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by paulstovell 2y ago
I call this the "grandpa's keys" problem! When Grandpa was 20 years old he left the house and forgot to take his keys, so every time he left the house he checked his pockets for his keys. When he was 24 he left the house and
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Fair and Transparent: A deep dive into compensation at Octopus Deploy(paulstovell.com)
3 points by paulstovell 2y ago|0 comments
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by paulstovell 2y ago
Thank you for this, it's brilliant! I have spent days drawing the wiring diagram for a modified 1961 MG MGA using LucidChart. The fonts available just didn't look great. I uploaded Routed Gothic and now it looks very natural and o
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MG Tech Index(mgaguru.com)
4 points by paulstovell 2y ago|2 comments
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by paulstovell 2y ago
MG produced the MGA roadster from 1955 to 1962. This site has been operating by one person for 20+ years and has the biggest wealth of information on how to maintain and fix these cars. The tech section alone has over 4,000 pages of informa
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by paulstovell 3y ago
You don’t actually have to pay for your own, but you are taxed an extra 0.5% if you don’t and earn above a certain amount. So in practice rather than pay the additional tax, people get private healthcare. If you then start earning below the
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by paulstovell 3y ago
My hobby is tool collecting and occasionally, my wife makes me do work around the house to justify the tool collecting. So, I really enjoyed your creation here! I was going through it today and ticking off all the categories I own tools for
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by paulstovell 3y ago
> That tool bag, valued at $100,000 Must be a Festool!
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by paulstovell 4y ago
Fascinating!
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by paulstovell 5y ago
Thanks! My DM's are open, or paul at [my HN handle].com, happy to talk to anyone making this transition.
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by paulstovell 5y ago
First is the right people - don't hire "Frank" from Paul Kenny's talk. Second is to join sales calls or watch the recordings (Chorus.ai is great for this). Put yourself in the buyer's shoes and coach based on those
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by paulstovell 5y ago
This 100%! My experience here: https://twitter.com/paulstovell/status/1389881033470869504 This talk by Paul Kenny is a really good talk here about the value of the sales function even if you don't want the r
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by paulstovell 5y ago
Thank you for sharing this Kent, I got a tremendously valuable insight from it. I run a company and I love my work. And I recognise that this puts me in an extremely lucky minority. And my business has been successful enough that I could ev
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by paulstovell 6y ago
This is an important comment. When a company gets to profitability, the worst-case outcome is the company stops growing, it loses momentum and closes with a tiny payout. There is always an option to do that. By not aiming for profitability
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by paulstovell 6y ago
Octopus Deploy and TeamCity both parse output looking for commands in the same way (called Service Messages). I believe it is a common pattern in all CI servers. The issue here doesn’t seem to be parsing the output, but what the parsed comm
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Microsoft Bashes Slack Complaint in European Antitrust Filing(theinformation.com)
2 points by paulstovell 6y ago|0 comments
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by paulstovell 6y ago
Also if the problem is "churn as a single number" is wrong because it misleads people (the example being churn is up because the company is growing) surely the answer is to show a cohort analysis or historical data - not a forward
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by paulstovell 6y ago
Absolutely not an expert here, but I do obsess about our churn numbers. It seems this post is trying to make a model to predict churn or guess what future churn might be. But the main case for understanding churn to me is historical. Last m
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by paulstovell 6y ago
This comment really resonated with me - I’m a founder of a company which hit $10m a couple of years ago, we’ve been through two heads of marketing with no success, and everything you wrote is spot on with my experience. Thanks for posting i
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by paulstovell 6y ago
Thanks for the kind words!
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by paulstovell 6y ago
We built this internally to test that the UI we built for Kubernetes deployments was producing the expected YAML. Thought it would be useful to share.
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Kubernetes YAML Generator(k8syaml.com)
270 points by paulstovell 6y ago|121 comments
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by paulstovell 6y ago
British East India company had its own army and literally did run a big part of society. Amazon doesn’t have an army at least. Maybe we are trending in the right direction.
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Octopus Deploy Company Handbook(handbook.octopus.com)
2 points by paulstovell 6y ago|0 comments
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Ultra-dense optical data transmission over standard fibre with a single chip(nature.com)
67 points by paulstovell 6y ago|32 comments
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by paulstovell 6y ago
+1 your second observation. We bought a hundred year old house a few years ago. In that time I’ve gone from “knowing how to hang a picture” to full owner-builder, enclosing a garage, and lots of projects in between, all from YouTube.
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by paulstovell 6y ago
Perhaps it allows them to begin to open borders between each other, but keep borders to other states closed? If those three states' economies are very interlinked it might let them get closer to normality. Legally, is this possible in
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by paulstovell 7y ago
I am the founder of Octopus Deploy - we have #52 on that list. It was first registered in the same year I was born!
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by paulstovell 7y ago
Asking because I’m genuinely interested in a solution: Is there a way to design a HR department against this? For your own company, how would you set up a HR function that does not have this tendency?
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by paulstovell 7y ago
It's free for small teams, and we can invite you to the GitHub org if you are a customer.

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