Now, since each agent can indeed can work on any task, the Scrum planning can finally make sense!

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Even though the car manufacturer does indeed pay for the arbitration, I never felt the arbiter was biased, and the judgement was completely in my favor.

For apps, it's a whole different story: app reviewers won't let incomplete apps in their stores, and even for compete apps filling in all the paperwork (privacy policy, support contacts, age ratings and whatnot) can easily take a day (or more, if you're doing it for the first time). I kinda bite the bullet and work on making my whatever prototype into a publishable MVP, but that part often feels just like work and not like a fun project as it's supposed to be.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49737381

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  Governing Law; Venue.
  All claims arising out of or relating to the AdSense
  Terms or the Services will be governed by California
  law, excluding California's conflict of laws rules,
  and will be litigated exclusively in the federal or
  state courts of Santa Clara County, California, USA,
  and you and Google consent to personal jurisdiction
  in those courts.

I think it's true that Flock indeed helps with the actual policing, no doubt about that. But it also seems like police departments across the country really try to promote the view that Flock is a good technology that helps safety, because some cities ultimately voted to disable Flock [1], and I'm sure police are just mad about this and don't want this to happen.

I can't wait until this finally reaches the Supreme court and they hopefully decide that those cameras are unconstitutional.

[1]: just a local example: https://www.mountainview.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1211/...

Inside, there will be dragons: you will probably learn that all your CSS and JS are inline in your HTML, and that each page has its own implementation of the header and the footer, and other things like that, but if you don't plan to support it as a real product, you probably won't care.

Don't jinx it. We are extremely lucky in this regard, and it actually looks like a rare exception.

  > NEGOTIATE (A2A Network)
  > According to YC data, a B2B company needs
    an aggregate 800 cold emails (factoring open,
    response, and conversion rates) to secure a
    single customer, while spam thresholds tighten
    to 0.3%. We replace manual email ping-pong
    with direct Agent-to-Agent negotiation.

“Some random user on Reddit posted a picture claiming that this is the longest straight line path on water possible on the Earth. We implemented a smart algorithm to solve this problem, found the elevation data, ran our algorithm... yes, that random user was right. Also, here's the longest path on land.”

Thanks, I really enjoyed reading it, even though I hoped that they would disprove the original claim!

Edit: here are the gcmap links to the two paths: sea [1], land [2].

[1]: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=25%B017%27N+66%B040%27E-58%B037...

[2]: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=24%B033%27N+118%B038%27E-37%B02...

It was acquired by AOL in 1998, went through several rounds of enshittification and protocol changes to defeat third party clients which did not show ads, and finally landed in Mail.Ru group in 2010. In about 2-3 years no one cared about ICQ anymore. Then, it slowly died.

I registered my account in 1998 (got a 7-digit number starting with 9) and the whole thing felt like a miracle back then. My first employer in 2003 used ICQ as a corporate messenger similar to how we now use Slack. Since I mostly used Linux back then, I was very happy to find centericq, then centerim, then finch. One of my first contributions to an open source project was a small patch to centericq, something about contacts panel resize if I remember correctly.

I believe the last time I actually launched any ICQ client was around 2012, and never since then.

  And, I lie to anyone who asks me why I’m a mathematician.
  It is much easier to claim “I love learning the laws of life,”
  while literally handwaving, than it is for me to flashback to
  the twenty or so pivotal moments that lead to me walking out
  of Gainesville with a PhD in Arithmetic Geometry.

  Mathematics is the thing you try to understand, don’t,
  get frustrated about, and then do.