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Postmates: Food Delivery, Groceries, Alcohol
Company blog · blog.postmates.comprogrammingsystems
Postmates: Food Delivery, Groceries, Alcohol is the company blog at blog.postmates.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2013, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “A Message To our Customers from our CEO”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Postmates' blog for company policy posts, such as its tipping and driver-pay pledges, and for a CEO apology post. The comments cite these posts without judging how they are written.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Order delivery or pickup from more than 600,000 restaurants, retailers, grocers, and more all across your city. Download the app now to get everything you crave, on-demand.
Most-linked posts?
- A Message To our Customers from our CEO2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-16
- Postmates open sources a configurable horizontal Pod autoscaler2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-03
- Postmates announces submission of draft registration statement for IPO2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-07
- Route Efficiencies in On-Demand Delivery2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-07
What Hacker News says?
Postmates | Software Engineers (all levels), Engineering Manager | San Francisco, Bellevue | Full-time | https://postmates.com My team (Operations Technology) at Postmates is hiring engineers across the stack at all levels, as well as engineering managers. We are full vertical owners of microservices, responsible for creating world-class self-service and support for our customers, including buyers, merchants and cou…
Comment linking /san-francisco-february-7-2019-postmates-inc-2760fd929bc
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)”Submitted Postmates, Powering On-Demand Logistics as a story · 35 points
HN discussionDepends on the mutex implementation. Many mutexes will do their own spinning internally - for short critical sections, you can avoid sleeping and waking your thread, a (relatively) expensive operation. Obviously spinning for an unlimited amount of time is less efficient - in the case of a priority inversion, you'll effectively deadlock. [1] There's also tools like [2], where you can tell a mutex to spin if the curre…
Comment linking /why-spinlocks-are-bad-on-ios-b69fc5221058
on “Lock-free multithreading with atomic operations”Submitted Making Postmates Even More Efficient as a story · 28 points
HN discussionContrast DoorDash's behavior with Postmates: https://blog.postmates.com/postmates-pledges-2-per-drinks-or... https://blog.postmates.com/taking-a-stance-to-defend-our-val... https://www.americaninno.com/chicago/postmates-will-deliver-... It really helps when a company makes a choice between them and their competitors even easier.
Comment linking /taking-a-stance-to-defend-our-values-d319454a639
on “DoorDash’s about-face on tipping shows customers have more clout than workers”Submitted A Message To our Customers from our CEO as a story · 22 points
HN discussionHis "apology": http://blog.postmates.com/post/61340672198/a-message-to-our-... Last night I sent a private e-mail to our Customer Service team in response to a customer complaint regarding her past orders and restaurant profile. My e-mail, which outlined how to resolve the customer issue, contained a bad joke which was very poor in taste. Subsequently, the bad joke was sent to the customer. What I said was a major l…
Comment linking /post/61340672198/a-message-to-our-customers-from-our-ceo
on “Postmates CEO tells customer to 'f--- off'”Submitted On-demand delivery with the Postmates API as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing Nonce-Based Content Security Policy (CSP) in Cloudflare Workers as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cernan: a telemetry and logging aggregation server written in Rust as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postmates open sources a configurable horizontal Pod autoscaler as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Configurable Horizontal Pod Autoscaler for Kubernetes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postmates announces submission of draft registration statement for IPO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meet Serve, the newest member of the Postmates fleet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Spinlocks Are Bad on iOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postmates Welcomes Sosh as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Kale Affect as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Route Efficiencies in On-Demand Delivery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Route Efficiencies in On-Demand Delivery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postmates: Estimating Delivery Times (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What’s for Lunch? Postmates Daily Specials as a story · 1 points
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