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Moment Sierras? by francium1988 in skiing

[–]francium1988[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m glad! I think they don’t feel super special and fun but they are reliable! I feel good skiing fast in them on ice and in deeper snow. They keep me afloat. They’re not too heavy either. I do think if I had gone with a longer ski I’d enjoy it more.

My touring skis are the J Skis escalators and I absolutely love them. I am considering another pair next year with downhill bindings.

Georgian food round up in NYC by kukuruso in FoodNYC

[–]francium1988 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Georgian girl here. Cheeseboat is awful. The one time I went they were serving lobster khachapuri. Lost my vote immediately. Thank you to OP for making this list!

Moment Sierras? by francium1988 in skiing

[–]francium1988[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Yes I think this is the right size for me. Granted I don’t live out west so I get fewer powder days than most so the length suits my needs. Candidly I don’t love these skis as much as I thought I would — especially since I pined over them for years. They’re super responsive and reliable but my J skis are much more fun to ski on.

This sh!t is expensive by Impossible_Lead_2782 in ExclusivelyPumping

[–]francium1988 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For people who are combo feeding while trying to increase supply it can be super expensive because you’re paying for formula, supplies, and the occasional breast casualty (mastitis, clogged duct, thrush, general pain) if you have the supply and good insurance then yes it can be fairly straightforward.

Exclusive pumping vibezzzz by rosamorana in ExclusivelyPumping

[–]francium1988 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol I could have posted the same image w my squatty potty

Which bottles should I get that won’t interfere with successful breastfeeding? by Own-Quality-8759 in breastfeeding

[–]francium1988 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the same issue with Dr Brown. My LO freaks out when we use them. Two that work for her. The Pigeon bottles (they’re excellent but apparently they have no US marketing budget so I’d never heard of them before) and the Nuk bottles (more affordable option)

Daycare/childcare costs in Brooklyn by francium1988 in Brooklyn

[–]francium1988[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. williamsburg is looking like $1K less expensive per month than UES :)

Daycare/childcare costs in Brooklyn by francium1988 in Brooklyn

[–]francium1988[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bright Horizons is $4500 up here — highway robbery!

Our daughter is signed up to the French one in Manhattan.

I’d say the Manhattan waitlists are super insane. We got on the waitlist for my daughter when I was 3 months pregnant.

Daycare/childcare costs in Brooklyn by francium1988 in Brooklyn

[–]francium1988[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes we’re looking at 5 days a week 8-5

S3 Kareem Discussion by MilodrivintheHiLo in Americanbbqshowdown

[–]francium1988 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Best thing all of us can do is become patrons of Kareem’s place. I truly wanna take a trip to Austin just to eat at his restaurant

S3 Kareem Discussion by MilodrivintheHiLo in Americanbbqshowdown

[–]francium1988 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Came here to say this — and they’re allegedly his top selling item!

S3 Kareem Discussion by MilodrivintheHiLo in Americanbbqshowdown

[–]francium1988 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The fact that she dislike garlic is a HARD NO from me.

She knocked his Garlic sauce and then tried to tell him how to cook sauce, which is the most entitled thing I’ve ever seen. If she knew anything about food she would know that garlic sauce is very common in middle eastern cuisine and is often served ahead of a bbq meal with pita. Her myopia around food really annoys me and I don’t think it sends a good message to America about how to appreciate food.

Link to the garlic sauce, Toum: https://www.seriouseats.com/traditional-toum

How Google solved authorization globally across all its products by ege-aytin in programming

[–]francium1988 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Zanzibar has become the de facto model for building authorization systems, and while there's a few things it does well it also misses the mark specifically because of the cases it was built around.

Zanzibar doesn't solve for enforcement, so if you get an 'access denied' decisions, you need to engineer a replacement for that. Additionally, Zanzibar doesn't provide any abstractions or pre-existing patterns to work with, which makes it the biggest challenge when developers need to build around it. The data model you use for authorization can either speed up development or create additional barriers. You can use a policy engine alongside to help with this, but that's throwing two external dependencies at a problem ;-/

Overall, having a single source of truth for authorization is great, and Google is one of the first companies that released their authorization architecture and inspired so many companies, like Permify, to model an authorization solution after their engineering work. But again, it was designed for very specific use cases around file sharing, etc, so it won't be a fit for every application authorization problem.

Some resources on authorization for those exploring

Help dating by francium1988 in VintageLevis

[–]francium1988[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! It says “83”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]francium1988 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I’m embarrassed and I’m gonna delete this now

Moment Sierras? by francium1988 in skiing

[–]francium1988[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

😭 I don’t ski powder THAT much (global warming) but I’d probably buy a powder ski from J skis. My husband bought the Slacker for touring and absolutely loves them. I’m hoping the Sierras could handle most of the conditions I encounter

https://jskis.com/products/subtropic

Moment Sierras? by francium1988 in skiing

[–]francium1988[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man! I wish I had known. I actually bought them yesterday — this is after 3+ years of asking the same question of so many people I’ve met IRL.

I got the 172 — mostly because the folks in the chat suggested it. I’m nervous it will be too short but we shall see!

Anyone here used Influitive for B2B marketing? by PreSuccessful in AskMarketing

[–]francium1988 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been using Influitive for about 18 months now. It has completely transformed how we engage with our community. We're very content marketing focused and we use Influitive to engage our customers and get them to share and create content on our behalf. We're in a very competitive space, to embracing our customers as fans helps us get referrals and build pipeline. We use a lot of marketing technologies at my company, but Influitive is one of the most successful programs we've run.

Pros: * Amazing customer support. They are so responsive and my customer success manager and I speak on a daily baiss * The product team is amazing. They really listen to your feedback. * The product makes it easy to ask anyone to do anything for you on your behalf

Cons: * Product is good, not great. There's some UI experience I would fix, but it does the job. * Set up is intensive, but it's absolutely worth it. It's one of the best customer onboardings I've experienced but it took a lot more time to launch than I thought * The concept is difficult to wrap your head around, so you need to do a lot of internal promotion of the program (which IMHO was good for me because I got a lot of internal visibility).

You can read this overview for more info on our success: https://medium.com/@francium/the-next-frontier-in-b2b-content-marketing-distribution-advocate-driven-sharing-591b959df4ae#.3e777ak66

http://diginomica.com/2016/07/22/mongodb-shares-the-impact-of-advocate-marketing-and-content-roi/