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Admitting it to Yourself(medium.com)
1 points by dkador 12y ago|0 comments
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On Irrational Fear(medium.com)
2 points by dkador 12y ago|0 comments
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by dkador 12y ago
Alan's one of the most thoughtful engineers I know. No surprise to see this post from him. Nice job!
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by dkador 12y ago
Shouldn't this have a field for the salary you make at the startup?
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by dkador 12y ago
Makes total sense. This is an important point for many of our customers so I appreciate you calling it out. Thanks!
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by dkador 12y ago
Thanks, John. Best part of this job is hearing from happy customers. :)
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by dkador 12y ago
(Disclaimer: founder of Keen IO here.) That's a bit misleading, I think. The full paragraph: You are solely responsible for any content and other material that you submit, publish, transmit, or display on, through, or with our Services
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by dkador 13y ago
Yeah, I was wondering that too!
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by dkador 13y ago
CTO of Keen IO here. The ingest side isn't too crazy. We're doing between 50-100 insert-type requests per second per server (although we run multiple instances of Tornado per server so it's actually fewer per Tornado process
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by dkador 13y ago
Thanks for the kind words. :)
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by dkador 13y ago
I like how they're linking directly to the keen S3 bucket that hosts google prettify's CSS.
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Who's Ready for Some FOOTBALL (Data)?(keen.io)
3 points by dkador 14y ago|0 comments
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by dkador 14y ago
Except HyperMac worked VERY closely with their marketing company. AND the vitriolic response was posted by HyperMac's CEO.
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by dkador 14y ago
That's a fair point. I think the article is assuming that, in these cases, the companies are in the wrong. This is actually interesting. I think there's probably a huge opportunity to communicate with your customers in this case. There's go
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by dkador 14y ago
I don't think it does much good to try and differentiate between the industry making a product or service and the advertising industry that supports them. They don't exist without each other. For example, if Apple put out a sexist ad, you c
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by dkador 14y ago
It's not true because men and women are both brought up in the same power structures. There are plenty of women who believe that women's rightful place is in the home, that buy into the notion of modern beauty, and that don't care about wom
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by dkador 14y ago
I think both of those would be better than their actual response, which was accusatory and hostile.
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by dkador 14y ago
Love this. At the very least, you get a +1 from me.
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by dkador 14y ago
It's inexcusable from a PR standpoint. It's sad to think how much more love they could have received from the community.
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by dkador 14y ago
That's definitely not true.
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by dkador 14y ago
Maybe I wasn't clear enough when I wrote it, but my intention was to show that, while I wrote that version of the post, I realized it was stupid (not just the post, but the idea). We're working hard to not fall into any of the traps of work
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by dkador 14y ago
Thanks, Nat. :)
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by dkador 14y ago
I had an amazing time doing TechStars Cloud this year. Definitely apply if you're considering it (or even if you're not). Happy to answer any questions about it if people have them.
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by dkador 14y ago
Every company incentivizes its employees to behave in certain ways, and one of the main ways to incentivize is through monetary reward. We're big believers in keeping our employees happy. And research* shows there's a big correlation betw
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by dkador 14y ago
Of course we've thought of this (and a number of other hypotheticals). And of course we've discussed it, openly amongst the entire team as well as behind closed doors with our board and counsel. It does complicate things. In the end we f
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by dkador 14y ago
(Couldn't reply directly to you, rdl, sorry.) I agree that offering an office manager 5% is silly and offering a founder-level person 5% could make sense. I guess I was more curious to see what you think the right ranges are.
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by dkador 14y ago
I think that's a fair thing to assume. Full disclosure: I'm Dan, one of the other co-founders of Keen. I actually did the negotiation with Michelle - Kyle delivered our original offer. But she's one of my best friends as well. As is Kyl
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by dkador 14y ago
Probably because she's a woman and people here can be very sexist?
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by dkador 14y ago
Disclosure: I'm one of the founders of Keen. With respect to the housing subsidy, you've got part of it right. We do work out of a big house that some of us live in. But the rent subsidy was put in place for one main reason: one of the ma
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by dkador 14y ago
You think because they're engaged that she was more likely to get a favorable offer?

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