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www.abc.net.au 11mo ago

Why China is becoming the first electrostate

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www.howdygo.com 1y ago

Show HN: Free mobile app demo creator

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chipsandcheese.com 1y ago

Digging into Driver Overhead on Intel's B580

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www.howdygo.com 1y ago

Cutting Vercel Costs by 80% Without Compromising UX or DX

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www.howdygo.com 1y ago

Scaling to 100M monthly events: Matomo to Snowplow

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www.howdygo.com 1y ago

Scrolling Website Video Generator

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snowplow.io 2y ago

The Snowplow Limited Use License Agreement

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www.flagsmith.com 2y ago

Build vs. buy for feature flags – my experience as a CTO

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tracebit.com 2y ago

How fast is CloudTrail today? Investigating CloudTrail delays using Athena

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howdygo.com 3y ago

Show HN: HowdyGo – Interactive Product Demos

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howdygo.com 3y ago

Show HN: HowdyGo – On-Site Video Chat

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tasty-bench-f7a.notion.site 3y ago

The Ultimate Retreat Planning Guide

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blog.cloudflare.com 5y ago

Arms Race: Ampere Altra Takes on the AWS Graviton2

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

Driver arrested after 39 bodies found in lorry container in Essex

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www.abc.net.au 6y ago

Controversial teddy bear fence along Australian highway 'destroyed' by vandals

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medium.com 6y ago

What to Build? The Superbowl Ad Pyramid

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blog.jayway.com 6y ago

600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (2015)

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wwwx.cs.unc.edu 6y ago

Network TCP/UDP Tuning

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology

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www.vice.com 6y ago

After 'South Park' Censorship Episode, China Deleted the Show from the Web

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blogs.nasa.gov 6y ago

NASA, SpaceX Coordinate Crucial Astronaut Recovery Exercise

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www.abc.net.au 7y ago

Elon Musk's controversial year sees him relinquish Tesla chairman role

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github.com 8y ago

GitHub +1 etiquette

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www.abc.net.au 8y ago

104 year old David Goodall's final journey

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electronjs.org 8y ago

Electron 2.0.0

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www.anandtech.com 8y ago

Broadcom-Qualcomm Takeover Blocked by White House on National Security Grounds

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www.anandtech.com 8y ago

An Interview with the CTO of GlobalFoundries

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en.wikipedia.org 8y ago

Microsoft Bob

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qz.com 8y ago

Alexa doesn’t have the attention span to eavesdrop on your conversations

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www.anandtech.com 8y ago

Broadcom Makes Unsolicited $105B Bid for Qualcomm

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Agree with this totally, additionally if you are unsure if you will proceed with an idea with no users, getting something done and receiving feedback as fast as possible is better than doing it perfectly the first time.

That said at my last company after 12 months we hired a few engineers so we had to transition to requiring tests for new functionality. This was just to stop regressions and make sure we could continue moving quickly.

Last company, no tests for the first 6 months. Current company after 2 months, have some unit tests for complicated parts in place, will start writing tests once bugs are resolved.

I guess it really depends on what your company is doing, experience of the team and the language/tech you are using.

Co-founder of HowdyGo here, would love any feedback people might have.

I built HowdyGo because at a former company I founded, we had a small addressable market, high-value leads, and unfortunately very long sales cycles.

Our customers needed time to build trust in the product we offered and that meant it was a necessity to have actual conversations with them, not text chats.

Have a chat with me or my co-founder here or by heading to the link and clicking on the widget!

Similar background to yourself as an engineer, not in sales but as a co-founder often find the sales process a big part of my job.

We've implemented Strategic Selling see https://www.amazon.com.au/New-Strategic-Selling-Successful-C... which provides a great structure for us and a unified language inside our organisation.

Maybe not as useful if you're just trying to get started but does provide a structure to understand the sales process and why a sale closes or doesn't close.

Bibliu.com | Backend Developer | Remote | Full-time

BibliU is a London-based startup spun out of the University of Oxford. We have developed a modern eTextbooks platform that integrates fully with library and university systems and we're already working closely with many UK and US universities.

We are looking for backend Node.js engineers to help us scale up our institutional product.

Benefits of working with us:

- Great group of people to work with - Flexible working hours and location - 43 days PTO plus paternity/maternity leave - Annual company & developer retreats

To apply please head to https://bibliu.recruitee.com/o/backend-software-engineer-rem...

Bibliu.com | Backend Developer | Worldwide Remote | Full-time

BibliU is a London-based startup spun out of the University of Oxford. We have developed a modern eTextbook platform that integrates fully with library and university systems and we're already working closely with many UK and US universities. Our engineers are based around the globe, in the Americas, Europe and Australia.

We are looking for backend Node.js engineers to help us scale up our institutional product.

Benefits of working with us:

- Great group of people to work with

- Flexible working hours and location

- 43 days PTO plus paternity/maternity leave

- Annual company & developer retreats

- Health insurance

- Equity

To apply please head to https://bibliu.recruitee.com/o/backend-software-engineer-rem...

Thanks! We have engineers based in the US, EU/UK and AUS at the moment. Agree that timezones outside of 5 hours is tricky but I think we do a decent job.

Bibliu.com | Backend Developer | Worldwide Remote | Full-time

BibliU is a London-based startup spun out of the University of Oxford. We have developed a modern eTextbooks platform that integrates fully with library and university systems and we're already working closely with many UK and US universities.

We are looking for backend Node.js engineers to help us scale up our institutional product.

Benefits of working with us:

- Great group of people to work with

- Flexible working hours and location

- 43 days PTO plus paternity/maternity leave

- Annual company & developer retreats

- Health insurance

- Equity

To apply please head to https://bibliu.recruitee.com/o/backend-software-engineer-rem...

We didn't select MySQL on the basis of having SequelPro obviously, that would be insane. However if you are still using MySQL and want to switch over to PostgreSQL (like us) a major reason not to be not having SequelPro. Most other factors about PostgreSQL are better but just not enough for the effort to migrate to be worthwhile.

Getting the same error on the GUI but the aws cli and sdk seem to be working fine (our site is still up too)