JoelSutherland

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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Zenefits does not do payroll, they "integrate" with other Payroll providers. Of the providers I've been most impressed with ZenPayroll so this is a very exciting announcement.
Comment · 11 years ago
This is not really the attitude a company should have when they manage benefits:

On the flip side, with so many people contributing code mistakes are bound to happen. That’s normal – after all we’re all just people, and people make mistakes. One thing that I’ve found particularly admirable about our team here is that people own up right away, and strive to fix things as fast as possible. No one wants to ship buggy code, but it happens. The nice thing about working with so many smart and friendly devs though is that you can trust that someone will be there to catch you if you fall and help you fix things.

We've caught and reported 4-5 bugs in production to Zenefits on really basic features. Three of our employees have now been asked to send a screenshot of the dashboard with the JS console open...

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
The link I added has a filmstrip view where you can verify that this isn't the case. Alternatively visit the two sites yourself! The multi-second difference is perceptible to a human being.
Comment · 11 years ago
This linked article that talks about web pages sucking is 1.3mb and is first visible/readable after 4.9 seconds:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150715_SE_YM1/

An article from the site it complains about sure uses a lot more bandwidth (2.9mb) but at least it's visible/readable in 2.2 seconds:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150715_KC_YQK/

The bandwidth/resource waste sure sucks but having ads load asynchronously isn't as bad as a blank screen for 5 seconds.

Comment · 11 years ago
If zooming is disabled, the browser can respond to clicks without a 300ms delay since it doesn't have to wait for a double-click zoom. It seems like the best solution to this problem would be to make a global toggle in settings.
Comment · 11 years ago
About an inch, but actually less than an inch and even less so for women. So women are ~1% taller and 18.5% heavier. I don't think height is a factor.
Comment · 11 years ago
I too run a small company and am a Zenefits customer. We've now done ~15 payroll runs with Zenefits and only 3 have worked without my manual intervention to fix a problem at the last minute. I don't think this will be the only lawsuit in their future.
Comment · 11 years ago
I can second this. We've been with Zenefits for over a year now and the issues don't stop. Many of their "integations" occur in meatspace: when a change is made on the Zenefits dashboard, a Zenefits employee then manually updates the related service(s). This has resulted in a number of errors over the course of a year.

Additionally their are still issues with validation on their dashboard. We had a problem where the dashboard allowed an invalid value to be entered for a monthly 401k contribution that was a big pain to unwind.

Comment · 11 years ago
This works amazingly well on a Surface with pen/touch. It's the fastest app I've seen for going from idea to wireframes. So impressive that this could be done with web tech.
Comment · 11 years ago
The problem with (and complaint about) the top comment isn't cynicism, it's emptiness. It really just says "there is survivorship bias" with nothing specific about the shared article. It's not interesting.
Comment · 11 years ago
The Anandtech quote compares the A7 to an Atom chip, not a Core chip. That's not to say that Apple can't eventually match Core performance at higher TDPs but the distance is greater than the article suggests.

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