You are right, you never know. I think CloudBees is trying hard to do it the right way and ensure that the result is better products for our customers. That means doubling down on both, Codeship and Jenkins and figure out ways to align the products more (eg. Codeship pipeline configuration and Jenkins pipeline configuration).
When we started out with our company, RescueTime was one of our "competitors": more or less the same technology, but different use cases (discovery vs productivity). I would often find Joe having the same issues and posting in the same support tickets are I did.
I have always followed them since and think they actually have a very relevant product in this world of ever increasing interruptions. My condolences.
A comment on this article mentions a tool called "loadlibrary" used to discover this bug: https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary. It allows fuzzing of Windows DLL files on Linux.
We also had the same issues with (trying) to publish an extension to the Safari gallery: long waiting times, unclear communication, publishing without notification, etc. Besides that, the move towards the requirement of Xcode does not bode well for managing a multi-browser codebase in JS.
Google and to a lesser extent Mozilla are doing way better on this and seem way more experienced in handling the extension ecosystem.
It is funny how things change when you use the physical world metaphor. There was a campaign recently by the Dutch regulatory agency that made people aware of the implications of allowing permissions in "free" apps.
They made an (anecdotal) video by promising a free cup of coffee in exchange for your contact list on your phone:
My wife has an Android phone, I have an iPhone. Recently, I wanted to install some app on her phone and it is still beyond my understanding, why Google still doesn't allow to deny certain permissions. It's all or nothing.
And no, a fucking video editor shouldn't require access to my contacts, my browsing history and the accounts on my phone.
Android imho is unusable until they let me deny certain permissions, because often, the "best" apps ask for basically everything.
Install Cyanogenmod, or buy a phone with it pre-installed like a OnePlus, then you get "Privacy Guard" in the settings which lets you specify exactly what data apps can access.
Android isn't the problem. Google is the problem.
[edit] As in, you can restrict access to things like location, contacts, calendar etc.
Quality of content in this way can be measured in these micropayments + refunds instead of points/votes. Down with clickbait articles and up with good content.
By the way, I also fit the target audience: not buying newspapers, but I have added money to my Blendle account and spend it every now and then.
I am wondering about the economics though: the traction seems good, but is it enough to really add value for the publishers? I'd love to see more numbers on this.
As a company you're constraining yourself so much by requiring Dutch if you want to hire good people. I know many companies that still do so. Better for the rest of us!
One thing I noticed: Dutch people can switch pretty well during "work" discussions, but during lunch or social events, the switch is harder and you have to remind people to speak English.
