Perihelion

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by Perihelion 5y ago
Meltano | All positions are full time and remote | https://meltano.com (follow the code blocks on our website for a demo!) We're a seed stage startup that recently spun out of GitLab. A bit about us: Meltano is an open sour
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by Perihelion 5y ago
Thanks! This is really useful feedback. To date, Meltano has been geared towards data folks who are likely to understand these concepts and acronyms, but there's definitely a need to explain it for folks who aren't as familiar. We
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by Perihelion 7y ago
Definitely. That they're trying to position this as an oversight is frankly disgusting. That code was intentional.
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by Perihelion 8y ago
This so much. It works really for your house too. I find that decluttering my physical and digital workspace at the end of the day means I'm not stressed about mess in the morning.
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by Perihelion 9y ago
Yeah, it was there (along with a note on how to get free stickers) but now it's gone. Keybase stuff is still there though. Random.
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by Perihelion 9y ago
Thanks so much for your kind words! We're always trying to improve, so even though some of the comments are negative, it's still good to hear about pain points so we can fix them.
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by Perihelion 9y ago
Hmm, not sure what happened. It was there, now it's not. It's amanda@gitlab.com -- sorry about that.
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by Perihelion 9y ago
I've actually experienced this exact thing. Usually a refresh fixes it for me so I never gave it too much thought. I'm not sure what causes it exactly but I'll follow up with the team about it. It usually happens to me on mer
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by Perihelion 9y ago
I'm really sorry to hear about the crappy experience you've had with GitLab. If you'd like to detail some more complaints, I'd love to hear them and open some issues about these things. Feel free to shoot me an email (lo
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by Perihelion 10y ago
Since the first part of your comment is addressed to Sasha I'll let her reply to it, but to address the second part: There are multiple people involved in the hiring process here at GitLab, specifically several people who handle phone
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by Perihelion 10y ago
Totally agree with this. Having to join 10+ Slack-like groups to collaborate on open source projects is unrealistic for me. As a result, I don't frequent some projects' chats and stick to bug trackers/mailing lists -- as a re
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by Perihelion 10y ago
Valid point, but there are other things to consider. The reason I buy Windex is because it saves me time. Instead of buying vinegar, lemons, and rubbing alcohol and mixing them together with water every time I want to clean a something, I j
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by Perihelion 10y ago
We're in the process of migrating the swag store to another provider. Shoot me an email (see bio) and I'll see what I can do for you in the mean time.
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by Perihelion 10y ago
No problem, thanks for clarifying.
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by Perihelion 10y ago
Ah, okay. Sounds like they were trying to focus on people with a specific type of experience and not blacklisting people based on a specific employer or anything.
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by Perihelion 10y ago
We've actually been trying to back off of HN, but the community posts just about anything that appears on our blog.
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by Perihelion 10y ago
Could you elaborate on this? I think DO has a right to hire however they want to but I'm curious about who they're auto-rejecting/why.
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by Perihelion 10y ago
I'm in no way suggesting that people spend all of their time at work or have significant overlap between their work friends and after-work friends. However, it's nice to work with people and not robots. Some people can tolerate st
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by Perihelion 10y ago
That definitely helps. I find there are other little cultural things you miss like inside jokes/shenanigans. They're not work-related but they're related to work and can make you feel like part of the team.
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by Perihelion 10y ago
When I say process, I mean some of our operational processes like making sure backups work. There was an incident with data loss last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13537052 Like any company, we have our own bus
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by Perihelion 10y ago
Honestly, I haven't seen a company that does the hybrid remote/on-site thing well. I'm sure they exist, but every time I've worked at one the people who were remote were out of the loop on almost everything. Hybrid remot
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by Perihelion 10y ago
> First, no one has the discipline to write much of anything down. This is why it's baked into the company culture. It's very common for someone to ask where something is in the handbook or if an issue has been created for some
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by Perihelion 10y ago
Not that this excuses anything, but maybe it'll help explain it: This interview was recorded a little while before the incident when we were unaware of some of the issues we have in process. Now that we're aware, we are working
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by Perihelion 10y ago
Hey Deepak, thanks for the feedback. We've built out a UX team and improving that aspect of the product is high on our list of priorities, but please feel free to reach out if you have any specific issues. Happy to document those for y
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by Perihelion 10y ago
.com is free -- paying customers/CE users weren't affected by the outage.
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by Perihelion 10y ago
Hey Richard, we're actively working on fixing issues on the backend of gitlab.com: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/947 Much of this work isn't front-end work and we have a separa
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by Perihelion 10y ago
Hey Daniel, I want to thank you for your candid feedback. Rest assured that this sort of thing makes it back to the team and is truly appreciated no matter how harsh it is. You're absolutely right -- we need to do better. We're aw
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by Perihelion 10y ago
There's also this one if anyone is interested in helping out with the DB side of things: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/specialist/database/
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by Perihelion 10y ago
All of my non-production machines have emojis in PS1 somewhere. It sounds ridiculous, but I know that if I see a cheeseburger or a burrito I'm not about to completely mess everything up. Silly terminal = silly data that I can obliterat
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by Perihelion 10y ago
Haha, it wasn't intentional. I'm just a space nerd. That book ranks pretty highly on my list of things every space nerd should read though.

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