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As they say, I'm not dead yet -- many of the companies listed as dead are acquired or very much still alive. (Domo is still publicly traded, for example.)

I had my first copy of the Band's Cripple Creek from the Personics at Cutlers in New Haven...

As the founder of what would become Heroku Connect (aka Cloudconnect), this thread warms my heart. Love to see the innovation - good luck!

He actively promoted a conspiracy that Paul Pelosi was attacked by a gay prostitute. (While Pelosi was still in the hospital recovering from serious injuries.) Why should he expect sympathy now?

Having any object / table in Salesforce > 1M rows is somewhat exceptional; doing that daily (using standard Salesforce capabilities) is off the charts -- just moving amount of data into Salesforce within a 24 hr window is questionable. Its built for B2B, where the data volumes are much lower, and conversely the kinds of operations / workflows you want to do on that data are typically more complex.

This is an interesting topic :)

After Apex was introduced in 2006, Salesforce suffered criticism (misplaced, IMHO) over the fact that it was proprietary. In 2009 it did a partnership with VMware to create a Java-as-a-service proto-PaaS so business logic could be written in Java instead of Apex. This service (VMforce) never worked for a variety of reasons, leaving Salesforce to look for an alternative -- so in early 2011 they bought Heroku. Thats why the first thing Heroku did post acquisition was build Java support.

Turns out this wasn't a great product idea to start (the limitations of externalizing business logic, especially at that time, weren't worth the effort), so the strategic reason for the acquisition was no longer relevant. Years later there were successful integrations that had different value propositions, although those suffered from the constraints described above.

- Heroku generates hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenue. There are plenty of interesting things to debate about its past and future, but it was not a failure by any reasonable definition.

- Salesforce did ~27b in revenue in 2022; its very hard for a comparatively small business to get resources / mindshare in that environment, especially when you focus on a market / audience that is different than the rest of the business. From a strategy POV, for better or worse, Salesforce is not particularly focused on integrated acquired products - its interested in selling them largely as is to existing customers. Fundamentally its a financial engineering and sales exercise, not a product innovation one. (Not to say I support or think thats the best way of driving growth, but offering my POV on the structural dynamics.)

As the co-creator of Heroku Connect (originally Cloudconnect), thanks! Its been amazing to watch that space mature in the 11 years since we started that effort, especially with the new crop of reverse ETL vendors.

You mistake legitimate questions about the policy with questions about its implementation. The policy, and the issues you raised, were discussed, decided and voted on -- what the article highlights is the needlessly bureaucratic implementation.

Australia doesn't have the same rules. https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/leaving-australia

Visiting Zurich's design museum a few years ago I had that experience -- just showed up at the right time, and since there was no one else on the tour, I got the full warehouse tour (for free!). It was amazing - sometimes you just get lucky ;)

> If that fails I could see progressives abandoning net neutrality to lean on ISPs to block traffic.

Funny considering of course that republicans abandoned net neutrality years ago.. Now maybe they will support it?

As reprehensible as it is, legally they absolutely are. Remember how country clubs didn't / still don't allow woman, african americans or jews? Common carriers (stores, hotels, etc) are treated differently, and is very much debated. (ie can a bakery deny service based on sexual preference.)

The Attorney General of Texas filed a lawsuit claiming the results of election in four other states were invalid. If that isn't rejection of the constitution and democracy I don't know what is.

For those interested in learning more, and particularly how to think about the product and organizational implications of adding enterprise sales, I did a heavybit talk on the subject based on Heroku's experience building its enterprise business.

https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/self-serve-go-to-mark...

I wrote a tutorial a while back on how to do this in Postgres using the Google Cloud Vision API in case its useful for anyone..

https://medium.com/@adamgross_6978/getting-started-with-json...

This. Exactly.

There is about 70 years of established case law on this. For a primer, read Technologies of Freedom. (https://www.amazon.com/Technologies-Freedom-Belknap-Press-It...)

All that said, the concept of where and how to apply common carrier is of course controversial, hence the entire net neutrality debate. If an ISP isn't required to carry content the idea of an information service (ie Twitter) being required to is borderline absurd.

Still has a massive audience, recently had a best selling booking, and generates headlines -- but I guess you have a unique definition of relevance. I'd encourage you to listen to his guest interviews -- they are amazing.

By this logic, Apple should have stuck to Macs and never created the iPhone..

The Edo Tokyo museum has an exhibit on these coats, and the influence of firefighting in Japanese culture in general - definitely worth a visit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo-Tokyo_Museum

I stand corrected thank you! (Perhaps I was confused as they were both rejected nominees around the same time?)

Slight correction; it was John Tower, a potential Defense Secretary nominee whose nomination was scuttled when a local paper got hold of his video rental records. He wasn't in congress at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tower

This thread is a useful reminder to US citizens that if you haven’t registered to vote, its a great idea to do so. The margins of victory in 2016 were small enough (in swing states) that a mobilized hackernews community could have made the difference.

TLDR: The government is deeply involved in housing and development, as the government controls what can be built and where. This is an effort to loosen government controls by limiting local governments ability to restrict housing development near transit hubs. Specifically, the state government is attempting to restrict local governments' ability to create limits on housing density in certain areas.

I learned much of what I know about product marketing from Tien (CEO of Zuora); as this thread demonstrates its hard for a lot of product / developer folks to understand why its such an important part of any non-consumer offering, as so much of customer development culture is focused exclusively on metrics and optimization.

Immodestly I did a presentation on the topic at Heavybit a few years ago for those that are interested in the topic: https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/platform-marketing-wi...

Since ~mid 2015, the Hobby tier for Heroku has been $7 / month, and since last month, includes SSL.

There will be news on this front soon; stay tuned.

Not withstanding everything else, I've lived in this town for years, and always found it easy to find a reasonably priced beer.