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And just like that left-pad.io is cut out of the market. Man, startups are cutthroat these days, but that's business for you.

• circuit_breaker 11y ago
  It was only natural. I propose a POSIX extension with a new signal type: SIGLPAD. You know, for on demand left-padding by the user. Because user choice is important
• rdtsc 11y ago
  Another unicorn dying. It must be a bubble. Let's wait for HN resident economists to tell us about it.
  • Intermernet 11y ago
    The consensus estimates on left-pad.io’s [LPAD, -0.57%] fiscal 2016 earnings per share and revenue have come down sharply compared to estimates, with ongoing softness within the padding family of functions pushing many analysts to the low end of their guidance.
• qopp 11y ago
  Actually this is an opportunity for left-pad.io. Previously they had to maintain custom code, but now they can interface through to the kernel which is much faster and allows them to scale. Many people are on older kernels and might not be able to upgrade, or for convenience or other reasons simply prefer to use an api for their critical business logic.
  • JetSpiegel 11y ago
    They can compile a unikernel with this single function, even.