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Triller built a tool to export tiktoks incase of a tiktok ban.


I believe it is in California without their permission, not 100% sure.


I'd be willing to bet that Apple's call start with a statement that they are recording the call, that means you can record the call to because they know it's being recorded.


When a call starts with "this call may be recorded for quality assurance", I always say "thank you" to express my gratitude for them granting me explicit permission to record it.


"two-party consent" laws have been adopted in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington.


The biggest red flag for me is when no one at the company (even the founders) have experienced the problem their product is solving!


There's a huge difference between starting a company that will fail on (lack of) merits, and being unethical to your employees. Huge.


Its unfortunate that this doesn't promote trying to get business users to look at the code. In our organization 3 or 4 users are read only and really just go in at times to check specific errors, or logic for certain SQL queries, they don't really contribute. We will now have to pay $9 per month for these type of "read only" users.


Couldn't you use some other kind of display for these users? Seems like you'd only need 2 or 3 of these to justify a small project to get them the information they need without needing to be a paying GitHub user.


Couldn't you just use the same account for all of them, with a shared password?


how would you restrict to repositories then? Given a large enough set of external stakeholders using a single account is not feasible.


Has anyone actually gotten to download the thing? I just get a we'll be in touch.


Thanks! We'll be in touch soon! => That's what I get too.


It seems like Disque is a "simplified" Kafka, or a more vertically purposed Redis. It seems that it differs from RabbitMQ significantly because rabbit requires a queue to push the messages in, while Disque allows jobs to be pushed independently of consumers being setup.


Kafka is arguably simpler, at least in terms of data model, than Disque. Disque needs to handle acking and queue mutation and things like lock timeouts and dead lettering, all of which complicates its queue structure and API. Kafka queues (partitions, to be precise) are append-only, which simplifies a lot of things.


What is the average cost you recommend for a new the H1-B petition? What about an h1-b transfer? (Legal fees not including filing)


Yes, salesforce has no interest in appealing to the hobbiest developer. They focus purely on enterprise. Even as an SMB customer, I have a terrible experience with them.


How do you feel about the data being delayed, sometimes 1 day? Why not stream the data in realtime to the kafka cluster?


Whatever data we need in realtime, we do stream it to the Kafka cluster.

We don't do it for the production database because we don't need it in realtime.


Why did Dropbox build this? Why didn't they just use Slack? What were the features slack was missing or were there other business reasons?


They didn't build it; they acquired the company that built it.


Oh, I'm interested in the business decision behind that. For example why didn't they just buy (not acquire) the slack product. What were the reasons to host it in-house and manage it themselves.


They got the team behind it, who now work on other parts of Dropobox


Right by why maintain the chat app? Why not just buy slack.


Buying Slack requires Slack to be interested in selling themselves.


You're misinterpreting him. "Buy" here is purchasing the product, as a typical customer.


You're assuming:

* that Slack was for sale too

* that Dropbox wanted the app, rather than the people who made the app


Slack is out for a lot of groups that don't particularly want internal, private communications routed through a third-party.


GOTO 10


I don't understand why you are being downvoted for legitimate questions.


Same. It's kind of sad. Apparently questioning the business reason behind decisions isn't appreciated. I personally find them interesting.


I mean the slack product!


BradRuderman you are conflating two different things that are not necessarily related:

(1) How Dropbox chooses to satisfy internal requirements/demand for a group chat solution

(2) Why/whether Dropbox should have acquired/acqhired the Zulip team


Yea my point of the comment was (1). I didn't even know it was an acquisition. I am shutting up to prevent loosing any more minimal reputation.


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