I have been working on cost models and coupon ladders for businesses.
If either of those are interesting to you, please reach out!
For example, I am helping some restaurants learn exactly how much each item on the menu costs, what the margins are, and how much profit each dish is bringing in because I integrate with their PoS system.
I help small businesses with review management. Getting more reviews, replying to reviews, and some other related features.
Right now I'm trying to figure out how to get users and make sales. I'd love advice from someone in the community that is willing to share their experience and wisdom!
Similarly, if there are folks here from outside of the US with some ideas/feedback on getting into other markets, I'm interested to hear about that too.
This does review aggregation for businesses, and then a bunch of tools to help you gain insights, respond to reviews, and get more reviews. I just hired my first Sales/Marketing person to scale.
I will create coupon codes for anyone interested! Email is in my bio
I'm actually looking for beta users! GetSetReply is a SaaS I've been building. It does two things for small businesses:
1. It helps you get more reviews by sending automated requests for reviews to your customers over SMS and/or email after they purchase from you (PoS Integrated / Manual Sending)
2. The second is helping you reply to the reviews you already have with AI-generated drafts in your brand's voice that you can send to Google/Yelp/TripAdvisor.
I'm very grateful to anyone who is willing to test or provide feedback. If you create an account (it's free with no credit card or integrations required), I'll reach out! Or you can email me via my email in my profile.
See below for some recommendations based on my 2020 reading.
Fiction recommendations:
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. This book absolutely wrecked me emotionally (in a good way) for weeks after reading it
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. I enjoyed this even more than the Underground Railroad, which was also great. Both also won a Pulitzer for what it’s worth.
- The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea. This book gave me a glimpse into what it’s like for Mexicans who immigrate to the US, and the storytelling was just wonderful.
Non-fiction recommendations:
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Mix together equal parts science, indigenous knowledge and myth, botany, and wonderful writing and you get this book. I love Kimmerer’s voice (both in terms of her writing and her performance of the audiobook) and I read Gathering Moss by her this year as well because she’s just that good.
- American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. In my opinion is the definitive book about the atomic bomb and Oppenheimer. I also read The Dead Hand by David E. Hoffman and I think that was a pretty good follow up about the arms race and Cold War that came after.
- Barbarian Days by William Finnegan. I knew nothing and cared little about surfing before this book. I couldn’t put it down after I picked it up though. I’ve heard the audiobook is great so I might just read it again in that format because it was that good.
Not OP but I crossed 100+ books last year (thanks to the Pandemic). I've highlighted some interesting books that I have suggested on Hackernews earlier.
Is there somewhere we can view the feature roadmap for this? Will iTerm2 support ligatures at some point in the future? I'm also interested in future performance enhancements, and a comparison to terminal.
3.3, which is currently under development, is adding a Python scripting API (https://iterm2.com/python-api/) and fixing tab and window titles to make sense, plus adding a status bar.
If you have something in mind file an issue. Y'all are my PMs.
There is already support for ligatures (prefs>profiles>text>enable ligatures). The Metal renderer does not support them because that's an extra level of complexity I can't handle in the first release. It would require constructing CTLineRefs which is already the slowest part of drawing. Subpixel antialiasing also makes this really difficult, but since that's going away in Mojave I'll revisit it.
Future performance enhancements that I have in mind are:
- Faster tokenization (including revisiting SIMD)
- Mojave-specific optimizations (removing subpixel AA and its knock-on consequences)
- Move per-frame setup work into a compute shader. This is tricky because some people have CPUs that are relatively faster than their GPUs (thanks Intel!)
- Reuse the preceding frame's rendered texture when updating less than a full frame
- Move work off the main thread where possible
Yeah, I’m wondering about this too. I like transparent windows and font ligatures so as much excitement as I have about this, I won’t be able to use it unless these limitations can be eliminated. I’ll keep using iTerm regardless, but it would be nice to see the benefits become available for my setup as I do notice the performance issues.
I'd just disable them. Speed and lighterweight (on CPU) rendering are more important that ligatures and transparency, which are both gimmicky features.
I disagree that ligatures are gimmicky in a general sense, but they definitely don't seem necessary for a terminal window. And doubly so if they impact performance.
This is a Mac program. One of the reasons why the Mac has historically been far ahead of other platforms is because its display could leverage centuries of advances in typography, and not be confined to the a 1970s character cell display designed by illiterates. Ligatures are extremely important for the platform and for the audience.
We're talking about ligatures in console based programming editors.
Not about setting ligatures for print.
So the whole argument is kind of moot. Having ligatures in console vi is not what made the Mac "historically be far ahead of other platform". In fact for the first 15 years of its life the Mac didn't even have a console.
Even in the desktop GUI program world, where ligatures in programming IDEs and editors are a possibility, they're still an extremely fringe endeavor.
On the list that terminals need to do, being more typographically aware is on the very bottom on my list of priorities.
They could start by not mimicking 50+ year old hardware terminals down to arcane (and performance killing) details, supporting better and more powerful autocomplete and similar interactions, inline images, full colors, and so on...
It’s important to some people but probably not a majority. Ligatures are a best effort kind of thing. Where trade offs must be made, such as drawing performance, I choose to let the user make that choice.
I believe in an external world, where not everything is a matter of personal "priority", but certain things are objectively more significant than others.
And I might be wrong, but in that world, ligatures and transparent terminals are not really as important as rendering speed, latency, and/or less CPU load for a terminal emulator.
In fact, even where available, ligatures are a fringe option, adopted by very few people.
(I'm always talking about programming editors. Though even in print, their main domain, they're hardly mainstream these days).
I'm never bothered by iTerm2 being too slow or using too much CPU. Using transparency for my tmux profile makes it easier to tell whether the tab I've switched to is a local or remote session. Seeing coding ligatures makes me happy.
Why is the thing I don't notice objectively more important than my convenience and happiness?
The original asker asked, "Will iTerm2 support ligatures at some point in the future?", so it was indeed a helpful answer to know that it does support ligatures.
I mean, within the context of this thread, it's pretty obvious the original question is asking whether ligatures would be supported in the Metal renderer, since it's explicitly listed as something not supported in the article, and since the asker is asking for the "feature roadmap for this".
It looks like you are getting downvoted, but there is a lot of truth in what you are saying. I have lots of anecdotal evidence of my peers leaving their jobs for new ones that pay a lot more. The very senior/principal engineers have even been offered large amounts of money/stock to stay, but by that point it's too late. The best path to getting raises starting from a junior engineer is to leave for a new company. There are many benefits I can list to stay at one company (network, growth as an engineer, etc.), but promotions and pay raises aren't part of that list with few exceptions.
There's game-theory stuff too. Job market is a lot like an auction, so if the winner doesn't correct for things they'll usually end up paying for their winning overestimates of candidate value.
Former A/a grad here. The average graduating salary in SF for App Academy is 105k [1]. They charge around 20% which is 21k. They also have other revenue streams, so on average they likely make more per student on average than that.
If either of those are interesting to you, please reach out!
For example, I am helping some restaurants learn exactly how much each item on the menu costs, what the margins are, and how much profit each dish is bringing in because I integrate with their PoS system.
https://imgur.com/a/C127GOY
It's all a part of GetSetReply which is turning into a small suite of tools for SMBs
https://GetSetReply.com
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