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by masonhensley 6y ago
Been there, done that. Agree with dtech. You also get to a point in hiring where the field of sales/ops people judge you & your maturity based on whether you use a commercial tool like Salesforce/HubSpot vs build your own. Can
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by masonhensley 6y ago
I watched a few of the videos, booked marked some more. Well done. What are people’s thoughts on remote conferences moving forward?
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by masonhensley 6y ago
Ya, sorry. The twitter account is a placeholder while we work. Just spun up a repo you can follow. https://github.com/Internal-Tools-Hub/CorpHome/blob/master/R...
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by masonhensley 6y ago
I know it's a little early and it will be in Ruby on Rails. However, I'm working on open sourcing a clone of Stripe's Home [1] as part of a series of open source B2B applications & they should check all those boxes (besid
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by masonhensley 6y ago
I've been writing a ton of user stories lately... does anyone have any pointers on what qualities made user stories outstanding/super helpful to them? For instance, was there something a particular BA/PM did when they wrote u
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by masonhensley 6y ago
Cool, thanks for sharing. Good idea to show the travis example for anyone thinking of migration.
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by masonhensley 6y ago
Not that granular yet, but I’ve been capturing user story/ acceptance criteria level best practices. Currently at ~800 B2B focused modular “specs” that find the middle ground between devs and non technical team members. My email in pro
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by masonhensley 6y ago
Answer really depends on the size & culture of the organization. Clubhouse.io, Asana & PivotalTracker are nice, but a little opinionated (can be a good or bad thing depending on who you are :) ). I think where Jira really rubs peopl
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by masonhensley 6y ago
Totally - I've had to architect & build similar work in regulated environments with custom raw data from clients... yuck. There are definitely healthy businesses in different market sectors that have popped up to do DataA <=>
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by masonhensley 6y ago
By now - the amount of time teams have spent doing this sort of work from scratch has to have surpassed the engineering hours taken to get to the moon.
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by masonhensley 6y ago
May 2020 futures contracts for WTI (that expire tomorrow) I'm oversimplifying it... there is so much more supply than demand that groups that can't take physical delivery of a contract (no space) and are paying to have it taken of
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by masonhensley 7y ago
Hey HN, I left my role running tech & security at a VC backed healthcare company a few months ago to scratch a multi year itch that I’ve had since a brutal multi hour sprint planning meeting during my time at a Fortune 50. Over the last
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Show HN: HipSpec – User Stories/Requirements as a Service(hipspec.com)
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by masonhensley 7y ago
Apparently that payout was in question as recently. https://www.barrons.com/amp/articles/softbank-may-get-out-of...
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by masonhensley 7y ago
2x 27inch 4k monitors on cheap "North Bayou" adjustable arms Mac Mini Desk: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-62-in-Adjustable-Height-Wo... Overhead TV - don't really use it, tried to add some stripe inf
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by masonhensley 7y ago
Higher end of equity - yes. Vesting - yes, but 4 years. Also, not a lawyer, but I believe there is a minimum wage thing in California. I think It's mentioned in this startup School lesson (~9 minutes in): - Video: https://ww
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by masonhensley 7y ago
Imaging Bob from accounting pasted a customer's SSN into a chat thread, group or 1:1... there countless things that shouldn't be posted in chat messages to live for eternity. Some companies build it into their systems to automatic
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by masonhensley 7y ago
The wrong kind of “do things that don’t scale”
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by masonhensley 7y ago
Bummer, what kind of work are you wanting to do next?
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by masonhensley 7y ago
Yikes, I’ve always felt bad if mine was an item or two out of date. I’ve been in situations where outsiders, clients or stakeholders want to know there is one... but don’t necessarily care about the content. Eek. What’s the saying? Everyone
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by masonhensley 7y ago
Thanks for sharing, have you written about any other experiences?
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by masonhensley 7y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/fpo4y5/brot...
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by masonhensley 7y ago
Would also check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHDMdyN5Jjs The supply chain issues alone are going to be a big hurdle for traditional PPE delivery to those that need it. While efforts like this of course c
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by masonhensley 7y ago
Patients are starting to skip visits to GP’s and specialists for new and existing conditions bc of fear of catching covid. Elective procedures are postponed indefinitely. Procedures contribute a hefty chunk of revenue in healthcare. I’d be
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by masonhensley 7y ago
Please donate them to a hospital or senior living facility.
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by masonhensley 7y ago
@soumyadeb - can't reply another level deep here. I'll create an PR in the repo. https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/pull/183 Cool project!
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by masonhensley 7y ago
But the repo says SSPL... in the readme & in the LICENSE file isn't that the source of truth? Or what matters to an organization evaluating adoption?
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by masonhensley 7y ago
Ya, repo looks like SSPL too... https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/commit/db9d53a05...
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by masonhensley 7y ago
Texas has been doing something similar for a while, it's really pretty when things are in bloom. - https://www.wildflower.org/project/ecological-roadsides - https://www.wildflower.org/plants-main
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by masonhensley 7y ago
PR for fixing that here ... https://github.com/lensapp/lens/pull/124 They had an image in the repo, but it wasn't referenced in the readme.

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