andrewmwatson

I've been a reviewer on PR for a couple of months now and it's been amazing. I've gotten to help dozens, maybe hundreds of developers improved their code, fix security, readability, testing and lots of other issues. Sometimes the PR is short and the review is short but sometimes it's much more involved and I've had the opportunity to really explain things and educate people in a way that no lint checker could. I'm able to apply the wealth of my experience and knowledge with specific guidance based on things I've learned from building software for 22 years. I can't think of another way that a company could gain access to that kind of guidance for only $699 a month.

I can go into detail explaining how to safely and reliably structure something and the feedback I get from the developers is positive and appreciative. I also collaborate with other reviewers about things we're seeing and I've learned a ton in the process because the other reviewers they've all got such a depth of experience and knowledge in different areas.

I don't do reviews full time, I have a day job, but I've been earning about $1000 a week doing it just some nights and weekends and that has been really great too.

Overall, I think PullRequest is an enormously positive thing for its customers and the reviewers. We're not trying to replace people's existing review processes if they have them. Our goal is just to add to our customers' capabilities and I think we're going very well at that.

they did this before and rolled it back, if i'm remembering things correctly.

I built this after a discussion with a friend about the friction involved in getting rid of stuff with Craigslist, Freecycle etc. This is intended largely as an experiment to gauge demand. There's nothing automated about it yet because I didn't want to spend any time on it if there's no demand for the service.

this is from a long time ago. why is this up here again?

the blog post mentioned AES-GCM 256bit

looks like the post is down?

They most certainly do let you run Go on AppEngine!

you're right, RoR is WAY more secure...

Pusher has a great realtime console, Stripe has stellar documentation and Foursquare has great developer features like testing recent push notifications.

I think that is actually the point?