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DoorDash Blog
Company blog · blog.doordash.comwebbusiness
DoorDash Blog is the company blog at blog.doordash.com, writing about web and business. Since 2013, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “Scaling StatsD”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as DoorDash's official statements: a security notice about a data breach, a change to its tipping policy, and the Project Dash anti-hunger initiative. Commenters cite them as sources, not for their writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
DoorDash Block Party connects you to the best restaurants, grocery stores, and local merchants for delivery in your neighborhood. Get recipe and shopping inspiration.
Most-linked posts?
- Scaling StatsD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-14
- Working to Strike a Better Balance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-22
- /important-security-notice-about-your-doordash-account-ddd90ddf59962 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-26
What Hacker News says?
The official blog post: https://blog.doordash.com/important-security-notice-about-yo...
Comment linking /important-security-notice-about-your-doordash-account-ddd90ddf5996
on “DoorDash confirms data breach affected 4.9M customers, workers and merchants”Submitted DoorDash removing 1-year cliff for equity grants as a story · 230 points
HN discussionOriginal blog post: https://blog.doordash.com/important-security-notice-about-yo... From the techcrunch article: "It’s not clear why it took almost five months for DoorDash to publicly reveal the breach. DoorDash spokesperson Mattie Magdovitz say why [sic]." Pretty bad. If personal identity info is exposed, it is irresponsible not to notify users immediately so they can freeze credit and watch for suspicious activit…
Comment linking /important-security-notice-about-your-doordash-account-ddd90ddf5996
on “DoorDash confirms data breach affected 4.9M customers, workers and merchants”Submitted Tips for Building High-Quality Django Apps at Scale as a story · 191 points
HN discussionDoordash stopped doing the tipping thing over a year ago https://blog.doordash.com/working-to-strike-a-better-balance...
Comment linking /working-to-strike-a-better-balance-e1f66c76fca1?gi=f98dc4077568
on “DoorDash from Application to IPO”Submitted Migrating from Heroku to AWS using Docker as a story · 149 points
HN discussionI think the thing that's making it look a lot worse for Doordash is their hypocrisy in things like this: https://blog.doordash.com/introducing-project-dash-bbc61ac0c... the critique goes : 1. rip off workers 2. workers are poor, cant afford food 3. launch BS "anti-hunger" initiatives which address about 1% as much hunger as they cause, but make customers feel like they are doing a good thing using the service. it's…
Comment linking /introducing-project-dash-bbc61ac0cb8c
on “Delivery apps like DoorDash are using tips to pay workers’ wages”Submitted DoorDash Raises $40M, Led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a story · 60 points
HN discussionThey did change it: https://blog.doordash.com/working-to-strike-a-better-balance...
Comment linking /working-to-strike-a-better-balance-e1f66c76fca1
on “DoorDash doesn't allow a tip of $10 because “The amount is higher than expected””Submitted DoorDash (YC S13) Food Delivery by Drone as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing REST APIs with Embedded Privacy as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Integrating GitHub with Jenkins for Continuous Integration and Deployment as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling StatsD at DoorDash as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted DoorDash Data Leak; 4.9 Million Customers affected as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Combining two great companies: DoorDash to acquire Caviar as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Play Calling: Changing Your Tech Stack Post-Series A as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding cache stampede at DoorDash as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted 127M More Ways to Move DoorDash Forward as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enforce Timeout: A DoorDash Reliability Methodology as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How We Designed Road Distances in DoorDash Search as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using automated testing to scale Android development with a growing team as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Powering Search and Recommendations at DoorDash as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted DoorDash announces Drive, delivery platform for orders outside its marketplace as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted DoorDash (YC S13): Delivering Our Biggest, Tastiest Update Yet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted DoorDash: Designing an On-Demand Logistics System as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Impacts of Price Controls as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reinforcement Learning Applied to On-Demand Logistics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling StatsD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switchback Tests and Randomized Experimentation Under Network Effects – DoorDash as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips and Tricks for Migrating from Swift 2 to Swift 3 as a story · 2 points
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