1. [solved] How does it work? I couldn't get it from the website: 'go/' is not a real DNS-resolved domain but some host alias?!
2. [solved] If 1 is true, how do you want to target smaller to medium sized companies which just have G-Suite, Slack but no real intranet/private net where you could create this host alias easily for the entire staff? Guess I got it wrong, so I am happy about a technical explanation/architecture.
3. How is the business model's defensibility? What's hindering me to set up the same with some open source repo, write a Chrome extension, add a nice landing page and hire a sales force for SaaS enterprise sales?
EDIT: ok now I fully read your post and got my answer for 1 and 2 but how should this work on mobile where you don't have extensions?
We have a mobile application on the product roadmap, so stay tuned!
For our business model, we’re focusing on making GoLinks integrate with all the great applications that you use everyday. We’re currently available in the Slack marketplace, and Okta, but soon to be in Attlasian’s marketplace, with more integrations in the way. The more integrations we can incorporate, the stronger the business.
Before setting up companies in a different countries than where you live: This can get very messy and you should either have the company in the country where you live or live in a country which is very tolerant (tax-wise) about having companies in other countries.
On a secondary note: Germany is the worst country to incorporate: bureaucratic, expensive, tax offices are expensive and stuff is complicated, worst privacy regulation to come (from a company perspective), Labour is expensive compared to their skill level and English skills.
One good thing though: since share transactions are done with state notaries there is more safety when doing them and less need for lawyers for simple transactions. For more complicated transactions with higher funds it gets expensive again. The Articles of Association must be German, the rest can be in English.
Nice thread and here my top 10 list of antidepressants (in that order):
1. Most of the times, there's a clear reason for a depression, something which is not that easy to change and worse not that easy to identify as the real cause (e.g. wrong boss, wrong cofounder, wrong investor, wrong friends, toxic workplace, big nose, etc.); before looking at the other antidepressants, try to get rid of the main issue; often it is even too late, even if you get rid of the main depression cause, the depression just stays (PTSD). Either because the cause was too strong or too long. Some think that there is no direct cause-effect-relationship but this could be also another sign of a severe depression and that they just resigned (‘I can’t do anything about my depression, it’s genetic, this is me...’). It ‘s easier to resign and to give up, especially if you are depressed
2. Have social encounters every day, best: have a SO or friends (ok) or some good coworkers (better than nothing); this can be quite hard, having social interactions is not that easy when lacking a SO or friends
3. No addictive/depressing online stuff (FB leading the way, then your smartphone)
4. Sleep
5. Cut gluten, should be on #1, gluten and too many wrong carbs boost anxiety
6. Keep carbs under control, no need for keto but low carb might not be the worst idea
7. Exercise
8. Working/be productive, consume less
9. Create urgency, set yourself goals with deadlines, get busy and you won't have time to get depressed; just imagine you catch a plane the last minute (do you think you are depressed when catching the plane? No of course not)
10. Meditation
Again: Advice 2-9 won’t help if 1 is not solved.
Edit: Why the downvotes?
Edit2: After I got downvoted, my final advice...
11: Stay away from depressed people on HN because "negativity is infectious" (Robert Greene)
> Most of the times, there's a clear reason for a depression
I'm gonna have to disagree pretty strongly with that assertion without any supporting evidence. In fact, I would argue that rarely is depression caused by a clear reason which has a direct path to resolution. This is the exact perspective that makes those going through depression feel like others are trivializing what they're going through.
That's probably why you're getting downvoted, since it's #1 on your list.
"It's often said that depression results from a chemical imbalance, but that figure of speech doesn't capture how complex the disease is. Research suggests that depression doesn't spring from simply having too much or too little of certain brain chemicals. Rather, there are many possible causes of depression, including faulty mood regulation by the brain, genetic vulnerability, stressful life events, medications, and medical problems. It's believed that several of these forces interact to bring on depression."
Enjoy your continued confusion as to why your 'advice' is being downvoted.
I never claimed to have any evidence—you did but didn’t deliver.
If you read my initial post again you can read that this is my personal top 10 list. So I won’t provide any evidence. And my one reply was just imitating your discussion style.
See my posts above for references to books and articles by Fuhrman, Hyman, Weil, Korb, Hickey, Moore, Bluezones, Howey, and others that support your suggestions as things that can help people in various ways -- quite a few providing evidence linked to scientific studies and thus moving beyond personal anecdotes.
Your point #11 is insightful too, judging by the moderation of several comments in this thread. :-)
That said, often the ongoing "cause" of depression is an interwoven set of issues which may feed on each other in a downward spiral, and getting out of those overlapping feedback loops can be difficult -- even if in hindsight specific causes might be identifiable. So, I can see why someone might object to the phrasing that "there's a clear reason for a depression" even as I tend to agree with the premise overall that causes (e.g. lack of sunlight, lack of sleep, relationship issues, poor nutrition, etc.) can usually be identified and (hopefully) addressed. But when the causes interact, granted, it can be very difficult to try to untangle that knot -- like when money issues prevent eating healthier or when (as an extreme interwoven example) relationship issues undermine sleeping well, which leads to financial issues, which stresses relationships further, leading to binge eating of junk food and sugar spikes and inflammation and headaches, leading to avoiding exercise, causing lowered self-esteem from worse appearance contributing back to relationship issues, and so on for strange knotty loops... The good news is, like Alex Korb (in "The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time") and others point out elsewhere, a positive upward spiral is possible too, as one issue after another gets addressed which frees more energy for dealing with the next issue...
I agree that these are all good parts of a holistic treatment plan, but therapy and medicine also deserve to be on here. A more accurate title would be "ways to get out of a rut."
I'd love to have a BlackBerry-style phone with a keyboard and all main features are shell-based and implemented in a POSIX-like manner (with an optional GUI on top). But I think this will never happen.
> However, once they have kids, they have to settle and are back to square one.
I don't necessarily think it's back to square one. One doesn't have to settle in a big city.
I moved out of London when my first child was due. We moved to a mid-sized (250k population) European city. I was able to find work, in an unrelated field to my previous experience but still using similar technical and management skills. The remuneration is less than I was earning in London, but the cost of living is significantly lower too.
This was a lifestyle choice and the environment is much better, in my view, for raising children. Only my view of course, but in this case "better" means things like more green space, less pollution, less crime etc.
It's not been 100% plain sailing. I have had to overcome a language barrier (not fully achieved that). I do feel culturally adrift sometimes. And Brexit seems to be trying to screw everything up.
However, I still don't feel like I'm back to square one.
Don't you worry about the objectively lower education for your children there ? As much as I dislike cities, I can't imagine raising children somewhere else. Education, culture and network potential (through friends) is just not the same.
No, it's not something I worry about at all. I'd be interested to know why you think the education would be objectively lower.
I'm still living in a city, just a small one. Having checked Wikipedia, it tells me the population is officially 320k. There are six Universities and the city is UNESCO listed as a Cultural Heritage site. I just don't see this location disadvantaging my child. In fact, I think it's a location with a pretty good mix of culture and nature.
Nothing is perfect of course, but I think we're in a better position than if we'd stayed in London.
If we were to move back to the UK, I'd be looking at somewhere like Cambridge or Edinburgh perhaps.
Not sure where are you from but in Europe many cities smaller than the one parent settled in have their own universities and significant cultural scene... Basel, Perugia, Lille, Salzburg are some examples of cities with less than 250k residents where you would have all of the above.
250k doesn't seem to be small enough to have a serious negative quality of education.
I grew up in a city of 100k, and I had all the opportunities that someone growing up in a bigger city would have. The quality of teaching was fine too. I did go to a larger school, with 2300 pupils though.
In my country, a public school from 5th largest city, with population of less than 100k, routinely makes it into top-3 high schools. It gets worse only when population is < 10k or so and can't fill a full-blown school. On the other hand, quite a few schools in big cities are notoriously shitty...
He said he moved to a mid sized city with 250000 people — I expect that most European cities of that size have decent public schools. Even a lot of small cities often have a good school. And even if that‘s not the case, in most places your kids can just take the bus to a school in the next city.
Lot of top universities around Europe are in smallish cities (200-300k people). I don't know why you think top universities are only in London/Berlin/Paris. That's not true at all, especially in Europe. Not sure about US.
There are many "mid-sized European cities" that have better education than London. Most of Estonia is an obvious example. And a city of 250k people is still large enough in my book to allow for a large enough pool for networking.
> In particular, finding your long-term partner can be a huge struggle in a big city in times of Tinder where nobody is committed anymore
You're projecting here -- the article never mentioned anything related to a partner. Also, wait what? COMPETITION for a spouse? If you look at your desired gender that way, I think it might actually do you good to live as a nomad for a while.
"Nobody is committed anymore" -- change your social circles. Go attend local events related to your work and hobby. Go hold a lecture somewhere and have drinks with a few of the studens.
You can do a heckload of things to change your environment even without moving away from the city. You sound bitter, you need to work on some change in your life.
Think you misunderstood. My message was that people who do this nomad thing are doing this because they struggle with city-life and my bullets were examples why they might struggle. I just said finding long-term relationships got harder because of Tinder and the current zeitgeist. I didn't say that I struggle: I didn't bail out and went the nomad route. I know that it's tough but once you got used to it, you learn, adapt and improve.
Thank you. I still think "Tinder and the current zeitgeist" is a status quo isolated to certain circles (although big ones). There are still tons of people out there who bond and click pretty naturally.
I for one am not very happy in my current city anymore but that might be because of shitty rented flats. Currently actively seeking my own place but my internal voices never give me a moment's peace because I think I want to live by the sea, which is practically impossible in my country because the "cities" there are awfully small, boring, and have mediocre Internet.
If they have kids, the types of people who choose the nomadic lifestyle are probably more likely to question norms and pre-determined life choices, therefore less likely to have kids.
First: Not everyone wants or can have children. Second: You may be back at geographical square one but you have picked up a lot of baggage in the form of knowledge and emotions that probably changed you (hopefully for the better, I'm betting it does) forever.
Also, this life style is nice for getting to know yourself, what do you really want? Maybe you thought you were a city dweller but now you know you feel better closer to nature. You also learn that you don't need much as a human, that is a very comforting though that can get you through difficult times.
Changing your lifestyle may not always be pleasant (at first) but you learn about yourself. For example, I though I was a real backpacker, turns out I get very stressed when I have to get in random taxis and I convince myself almost everyone wants to screw me (in the bad way) and I have constant inner dialogue about why I would care about being screwed for a couple of euros. Now I plan thing differently, maybe I someday really learn to relax. But it won't be by sitting at home, I know that for sure. For now, I have kids and already learn that I don't like my life style to adventurous (maybe I'm not even that adventurous without kids), and I'm ok with that... even though that took some time to accept.
Maybe you are right, maybe not. I just think those stories where people worship their nomad life represent not the entire truth.
It's not because nomad life is so great, often it's because they struggled because--again--life in developed areas is tough and so they opted for the easier way.
Moreover, those have still some home base in an developed country, a back door where they can always settle again, so it's not really nomad, it's just a long vacation labeled as something adventurous.
For us from developed countries, it's so easy to take our backpack and travel dozens of countries and just spent a fraction of what we would spent in NY, London or Berlin. You know it's really nothing special or something people should admire. Everyone from a developed country can do this. But nobody from not so developed countries could and want to do this. I personally would miss a goal and again the challenge. I can just buy a ticket in 5 minutes and go, find some remote work and live for peanuts. Where is the problem, everyone can do this There is no risk and no goal. And because your FB friends got tired of all your useless and boring nomad posts you need to write now public blog posts and spam social news sites telling people that what you do is great justifying your goal-less endeavour to yourself.
So, another popular reason of being a 'nomad' might be: I am struggling with the high competition in my current environment, want to save money or spent a fraction in an underdeveloped country and live like a king. But not like I want to know who I am (maybe they know it afterwards but I think it's rather unrelated).
Ok, here one of those nomads for already mmm... 12 years?
Not all of us want to escape. We just want to see the world and learn. I grew up in a small town, I dont have a place I could call home apart the earth...
On the other hand, I know there is an increase of people that want to escape, but maybe they have a reason to do it. City life is not for everyone. Many of us want to have a slower life, cherishing small things in nature and learn about the world directly, without intermediaries.
And I dont think is about struggling with the high competition or have a cheaper life somewhere else. Some of us just prefer to have a different life style. Some people chose to have 2 cars, a house and lots of stuff inside, some others just prefer to have only one backpack with their belongings in it and move slowly around the world...
Hi, I have a question, maybe too personal, feel free to answer or not... Do you have children? I do and many rules are inhibiting nomad life (even shortly). Kids are obligated to go to school for example. If this was more relaxed, I'd love to go away for several months at a time (I have a small caravan with a bunk I made for the two kids). I'd love to teach them about everything while traveling Europe. But the kids have 6 weeks of vacation at most during the summer.
I dont have kids yet. I totally acknowlede that its quite a different thing when you have kids and this lifestyle becomes quite impractical (not impossible though). Probably the day I have kids I will do similar to what you do :)
My point is that there is not one way of living. I was raised in a way where I had to follow just one path but seeing people living differently made me realize the diversity of lifestyles and made me aware of so many options in life.
> of us want to have a slower life, cherishing small things in nature and learn about the world directly, without intermediaries.
Which is exactly what small town life is. No need to go nomad for that. In my experience, backpacking is neither slow life, nor cherishing small thing. It may be compared to multi-million city, but it's not compared to living in small town or village.
I didnt go nomad because of been raised in a small town. I went nomad because I like it :)
I just mentioned that to contrast the first comment where suggested that people from big cities become nomads to escape from them.
Backpacking is not black or white. There is backpackers who multihop cities every couple of days to get laid in backpacker hostels, some others travel slow, some to remote places, some others move where there is food and work, some others follow adventure, some others backpack while volunteering...
I get it that backpacking/nomading crowd is diverse. It's just weird when people attribute living slowly to that. I know some backpackers do embrace living slowly. But their lifestyle look too similar to small town (or even backwoods) living. Well, aside from the part how they got there. And likely not-so-slow period of change to move to next slow destination.
Just my two cents but there are a lot of people who don't have problem with competition in these big cities (can outcompete majority of people and are top 1% earners in NYC/SF/London etc) but they don't find the office/corporate/busy life fulfilling so they decide to go and travel around or work remotely for few years.
I know couple of people like that. Just to make a point your argument about these people trying to escape because they can't make it in a big city is not necessarily true. At least not universally true, there might be people that fit your description.
If you can convince an employer to let you work remotely and maybe let you fly in for monthly meetings you could move to a satellite city that has cheaper rent
you have to home school to be on budget, otherwise they come home from school wanting new things. which also means your partner cannot have a full time job or has to work remote too.
you could start a remote business and make the hours longer allowing for kid related interruptions.
OT: Imagine you hire somebody and this person publicly posts that some of your company's work "is a large mess" after you worked months to improve the situation. Even if DB hasn't deserved any credits for this "PR move", is this fair?
Why is a PR move worse than an employee who publicly badmouths his employer while being on the payroll? And why is this tolerated (upvoted) when it's a large corporation?
It's perfectly fair to point out how things actually look in practice. It's upvoted because it presents another (probably more realistic) picture instead of the marketing spiel that DB wants you to believe.
Why do you not think that employees should be allowed to discuss how their workplace looks in reality?
> Are you also planning to pay your employees market rates now?
This is a defamatory statement and surprisingly not done anonymously. So, maybe you present us the full story, otherwise it's hard to believe that all employees of Gitlab are underpaid and that one person like you knows salaries of all employees there.
I stopped using Github for private repos for three years. I get them for free from Bitbucket and Gitlab. So, I think the actual contender to Gitlab is Bitbucket and not Github.
However, Bitbucket feels a bit more organized and mature (the UI). What I also like: Bitbucket has the real Trello integrated which is great. I still like Gitlab, it's always good to have competition.
+1 this would be really nice. Currently we can choose between "latest activity" or "browse files". Adding an option for "issue board" (and "list of issues") would be great.
My non-tech colleagues get pretty lost when they go to the project's home page and see either files or a list of commits.
For open source projects, but it appears to me that the enterprise projects are more BitBucket. This is just my experience, but I can't see how GitHub even competes with Enterprise Support that comes from BitBucket.
Hm perhaps. Without any knowledge or info whatsoever, I'd think that Bitbucket and Github are close for enterprise too just because of how big Github is. And then Bitbucket obviously has the experience and integrations that Atlassian provides to be competitive. Still feels like the edge would go to Github Enterprise in terms of popularity and revenue if I had to pick one.
I'm also partially basing this on Atlassian's public company market cap and revenue. I believe Atlassian does close to $65M a month in revenue (they did $58M/month in the quarter ending in June)[0]. GitHub I believe does around $15M/month in revenue nowadays[1][2]. They both lose some money. I actually believe around the same amount, $4-7M a month. Jira, Confluence, and potentially something else have to take the bulk of Atlassian's earnings.
Gitlab keeps raising money at pretty high valuations so I'm probably underestimating the industry as a whole anyway and missing some info.
Docker already recommends the tiny 5MB Alpine distro as the default for all containers, they hired Alpine's creator Natanael Copa[2]. Alpine is minimal but still has an awesome package manager[1], is maintained/proven/solid and provides a great UX as a container OS.
So what is my advantage of distroless vs Alpine besides the 5MB? Feels a bit like reinventing the wheel or I missed something.
Some folks solve this by adding glibc to Alpine (IIUC this is what Envoy is building upon).
It has a package manager, but it is far from as comprehensive. The security database is still essentially an experiment with much less richness than Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat, ...
If what you want is a package manager, you probably want minideb from the Bitnami folks.
I can point you at the various fixes for things I've reported since this first became available, but given your skepticism I'm sure it would not help since he seems to exclusively use the changeset description: "[add] various fixes" with no attribution.
Nice idea. As one wrote, this can easily done with one line of JS but having this as an web API which returns an image file is definitely neat.
However, I see a privacy issue with sending all my user's real names to some 3rd party service (even if they claim there's no tracking or something similar).
Absolutely, I'd probably also just use CSS and HTML and use the core package: https://github.com/lasserafn/php-initials to generate the initials, it's faster and you won't depend on third-party.
I absolutely see your point, that's also why I open-sourced the code (see footer), but obviously I could be using different code or track it on the server (nginx or similar?). This is not the case, but I understand. Another option is to use the core generator (which is also open sourced) so that the generation happens locally :) But then again, CSS+HTML does not require any generation
Why don't you rather provide a service which generates more complex avatars such as those from Github[1] or Slack.
Your API consumer sends some unique string (user-id, hashed user-id or hashed username or whatever they like) and you send back an unique avatar for that string. Moreover, you as the API provider offer different themes (e.g. tablecoth, space invaders, pixel-faces, etc.) which the consumer can again slightly customize (e.g. color, size, etc.) to have a unique style over all its avatars.
You current solution is elegant but at the same time just too easy to build oneself.
I built this service (or, the core GitHub package) because we needed it internally, and someone requested an API of this, so I quickly threw together this :-).
Also, I think theres a lot of those unique avatar generators out there (even one in the comments here), and I like them but they're not personal like your initials are. Also, for example, in accounting software (where I needed it internally) a monster or space invaders didn't fit with the audience.
I do however like your idea! Wouldn't be hard do create either. Who knows, that could be version 2
I think the key challenge with my proposed idea is to have another internal API just for the themes. Everybody can provide themes for the service and hook them into the main avatar service.
Imagine there would we just one avatar service where consumers can get thousands of different avatar-styles.
Didn't consider that aspect. That would be very cool! Okay, thats a little more of a challenge than generating some initials and making a circle, lol. I will investigate, sadly I'm not the most creative person, so wouldn't be as cool as https://robohash.org
If you use only the initials, you can cut or fake the other letters since they're ignored anyway. Not 100% privacy but better than sending the full name
1. [solved] How does it work? I couldn't get it from the website: 'go/' is not a real DNS-resolved domain but some host alias?!
2. [solved] If 1 is true, how do you want to target smaller to medium sized companies which just have G-Suite, Slack but no real intranet/private net where you could create this host alias easily for the entire staff? Guess I got it wrong, so I am happy about a technical explanation/architecture.
3. How is the business model's defensibility? What's hindering me to set up the same with some open source repo, write a Chrome extension, add a nice landing page and hire a sales force for SaaS enterprise sales?
EDIT: ok now I fully read your post and got my answer for 1 and 2 but how should this work on mobile where you don't have extensions?