Isn't this like the third lawsuit Rippling has put up against Deel. There was one for some church thing end of last year, and they made a big stink in 2023 when regulations on prop trading shops changed.
If the allegations are true, it's insane. But also feels a bit boy cried wolf.
If the honeypot description is accurate, the wolf is real. The below is from section 5 of their complaint [1]:
> Rippling’s General
Counsel sent a legal letter to Deel’s senior leadership identifying a recently established Slack
channel called “d-defectors,”
> In reality, the “d-defectors” channel
was not used by Rippling employees and contained no discussions at all. It had never been searched
for or accessed by the spy, would not have come up in any of the spy’s previous searches, and the
spy had no legitimate reason to access the channel. Crucially, this legal letter was only sent to three
recipients, all associated with Deel: Deel’s Chairman, Chief Financial Officer, and General Counsel
(Philippe Bouaziz), Deel’s Head of U.S. Legal (Spiros Komis), and Deel’s outside counsel. Neither
the letter nor the #d-defectors channel was known to anyone outside of Rippling’s investigative team
and the Deel recipients. Yet, just hours after Rippling sent the letter to Deel’s executives and
counsel, Deel’s spy searched for and accessed the #d-defectors channel
I know, insane if true. But it seems like Parker is pretty litigious these days, and I guess feels like he's losing? There was a very cringe snake game a couple of months ago where the Deel logo was a snake, which leads me to believe he's not fighting from the point of strength.
May fav part: "D.S. was heard ‘doing something’ on his phone by the independent solicitor, who also heard D.S. flush the toilet— suggesting that D.S. may have attempted to flush his phone down the toilet rather than provide it for inspection."
We have exactly one piece of data on this case right now, which is the filed legal complaint. As a parody of corporate espionage, it's excellent, but as a piece of evidence… I would treat it with about the same seriousness as a parody of corporate espionage. Rippling has some incentive not to lie outright, but none whatsoever not to exaggerate the living heck out of everything. And so that leaves us with one unreliable document, and general background information on the parties, or "vibes" as you dismiss it. And the general background is that Rippling is litigious and clearly has a preexisting axe to grind with Deel.
> Rippling has some incentive not to lie outright, but none whatsoever not to exaggerate the living heck out of everything.
What could have been exaggerated in the honeypot story? That seems pretty damning and they would be able to provide evidence to back it up (e.g. Slack access logs and the email).
I use Bitbucket at $job. They do have CI/CD now, it's called Bitbucket Pipelines. It's not bad, not great. For better or worse, I always measure version control hosting against GitHub which is still the king in my opinion. There are so many little things that GH has which BB doesn't. When you add them all together, it's easy to see why you'd want to switch to GH or something similar.
Examples:
GH lets you write comments/feedback on a PR and then submit it (sort of like staging the comments) in one fell swoop. With BB, each comment triggers a notification to the PR author.
GH has draft PRs. Debatable how useful these are, but people definitely like them on GH and that's not an option on BB.
GH has built-in support for Mermaid in markdown, BB doesn't and won't ever.
GH Actions generally seem more flexible. BB, for example, doesn't let you call a custom "Pipe" when using your own Mac OS runner in BB Pipelines — something you need to do if you want to build Apple projects — which is just a strange and frustrating limitation.
There are so many other things. In general, BB is just slow and janky as almost all Atlassian products are. Every time you click to complete or submit something, you just experience slowness.
I'd switch to GH in a minute if we could, but our team already uses so much other Atlassian crap that we're kind of stuck with it at the moment.
I'm using BitBucket at work and it seems like it's no longer "one comment - one notification". When adding the comment to the PR there's "Start review" button, so and at the end you just click "Finish review" and everything goes as one notification.
PM for Bitbucket pipelines here, my team of ~20 owns that feature E2W, would genuinely love to chat, share some stuff we're working on, and get feedback/thoughts.
Ping me if you're open to chatting emunday@atlassian.com
I use it (old self hosted and cloud. Also GitLab and GitHub on a regular basis.)
BitBucket is ok.
It doesn’t have nearly the same feature set as the others. You have to bring on more of the Atlassian ecosystem to get those. The integrations with stuff like Jira and Confluence are solid of course.
The features is does have are well implemented I feel. For example, the PR review UI is great. It is almost as good as GitHub’s and worlds better than GitLab’s. It has great access control that is probably a better fit for enterprise environments than the competition (another area where GitLab is lacking IME).
BitBucket added CI/CD. I’ve used it only for one project. It got the job done, but was worse than the others.
PM for Bitbucket pipelines here, my team of ~20 owns that feature E2W, would genuinely love to chat, share some stuff we're working on, and get feedback/thoughts.
Ping me if you're open to chatting emunday@atlassian.com
We use Bitbucket Cloud. About 250 repositories, 50-ish with CI/CD functionality. It is sloooow. In 2022 there were more than a few outages. Very annoying. And this year so far I had issues onboarding a new colleague due to invitation emails not being sent out.
Other than that it's cheap by itself, but count in developer hours spent just waiting, and it's suddenly not so cheap after all.
PM for Bitbucket pipelines here, my team of ~20 owns that feature E2W, would genuinely love to chat, share some stuff we're working on, and get feedback/thoughts.
Ping me if you're open to chatting emunday@atlassian.com
PM for Bitbucket pipelines here, my team of ~20 owns that feature E2W, would genuinely love to chat, share some stuff we're working on, and get feedback/thoughts.
Ping me if you're open to chatting emunday@atlassian.com
152% NDR tells me they should either buy as many customers as possible right now (IE burn), or they are under pricing and should raise prices and increase revenue that way.
Cash flow on its own is kinda meaningless.
The bronze plan (4/user/mo) was burned and moved into premium (19/user/mo). If you have any sort of moderately active company, going back to free tier is really not an option (the feature reduction would be simply too much, plus a lot of previous ci/cd work would be binned).
The most important one for us is the `environments` feature, but indeed a lot of four-eyes-principle controls are also missing in free tier (MR approval requirements, committer verification, push rules...).
What else do you do with 100B in the bank? If they just paid it out to the engineers (yes please, thank you!) half of them would retire after two years.
Well historically when a corporation couldn't reinvest its capital for an above market rate of return, it would either buy back shares or issues dividends so owners/shareholders can reinvest for higher return.
Hoarding this much cash is historically unprecedented, largely because it's mostly offshore for tech companies and repatriating it would cost many billions in taxes.
Enforcement. Getting billions out of intellectual property works better if you have a couple dozen aircraft carriers, etc. to back up the diplomats and trade treaties.
"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
I'm fairly certain if the gov creates an asset class it has some responsibility to buy them back if they allow them to decrease in value by not enforcing the power of the asset class (limiting ridesharing). Tax payers will pay for it, but the tax payers will also get the benefit of the new system/ride sharing. No shocks here.
I don't see that at all. The government is the authority behind real estate ownership, yet they have very limited responsibility toward existing owners if they make changes to, for example, zoning restrictions.
If, for instance, they wanted to flood your land for the greater good, they would have to buy it back at "market rate", see TVA. I know it goes against the SV mentality, but apparently these opinions aren't popular here so I'll restrain myself going forward.
Indeed. But if they made some zoning changes that resulted in a new part of town becoming a more popular place to live, they'd owe you nothing whatsoever.
Great marketing for yourself. Unless you are 100% sold on Cali (I've lived here for 5 years and I'm 50/50), I'd use this to get a contracting job and live with family and friends. Then come out here and start something when you feel comfortable/saved up. Preferably this company involves bubbles (you seem to like them in various forms and are good with them).
With the recent adoption of voting systems in forums (like this one) we are seeing troll comments often buried, and this will perhaps continue to discourage that behavior. On a bigger note, articles that draw clicks with bold conclusions or headlines (like that nerd baiting article we saw on Gizmodo) are still grabbing eyeball share and thus will continue to propagate instead of real news/information. How that fight for eyeballs is resolved is one that I don't really see a solution to yet.
If the allegations are true, it's insane. But also feels a bit boy cried wolf.