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Comment · 5 years ago
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After doing moderate strength training in these areas along with core exercises as part of a cross training class (2x a week) my back pain that I’ve had for over a decade dissapeared.

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Comment · 6 years ago
We used Hired to great success 4-5 years ago in Austin but overtime the quality of candidate went down. At a dinner with our account rep early on he said they spent $20k to acquire each candidate. Their pricing structure at the time was more like $25k/yr for 20 introductions/mo. My best guess is that over time they blew through all of their cash and had to spend a lot less on acquiring and vetting talent. At some point in the last two years they priced their product similarly to what a retained recruiter would (I don’t remember exactly but it was either 20k per hired candidate or 20% or first years salary), and they weren’t competitive
Comment · 11 years ago
I can't remember the source, but I learned this in a management class in college about 10 years ago. It was a general statement about learning something new. You don't know what your don't know (so you are optimistic) -> You realize you know nothing (so you are negative) -> Then you get better with practice -> Mastery
Comment · 12 years ago
We use Keen a lot on our engineering team. In our case we send them a lot of a events, but only query a few dozen times a month. However those queries are done in times when we need to quickly query data. Saved our ass a few times since started using it. They have libs on all of the languages we use. There is no excuse for a frontend dev or backend dev on any team to just log as much data as they can. That's the key...the barrier is low enough where there really is no excuse AND you don't have dev ops screaming at you sending too much data.

Most of our non technical people can't use the dashboard (I think this is from lack of effort rather than something wrong on Keen's side), but it is powerful and easy to use. Someone doesn't have to know SQL or Hadoop to get what they want.

Anyways YMMV but we have really liked using it.

EDIT: like others have posted want to also say that they have great customer service. Have had no issues but feel like they have made sure I could get in touch if I needed to

Comment · 12 years ago
They might provide by paying for it rather than hosting themselves
Comment · 12 years ago
I can't tell if this is corporate trolling or not
Comment · 13 years ago
It's an equality vs liberty issue. Either my free speech is violated because you have more money to voice your side, or my speech is violated because the government isn't letting me express my views by buying an advertisement. My point is that there is a tradeoff. Surrounding any different issue you have different people on different sides of the scale. i.e. you don't like the person buying the advertisement so it is undemocratic OR I am very passionate about the issue but the government won't let me spend money to advocate my position.
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
CYA blog post
Comment · 14 years ago
They didn't. I believe Jacob left few weeks ago.
Comment · 14 years ago
I found that renaming CSS file names using the hash of the contents does not always work because any changes to dependencies (e.g. images) won't always bubble up to the CSS. I forget all of the reasons why it didn't always work, but it I think it had to do with CDN invalidation for files that I could not-rename (e.g index.html).

The process I use computes the hash of every file and creates a dependency map then I use the hash of the contents of a file and its dependencies to rename the file.

Comment · 14 years ago
I see.

Do you know if messages are encrypted from device-to-device on BBM or if they are just encrypted to the hub like I message seems to be

Comment · 14 years ago
Protocol aside is there anything significantly different in the way blackberry handles BBM messages and Apple handles iMessage messages?

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