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No such thing as bad publicity

No, just the guide in the readme was all I needed.

I’m using it to deploy a dockerized nodejs app, it works great!

I'm in the market for a heat pump in my home to replace electric forced air which is in a cold climate. It seems like this heat pump would work great for me, and being able to see pricing up front and self-order sounds awesome!

I'm gonna be a no on purchasing tho. I don't want a smart thermostat that is not system agnostic. High risk of it bricking the system or not being upgradable, minimal reward when compared to all the other smart thermostat options.

A heat pump manufacture that's trying to be a tech company? Nah.

If you’ve ever tried to wipe peanut butter off of shag carpet… ya know what OP is talking about

Turbolinks/Turbo have been enabling this for ages?

20% hands on code

20% mentoring

60% facilitating consensus between teams/orgs

Papertrail used to be awesome, until the SW acquisition. I've been very happy with LogDNA/Mezmo as a replacement (no affiliation, just a happy customer!).

Damn, let the paint dry before sharing your experiences. I'm not saying they aren't valid or good observations, only that the short/no time reflection undermines credibility.

I've been using sidekiq (paid, free) for years, the next app (mostly rails apps, but not exclusively) I implement background processing probably will not include it.

Reasons to avoid Sidekiq not mentioned:

- Sidekiq does not implement all of or discourages use of activejob abstractions (retry_on, globalid for example)

- Paid support can be curt, hostile, or down-right "works on my machine, sorry!"

- Sidekiq's better performance has never materially mattered for my applications; they're almost always waiting on IO from the db or some net connection.

High-value B2B product.

Magazine ads! Postcards! Care packages!

It can be hard to stand out digitally. It's easy to stand out in a world of junk mail and generic scenic-beach-view-with-just-a-small-logo magazine ads though.

Trolley problem, applied

We already know the slope angles on which avalanches can occur (23-45deg irrc), and that data is published and accessible. Avalanche conditions are much more complex, sometimes varying from slope to slope.

As for mitigation, it’s not uncommon for an avalanche to trigger after the 2nd+ rider to travel over the same area to trigger a slide, so to effectively mitigate a combination of techniques are required (see inbound any control on ski resorts using bombs, ski cuts, etc).

The best way to avoid an avalanche is to avoid avalanche terrain and understand the current conditions. It’s a risk/reward evaluation every backcountry rider needs to balance.

I haven’t experienced outsourced cs that was effective beyond searching your support docs and relaying obvious answers.

That being said, if that’s the majority of your support burden, it may well be worth it.

It’s a competitive advantage having the same people building a product also supporting it (in the early days)

This isn’t interview performance, it’s a rescinded employment offer.

Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I think that warrants an explanation to the theoretical offense. Or if there are legal ramifications, maybe rescinding the offer based on a tweet shouldn’t haven’t happened in the first place?

I don't think you're wrong about the "maybe just don't". Also, you're not working there until you've actually started.

Assuming there was an offensive tweet that they hadn't looked at yet, why wouldn't they just come out and say as much? "we have to rescind our offer because we saw this prior tweet that __MORE DETAILS HERE__"

Stripe's recruitment pipeline is well known (at least in most ruby dev circles) to be fucked. I've experienced this first hand and even gotten lip service from exec leadership (see my HN comment history). Stripe is very good at PR, aren't they?

The thing is, there are lots and lots of companies who don't have these types of problems; that don't treat candidates poorly, follow thru with the offers they make (I can't believe I'm typing that!).

Hiring is already a power dynamic slanted for the employer... this shit just seem excessive and like 0 fucks are given.

As a job seeker, don't waste your time interviewing at companies that have these fundamental problems just getting in the door. The odds will never be in your favor, but these types of problems make for a much larger mountain to climb.

Knowing these things, and how good Stripe is at PR, I wouldn't be surprised if things on the inside are actually a dysfunctional mess. I hope not.

Neat!

I think your business plans are underpriced. You're saving human hours with increased accuracy, which probably is worth more than $25/month.

edit: nevermind. Your annual pricing shows per-month pricing which is $299/month.

Yeah, but your db is still the bottleneck of your web application ducks

In-house recruiting have few incentives to provide a fast and efficient hiring pipeline.

Slow pipelines mean low conversion rates (survival of the most pain tolerant), generating more internal demand. Natural reaction to to widen the pipe (more recruiters) not speed it up.

Well idk about you, but when my program crashes frequently and consistently, I just spawn new processes rather than retrospectively look at the code I've written to see what is causing the crash. /s

Maybe if managers spent more time on making sure their employees are happy, challenged, managed effectively and compensated adequately instead of looking for the next hire they'd be in a better spot? It seems that most employees quit managers, not jobs.

It would be nice to not need pgbouncer

I want this. I want this so bad. But I'm not giving your systems my customer data -- sorry. I'd pay $XXX/year for a self hosted version.

I accepted a remote lead position at a startup. Interviews had gone great. I gave my notice at my soon-to-be old employer and made the transition.

Along comes my first day and surprisingly, it’s mostly radio silence. CTO, my boss, doesn’t respond to my emails, doesn’t answer the phone. I call the CEO and he promises to sort it out.

Fast forward a week or two later, something is obviously up. Long story short, the board fires the CTO, making me the most senior engineer in the company. Yikes, but ok. The contract with some of the consultants are up a week or so later, and they choose not to renew. Weird. The only other FT engineer quits. Uh-oh. I’m now the only engineer. I had to learn a new product and code base. The support backlog was long. I was getting called into sales calls.

If I had lived in a tech hub, I would have quit. But I didn’t, I lived in a remote mountain town and finding this remote job took months.

I ended up lasting about 18 months. It was a learning experience, but horrible on my body, relationships, mental health.

I think the next lesson most companies will be learning is that hybrid can be the worst of both worlds. Remote employees will feel out-of-the-loop, in-office employees will feel like they have to jump through hoops to include their remote colleagues. In-office employees will feel like they can't collaborate because of random WFH from a teammate. Remote employees will feel like they're getting dragged into the office because a teammate scheduled an in-person meeting on a day they weren't planning on going into the office.

It's not impossible, but it is a lot harder to figure out than 100% of one or the other.

I built, use, and maintain https://github.com/danielwestendorf/breezy-pdf-lite which uses Chrome to convert html to PDF’s as a web service. Maybe someone here will find it useful!

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I've heard shopify has been shaking down SaaS apps for past revenue % which they charge outside of the shopify ecosystem. Does anyone know if this is true or have more details?

This looks pretty good! Thanks for sharing!