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by joshpadnick 7y ago
PEO stands for "Professional Employer Organization" and is an American term for a company that serves as the legal employer for the people you want to hire. For example, see https://justworks.com/ . When an employe
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by joshpadnick 7y ago
#1. Trinet for full-time remote/distributed workers. I've spent countless hours researching Global PEOs and reviewing their often poorly written contracts. If a reputable service existed that allowed us to hire in any country with
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by joshpadnick 7y ago
Gruntwork | 100% Remote | Full-time | Full-stack engineers | https://gruntwork.io At Gruntwork, we aim to improve humanity's most important invention: Software. Our product enables software teams to launch and maintain pro
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by joshpadnick 7y ago
We repeatedly celebrate employees prioritizing their families over their work, and we make every effort to avoid taking on projects or commitments like 24/7 support that might threaten that. In short, we plan the company around our liv
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by joshpadnick 7y ago
Our startup[1] is 100% distributed and has in-person meet-ups roughly every 4 months. About half our team (including me) have kids and, to your point, when one of us travels it definitely puts an added burden on our partners back at home. S
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by joshpadnick 7y ago
Yeah, I've noticed this, too. It definitely optimizes for the initial "Oh wow" walk-in experience. But day-to-day could well be different. As one example, I'm drowning out their hip background music with my earphones and
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by joshpadnick 7y ago
I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this, but I actually just signed up to be a (thankfully month-to-month) WeWork customer for a HotDesk today in Phoenix, and it's actually been a pretty great experience: Great space, nice peopl
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by joshpadnick 7y ago
My sister works as a physician at Phoenix Children’s Hospital and they are literally studying whether giving “dirt pills” to children helps prevent asthma. Wish I could find the link for more info.
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by joshpadnick 7y ago
This article seems to be arguing that Docker’s primary downfall was being hostile to its open source community. Without having an opinion on whether that’s true, I suspect the core issue was not that but their business model and execution.
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by joshpadnick 7y ago
Does it have a much worse APR? I got 12.99%, which while an expensive loan is still the best APR I think I've ever had on a credit card.
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by joshpadnick 7y ago
My company[1] has written 100's of 1000's of lines of Terraform code as part of a commercially maintained library of prod-grade Terraform modules. We've also used Terraform to setup 100+ teams on AWS with prod-grade infra, an
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by joshpadnick 7y ago
At this point in our relationship, Atrium's basically been a really well-run law firm who is economically incentivized to make legal more efficient. They also have significant funding, an experienced CEO, and silicon valley thinking, s
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by joshpadnick 7y ago
Our startup signed on with Atrium and they've been superb to work with. The attorneys are great, the pricing is reasonable, and they're very fast at turning around documents. I never appreciated just how much speedy turnaround can
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by joshpadnick 7y ago
Gruntwork | Senior Full-Stack Engineer | 100% Remote | Full-Time | https://gruntwork.io Our mission is to make it 10x easier to understand, build, and deploy software. We are currently focused on knocking all the grunt work of D
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by joshpadnick 8y ago
I recently contacted Stripe about how their Stripe Billing invoices rendered in a confusing way in some situations. Within one week, they fixed the issue. I was pretty impressed by that responsiveness.
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by joshpadnick 8y ago
First, congrats on your funding! Exciting to see innovation in this space. Here are my questions -- feel free to answer just one: 1. Is the goal to remove the need for lawyers by letting software do the work, or to equip lawyers (and law fi
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by joshpadnick 8y ago
This was a concern for me as well. Brand new relationship with a company: now here's all my most precious banking credentials. There needs to be a lot more assurances around this. In our case, I used bank creds, and immediately changed
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by joshpadnick 8y ago
We[1] are a fully distributed team and also ran into this problem when we hired our first team member outside the US. There are lots of players[2][3] in the "Global PEO" market that have corporate entities in multiple countries an
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by joshpadnick 8y ago
Just some quick feedback on your site. I'm intrigued by the product but I was really looking for a "features" link on the nav so I could quickly assess what it does. I know you're trying to drive people to "sign up
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by joshpadnick 9y ago
Somewhat off-topic question, but how do others handle the need to create an invoice that corresponds to a Stripe charge? We've been using Stripe Subscriptions (I guess, now Stripe Billing) to auto-charge customers, and we separately de
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by joshpadnick 9y ago
The thing that frustrates me most about the slow, drawn out demise of first Borders and now Barnes & Noble is that there has never been a bold vision for the future. The mega-bookstore was a great model in the 1990s, but post-Internet,
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by joshpadnick 9y ago
Gruntwork | DevOps Engineer | Anywhere | REMOTE http://www.gruntwork.io/ At Gruntwork, we offer DevOps as a Service. That means we help companies figure out how to do all the steps that come after writing code. How do you t
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by joshpadnick 9y ago
Funny, I listened to this recently and had exactly the same reaction. The cheesy audio jingles aside, the idea of contemplating your customer's experience in terms of stars ("What's a 1-star experience? What's a 6-star e
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by joshpadnick 9y ago
I'm also deeply concerned about "backdoors for the good guys". Beyond just worrying about who else could get access, the "good guys" really just means government, and my comfort level with the current Trump administ
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by joshpadnick 9y ago
I'm a big fan of Keybase overall, but I share the annoyance of intrusive notifications. I don't really need to see a popup window of all users that pertain to my keybasefs folder every time I access it. Also, I've noticed key
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by joshpadnick 9y ago
Could someone explain how the underlying keys are managed for Keybase mobile? I'm guessing as part of sign up you generate a unique key just for your mobile device, and if your mobile device is lost, you'll need to generate a new
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by joshpadnick 10y ago
This looks promising! Somewhat unrelated question, but has anyone had success using AWS DynamoDB as a time-series database? I'm generally curious on the case for a "managed" TSDB versus setting up your own open source one.
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by joshpadnick 10y ago
We ( http://gruntwork.io ) are still establishing best practices around managing multiple AWS accounts, but so far having a single "admin" account where all IAM Users are managed seems like a best practice. You can then
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by joshpadnick 10y ago
I work on multiple AWS installations and we use the approach you describe of only defining IAM Policies and avoiding resource-based policies where possible. The one exception is KMS Keys, which require a KMS Key Policy. That being said, I&#
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by joshpadnick 10y ago
I believe our current paradigm for how data is stored is fundamentally broken. The author is right that when you choose to use a service you have no real control over how they use your data. Frankly, companies aren't even accountable t

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