Nearly all of these use cases are covered by a number of social enterprise platforms such as Yammer or Socialcast without the need for new employees to setup filters.
In Socialcast activity streams can be filtered by groups which could be public, private or externally facing(meaning you can invite people outside your company to participate in them).
People can be notified directly by @-mentioning them in your posts and so forth.
And of course all the content is searchable and filterable.
The usefulness of these social enterprise tools was not clear to me until I saw it being used in both a 40-people company and a 13,000-people company. It brings about collaboration, transparency, a way for people to discuss their issues and to often vent about things they dont like.
Maybe its time for Stripe to check it out too :)
Disclaimer: I work for Socialcast, the VMWare company
How is Hall's "real-time" real-timier than those of Yammer's or a number of other enterprise activity-stream apps?
Its pretty much a given that an activity stream app will use an socketi.io-ish messaging systme for real-time updates, some sort of APN service for mobile notifications and a visual tool for in-web-app notifications.
What does Hall bring to the table that differentiates it from other Activity stream[1] apps
*disclaimer: I work for Socialcast, VMWare's Social Enterprise App that has had these features for a while now.
#hint We have a Freemium model where 99% of features are provided for free to companies with less than 50 users.
Hi codenerdz....I'm CTO and co-founder of Hall. Our entire application is a single page application (no refreshing). That immediately makes our product more realtime than Yammer. This includes one-on-one messaging, file sharing, group chat, collaborative notepads, 3rd party integrations and friendship/contact management in multiple rooms and multiple networks. While Yammer may have elements that are RT, our entire world is RT.
I use rubymine on fairly large codebase and while I did initially experience slowdowns with Ruby3 on a machine with 4GB ram, both software upgrades and a switch to faster cpu with 8gb of ram and an SSD drive has improved things drastically.
You have to remember that the way Jetbrains code analysis works is that it indexes the hell out of your code to allow you jump to function definitions using CMD-B, error identifications, code completion, etc.
CTRL-B alone make learning a new codebase a lot simpler.
I appreciate visual debugger a lot. It allows me to avoid polluting my code with debugger statements which is especially evident with conditional debuggers.
The article is mostly scaremongering, but the reason I posted it was mostly the 401k comments.
Any "old timers" (meaning those that put money away into 401k through out at least 2 recent market crashes, dotcom and the financial one) here willing to comment as to how their 401k fared?
The biggest advantage I see(especially working for the company that does the matching) is that
a) Its a saving account that you cant take money out on a whim
b) Employee matching is free money
c) Youre not paying taxes untill youre ready to take it out and when you do take it out, your tax liability will be lower due to lower income
So you have all these financial advantages in 401k, the disadvantage is that you have to invest these funds wisely.
It all depends on what your investing your 401k in, but putting it in a stock index fund is a pretty good guard against inflation. Stocks will adjust accordingly to inflation, but putting the money in the bank certainly won't. Also, it is amusing to me that people freak out and stop investing when the market tanks. That's like only buying groceries when they aren't on sale! The best time to buy stocks is when they are down. If you invest consistently over boom and bust, you can insulate yourself pretty well against major swings. Of course, free advice from strangers on the Internet is worth what you pay.
A big advantage for most people is that it is an automatic savings plan. Although you have more options investing on your own, many people would either spend it or forget to invest it.
d) It facilitates dollar-cost averaging, and lengthy time horizons
Yes, you have to invest wisely, but most plans have an S&P 500 index fund for growth and a Bond fund for income (your allocation mix should be more growth when younger, more income when older).
Until late in 2012, I came out ahead far more by paying down my graduate student loan debt than I did by contributing to my 401(k). However, that is because my graduate student loans are statutorily fixed at 6.5% or higher, whereas market returns have been close to zero or negative.
Those that do answer, please mention what country and/or State youre in as things different depending on your locale.
Freelancers union for instance does not offer health insurance in california.
Can't speak for Forax, but I just don't talk on the phone much. Everyone texts, even family. At $0.10/minute after the first 100 minutes, I'd have to talk for 10 more hours before my old plan would be the same cost.
I have the same setup. I do all my long phone calls at my computer anyway --- with GVoice + GMail, you can intercept your phone calls from your computer. And my family prefer skype as they can see me. I only use actual talktime when traveling, which is rare. Almost all coordination is now over text.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4867484