freejack

6 ms·

1.
Slack for the rest of us?(forbes.com)
2 points by freejack 11y ago|0 comments
2.
by freejack 11y ago
It all depends on the details and the market, but yes - like I said in another comment, we're really open and flexible about how we deliver our service and I could see a few different types of arrangements where we might end up doing e
3.
by freejack 11y ago
Good catch, thanks. I'll pass it along...
4.
by freejack 11y ago
If you feel like giving us another chance, we've got Ting in GSM which might resolve the Ting on CDMA data issues you experienced. Thanks for the kind words about our customer service. Our team thrives on great feedback like this :)
5.
by freejack 11y ago
Yeah, I expect we'll have a few more openings there. Right now we're hiring a City Manager for Westminster - details are here: http://www.tucows.com/careers/
6.
by freejack 11y ago
We've got the answers and we've got customers and we're about to go into launch mode with the full website, etc. I'd be inclined to ignore "Press Release Rollouts" too - most telco's fiber announcements ne
7.
by freejack 11y ago
Everything we're working on now runs on our own infrastructure or muni-infrastructure. Nothing white-label in the works, although I wouldn't count it out (we're an ISP, we like to provide service, we're pretty open about
8.
by freejack 11y ago
Yup, we're laying fiber. We're also partnering and a number of other approaches as well. Charlottesville is primarily our own fiber.
9.
by freejack 11y ago
$89/mos for 1000/1000 and we'll also have an entry level option as well. Not billed like we bill for mobile service, no ;-) We've been around the internet long enough to know that its different than mobile ;-)
10.
by freejack 11y ago
symetric, $89/mos, use your own router, NN before it was cool. (oBDisclaimer: I work for Ting)
11.
by freejack 11y ago
I'm aware that they are going through an overhaul of their customer service systems, process and probably the people. Its tough to grow as fast as they are, especially in this area. It is exceptionally hard to find great people, mainta
12.
by freejack 12y ago
I like to think of price as a reflection of positioning & strategy. If your strategy is to aim at the high end of the market, then your price should reflect that. If you are looking to target the mass market, then you might want to cons
13.
by freejack 12y ago
Weird, my Spotify kept playing while the map was mapping... I had to manually hit pause in the Spotify client...
14.
by freejack 12y ago
Would the title more accurately be "Sign up for a course that promises to teach you how to scale your venture without screwing it up?"
15.
by freejack 12y ago
Do you make a distinction between "managing up" and "managing expectations"? I've always chosen to do the latter and view it as the same as "managing up" and your comment makes me realize that this might n
16.
by freejack 12y ago
No, we're on the same page. My point is that you should never receive most of those email in the first place. If they don't get sent (because there is a functional email culture in the workplace) then there's no need for dysf
17.
by freejack 12y ago
Totally! this is exactly right. I work with one small group of people that outside of our weekly status meeting, shares a ton of chatty one-liners via email several times a day. It drives me crazy that I can't get them to adopt Slack f
18.
by freejack 12y ago
I think this is misguided and would seem to reinforce bad practices, poor etiquette and bad culture. bad practices, i.e. if you want work life balance, don't check your email when you aren't in the office. Manage your co-workers e
19.
by freejack 12y ago
I've just finished listening to a radio interview where the guest asserted that technology and innovation is solely the domain of young white males focused on social networking problems to make money for the benefit of investors. I am
20.
by freejack 12y ago
There's a management view that one should never try to manage their manager's performance. I agree and you've offered good advice ;-)
21.
by freejack 12y ago
What kind of help or advice are you looking for specifically? Your post doesn't make it clear what you'd like help with. i.e. finding a new job, negotiating a severance package, revenge, moving on, how to best pick up the pieces w
22.
by freejack 12y ago
If I understand and remember the finances correctly, debt takes them to about $3b in the hole. Not much of a success story there...
23.
by freejack 12y ago
Be a professional. Both parties will expect notice and you can't give it to them. My approach would be to talk to my boss at the contracting company, explain that personal issues were in play and that I wouldn't be able to give no
24.
by freejack 12y ago
You seem to be conflating competitive games with using game mechanics to achieve a result. Gamification goes well beyond points, badges and leaderboards and helps managers tap into intrinsic motivators (like personal satisfaction) to achiev
25.
NSA targets the privacy-conscious(daserste.ndr.de)
434 points by freejack 12y ago|176 comments
26.
by freejack 12y ago
The reason it was unsupported was because they were just fronting for godaddy and enom and expected that you'd get support for the domains from those registrars directly.
27.
by freejack 12y ago
That offering was just a referral/signup for Godaddy and enom.
28.
by freejack 12y ago
In ancient times before plugins, animated gifs or any sort of video, we would painstakingly screen cap individual frames from movie clips and use "push" via CGI to force feed the browser a series of images that gave the illusion o
29.
by freejack 12y ago
The activity most likely to lead to more blogging is "more writing". Its easy to blame the CMS/Blogging tool/SSG, etc., but really - those who write, will.
30.
by freejack 12y ago
I just moved from a rural property where I was paying $120/mos for 1.5mbps nominally (sometimes lower...rarely higher...). I'm now paying $60/mos for 120Mbps down and 10Mbps up.

More ›