So incredibly myopic. Atlasssian is "innovating" themselves into snatching failure from the jaws of success. Self-hosting has huge advantages in enterprise and secure environments. They're just throwing away key large customers, forcing them to share what could be confidential data on random cloud systems customers they don't own, and limiting customizations, integrations, confidentiality, scalability, and data protection.
And, there are now plenty of other self-hosted options to their bloated JVM, resource-hungry apps.
They just committed seppuku in many less-visible, but nonetheless important, use-cases in the enterprise space. What a shame.
It makes one wonder in what other ways goodwill will be reduced by pinching pennies and how quickly it will start to look like any other exhausting, slow-moving, behemoth utility.
Roaches, ants, cats, rats, bats, pigeons, and possums all seem modern candidates for site infil. It sounded like screening and training needed more work though.
Many moons ago in K-12 (80's-90's) in California public schools, I had really bad ADHD (undiagnosed until 35, often labeled "weird") with ASD, anxiety with stuttering, depression, and emotional disturbances. The schools basically put up with me because I was in a gifted program, though I must've been an annoying AF over-eager hand-raiser and a weird, nerdy kid.
My family wouldn't allow psychological or psychiatric intervention because they believed it was a conspiracy against children.
25 years later, I've tried the main classes of AD(H)D medications and cannot tolerate them even though I need them to function in society. (On benefits at present, looking to start a 3D printed custom parts business.)
Antidepressants: I wish there one that worked, but I've tried 14 of them; I'm looking at the dissociatives, psychedelics, TMS, medical implants, and surgical options.
I was misdiagnosed with ADD, because I had the audacity to speak to another student in class once. I was prescribed concerta for 8 years. It made me extremely anxious and nauseous, but they wouldn't listen to my pleas to stop. I ate about half of what the average kid ate at those ages, and my growth halted. I quickly fell into the very lowest percentile for growth. One day I skipped the meds and over-sprung-back from my usual meek self, was actually a distraction, and got myself a mild talking to that I actually deserved.
Now that I've graduated, I feel pretty worthless because I'm so underdeveloped and look so below my age, nobody would ever promote me to a position of responsibility.
Now for the really scary part: this is happening to apparently 15% of boys in school, despite the highest estimates from the APA being that, at maximum, 5% of children have ADD.
We're creating multiple generations of an extremely high proportion of men who were physically and mentally stunted in growth during their most crucial formative years. It's like all these parents who decided they didn't really want to try very hard with their kids and would medicate them into mediocrity and meekness.
Paraphrasing TuringNYC[0] from another recent HN thread[1]:
> Just a decade ago, SMS messages in the US cost 10 to 25 cents per SMS. You also got charged for spam SMS. Prices were completely disjointed from the reality of underlying costs (zero for the telcos).
> In the following ten years, the tech giants sweeped in, competed, provided a better service, with better cross-platform support, for zero dollar immediate cost to the end customer -- gained a massive following (think whatsapp), and are now vilified for their "monopoly" and the "harm" it has caused.)
The only thing holding back a messaging-style disruption of voice services is the universal inter-operability of phone numbers. Various apps can be used for voice calls within the apps themselves but they're not compatible with a phone call from a landline for restaurant booking confirmations and such.
Google Voice achieves this and Twilio got a mention in the other thread, but I'm not sure what else is out there (I'm not in the US so it's not a problem I need to solve for myself). Seems that US telco's are still asleep at the wheel in regards to their consumer-level services and will devolve into providing purely network connectivity and losing entirely any of the services that sit atop the network.
What's ridiculous is that such things have become necessary. That there's no (enforced) legislation to prevent selling any and all contact information that passes a receptionists desk.
I suggest signing up for the DNC list[0]. It will at least stop legally operations which sometimes sell their list to more shady operations. It at least helps. I often report calls too.
Maybe one of you all that is good at phone apps could make one to fill out the forum automatically. I'm not sure why this already isn't a feature in Google considering they screen calls.
Fundamentally: How could they ever hope to track every single passengers' COVID status? I think they are basing this conclusion on dozens of cases a few airlines knew about and erroneously extrapolating from that while ignoring the COVID statuses of millions of passengers.
In addition, if it's not independently peer-reviewed, it's reasonable to conclude it's industry propaganda. They will say anything to save their golden goose.
Christian von Koenigsegg is my soul brother. Engineer/CEO committed to excellence in extreme automotive manufacturing like:
- Cam-less heads (which I was always wondered why they didn't exist when I was kid 25 years ago because it would trounce VVTI).
- Complete carbon fibre wheels
- Optimized hybrid EV testbed models
- In-house, scratch-build EMS
- Highly-efficient (power per weight) motors
- Shooting for straight course speed world record
- Incredible styling and aerodynamics