…

HN is the only place you can get Google support. Thanks for the effort, but you guys should seriously fix that, and not by shifting into your "let's automate this and do it smarter" min…

I'm in NL and have some experience and contacts. E-mail is in my profile if you'd like to have a coffee. Also, we're currently evaluating test automation tools and frustrated with most …

Hm, definitely not in a loose legal system, so hackintosh is not an option. Then the most affordable way is to either run a (used) Mac on-prem or use a SaaS solution for browser testing. I'm frus…

We're trying that, but the latency and proxying are making it slow and error-prone. We're taking thousands of screenshots per CI run and want it to be done within 5 minutes for our developer…

I want to test Safari in a CI pipeline because a lot of our customers are using it, and the only way to do so seems to be by running a Mac. We can test Firefox and Chrome perfectly via docker containe…

Oops indeed ;) Did you pay any attention to what Outsystems, Mendix, Appian, MS Power Apps etc were doing?

Not according to the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Low-Code Application Platforms ;) Or how would you describe the space that App Maker is in? Disclosure: worked for one of the leaders in that MQ.

Cool! Can you share who you (or the PMs involved) saw as the main competition for App Maker? Disclosure: I worked at a competitor that targets Enterprises, and we were a bit anxious when App Maker cam…

Great comment ;) I think my main problem with the video was the lack of explanations of what is happening at every step.

I'm by no means an expert on any of this, but the visualization seems way too slow. When you see how the bodies of people were found, I think it went a lot faster than this video implies.

Low-code solutions are great for this. I worked at Mendix in the past, which I still really like. Competitors are outsystems, Google appmaker, Microsoft powerapps and more.

Agreed that outsourcing risk does not free you from the responsibilities. However, for many many services you have to rely on others to provide the service better than you could do yourself, as you ar…

Previous discussion 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21864639

Makes sense, thanks!

I've been playing around with this idea for a couple of years and have built some prototypes. This was mostly triggered by my experiences in running thousands of production servers. Just curious:…

When was the last time GPS had issues like this? I can imagine that during the early years this happened there as well? Or maybe not, as military quality engineering requirements were stricter.