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My kids are not quite screen time age, but at some point will be. I'd like to give them an interesting computer experience instead of just plopping them in front of an iPad with some media.

When I was a kid I had fond memories of exploring the file system, figuring out how applications worked, playing with Kid Pix, Paint, and a few games (roughly Apple IIGS, Macintosh 2, through iMac + a Windows XP desktop).

Do you have any fun old laptops or device you've got lying around that you've used to introduce kids into a desktop environment?

Any and all recommendations welcome :)

Most reviews I find are for massive monitors, but my desk doubles as my bedside table in our small house, so I'm looking for something that is compact but still lovely. I'll be using a newer MacBook Pro (M3/M4) on it, primarily for software engineering.

Anyone in a similar situation that likes their current setup? At the moment I just prop the laptop up on a travel stand, but that's getting a bit cramped.

When we first started seeing Github CoPilot/ChatGPT there was a lot of concern from the legal standpoint of IP ownership and copyright issues.

When you are evaluating a company for acquisition, what happens when you learn that the programmers have been using AI-generation? Is it pencils down? Change the valuation? Nothing?

We now have fairly good data for software engineering pay (like levels.fyi).

Are there any good data sets for MBA internships? I'm considering hiring a marketing focused MBA and I want to make sure I will be paying them fairly.

I've been a heavy Stripe user since 2013 and as a developer, love them. My day job (roughly 4M a week in volume across the platofrm) and my own saas (targeted at wrestling clubs) both run through Stripe Connect.

However, in the last six months or so I've been getting huge blow back from paying customers because of how badly their customer support is performing these days. So much blow back that some customers have left the software, because they refuse to work with Stripe anymore (and we don't integrate with anyone else).

So... what are marketplaces using these days? Our platforms run Stripe Connect with standard accounts. Something like that is preferred, but it's not required.

My list so far to research is:

- Adyen

- Braintree

- Go Cardless (not sure if they have marketplace features)

- Checkout.com

- First Data (not clear if they have marketplace features)

Anyone have experience or recommendations?

Hi HN,

I am happy to say the v1.0 of my Slack app, Visual Office, is ready today! https://www.visualoffice.app/

My obsession with extending an office metaphor into Slack started last year, when I was managing a remote team of engineers at a company that is 75% remote. Despite loving my work from home days, I couldn't help but notice that I was closer to my co-workers I saw in person than the ones I interacted with remotely.

For the most part this was minor, but important, interactions. The banter when we first came into the office, lunches taken together more often, and a general awareness of what they were focused on. On the other hand, it was harder to setup social time with my remote teammates (I didn't want to ping and interrupt them) and the context I had about what they were currently working on was often based on signals that got piped into slack in the form of jira, zendesk, or sales bot messages. Not an ideal way to build a relationship, especially outside my immediate team.

Visual Office is my attempt at solving these issues by making it easy to understand what your teammates are doing and how they are feeling.

- A pixel art representation of your office inside Slack. - Async, daily standups to provide context within and across teams. - Ephemeral social rooms in your virtual office, so you can join a team lunch, or quick break, without needing to be in always on channels. - A single screen to update your status, emotional state, and turn on your do not disturb settings. - Developed as a Slack app to ensure you don't need to change how your remote company already communicates.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Major facepalm moment for me today.

I launched https://www.visualoffice.app/ a few weeks ago, got a few trials coming through. I then was approved for the Slack app directory, after a brief rejection regarding oauth permissions, and then celebrated.

Then crickets, despite my best efforts. No trials for 12 days, despite some traffic to the landing page. Today I decided to fully test the onboarding in production, because I am sending it to a few people I respect for feedback.

Turns out... the entire installation experience was broken!

Just a friendly reminder to test your production sign up experience a bit more often than you think :)

Are there any open source projects, nonprofit organizations, or other special situations that need extra software engineering firepower during this time of crisis?

Being stuck at home is an environment where most of us can still be incredibly productive in and I feel shitty sitting here without being able to help (beyond being socially responsible and not going out into the world).