PhoenixReborn

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by PhoenixReborn 4y ago
FWIW, I do think it's an excellent email product. However, it is generally not going to be worth the money unless you send a ton of email all the time (exec, sales person, director+ eng leader).
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
The reality in today's world (at least for software developers in the US) is that government work pays so much less than private sector work that I don't imagine it pays to go into government work at any point of your career.
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
I would respectfully disagree that open core doesn’t work - companies like Confluent, Databricks, MongoDB have shown that you can succeed with open core. DGraph I think tried to do too much rather than focusing on graph databases, which cau
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
Unlikely that it's related. For example, here's a report about the September quit rate: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/12/a-record-4point4-million-peo... That was 4.4 million people, even before the v
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
Have you looked at Hasura for the second question (graph frontend + relational backend)? That's basically GraphQL on top of Postgres. As for the first question - I've tried using Neo4j and ArangoDB for relatively large-scale graph
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
Because BQ is great for the ETL/data warehouse/BI use case but is terrible for online applications. I tried using BQ as the backing store for an online analytics application back in late 2019, and it was so much worse than using C
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
Sure, but let's say that the quota is not met organically and only 3% leave voluntarily. Then to achieve the target 6% unregretted attrition for an org, you'd necessarily need to pick a different 3% to fire/push out.
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
I don’t particularly buy this idea since Mastodon has already existed for several years - and in that time, all the major social media players have only increased their market share. As far as free speech platforms go you have things like G
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
Substack is good, and certainly much better than Medium! But I think it serves a different purpose, since it lets content creators monetize their audience rather than managing P2P user interaction like most social media. I'm not sure w
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
I honestly don't have any hard feelings or ill will towards Reddit - I liked my coworkers and my time there was fun overall. I worked on mostly backend/data stuff during my time there, but over time it became painfully clear that
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
The meaningless emoji stuff was added later to boost sales (think of it similar to skins in video games). You used to not get any of that, and the clear thing you did get was no ads (IIRC, this is still the case and if you have Reddit gold
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
Disclaimer: I worked at Reddit prior to when ads were a major revenue source and left in 2018 Prior to ads and the current dark patterns you see on the site, Reddit primarily tried to monetize through Reddit Gold. It didn't work, and u
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
(Disclaimer: I used to work at Reddit but left in 2018) While I think you're absolutely right, I think Digg made a number of other missteps with the Digg v4 launch that Reddit did not make. In particular, they shut down the old Digg si
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
People have predicted that for at least 5 years now, and it hasn't happened. Unless they shut down old.reddit.com, I doubt the exodus will happen.
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
Cannot agree with this recommendation enough. I bought the book and read it, and it's excellent reporting.
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
Ah, thanks for the correction. The policy I had in mind when writing the above comment was the one on petty theft: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1273848
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
Perhaps not, but it's clear that reduced police funding and enforcement hasn't been working...so I think it's a natural shift in the other direction from leadership. While I'm sure many in SF will be disappointed by this
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
I would guess more so the latter. Fox has been going more to the right for a few years now, but CNN has really been fading out especially with the recent scandals hitting Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon. Their core audience is older centrist-lean
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
The $93M number in the headline is somewhat misleading, as it's cumulative across all the rounds of funding. Can the title be changed to state that the specific round raised now is a $68M Series B? Article quote: > We just closed a
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
There are quite a lot of apps that do a JS frontend and Django backend these days, I myself have done quite a few.
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
There are countries with mandatory voting already (Australia is a good example). It hasn't really changed very much about their elections though.
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
This seems overly pessimistic. I work on a React codebase that uses only plain CSS files (no CSS-in-JS), and have never encountered any problems with that. Sure, there are certainly people who exclusively used CSS in JS, but I would hardly
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
Rather than seeing Notion as a Google Docs alternative, it might be better to see it as an alternative to Atlassian Confluence or other wiki softwares. I can certainly say that Notion was a much better fit for us than something like Conflue
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
The ORM connection pooler is client-side - so each instance of your application using SQLAlchemy will have its own connection pool. This may become unwieldy as you scale up the number of app servers/containers/processes. In contra
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
Very cool and thanks for the response! I will definitely give Hightouch a try.
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
I am probably missing something here, but how is Hightouch differentiated from other similar tools like Census ( https://www.getcensus.com/ )?
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
Poetry helps alleviate some of the issues mentioned here, and lets you separate dev vs prod dependencies. As far as the "new PHP" goes, it'd be great if Python ever powered almost 80% of websites: https://kinsta.co
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
They actually made 100M in a single quarter recently, and not a year. Source: https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/reddit-raises-410-million-in... So let's say their annual revenue is 3-4x since ad spend is usually wei
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
> why Flink and not Kafka ? I assume you mean "Kafka Streams" when you say this, as Kafka is just a event bus and Flink can be used to read messages from it. The biggest advantage of Flink (IMO) is that you can write the Flink
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by PhoenixReborn 5y ago
The alternative monetization model is usually subscriptions / freemium features. These don't usually work out for social media sites as people are not willing to pay for user generated content, and the main draw is the content its

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