earlybike's comments

Few questions:

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?

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.

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.

‘It's believed’ != evidence

> In fact, I would argue that rarely is depression caused by a clear reason which has a direct path to resolution.

I'm gonna have to disagree pretty strongly with that assertion without any supporting evidence.

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)

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.

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).

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.

Slightly OT: Living in a capital/big city is tough:

- High rents, even in Berlin nowadays

- There are more options but also much more competition for finding the right accommodation, job and spouse

- 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

For some the solution is just to escape, avoid the challenge and call it nomad life (this is my feeling when I read such stories, maybe I am wrong).

However, once they have kids, they have to settle and are back to square one.

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?

Edit: thanks for downvotes (this was expected)

> 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.

Disagree again, especially in Germany US-style CVs with focus on achievements and accomplishments are learned, appreciated and have a much higher conversion than descpriptive CVs.

Thanks, do you have any link?

> numerous compatibility differences

I did never experienced any.

> It has a package, but it is far from comprehensive

Still better than the missing package manager of a distroless container (this was the comparison). However, I think it‘s quite good.

> The security database is still essentially an experiment with much less richness than Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat, ...

Do you have some sources proving it‘s an experiment?

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.

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.

[1] There was a code golf competition on SE, maybe useful in this context: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/82290/generate-...

Yes and true but this already half of the API. The rest is just the CSS for the rounded box and color.

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.

[1] https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages

[2] https://www.brianchristner.io/docker-is-moving-to-alpine-lin...