MattyMc

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   by MattyMc 6y ago

   I'm a heavy user of Lambda. Our primary stack is Heroku+Rails, but one of our workflows allows students to upload DOCX files where we do some heavy processing (2-3 seconds per file). This wasn't a great fit for Rails, fabulous fit
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   by MattyMc 6y ago

   Haha seems a few people wanted to prove me wrong :) Didn't know that!
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   by MattyMc 6y ago

   Solo, technical founder here. I started a very niche EdTech company 5 years ago, non-venture funded, grew it (code+users) while having reasonably demanding full-time jobs, and now operate it FT. In short: it's tough; you're never
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   by MattyMc 6y ago

   I don't think you can downvote on HackerNews. That's reddit.
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   by MattyMc 6y ago

   Adding another datapoint on this: I’ve been a Stripe customer for 5-6 years and have received outstanding customer service. This includes immediate callbacks by phone, knowledgeable support on disputes, etc. Each time the support person has
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   by MattyMc 6y ago

   I know it's not cool these days, but I strongly prefer (and advise) fully-managed cloud services like Heroku. I can fix my database size and scale/resources (dynos) easily. It's simple, and controlled.
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   by MattyMc 6y ago

   > writing as somebody who runs a big collection of bare-metal hypervisors for ISP infrastructure purposes. I run a cloud SaaS company (3 employees). If I had the skillset that it sounds like you do, I might be inclined to hose on bare me
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   by MattyMc 6y ago

   Comparing the closing price of stocks today with one year ago: TSLA +900% AMD +250% ETSY +400% PTON +350% AAPL +200% Enormous gains. The article should really have more data to describe this pullback.
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   by MattyMc 6y ago

   As someone who learned to program outside of college, this course was one of my favorites.
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    by MattyMc 6y ago

    Of course she did. Dolly is a brilliant, wonderfully kind person. Here's my favourite video of Dolly, taken while she was on vacation in Ireland. Dolly Parton in Paídi Ó Sé's Pub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q
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    by MattyMc 6y ago

    Does anyone know the details on switching licenses? For example, how it affects previous versions? Can the copyright owner switch licenses at anytime? If there’s a resource in this I’d love to read more, too.
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    by MattyMc 6y ago

    Canada is benefiting substantially from the recent US immigration policies. My Ai team at Microsoft Canada was stacked with talent, all immigrants, and most expressed to me that they would have “normally gone to the US.” I don’t have to rem
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    by MattyMc 6y ago

    Thanks for this comment. Excellent learning for me!
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    by MattyMc 6y ago

    I think this varies company-to-company haha ;)
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    by MattyMc 6y ago

    Everything I don't use on my Mac, improved.
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    by MattyMc 6y ago

    I don't think people are interpreting the term "poached" as literally as you are. Losing an employee to a competitor is bad for a company, especially bad for a small company, hence the negative connotation.
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    by MattyMc 6y ago

    Outstanding review.
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    by MattyMc 6y ago

    Tool looks great! Out of curiosity, are you planning to monetize? If so, do you mind me asking how?
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    by MattyMc 6y ago

    This is not accurate. Getting fired versus laid-off are different; it's important to understand this. For one, if you're communicating with a professional and express that you were fired, they will make much different assumptions
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    by MattyMc 7y ago

    I tried to read Gunroad’s Medium post and couldn’t because of Medium’s paywall. Now THAT is irony.
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    by MattyMc 7y ago

    Is anyone currently using this setup (Rails w Docker) in production? I've been using Rails for years, I haven't yet experienced much pain by way of language/library versioning (etc). Python is a different story...
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    by MattyMc 7y ago

    Completely agree. I worked for Microsoft this year. Had an amazing experience, learned a ton, built a great network, had benefits and was well compensated. I did this all while taking almost 0 risk. The idea that working for a tech giant is
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    by MattyMc 7y ago

    Goodness. That really is incredible.
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    Ask HN: Hacker News wants to know your location”

    2 points by MattyMc 7y ago|1 comments
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    by MattyMc 7y ago

    I rarely ask questions on StackOverflow, but I use it every day. I'm a big fan of SO, although I'd love to see someone solve the problems you're describing and build an alternative!
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    by MattyMc 7y ago

    Why is this disingenuous? Just curious :)
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    by MattyMc 7y ago

    I really thought on-board voice would be a game changer. Not having to do the round-trip to the cloud to determine intent, and providing a conversational interface (i.e. "now send this to Pam") I thought would generate that buzz.
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    by MattyMc 7y ago

    Maybe. I don't recall seeing leaks on picture/video specs or battery life. When you build an event like this, I think you put your best foot forward. Google did, it just wasn't terribly impressive IMO.
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    by MattyMc 7y ago

    I was so ready to jump into a Pixel (long time iPhone user). I thought on-board voice recognition would be a game changer. This had to be the most lacklustre event I've seen: - Nothing on video. - No details on the processor (
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    by MattyMc 7y ago

    Me too. Absolutely one of the best products I’ve ever used. It’s also the product that taught me that I can’t trust a SaaS business with important work. Wish they still existed.