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How to calculate your company’s growth rate(medium.com)
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by Nimsical 9y ago
Siri's behind on a lot of stuff. They have issues gathering all parts of their organization and centralizing efforts for A.I. due to their org. structure, so it's going to be a while before Siri can catch. On the pricing front – I
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by Nimsical 9y ago
There's no open API for this, right? And Siri is ~1-2 years behind Echo/Google Home. Only "innovation" is on aesthetic design. Apple usually comes in when they know they can do something a lot better than the existing co
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by Nimsical 9y ago
There's no open API for this, right? And Siri is ~1-2 years behind Echo/Google Home. Only "innovation" is on aesthetic design. Apple usually comes in when they know they can do something a lot better than the existing co
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by Nimsical 9y ago
How is the clustering of these articles actually work? Pretty interesting!
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Programming no longer qualifies as a “special occupation” for H1B Visas [pdf](uscis.gov)
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Show HN: A proposal for a new analytics platform(hackernoon.com)
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Show HN: Mental Health Pop Up(mentalhealthpopup.splashthat.com)
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What's missing in product analytics(medium.com)
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“Serverless” Slack Bot in 9 Minutes with Node.js and StdLib(medium.com)
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Free utiltiy-microservices on StdLib(medium.com)
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Show HN: Universal (Multi-SIM) Phone Number(hackernoon.com)
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Drew Houston: How to Build the Future with Sam Altman(youtube.com)
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Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook(buckbuild.com)
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by Nimsical 10y ago
I don't track that information on the function – but I really should! Based on StdLib's dashboards – a bunch of folks have been using it per month with a steady pace of a few 100 scrapes a day type of thing. We've been using
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by Nimsical 10y ago
I tend to tell this to people quite often, but depending on the use-case – it might actually make sense to use something like Mechanical Turk to get complicated scraping done. But if the content is pretty neatly and easily scraped then the
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by Nimsical 10y ago
A ton of modern languages still use the namespace I think.
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by Nimsical 10y ago
hah, the C/C++ programmer in me cringed the first time I saw it. It's a decent platform though.
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by Nimsical 10y ago
I guess it's not truly distributed in that sense. StdLib uses AWS Lambda, which have widely different IPs and I believe they're multi-region. I haven't had issues hitting a wall with getting caught doing any scraping. But the
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by Nimsical 10y ago
Mainly built this as an experiment to pull a bunch of data for some ML work I've been doing. Wrote about it more extensively here: https://hackernoon.com/microservice-series-scraper-ee970df3e... AMA!
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Show HN: Distributed Scraper(stdlib.com)
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ImageMagick as a Free Service(stdlib.com)
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utils.storage – Highly available key-value storage service for small projects(stdlib.com)
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StdLib launches Python SDK(github.com)
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Launch Rock, but for free(medium.com)
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Show HN: Markdown 2 HTML converter(nemo.stdlib.com)
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Show HN: HN Slack Bot :)(medium.com)
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Reflecting on Susan Fowler’s Reflections(medium.com)
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Timberlake – Job Tracker for Hadoop from Stripe(github.com)
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Echo/Alexa skills in(stdlib.com)
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