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by rsweeney21 3y ago
This is because ATSes still use keyword boolean search rather than semantic and natural language search. It's super frustrating. I'm working on building an ATS that lets you search for things like "experience scaling a compan
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
Complaining about a CEO seeking regulatory capture seems like complaining about a lion eating a gazelle. It's the natural order of things in American corporations. But like a lion eating a gazelle, it still turns my stomach to watch.
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
This will be another example of the power of distribution. It doesn't have to be better than Chat GPT. It just has to be good enough. This is similar to Slack vs Microsoft Teams. Slack had a several year head start on product, but Micr
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by rsweeney21 3y ago
I was working at Microsoft when Steve Ballmer said "No one is going to spend $500 on a phone" in response the iPhone. It's okay to own a truck even if you don't work on a farm. I own an f150 because it has way more legro
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
Hey Kyle!
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
I built the first "post-play" experience for Netflix. It made it so that Netflix would automatically start playing the next episode of the show you are watching after a 15 second count down. We built it in the Silverlight player o
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
I'm looking for someone to help me start a new trade school for developers that can accept younger students before they have to move out of the house. I'm a developer myself in the middle of building Facet, a hiring platform for d
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
I have a theory that the present seems worse than the past because of anxiety - the fear of what might happen in the future. In most cases, what we fear does not happen and so when we look back, the past almost always seems happier than the
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
A similar thing happened at Netflix in 2011. My coworker kept buying options and I stopped. His stock grew to $34M. Mine recovered to six figures. If you can buy more, and you have confidence in the company, that’s what I would do.
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
Here's a handy spreadsheet to calculate your hourly contracting rate: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hVtKa9Vls7Uy7YHPA-RF... It factors in PTO, FICA, 401K match, equipment, etc. It's made by my
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
Clickbait. The author was offered a standard severance package when he was terminated. Nearly all severance packages ask for non-disparagement. Severance helps people make the transition to their next job, but it also serves the company by
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
Heroku uses the host name to route requests. So you wouldn't serve another site, it would just give you an error that your site wasn't found or something.
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
We use cloudflare. If you look up the IP address for your public domain name, you will get the cloudflare IP, yes. If you lookup the IP address of the CNAME target, you will get the heroku IP.
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
We just deployed a workaround that brought our site back up. 1. Find your DNS Target in heroku. It should end with .herokudns.com 2. Lookup the historical DNS record to get the IP addresses. You can find historical DNS records here: https:
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
This is a great example of misaligned incentives. Another example of misaligned incentives is LinkedIn. LinkedIn charges $3/message. The more messages sent on their platform, the more money they make. They are not incentivized to help
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
Has anyone tested edge functions + planetscale (or similar) vs edge functions + a database read replica also located at the edge? It seems like you lose most of the benefit of your code running at the edge if your database is still in an AW
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
The leap from "recommending" content to "generating" content reminds me of the leap from cars that we drive on the ground and cars that fly. It seems like the future, but it's much further away than we think.
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
If your stated company mission is not the thing that produces revenue then it will eventually be sacrificed for the mission that does produce revenue. Examples of mission statements that don't produce revenue: Google, Facebook, YouTube
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
The 14 year old you are referring to is my 3rd great grandmother, Helen Mar Kimball. Her personal journals and her other writings don't agree with your characterization of what took place. I've gotten used to her being defamed, bu
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
This looks awesome! Since moving to a smaller company, I miss being able to learn new things from more experienced engineers. This also satisfies the itch to learn a new language by building something really interesting, and not just anothe
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
We've also had a HUGE influx of fake accounts in the past couple of months claiming to work for our company. According to LinkedIn we have 243 employees! In reality, we have 23. See for yourself: https://www.linkedin.com&#x2
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
This has been happening to us for over a year. We contact support, the posting gets removed, and then a few weeks later it is back. It's infuriating.
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
In my experience, high-quality educational content works much better than paid ads when targeting developers. One of the best examples I've seen is digital ocean. When ever I google a sys admin type question, there is a digital ocean a
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
"From early 2023 through 2032, fans can get every live MLS match by subscribing to a new MLS streaming service, available exclusively through the Apple TV app." So the only way to watch MLS games is by subscribing to the MLS strea
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
lol thanks! I actually hate the attention, in part because of comments like this one. Though this one was comparatively mild. I do it to generate sales leads for my startup. We're bootstrapped so being able to generate leads without an
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
If I could offer some advice from the perspective of a developer that has built several MVPs and done all my own design work. (FWIW Two of my MVPs made it to real businesses generating over $1M in ARR each.) Find a product that has a design
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
tldr: "Overall, I would say that this is in the don't-panic-but-keep-a-close-eye-on category."
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by rsweeney21 4y ago
Law firms are not co-ops. They are partnerships where a small number own and control the company.
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
This looks awesome! Impressive work! You mentioned you and your co-founder. Did the two of you build the entire product? Curious how long it took the two of you.
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by rsweeney21 5y ago
I like the idea of understanding opposing viewpoints in a way that doesn't sensationalize them. I would prefer to have the opposing viewpoints represented by intelligent, polite, respectful individuals - not summarized by an editorial

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