shytey

I run a small business. We have four different locations and four numbers that customers can call or text. We employ a remote operations team that handles the calls and texts.

I have spent hours searching for a simple service that can offer an online dashboard for texting and calling, and a phone app to receive calls on.

We are currently using Google Voice which is terrible (I cannot tell which number/location is being called when I receive a call among other quirks).

I have trialed Grasshopper and Dialpad, both terrible online dashboards for texting. Horrible UI and the call quality is poor. Grasshopper doesn't allow someone from abroad log in to the dashboard.

How has this problem not been fixed yet? What is so difficult about calling and texting on the internet?

I'm learning javascript and am still in the beginner phase. Are there any open source projects that would accept work from a beginner? How do I find them if so? Or is it unlikely I will be of any use until I'm at a more advanced level?

For an idea of my level, a recent project was a basic 2 player card game that used html, css, vanilla JS, websockets, s3 and EC2. It was completed with a lot of handholding from tutorials and the code is a mess.

Hey all, is anyone interested in a virtual poker night? Pokerstars lets you run private games, we could organise a weekly Hacker News tournament. Let me know if you are interested, a range of times that might suit and a buy in you would be OK with. I'll try to figure something out that suits the most amount of people if I get enough interest.

I'll start, Friday or Saturday evenings 6pm-12pm GMT would suit and a buy in up to $30.

Are vaccines for Coronaviruses generally doable if enough time and money is put behind them?

Do we have examples of Coronaviruses we have not developed a vaccine for?

What would the probably distribution of a vaccine being developed over the next 3 years look like? Would it add up to 0.9? 0.2? Less?

I have done a few online courses in HTML, CSS and Javascript and created my first website. My next step is do a Python course and then create a small web app as a project.

Is it possible to learn on a Windows computer? Git and Python programs exist for Windows and there is a cmd line.

General wisdom seems to point towards installing a version of Linux like Ubuntu. I'd like to know your reasons why I should or shouldn't do this.

Thanks.