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At my job the DB is backwards compatible by one release. This means we roll back code, not data. It takes a little longer to do something like delete a column, but it's worth it.

Rainforest QA had a blog post on strategies a while ago.

While this is big for the company, I am curious what it means for recruitment of future executives at the company.

My understanding is at this level it's about personal connections and grooming an image. With that in mind, does it become harder to attract great executives on a go-forward basis for Uber?

Let's be honest, does anyone pay full price beyond 10 users? If there's anything I've learned it's that the word "enterprise" means "negotiable." I suspect they put that out there so they have a place to start without the costly interaction of emails coming in saying "how much for x people."

I'm happy this comes up in every thread about gitlab, and that they appear to read them. I'm hoping one day someone on the team says "you know, they're right, we should do something about this."

Just to throw my example in, they would want to pay me at least 20% less than what I currently make -- and I'm already a 100% remote employee working for a financially stable startup. What they offer is simply not even close to market value -- yet they claim it is. In this case it's the D.C. area.

Sometimes that knowledge doesn't trickle out due to a variety of political reasons. A fresh face, with the blessing of senior management, can make a solid impact.

Not saying this is what happened, and I greatly respect Walmart labs, especially the electrode project.

does this work with credit cards? i charge everything and then pay off the balance each month.

I don't know about years prior, but Snapchat's executive team is making over a million a year. Not much risk at this point.

Sometimes. This can also happen before customs so that the company does not have to deal with it. It's amazing the abuse that other carriers do to USPS because they have a constitutional responsibility.

Yep, the tooling around Java is absolutely fantastic.

Of what? A developer in that location? What is that benefit?

Having worked on both coasts, I can say that the quality is the same. Culture and quantity appears to be the biggest difference.

I always cd to the parent directory, ls with tab complete to check, the rm with the same tab complete.

I've been playing around with koding, which I believe offers a similar toolset.

That said, their documentation is lacking, and broken links abound. I hope they get their act together soon, or they are doomed as the on boarding and troubleshooting experience is terrible.

Do you mind elaborating on this? Perhaps an example?

> Nobody has solved the micro-payment problem yet

what is this problem?

I think as a consumer DB that may have helped. However, if the company (rethinkdb in this case) is still small enough, and the client big enough, than they can work out a contract that states that the source code gets licensed to them in the case of a shutdown.

This allows the company to get larger accounts with no real downside as they would be out of business.

30, haven't been to a dentist in 9 years. Scared to go, but no pain or bleeding. I brush every other day...

That being said, I've had a lot of work done -- the front to half of most of my teeth is fake. The fake enamel saved my molars. I know this because my last dentist was a preventative and let's fixa problem when it is a problem type, not an aggressive one.

I do not understand why fake enamel is not standard. It works -- I'm proof. It's almost like dentist want you to suffer and use their services.

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How about this one, a shirt with reflective material on it! https://patents.google.com/patent/US5588156

That's super annoying. The 100 person startup I'm at uses 2 factor authentication! It's so easy these days there is no technical excuse anymore.

What is large scale? Does it just mean lines of code? I'm in charge of a Python app that has about 75,000 lines (not including comments, blank lines, imports, generated code or tests), and been doing it for 4 years.

Would I recommend python for something the size I do now? No. I would recommend any other language that has strongly enforces types and compile time checks (like Java). They add an extra layer of safety on unit tests. I have dreams of rewrites that are in C# or Java.

Just today I fixed 2 bugs because of unexpected types being used.

I use workflowy, but mainly for task management and light note taking. The UI is cimbersome on desktop, and unusable on Android. The only thing that saves it is keyboard shortcuts.

I used to use Evernote, and still recommend them for people who want something more robust and featured. I wish they were lighter in the formatting and allowed markdown though.

Usecanvas is good if you want something dead simple.

Seriously. The amount of people on the android team can't be more than 5 people devs, right? Maybe allocate 10 so you have some redundancy when people get sick.

Isn't periscope being shut down?

This is nice! I've been looking for a way to schedule deployments of multiple code bases at the same time, with automatic rollback support. Does this support that?

How did we as an industry go from "create a blog in 10 minutes" with rails to a "create a twitter clone in 7 days"?

It seems we have gone backwards in terms of speed of getting things done in the last decade.

Why should it? They weren't responsive to user demands for years, routinely break features (checkbox saving is broken right now), and have terrible discovery and search.

If anything we should be cheering for gitlab. Atleast we can modify it locally.

I don't think VR will ever catch on because it kills the socialization just be using it, and there isn't the 10x factor to overcome this hurdle.

TV, phones, and the internet all caught on because they enhanced social experiences. The TV became something to talk about and experience jointly. Phones allowed communication over great distance and quick access to information. The internet was the 10x factor of the phone.

When we start having VR rooms ala star trek, then it will catch on like fire as it will become a social experience.

I live about 30-40 miles outside of D.C. The only people I know who have a house earn significantly more, or are dual income top-tier earning households.

Generation isn't the same as age. Being 30 means I'm part of the "millennial" generation which only takes $106,500 to be in the top 1%.

What makes me upset is that the economic realities do not match what is taught in large swaths of America. We are taught (at least in my community, and I am 30 now still living within 20 miles of where I grew up) that a very achievable ideal is a middle class existence with one parent working, and a small house in the suburbs. I am in the top 1% income earners for my generation and do not even come close to this.

I think it's important for young parents to start breaking this cliche that economic prosperity is an American standard. Instead we should be teaching that life is hard and you should count your lucky stars if you are able to afford anymore more than an apartment.