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Update - after more prodding both representative mentioned that you can actually move to monthly. It's just something that they can't (don't) want to enable. "Heroku online" exists…

Double checked with another one - same answer

These is what I got sent: From August 1, SF will change her price list so Heroku customers won't be able to work on a monthly payment. Yes, all of the customers will be contract-ba…

Just had an email exchange with our Heroku (Salesforce) account admin - they claim that from August 1st, all Heroku accounts must be on a year or multi-year plans. No more monthly …

We needed the unique jobs feature, which only part of the enterprise plan. And since (at that stage) our budget was low, the enterprise plan was too expensive. I reached out to ask…

There were 3 plans offered, community, pro and enterprise. We only needed one feature that was sadly in the "enterprise" bucket. Sadly that plan was very expensive, so ended up not…

Amazing project, only sad note is the monetization side is a bit neglected. We were ready to pay for Sidekiq, but the pricing model was just off and we just used an OSS lib to patc…

They have a large water reservour in their plan..

From what I gather in their explanation, they use air pressure to push water out of an underground container. The energy is reclaimed when the pressure is released (i.e. water can …

But they already fill the underground containers with water when there is low air pressure. (thats what the reservoir on top is, no?)

Can someone explain why this is better than just using pumps to pump water up from the reservoir and extract the energy with when the water returned back?

Was the buy limit only for GME or all stocks on RobinHood? If it's the former, how does the article's explanation fits?

If we knew any good partner, would happily split revenue for their work. Not sure what is the best place to find such companies/individuals

It's easy to use LP but getting into O'Reilly is not that simple. If we could, we would of published with them instead

Very different experience for me. Wrote a book about Redux ( https://leanpub.com/redux-book ) brought about $15K for 4 months of work. (Granted, did no marketing at all) It always …

Silliest paywall ever: 1. Open dev tools 2. Delete the overlay element (id = graphics-paywall-overlay) 3. Disable 'overflow: hidden' on body Or just run: document.getElementById("g…

One of the most important points (from the acquirer's point of view) is retention. Most aquihires I know lead to an increase in salary and a retention bonus (a pool was set as part…

The key element of any SciFi and mega scale space project. Are there any advances in the field? Startups trying to do it? Recommended places to learn more?

Since the other causes of death remain static in this chart, its hard to tell if Covid-19 are new cases or "take away from other causes" (and by what percentage). Would be interest…

Always wondered about the pricing, I wrote an eBook as well ( https://redux-book.com/ ) But our pricing is WAY lower ($0-$16). Do people really pay $29-$69 for an ebook? Wonder if …

I can tell you war stories of USB-IF, but only from back in 2006. Prob nothing changed.

As someone who been to USB-IF committee back around 2006 There are some smart people there, unfortunately some are old-timer in large orgs - they were pushed there "to do least har…