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Isn't NaCl deprecated now?


Yeah, WebAssembly replaced it.


Yeah, Active-X is deprecated.


Is there a Windows or Web client for DevonThink?


DevonThink Server has a feature limited Web interface


Can the Server be launched on a Windows machine?


If it (or Notion.so) supported Inking, I would switch completely from my combination of GDocs, GKeep and GoodNotes5.

Will see if I can contribute to this project.


In ten years, there will be serious money in it as enterprise codebases need to be renewed.


Public transit exposes everyone's full routes, anyway.

Metrocards can lead back to the payment card used for the purchase, and buses (which also record passenger ingress/egress) can remember all swiped Metrocards.


This is a fascinating piece of history, the Taxi Riots of 1934: https://untappedcities.com/2015/02/05/today-in-nyc-history-t...


There are many industries where the workflow espoused in the manual IS the secret sauce, and, once replicated, can be replaced by a much cheaper product.

In these cases, you will never recoup your NRE.


Except, it's easy for competitors to get a copy if they care to. They can ask around for a copy, or just buy your product and get a login.

Oracle has sued competitors for handing out copies of the manual, suggesting requiring a login isn't much of a barrier: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/06/18/oracle-w...


I agree completely. Just observing users stumbling through what you had thought was a blindingly-obvious, low-friction workflow is an eye-opener.

Sometimes, you have used your own code way too much to judge effectiveness.

Having a no-agenda meeting with users is also a great idea, but it is important to set scope on feature requests before it snowballs into a request for the moon.


The difficulty is in rolling back previously unlimited freedom.


In Silly Valley, yes.


4K is about Palo Alto territory.


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