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>Update - All services have been operating normally since 14:59 UTC. We are continuing to monitor. Sep 29, 2026 - 15:30 UTC

I hate it when companies declare victory when there is still a fire around them.

It's only $200 from me for the remainder of the year but you're not getting it anymore OpenAI. Voting with my wallet tonight. Really sad, I've followed OpenAI for years, way before ChatGPT. It's just too hard to true up my values with how they've behaved recently. This sucks. Goodnight everyone.

SQL has always been my favorite "loaded gun" api. If you have a control plane of RLS + role based auth and you've got a data dictionary it is trivial to get to a data explorer chat interaction with an LLM doing the heavy lifting.

Giving them the benefit of the doubt here obviously, I know they're in an all out war with the contact database industry. Going from websoup to agents dialing out to rent-a-human services requires different tactics.

I remember Merlin Mann, of "Inbox Zero" fame, coming to Twitter to talk about improving meetings around 2010. His list was a superset of this and forever shaped my approach to meetings. The change management part of fixing this behavior is a much heavier lift than you might expect. These are behaviors that are engrained well before the current environment.

I can confirm this goes beyond the founding team, I've sold shares as a part of raising capital at the last two places I've been employed. I was an early hire at both and held the CTO title. Series C in 2014 and most recently series B at the start of 2018. I also seek out opportunities to unload my equity in the secondary market, but I'm usually taking a haircut there vs the premium investors that are looking for a bigger share will pay during a capital event.

I'm a bird in hand guy when it comes to equity at the fast-growing private companies I tend to be attracted to. I'm almost certain I'd feel differently if I had a larger stake or founder-level attachment to what was being built.

Google seems to acknowledge the reports now. https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

This is called Medical Loss Ratio (MLR), the thinking was to limit healthcare companies from charging exorbitant rates for "profit" and not care. It got strange though because "cost of care" also included wellness programs. So what do you think these insurance companies do coming into the year end when they are under their estimates for care? A) Refund premium dollars to their members, HA! or B) Spend millions of dollars in the last days of the year building step counting programs and other half-baked wellness efforts

Healthcare in America is terminally ill. In it's current form, commercial insurance, like Aetna in this article, are rewarded for pumping up the total cost of care as big as possible while keeping their members just healthy enough to dump off at the doorstep of medicaid when they're old enough to qualify for it.

I'm genuinely curious if my perception that the Ruby community has more drama than other communities is actually true.

AWS is doing a great job producing more and more sticky features.

I love this advice. Here is a blog post that I keep coming back to regarding this.

http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

I got a death threat while working at Microsoft around 2003. Someone managed to hit the lottery on our phone tree and find me, a lowly software development engineer on Windows CE. This person was _very_ angry and was trying to open a PDF on their new Dell computer. I let them know they needed a PDF reader and I recommended Adobe's product. The person was now confused on top of angry and I was running out of patience after about 15 minutes in a circular discussion. I tried to wrap up the conversation by telling him to try support and gave him that phone number. He snapped and told me he was going to come hunt me and my family down and kill us. I hung up the phone at that point. I really didn't take him seriously, I hadn't given him any identifiable info other than I was an engineer on CE and he just sounded like a very angry person.

I called security and let them know what happened anyway. My office was invaded in about 15 minutes by 3 security folks and a Microsoft investigator. The best part was how big my coworkers eyes would get when they walked by my office and saw me surrounded by security being questioned. That afternoon the investigator followed up and asked if I was still doing ok and let me know the person was calling in from I think Kansas or some other place half way across the country. I told him I didn't feel like it was really a credible threat and that was the last I heard about the whole thing from security.

WellTok is hiring. We're located in lower downtown Denver, just a few blocks from Coors field. We'll do relocation if you're not living around here. If you're interested in helping to solve some pretty important problems that can make you feel really good about the work you're doing, like helping folks get healthier or managing their chronic conditions, in a HUGE space (15% of the US GDP!), we would probably be a good fit.

Rails - We're looking for a seasoned full-stack engineer with experience building distributed systems and has spent some time with Rails. This person will be our seed engineer for this new chapter of growth that Welltok is starting - be our core systems team's coefficient!

JS - We're looking for someone who has a real interest in javascript in the browser. You should have some full-stack experience, but you've narrowed your focus a little bit towards the top of the stack. You should be familiar with the frameworks that bring structure and organization to applications (backbone.js, angularjs, ember, etc). You'll be using our Rails apps for your data needs so you should have familiarity with Rails.

Feel free to contact me directly with questions.

Darn, someone in the comments section of the post beat me to the best zinger of all. Please see Joel's 2001 post titled "Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You."[1]

"When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all."

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." --Steinbeck

Steve McConnell revisited this subject recently: http://forums.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2011/01/22...

I think about myth #1 when this subject comes up - "Part of the issue is that I’m underpaid a little; a bigger part of the issue is the other guy is overpaid a lot."

Edit: Just saw there was a discussion on this article about 90 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131550