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Comment · 1 year ago

PlanetScale (famously?) deprecated their free "Hobby" tier (plus fired their sales & marketing teams) back in 2024 to achieve profitability

https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-forever

Comment · 1 year ago

This is a pretty shallow take.

Not everyone's brain works the same way. For people with ADHD (and other neurodivergent conditions), executive dysfunction can make it really hard to remember to reach out -- even to people they care about deeply. It's not about not valuing the friendship; it's about how memory and motivation work differently.

Instead of disparaging people for using tools that help them maintain relationships, maybe try having a little empathy -- or at the very least, an open mind. Not everyone connects the way you do, and that doesn't make their friendships any less real.

Comment · 2 years ago

Probably because `Float()` is stricter and will raise an error if the string isn't a valid number, whereas `#to_f` will silently return 0.0 or do a best-effort conversion (e.g. "1.2abc".to_f => 1.2)

Comment · 3 years ago

They're not going all-in with Android or abandoning Apple, they're phasing out both CarPlay AND Android Auto in favor of something entirely new (that just so happens to be built by Google).

Comment · 3 years ago

Zod has plugins that let you generate OpenAPI specs (and TS types, and JSON Schema, etc.) from your Zod schemas, so if that's the only reason you think Ajv is better, then it might be time to take another look at Zod? It really is great, especially if you buy into the "parse, don't validate" principle that it's built around.

Comment · 6 years ago

This is no longer true as of ~2013.

See rules on surcharging: https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/global/support-legal/documents...

And minimum transaction amounts (minimum can't exceed $10): https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/minimum-tra...

Comment · 9 years ago

Homer Logistics | VP Operations Research, Software Engineer | New York, NY | ONSITE

Help us revolutionize last-mile delivery in urban environments! We're building a distributed delivery platform to support the hundreds of thousands of deliveries that happen daily in NYC (and other cities). Our software is running in stores around the city and is used to coordinate thousands of deliveries across our fleet of couriers every day.

What we're looking for:

* VP of Operations Research - Scale up and manage a team of talented operations research experts while you lead the research, development and maintenance of the models and algorithms that we use every day for demand forecasting, scheduling, route optimization, etc. More info here: https://angel.co/homer-logistics/jobs/47887

* Software Engineer - Use your experience across the stack to build new features, deploy new infrastructure and solve challenging integration problems. We use a lot of Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL and Angular, and are starting to use more Go, TypeScript and React.

Email me at robert (at) homerlogistics.com if you're interested in learning more!

Comment · 10 years ago

How to Design A Good API and Why it Matters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw

Comment · 10 years ago

They don't publish them publicly, you have to speak to a sales rep.

Comment · 10 years ago

Just FYI that's not the current pricing: it's $6 per asset, with a minimum of 1667 tracked assets ($10000 / $6).

Comment · 10 years ago

Homer Logistics | New York, NY | https://homerlogistics.com | Full-Time | ONSITE

We're looking to bring on a full-stack engineer to help us build out our platform. We currently use Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, Node.js and Angular, but we're open to all languages and skills--bonus points for interest in Elixir and Go! We're also in the process of migrating our infrastructure to Kubernetes, so experience with AWS and Docker is a plus.

The engineering team is still very small (there's only 4 of us), so you'll have a lot of ownership on the projects you work on and have a big impact on our development culture!

Our interview process involves a phone interview, a take-home coding challenged focused on real software development and an onsite interview where you meet the team and get feedback on your code.

Email me at robert (at) homerlogistics.com if you're interested in learning more!

Comment · 10 years ago

Homer Logistics | New York, NY | https://homerlogistics.com | Full-Time | ONSITE

You:

* Write code that is scalable, maintainable and reusable

* Have experience designing, implementing and maintaining APIs for your team and customers

* Have a strong, proven background in Ruby, Rails and/or Go

* Have a working knowledge of practical SQL (preferably PostgreSQL)

* Are comfortable working with JavaScript and AngularJS

* Know when to be practical and when to push for perfection

The engineering team is still very small (there's only 3 of us), so you'll have a lot of ownership over the projects you work on.

Our interview process involves a phone screen, a take-home problem focused on real software development and an in-person interview where you meet the team and get feedback on your code.

Email me at robert (at) homerlogistics.com if you're interested in learning more!

Comment · 10 years ago

Homer Logistics | New York, NY | https://homerlogistics.com | Full-Time | ONSITE

Help us revolutionize how restaurants deliver food! We're building a centralized delivery platform to support the 200,000 food deliveries made each day in NYC. Our software is running in restaurants around the city and is used to coordinate deliveries across our fleet (all which are W2 employees--no contractors here!). We're growing incredibly fast, so to help us keep up with demand we're looking to add a few more talented software engineers to our team.

You:

* Write code that is scalable, maintainable and reusable

* Have experience designing, implementing and maintaining APIs for your team and customers

* Have a strong, proven background in Ruby, Rails and/or Go

* Have a working knowledge of practical SQL (preferably PostgreSQL)

* Are comfortable working with JavaScript and AngularJS

* Know when to be practical and when to push for perfection

The engineering team is still very small (there's only 3 of us), so you'll have a lot of ownership over the projects you work on.

Email me at robert (at) homerlogistics.com if you're interested in learning more!

Comment · 11 years ago

Homer Logistics | New York, NY | https://homerlogistics.com | Full-Time | ONSITE

Help us revolutionize how restaurants deliver food! We're building a centralized delivery system to support the 200,000 food deliveries made each day in NYC. Our software is running in restaurants around the city and is used to coordinate deliveries across our fleet. We're growing incredibly fast, so to help us keep up with demand we're looking to add a few more talented software engineers to our team.

You:

* Write code that is scalable, maintainable and reusable

* Have experience designing, implementing and maintaining APIs as a service for your team and customers

* Have a strong, proven background in Ruby and Ruby on Rails

* Have a working knowledge of practical SQL (preferably PostgreSQL)

* Are comfortable working with JavaScript and AngularJS

* Know when to be practical vs. perfect

We're a small team (15 full-time employees) and an even smaller engineering team (3 full-time employees, including myself), so you will have direct ownership over the projects you work on. You'll also be influential in determining our technology stack going forward.

Email me at robert (at) homerlogistics.com if you're interested in learning more!

Comment · 11 years ago

The variable here is overhead bin space, not seats. People want to board first, regardless of their seating assignment, so that they're assured a space for their probably oversized carry-on luggage.