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malyk
4y ago
porter is another
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porter.run, convox, render, fly.io, dokku...
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4y ago
Nothing can take the risk to zero. The goal is to take steps to minimize that risk. The average “click rate” for phishing emails is something like 18% (don’t quote me on that exactly) and if you can institute training that brings it lower t
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4y ago
Which might have been from the Fleetsmith acquisition.
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Better.com offering employees 60-days severance, losing ‘10s of millions’ per mo
(techcrunch.com)
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5y ago
Carrying costs. Electricity, landscaping, water, sewer, city taxes, etc.
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5y ago
I charge mine for ~45 minutes or so between 9-10pm and it's been great.
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5y ago
You have to pay for upkeep...electricity, gas, landscaping, local taxes, etc while you own the home. It also ties up capital for future purchases. They don't want to do that indefinitely as it would eat all the profit. They've
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So, the unfortunate truth is that the #1 recruiting tool in the industry is LinkedIn and recruiters aren't going to look farther than LinkedIn 95% of the time. They are also going to take an application and then look up the person on L
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5y ago
It's paid, but I like SQL Pro for Postgres. Simple, lightweight, etc.
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5y ago
So the left turn signal is an arrow pointing to the right? And the right turn signal is an arrow pointing to the left? How does that pass, well, anything at all without someone saying “that might not be the best idea”!
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5y ago
Permaculture gardening, road/gravel cycling, hiking, road trips/camping. These arent new, but the extra time from not commuting and WFH has allowed me to spend more time doing them.
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6y ago
HomeLight | Multiple Roles | Full Time | Remote (USA/Canada/Latin America) | https://www.homelight.com/ HomeLight is working to make US Real Estate easier for all parties involved. We are competing (quite well I
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malyk
6y ago
I try to alternate between Fiction, then Non-Fiction, then something related to my job, then repeat. I often skip the job related ones though. :/
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6y ago
Could be as simple as "number of companies that need auth x number of employees of that company x average cost per seat for Okta/Auth0". Now, figuring out some of those numbers is harder. Okta simplest pricing is $2 per pers
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6y ago
Just finished reading this sunday night. Really enjoyed the story. Well written and exciting. Definite would second the recommendation.
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6y ago
Grain of salt and all, but a year or so ago a local deli owner said caviar charged 17% of the bill as a fee.
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6y ago
Right. What I found works well is "We'd like to extend an offer, but we'd appreciate a 48 hour turn around, so let us know when you'll be in a place to make that decision" Assuming the time period is reasonable (a
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6y ago
I think it all comes down to competition. If I'm hiring a remote team globally, then you are competing against people I can hire anywhere. A great engineer in Brazil could cost...I don't know...$45,000. An engineer with the same
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6y ago
We use the interactor gem with great success for this.
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6y ago
If you look at the CDC data on Excess Deaths[1] then you can see that COVID and the response to COVID has been responsible for a significant number of excess deaths in every week since the week ending on 3/28. So, maybe not 10x deadlie
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6y ago
That's a very broad generalization. I've been getting paid to write code since 1998. The last few years in management. So I know something about actually being a programmer. I hired someone who was awesome from a technical know
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But the problem with that is the people with the privilege are blind to what the problems are. It took a simple conversation with someone of color for me to even begin to understand this. The conversation was something like: "The 15th
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I'm not entirely sure that rent control proponents believe it will lower rents. In my experience, most of them acknowledge that it will reduce supply and may increase prices in some areas. My experience with rent control proponents (be
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White Anglo Saxon Protestant
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footpath is pretty great for planning and adding features regularly
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Here’s a good recent RadioLab episode with the guy who calculated the current $10m figure. https://www.npr.org/2020/04/15/835571843/episode-991-lives-v...
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RadioLab did an episode about this that ran through an example of a police officer murdered in an ambush in Juarez, Mexico. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/eye-s...
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6y ago
you don't have to pay for cobra until you need it though, so you could get out spending $0, iirc.
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7y ago
Yes, this is true. The check amount decreases for individuals making between 75k and 100k. Over 100k you get nothing. Double those numbers for couples.
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