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GAPP or ACSOI? Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income from the groupon days....

I miss heroku dearly. somewhere at Salesforce there is an exec who killed the product and shifted it to enterprise and is now looking at the vibe coding revolution seeing their opportunity missed.


I suspect the people responsible have fully justified to themselves any decisions they made, helped along with any bonuses they got for doing it.


Render has been excellent replacement, in my experience.


Last time I tried render, it did not allow me to spin up 1 instance of my web app, so I'm never going back. (To clarify: Render would always spin up a minimum of 2 instances.)


Fly and Render are what heroku would be if they didn’t stop innovating. And neon db for Postgres.


> And neon db for Postgres.

For 90% of the time when they're up.


Fly is unreliable. Render does not allow you to spin up 1 instance of an app.


Digital ocean is the answer. You give it a container and off you go.


Not sure how Digital Ocean is comparable to what Heroku used to be.


Use to be now they are requiring 2fa for addon domains over a certain amount


Of all the things to be upset about, mandatory 2FA doesn't seem like one.


2FA has been in place for years through email but this new requirement forces a phone.


Good. E-mail based 2FA is bad, and they appear to support TOTP too as an option, as they should. Wish they supported U2F though.


Why is email based 2fa bad but phone good? There are classes of issues you get through phone 2fa compared to email


Typically, you can also reset password via email, so it's really only one factor. Compromised email = compromised server.


It’s negligent to not use 2FA for any cloud platform where credentials can be used to spin up resources.


I should have been more clear 2FA has been in place for years the phone requirement is new.


They use TOTP for 2FA (industry standard), which doesn't require a phone.

Their help page lists a bunch of 2FA app options, all of which run on phones, so it's understandable to think a phone is required. (I'm disappointed they don't list the app I use, which is Aegis Authenticator.)

But actually you can use any TOTP app, and they don't all need a phone. For example, macOS (desktop) has built-in TOTP 2FA as part of the password manager.


Good! Should have been done long ago


I've been enjoying railway!


More likely than not they’re probably long gone, or have completely forgotten. The idea that someone out there regrets that decision is laughable. The fact that it’s laughable is sad.


Why? It is still up, and working just as it used to.



Uhoh. I don't know what that means, but I unfortunately detect double-speak.


No longer developing new features or offering new contracts, but eVerYtHinG iS FiNe.


Wilhoit Law; There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect



There is no way you get Wilmette to change zoning. They've fought with Small Cheval about the size of their sign for like 9 months. I doubt you'd get any village in the NT district to rezone - the Optima project was pulling teeth, everyone is worried about overcrowding NT, which as a single HS is pretty packed now


The whole project is going to take many years. Even if we fix Oak Park zoning in the coming year, it'll still be years before anything significant gets built, and years past that for us to serve as a test case.


New Trier can just build another campus like they did for freshmen.


Where exactly? Land on the north shore isn’t empty nor is it cheap.


The hardest part of this is actually grappling the satellite. Shuttle had the arm, how will spacex capture?


Dragon Arm(tm)?


Nah. The successor to Dragon will be Trogdor. They'll put one of those beefy arms on it for good measure.


How much value are you providing to your customers? Thats how you figure out what you are worth.


It has lost contact before and come back online. Sometimes the communications signals can get blocked, expect the rover to more closer to get a visual and attempt to establish contact. If the helicopter lost signal it goes into an auto land mode similar to what drones do when they lose signal.


At some point we do need to look at the hedge funds that have a school attached as well. The endowments at some of these universities is astounding.


Agreed. If they are, as claimed, in the business of educating students, why not use some of that endowment money to open more campuses and educate more students?

Columbia offers admittance to fewer than 3% of the people who apply. More people than those admitted have the requisite grades etc to think they'd perform well at an elite school; why not offer more of the admittance and use the endowment to make it happen? Or, use the endowment to further lower the list price of the education (approaching $500k for 4 years)?


Because endowments aren't piggy banks. They're regulated by UPMIFA [1], which states that universiteis can't draw down more than 7% of the total funds in the endowment unless they can prove that it would be prudent to do so, and the burden of proof is extremely high.

Even without UPMIFA, endowments are a mix of unrestricted and restricted funds, and donor restrictions can and do prevent universities from using money when they might otherwise want to. Even if a university desired to draw down the full 7% allowed without triggering red tape, it's unlikely that they would be able to draw it all without running afoul of donor intent.[2]

If anything, the system is to blame here, not the universities themselves necessarily (not to excuse bad apples in academic administration).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Prudent_Management_of_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor_intent


I can only guess that you're downvoted by all the Princeton and Yale readers here


It is a plus to have them integrated, I believe the issue is m$ was basically giving it away for free for anyone who has the office suite. As a CTO faced with reducing spend on SaaS, do you cut slack for essentially a free clone of it? Not a hard call, but that becomes anticompetitive behavior. Similar to the shipping of IE with windows back in the day.


Thinking Teams is a clone of Slack suggests neither Office nor Teams is being fully used.

Teams is a re-imagining of UI atop SharePoint and SfB/Lync APIs or functionality we all loathed, and does a not terrible job of it.

When you realize that "screen sharing" is now "app sharing" instead, and every user can collaborate, a light bulb goes off.

When you realize you can offer Teams with web-based office suite collab at $3/seat to remote collaborators, fireworks go off.

When you realize all of this is fully compliant for regulated industries, there are no other choices, because the incumbents didn't bother becoming compliant for actually collaborating.

Most tools in this space are siloed chat, or presentation viewer, and god bless for permissioned file spaces.

As far as we've been able to find, both at the 2nd largest bank in free world and a startup of just dozens, the M365 E5 suite with Teams backed by SharePoint makes this all work together for role based group access to real time collaboration at scale while remaining seamlessly compliant.


> I believe the issue is m$ was basically giving it away for free for anyone who has the office suite.

That's the OP's point: what you call "giving away for free for anyone who has the office suite", I call "adding another feature to the office suite". Particularly for features which everyone understands are now just necessary in the space, it's a little weird to say "you can't add new features to your software, that would be anticompetitive".


Sad that your town keeps electing the same leadership with no long term vision on how to improved the community. Sad to see towns stuck in their ways to move forward


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