I would really like to see an auto-reply feature similar to email out-of-office. Something you can set like "Back in 20 mins", "Coding until 4, PM if urgent only". Would mute the notifications maintaining your productivity, and your peers would still be in the loop instead of being ignored. Does anyone know if this can be done with a bot?
This article hits the nail on the head, but twice-a-day is extreme and not realistic for my position leading a development team. I found the mute button & fiddling with notification settings to be the middle ground. I do the same as you, turned off the red dot for all but mentions and it took away so much anxiety. I check in whenever I have time or take a break from programming. It's a nice balance.
Agreed - if everyone did that I'm not sure there would be any point in using Slack (or similar).
The team I'm on started using Slack a few months ago but use has increased significantly over the last few weeks now that a) our tech lead is remote and b) other teams have started using it. Overall I think use of Slack has been a net-positive but my productivity has definitely been [negatively] impacted as a result.
Inspired by the author I think I'll turn off notifications (except for mentions) and only check Slack as frequently as I check email (typically about once an hour).
Seeing a lot of comments about how Angular had no migration plan. Migration was discussed at length at ng-conf back in March, including a large portion of the keynote(s). They made it very clear a smooth and simple migration was top priority.
Yes, it is a considerable frustration. At the beginning, the Angular team said something along the lines of "we are working on a Angular 2, after we figure out how it should work then we will consider migration and come up with a plan". For some reason this was widely interpreted as "there will be no migration plan".
I agree that there were a lot of misunderstanding going around but it has caused some problems. For new projects you have to choose a platform/framework. If you choose Angular 1 you might have to learn it and release a version of your app with it before Angular 2 is released or just before the migration path is clear. And it is till hard to estimate the migration cost/time. Or you could start with Angular 2 which you knew was not ready. It was and is also unclear exactly when Angular 2 will be "ready" making it a less interesting choice if you have/had a hard date when your app should be released.
Fair point, but worth noting that compared to the migration plan discussed at ng-conf in March, this is now an improved plan. For example, from the post just published:
Wasn't the original upgrade plan to use the new Component Router?
The upgrade plan that we announced at ng-conf 2015 was based on upgrading a whole view at a time and having the Component Router handle communication between the two versions of Angular.
The feedback we received was that while yes, this was incremental, it wasn't incremental enough. We went back and redesigned for the plan as described above.
I would argue from personal experience there's almost the same (or higher) likelihood of internal sources going down for other reasons since most people's IT departments aren't as efficient as GitHub's.
Pretty unlikely. Not entirely impossible, but Ceres would be an odd place for ETs to set up shop and then stay hush for a few eons.
More likely it's water or sulphur. I think we may be in for a big "Ceres is volcanically (could by cryovolcanism) active" shock, given the lack of cratering they've also observed.
It's a decent size, its composition is only hypothetically known, it may have more latent heat than we expect. If so, it's extremely exciting news, as it means it's not quite the inhospitable cold, dry, rock we expected.
Honestly, I seriously hope its aliens. We zoom in once we get closer and discover structures that can only be described as a UFO base. While we're all astonished, we see one take off, it lands on the White House lawn and offers us all a free ride to the nearest star.
> Our latest survey shows that full-time remote devs get paid 40% more than never remote devs
Anecdotally, I would suggest the demographic of employees who work remotely plays a part in this. In my experience, employers are more willing to let senior or "better" developers work remotely than less ambitious, less productive ones who need more day-to-day managing. Since quality developers (senior or otherwise) are generally paid more, I would presume this contributes to a higher average salary for remote workers.
I can't figure out how Kickback gets around the gambling legalities if they are hosted in the US. They also say they use PayPal for withdrawals which is shocking since gambling is against their TOS.
It just lets Minecraft gamers compete for a pot of money they contribute into. It's actually really far behind the times, since mobile apps already have a library to put this in any game:
http://skillz.com/
The idea is that if you compete in a skill based game for a pot of money, it isn't gambling. That said, a lot of the games are about as skill based as Flappy Bird.
Doesn't that have to involve your skill in the performance, e.g. sports betting is still illegal in more than the number of states they say they are operating in, isn't it?
Surely this has been extensively double-checked and there is an explanation, but I'd be interested into what it is. I get the direction the likes of Uber and Lyft are coming from with the "we're just an app that connects 2 people", but the way Kickback is described on TC makes their "loophole" less obvious. I think they may be more geared towards one betting money against another that they can beat them personally, but it's not immediately clear.
I can enter a Magic: the Gathering tournament with a $30 entry fee and 2 players where the winner gets $50. This isn't gambling since it is considered a game of skill.
It would not be legal for a spectator to put money on the result of this match since their skill is not relevant to the outcome.
