Saaster

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by Saaster 1y ago
Your framing seems somehow backwards. Based on the other article[0] Nate and David bought out the business from Blue Systems. Jonathan (previously employed by Blue) proposes a co-op model, the new owners say “no thanks, we’re good”. Jonatha
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by Saaster 1y ago
It’s commendable to want to start a “cooperative socialist paradise”, you can pitch it and see if there’s interest with others. But it’s totally OK as well for others to not want to join that, and go the more conventional way. It sounds lik
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by Saaster 4y ago
We bought our .com after we became "successful" and had significant revenue, however it just redirects to our non-dot-com, because it's too much of a hassle and SEO risk to change at this point.
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by Saaster 4y ago
If I as a SaaS provider get my SSO SAML integration via a provider like Okta or Auth0, the auth provider pricing itself is also on a "call us" tier, with a per-federation pricing in the low four figures for each individual company
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by Saaster 6y ago
The code running in my browser isn't a multi-tenant production server, with access to the filesystem and DBs.
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by Saaster 6y ago
Does Deno have some built in way to vendor / download the imports pre-execution? I don't want my production service to fail to launch because some random repo is offline.
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by Saaster 6y ago
Let's keep moving those goalposts 'til the other team can't even see the goal anymore!
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by Saaster 6y ago
If business travel is reduced, you can expect the cost of regular coach class tickets to increase massively as the former pays for the flight and the latter is just there to wring a bit more profit out of the trip. Business travel right now
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by Saaster 6y ago
Zoom works great on Linux, it's a proper native app and the quality is excellent. Screensharing is notoriously tricky on Wayland and has been a shifting target that is just now starting to settle, I'm sure it'll eventually wo
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by Saaster 6y ago
It's still the exact same potato-cam in every model, from the Air to the $$$ MacBook Pro "16.
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by Saaster 6y ago
A primary driver of SaaS sales is trust. Nobody wants to bet on a platform that is going to pivot or shut down within 12 months. It's not about price, it's about disruption to business in both adopting and offboarding from any sol
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by Saaster 6y ago
My biggest worry with React is that it has restless developers with idle hands. I have (a lot of) component code that will never be converted to hooks. Can I rely on you not to flake out and pull an Angular on me?
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by Saaster 6y ago
As a user of a library, I don't really care how it works. Under the hood it can be arbitrarily complex or simple, and please feel free to change the implementation weekly for all I care. I care very deeply about my own components, when
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by Saaster 6y ago
I feel that with class components I have a really good understanding of what is rendering and most importantly, when. componentDidMount, shouldComponentUpdate, PureComponent, etc. With hooks, it's much more magic. And clarity of render
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by Saaster 6y ago
At the end of each PPP application with your bank, you get the same SBA PPP form to sign as the SBA has publicized on their web page. You then have to sign and pinkie swear that the funds are necessary and going to payroll. The banks are do
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by Saaster 6y ago
The IRS has the capability to put money directly into business bank accounts, or require businesses to sign up for EFTPS.
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by Saaster 6y ago
That sounds like an ad business version of the efficient market theory. E.g, that can't possibly be a hundred dollar bill on the ground, because if it was someone else would surely already have picked it up by now. I think you're
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by Saaster 6y ago
That was however the intent of the statement: Companies that pay dividends or make share buy-backs are more vulnerable in a crisis [compared to otherwise identical companies who build a cash buffer]. I disagree that companies that pay a div
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by Saaster 6y ago
Companies that intentionally run with razor-thin balance sheets and don't have any buffers built in to withstand shocks, are more fragile than companies with some buffer, all other things being equal. If the company chooses to pay out
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by Saaster 6y ago
And they can definitely still do that. AFTER they've paid back the state aid they received.
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by Saaster 6y ago
If the company is itself not based in NY or SF, it makes little sense and often isn't possible to offer NY and SF salaries. If remote work became the new standard, it doesn't mean that everyone is suddenly paid SF wages, instead w
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by Saaster 6y ago
Firms applying for Danish state aid must promise not to pay dividends or make share buy-backs in 2020 and 2021. Companies would be allowed to pay dividends again if they pay back the aid. This makes perfect sense, otherwise it's a text
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by Saaster 6y ago
It's a good common sense start. Companies that pay dividends or make share buy-backs are more vulnerable in a crisis (not only the current one), meaning they are riskier investments. Risk needs to be inversely correlated with reward f
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by Saaster 6y ago
Unfortunately the demand for SAML is 100% customer driven. As service providers, we don't control the other end (the customer's IdP/AD). Even in cases where the IdP supports both SAML & OIDC, I see almost no one choosing
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by Saaster 6y ago
I've looked at Cognito in depth, and it seems like an abandoned service. Hundreds of open issues that got rolled into the Amplify issue tracker, with little to no response. It lacks some pretty basic SAML capabilities, like IdP-initiat
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by Saaster 6y ago
100% agreed, GitHub SAML is unequivocally good. I'm in the "cat sharing startup", so my view and comments are colored by that perspective. Our options are to pay $$$ for a competent auth provider, or take on a much larger and
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by Saaster 6y ago
SSO is a great benefit to the customers, with real tangible security and management benefits. I'm however speaking from the point of view of the service provider (the SaaS app) and about SAML in particular. I feel that the addition
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by Saaster 6y ago
I agree. There's a million SAML for Java/Python/Node.js/Foo libraries out there, all with a long list of issues and known cases that don't work correctly, security issues etc. but it's the wrong model in my opi
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by Saaster 6y ago
Passwords, rate limits, resets, etc. are the same for everyone, and so are the problems and the solutions to those. SAML on the other hand is different for each organization. Providers pay Auth0 and the like to have developers on staff who
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by Saaster 6y ago
SAML (and 2FA to a lesser extent) comes with some serious support burdens on the companies offering it. There's a long tail of more or less broken SAML implementations on both the service and identity provider sides, provisioning issue

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