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Price increases. Went from $49/month our first year to an order of magnitude higher.

That, and we found that our intercom chat emails were caught in spam folders frequently.

I'm a happy paying Front user.

We transitioned to them for support after leaving Intercom. Shared inboxes work well. I really which they had a chat component that we could use (theirs is incompatible with pjax/turbolinks enabled sites and they don't intend to fix it).

Saved replies, snoozing, assignment, and in-thread private chat are the best features.

Can confirm similar prices for a family of 3, no prior health issues.

I absolutely hate my iRobot vacuum. Constantly getting stuck and does a poor job of actually vacuuming. Not to mention the wireless beacons it requires cost ~1/3 the cost of the actual unit.

I’m currently demoing Tiller. It aggregates all your financial data in a spreadsheet.

The jury is still out, but so far it is good.

I think most job seekers would simply appreciate a "no thank you" response and not get ghosted.

Unfortunately, it is becoming more and more common to just go silent on candidates. What a cowardly thing to do.

Email servers will add a message header if an auto-responder shouldn't respond to the message. A google search will provide more details.

Writing and maintaining concurrent code for greenfield projects is relatively hard compared to sync code.

Provisioning and deploying with ECS is usually just mouse clicks.

A good example of avoiding premature optimization. I'd imagine delaying tackling this problem freed them up to tackle problems that impact users.

Going over your boss’s head won’t end well because of misaligned incentives.

Your boss’s boss is responsible for the boss. Responsible for any failures and any successes. Acting on a failure you reported would be a black mark on their report card. That’s not gonna happen.

Few managers care about doing the right thing — that’s why they’re in politics... ahem....management.

Websocket message inspector, yay!

This is pretty neat.

Healthcare changing anything drastically in 3-5 years would be an achievement.

I've given up on owning my own printer. They seem to last all of two seconds. I spend too much time to figure out why they aren't working, eventually giving up.

I have used the Lob.com API to print something, have it mailed to me, and then used. Inefficient and slow, but it is my reality.

If I'm desperate, I go to the public library.

Interesting niche. I wouldn't use it because I don't want my customer's web traffic dependent on your edge servers being up, available, and not overloaded with the traffic of your other customers.

I built a developer tool for a niche as a side project, and it became cash flow positive quickly. I'm shutting it down tho.

All the points you made ring true, making every sale a slog, even if its a relatively low LTV.

Additionally, support was relatively not fun -- mostly "I didn't even attempt to read the docs, and it is your fault".

You must be fun at parties

You still can't use service workers in WKWebViews, right?

I just started a chat on their website, and got an immediate canned response that "management is looking into it".

What a weak move. Screw them.

> Up to 16GB of LPDDR3 memory at 2133MHz

You mean, starting at 16GB of memory, right?

Entertaining a new senior role as an individual contributor or manager. Extensive experience with both.

Location: ID, USA

Remote: Required

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby/Rails, JS, Electron, Swift, Crystal-lang, Golang, AWS, docker, and many others

Résumé/CV: github.com/danielwestendorf, email me for a resume

Email: daniel@prowestech.com

I’d be surprised if your average small/med farmer retires at 65 in the US. I’d guess an average above 70.

Gross. Probably 20-35% effective tax rate combined federal and state. State income taxes vary from state to state.

Firstly, I applaud that you are upfront about compensation early. I think that definitely deserves an accolade.

However, asking that candidates donate 1-2 days of their time (probably burning PTO at their current gig) just to have a chance at an offer? That's a very unbalanced risk/reward for the company vs the candidate.

Maybe you pay candidates for their 1-2 days of interview time + comp PTO for time spent if they get the gig?

Coding challenges as your barrier to entry are an optimization for a certain type of employee - low demand workers who don't have the leverage to by-pass who start hiring funnels that start with coding challenges and recruiter calls.

You may be gaining access to hidden gems, but you're definitely turning away proven and experienced developers from even entering your hiring funnel.

It all depends on what type of employee you're wanting to hire.

Always on display, but 18 hours of battery life? I'd rather have a display that turns of and 36 hours of battery life.

It's interesting to hear an internal perspective of how "great" Stripe's recruiting processes is.

As an external applicant, I would say it was better than most, but still an internal recruiter shit-show. Week-long windows between email responses, dropped balls, and even no-shows for scheduled calls. Seeing this contrast makes me wonder if Stripe employees are just high on their own supply?

Recruiting is hard. I can only imagine it gets harder at scale. I'd bet that Stripe's best recruiting is done through employee referrals... and that is probably building a mono-culture.

I wonder what the Internet's net power consumption is for server side vs client side HTML rendering.

Ha, I remember this being a thing to pre-warm caches in java systems a zillion years ago. What was once old is new again.

What assurances do the riders have that the vehicle they're riding in is mechanically sound? That their driver doesn't have a history of violence? What happens if a rider damages the vehicle?