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Spruce | Multiple roles | (North America) / Austin, TX | REMOTE | Full-Time | https://getspruce.com

At Spruce, our mission is to build relationships and technology that empower local businesses to serve multifamily residents. From full housekeeping to a quick tidy up or a dog walk for your furry friend, Spruce is available to residents on-demand. We help local businesses build economies of scale in their operations and tech-enable their business so they can compete.

We will be launching in over a dozen markets this year with 3-4x revenue growth.

Join us as we build our next-gen platform and scale from a handful of regional markets to a national rollout. We're using K8s, Serverless, Docker, Node, and Python on the back end with Typescript/React on the front end.

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Although this sounds like heaven and from your perspective as an employee it makes sense.

But the system you built doesn't necessarily achieve the goals you want. If everyone gets the same dividend it becomes a tragedy of the commons since an individual player can do the minimum while profiting off other players actions. Even if its varied in dividend for example one person gets 10% while another gets 40%, this still applies as a player with the strategy of being mediocre will still get benefits of the hard work of all other players while minimizing the amount of work he has to do.

Not only that, businesses are meant to make money if the people who start the business is giving out half their money away this system better make 2x the revenue every single quarter or why would they do it.

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Low prices attract customers that will demand more features and make more complaints to you then any other demographic. In SaaS higher priced customers are typically more accommodating and in addition you get more resources to meet their demands.

Somehow there's something psychological that makes you appreciate a product less when you paid 10$ vs 1000$.

What your saying applys more to ELT, which is an efficient method when using batches. There's no reason why you can't stream ETL.

Are they against capital punishment? That's different from rejecting disciplinary and penal institutions as a whole. Is there a reason why restitution is considered the only mechanism for punishment? How do Libertarians disagree with the idea that a penal institution can be a source of social reform as well as political stability?

Does Libertarian idea of a penal system not rely on the idea of discipline? I'm curious as the western world has moved on from the previous system where a crime was considered a personal offence to the sovereign. In which case, criminals were displayed in public and tortured. To a system where criminals are to be reformed and disciplined into a normalized individual. An eye for an eye seems to be a regression back to the systems before we had a state and where the penal institution was no longer a extension of politics.

Location: Toronto Remote: Not mandatory

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript (VueJS), AWS(SQS, EC2, Glue, RDS, Cloud Watch, Lambda, S3), PHP, PostgreSQL,

Résumé/CV: Upon request

Email: cedricleong@gmail.com

Can work in both frontend and backend

It's funny as a previous dev that worked with Magento, they said that Shopify did not pose any threat to their business. But I think it's getting clear now that Magneto/Adobe's positioning in the market (enterprise/large-ish medium businesses) is still a good niche but seems like their losing a lot of the SMB customers that made the Magento community what it was.

That pause button is usually a function key in other keyboards.

I don't believe this is unique in China's history. Their economic power was certainly world class in previous times. They were a manufacturing powerhouse and held monopoly over many goods in a global trade network. Not only that, China had more power projection in the past. They had direct influence in current day Afghanistan and Central Asia until they lost at the battle of Talas River. As well as having tributary states in Japan and Korea. Currently, the US and allies surrounds China in such a way that they don't have the same influence.

Sounds like what Nathaniel Fick has been saying about cyber warfare should also have a degree of proportionality. Mostly, due to the fact that security favors the attacker, deterrence should be based on fear of retaliation vs. a perfect virtual environment.

Hey I'm an experienced Magento developer that's working with Laravel. Is there anyway I reach you directly?

I'm pretty sure Bill Gate's mom was friends with a IBM board member which is how he got that meeting to provide them with an OS in the first place

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By definition wouldn't all bridges "barely work"? Yes it's spec'd to handle X load, now putting X+1 might cause some damage because it was never tested or designed for X+1.

Do you think it’s absurd that titles like Doctor is regulated? You may not think it’s neccessary to have a professionalized version of Software Engineering but what about code running RTS, critical health care systems etc?

Decriminalization of drugs is not the only solution out there. See Singapore, Japan etc.

Are you telling me you chose micro services just to enforce coding standards and allow devs to be more comfortable?

The legacy concerns I don’t see being true, as it’s mainly a requirements/documentation problem and you can achieve the same effect with feature toggles.

Excel, Visual Basic, COBOL

I think part of this is the industry and part of it is the technology. Entire languages in the web are basically meant to be glue. Embedded usually has different requirements from Web, memory and performance are real problems you run into fast if you don't know what your doing. Where in web, memory and performance are a problem of economics, everyone is being served from a cluster that can be scaled if the software is shoddy.

Depends on the application. In e-commerce and I believe many other industries as well will depend on fast responses for conversions. For example, a page that loads ~2 seconds will start to lose bounce rates/ conversions.

Of course full page cache is the first stopgap for this problem but you'll always have dynamic content.

That might not be a good measure, take a language related to PHP like Hack. The min salary for this language will be six figures because the only company that uses it is Facebook. PHP is a widely used language that your not going to have problem finding a job with.

Your right about history written by victors, however if Theranos delivered would there be fraud? The issue at hand is that she said she delivered when she did not.

But in that alternate universe Apple would still have been a huge success, and the iPhone would have been another failed product like the Windows Phone. In addition to this pattern to success, Jobs was not a criminal. Theranos made VERY negligent statements such as the military using Theranos products(they did not).

It would be an enormously complex device, most of the sugar we consume gets converted into fat as we quickly cap out our "energy blocks".

Look into every sub field of philosophy and the debates that have gone on about certain topics for thousands of years. For example, the mind-body problem in epistemology.

To clarify, no the field is not based on social consensus but logic. How do we explain certain things? For example, Kant believed that logic as a field had been "solved" in the sense there needs no more progress in the field as the techniques developed were sufficient to solve logic problems. Until Godel came along and improved on logic in the 20th century. Solving in this sense is a technical definition not the social one.

No, philosophy as a academic field has failed. It's common knowledge for those in the field to know that none of the primary problems of philosophy has been solved despite being worked on for 2000 years. What every academic tries to do now is work on the secondary problems.

Although pracitcally what you said is true, many teams I've worked in had seniors that would design projects based on their interests. I'd like to say there is a way to design objectively based on trade-offs for the project. If you ever worked in enterprise-like "frameworks" like Magento you will see the design patterns and how they achieve certain goals in a project. E.G EAV, XML module & layout declaration for flexibility, MVVM for single responsibility controllers meant for large enterprise teams working on the same controller at one time.

How does crypto currencies solve this if a bad actor gets a hold of your wallet...