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Used to use Car2Go all the time on holiday, recently had major problems re-activating my account after they became Share Now. Staff still answered the phone as "Drive now", it was a very confusing experience, which concluded with "wait 7 days for a human to review your account". Perhaps if they made sign up easier, they wouldn't be struggling!


If they make signup simpler they have more stolen cars: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20434719


Thank you for reminding me to appreciate this tool I've been using for years, just donated!


If everything is based on performance metrics alone, surely there's a feedback loop here? Employee A starts peeing in a bottle, so their performance numbers go up, then at the end of the week they have better performance numbers and everyone else's targets are increased to be more inline with employee A. So more people start using bottles and taking shortcuts and the problem just increases over time!




Performance metrics are standardized across all Amazon FCs, so no.


That's capitalism for you.


Harvest | Database Engineer, Operations Engineer, Product Designer, Harvest Expert | Full-time | Remote

Harvest is an independent software company that makes tools to help businesses run more smoothly. For the past 11 years, our customers have relied on our products as a critical part of their day-to-day operations. They’re the reason we’re still in business, and their needs drive our product decisions.

We currently have openings in four roles. You'll be joining a team of 50 lovely faces, the majority of whom work remotely, while the rest can be found in our NYC office.

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They have a bot account at https://twitter.com/dhstatus

> I am but a robot. My purpose is to syndicate the contents of http://dreamhoststatus.com . I can feel neither love, nor pain. Tweet @dreamhostcare for support!


Well this finally gave me the bump to move my DNS away from Dreamhost, which I have been meaning to do for literally years, now to sit and wait for the new name servers to propagate.


Why? A ddos could be launched against any provider. I dont see this as a dh specific issue to move over.


What you should do is have two separate DNS providers.


Larger DNS providers are harder to DDoS and also tend to have more DDoS mitigation in place. This is not to say that it can never happen, but it's substantially less likely.


I dont think DH is really all that small. Comlared to aws and stuff maybe but I think they have pretty significant infrastructure.

What Dns providers are you thinking of? My guess would be something like cloudflare would be a good choice. Though Ive never looked into it tbh, I run my own dns.


I use AWS for most of my DNS. Also thinking of UltraDNS and Cloudflare. These are all massively larger than Dreamhost.


"This is a full-time position based in EFF's office in San Francisco, CA. Inquiries about whether this job can be done remotely or part-time will not be answered. No phone calls please!"


Is there a number I can call?


The general EFF phone number is (415) 436-9333.

But if you need legal help you can email info@eff.org.

And if you'd like to work on EFF's tech operations team, email techjobs@eff.org.


Very disappointing.


SEEKING WORK - Remote full/part time (Based in Manchester, UK)

Full-stack web developer seeking remote development work. I specialise in building MVP's for startups but can put together almost anything from a chatroom powered by Node.js and Socket.io to a full Client Management Solution in Laravel + PHP.

- Languages: PHP/Node.js

- Web Design: Bootstrap/jQuery/Less/Sass

- Frameworks: Laravel, Symfony, Codeigniter

- API's: Stripe, Twilio, Paypal, Braintree

- DBs: MySQL/MongoDB/Redis

- Other: CI (CodeShip)

About me and examples of work: http://www.pezcuckow.com

GitHub: https://github.com/Pezmc/

Email: email at pezcuckow dot com


ObRandom: The 500px link on your site is a 404.


Thank you, very odd, my account seems to have gone walkabouts! Have fixed the link, I forgot I changed my username! https://500px.com/PezCuckow


I think the key problem is more that PHP is easy for developers to pick up and there is a lot of misinformation, in particular very outdated PHP 'tutorials' out there that have the whole idea quite backwards.

As it's often the first web development language picked up by people, who may not necessarily know what they're doing, it gets a bad reputation. Used correctly, however, it can be just as powerful as any other web development language.


> Used correctly, however, it can be just as powerful as any other web development language.

That's a disputable statement (as I mentioned elsewhere, take long-running processes as an example), and even if it were true, that doesn't make it the correct tool to use. You can hammer in nails with a wrench as well, but you should still probably be using a real hammer.



Well it certainly looks interesting, shame there's no kind of demo to see what the game's actually like, without paying £75.


Lots of Let's Play videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhVZhoHbRNw

And: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkPa1WTUOlE

Are a couple...


No demo, game footage is limited to viewing the world and building blocks, exactly what vanilla Minecraft is.

There is a high risk, huge hype, but nothing to back up their ambitions. Also, I do not believe 100k is even realistically enough for funding this project.


It's about 50k per goal / headline-feature. We'll make more of them depending on the level of funding. We're doing it to make sure whatever the level of funding we can be sure we'll deliver a our backers a well polished package.


+1 also they didn't really cover how they're going to avoid griefing (although maybe that's what beacons are for?) and just general dirt huts and nerd poles.


Yeah, that's what Beacons are for (and areas outside Beacons decay back to the original terrain)


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