I worked at AmEx for many years. I hated every second of it- the culture, the work, the people, and management. Besides that, I hate to admit that they have a great product.
Apple announcements, especially WWDC used to be very exciting. I've watched all Apple announcements live since 2020ish. This is the first year where I am not watching live because it's been "meh" for a while now, and I can just read about it later.
Squarespace was my first experience with a hellish technical interview process back in 2014. I went through like 4 initial screens/take-home assignments for a {something} Analyst role that was considered entry level. I eventually gave up, and from that moment on, I hated Squarespace as a company. These take home assignments weren't even relevant for the role, yet they thought it made sense to inject it into the process. I'm glad they're 1 step closer to their demise.
I always understood it as an artificial way to reduce the applicant pool. Too many people apply, you just want to make it annoying to keep a number of people you have capacity to review in depth.
This is some serious cherry-picking. It's going private at a price below the initial IPO price of $48 from 3 years ago, and has generally significantly underperformed other tech stocks.
They might not be about to die, but they're not exactly healthy either.
Because it's an extended period, with a simple round time window that doesn't include the IPO pop from the frothiest IPO environment of the last decade. Happy to have gone with any time window outside of 2021. That should be clear from my comment.
"But, Creddit", the ignorant accuser of cherry-picking whine, "why after 2021?"
Square space IPOd in a borderline delusional environment of retail investing, stimulus money, and massive free cash flow. Pretty much every IPO from that era looks awful on paper, but the companies are fine balance sheet wise.
To my knowledge, CDC provides a solution to the following 2 pain points. Would love to hear more:
1. Replication: Imagine you have 5 different analytical environments. Do you backup & restore to each destination, essentially re-writing 10TB of data, when only 2MB worth of data changed? You'd be surprised how many organizations still do this.
2. System Triggering: How can you inform a downstream system an event occurred? There are many mechanisms to do so, and they vary in complexity, but given the requirements are simple (if a row in the DB changes, let's tag this change as an event and just pass it to all the downstream systems that need to know this)
Additionally, it can help with systems where 2-phase commits can lead to weird and complex situations. This is where applying SAGA and using Transactional Outbox can help: it should allow for abstracting away the event stream away from the main application logic, the CDC mirror can then handle generating the stream.
This can also allow for plug-and-play of other downstream services/sinks from the CDC stream.
Pretty verbose article that can be summarized as “Credit cards charge merchants a fee, sometimes more when co-branded, to entice customers to use their credit card in favor over others.”
Agreed. I read it hoping to learn something I didn't already know. He kept teasing us with the promise of some inside baseball but didn't really deliver.
This “article” uses a lot of words to say so little. There is very little to be gained by reading this. It reads like a search engine optimization attempt.
Alongside a link to Google's explanation of why they do it, that's a very reasonable and helpful reply. "Changing the queuing method from the standard first-in, first-out (FIFO) to last-in, first-out (LIFO) [...] can reduce load by removing requests that are unlikely to be worth processing"
> Most services process queues in FIFO (first-in first-out) order. During periods of high queuing, however, the first-in request has often been sitting around for so long that the user may have aborted the action that generated the request. Processing the
first-in request first expends resources on a request that is less likely to benefit a user than a request that has just arrived. Our services process requests using adaptive LIFO. During normal operating conditions, requests are processed in FIFO order, but when a queue is starting to form, the server switches to LIFO mode. Adaptive LIFO and CoDel play nicely together, as shown in figure 2. CoDel sets short timeouts, preventing long queues from building up, and adaptive LIFO places new requests at the front of the queue, maximizing the chance that they will meet the deadline set by CoDel. HHVM3, Facebook’s PHP runtime, includes an implementation of the Adaptive LIFO algorithm.
As far as I know, MLB allows players to BUY into health insurance each year for life after 1 day of service. But this player was homeless, so I imagine he couldn’t buy much of anything.
No, if you make the 25-man roster, it's $700,000 [1]. The minimum for the 40-man roster is around $80K. This player was signed as a player on the "restricted list" which does not fall into the 40-man roster [2]. They signed him for $0.
He appeared in over 90 games at the Major League level from 2016 to 2018.
You cannot appear in a game without being on the 25 man roster (40 after the late season roster expansion).
I was pointing out the assertion that he was "homeless" during his playing days, which doesn't pass the most basic smell test. For one thing, teams arrange at least temporary housing for rookies and recent call ups.
Fans often have opinions on which players are good or bad teammates, I doubt their use of that word means they themselves were on the team (not that it's impossible, just very unlikely).
I know this article isn’t tech related, but it relates to employment in general.
I’m torn between feeling sad that phenomenal people with rare abilities under terrible circumstances can’t get the most basic of care unless tied to an employer… on the other hand, I’m glad that there are organizations who care when they have 0 incentive to care.
I pray to work for a company that cares this much about their people. I’d be willing to take a 50% salary cut simply because money is an ends to achieving happiness- if that company cared this much about people, I’m sure they’d do other small things that ultimately brings me happiness.
HN is not for either "tech" in general or "employment in general".
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"I’m glad that there are organizations who care when they have 0 incentive to care."
They have at least a little reason to care since sports are about popularity and being cold-heartedis not a recipe for popularity. I'd imagine they can also write off the cost as goodwill.
