adam_gyroscope

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by adam_gyroscope 4y ago
I’m a mentor for Underdog Devs and love it! Happy to answer any questions.
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by adam_gyroscope 4y ago
For folks looking for a free Postgres offering, check out bit.io (I'm the founder/CEO) - we're super easy to use. And if you migrate from heroku and mention HN we'll get you a $5 credit if you go pro.
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by adam_gyroscope 4y ago
Love this! I think it's time for the database to move closer to the browser. We spend some time getting the node-postgres library working with websockets so we could go browser->websockify->postgres: https://github.com
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by adam_gyroscope 5y ago
It's oncall, like any engineering on-call rotation, so there's an SLA for responding to support requests; currently our oncall is 6am-6pm Pacific time (weekdays). So, it's as much as work day as any on-call rotation is.
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by adam_gyroscope 5y ago
Check out the links in our post on this: https://blog.bit.io/we-have-a-four-day-work-week-and-you-sho...
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by adam_gyroscope 5y ago
As a founder, the temptation is real, but anecdotally (anecdataly?) I'm so much more motivated on the work days I don't think the extra day matters. But, my company is not big enough to have enough sample data to prove it one way
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by adam_gyroscope 5y ago
We have a chat box that pops up for all support, and offer support@bit.io. Both get routed to our Intercom instance, and both generate opsgenie alerts for some cases. We do an on-call rotation for answering the support requests. We don&#x27
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by adam_gyroscope 5y ago
Great question. The sad fact of the 4 day work week is that the rest of the world doesn't do it, so external support is a challenge. Right now, my co-founder and I try to do any external customer _meetings_ that have to take place on a
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by adam_gyroscope 5y ago
We (bit.io) do a 4 day work week, and have since our founding. It's the 32-hours get paid for 40-hours kinda; our salaries are competitive with companies of the same stage & size who do a 40-hour work week. I was skeptical at first
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by adam_gyroscope 5y ago
bit.io, inc | Multiple Positions | Remote | https://bit.io bit.io’s mission is to make data scientists and software engineers immediately productive with data, to remove obstacles to using data, and to make data more accessible.
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by adam_gyroscope 5y ago
You can do this with bit.io, although it’s not local; import your csv (drag and drop or browse to upload) and get a Postgres database in the cloud. Full disclosure I’m a founder at bit.io. I love to see anything that makes it easier to use
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by adam_gyroscope 5y ago
bit.io, inc | SWE & SRE | Remote | https://bit.io bit.io is building a home for all the worlds data. A single, giant, postgres database where users can share their data with anyone in seconds just like a Google doc, query th
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by adam_gyroscope 5y ago
bit.io, inc | Multiple Positions | Remote | https://bit.io bit.io’s mission is to make data scientists and software engineers immediately productive, to remove obstacles to using data, and to make data more accessible. Join us i
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by adam_gyroscope 6y ago
bit.io, inc | Multiple Positions | Remote | https://bit.io bit.io’s mission is to make data scientists and software engineers immediately productive, to remove obstacles to using data, and to make data more accessible. Join us i
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by adam_gyroscope 6y ago
bit.io | bit.io | FE & BE Engineers | San Francisco (REMOTE) | Fulltime bit.io is looking for a Front-End Engineer and Back-end Engineer working within three hours, +/-, of Pacific Time. bit.io’s mission is to make data scientists
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Show HN: SQL access to Covid-19 data
2 points by adam_gyroscope 7y ago|0 comments
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by adam_gyroscope 7y ago
Former ITA'er here who went through the Google acquisition. This news is interesting because Google's flight search, which used to be ITA Software, is/was very competitive with SABRE - it would have been impossible to imagine
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Google and SABRE partner to build travel tech(bloomberg.com)
3 points by adam_gyroscope 7y ago|1 comments
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by adam_gyroscope 7y ago
So, I think so but can’t prove it. In 1998 I didn’t really understand open source licensing so who knows where that code went.
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by adam_gyroscope 7y ago
Back when I was in university we had a small course on Limbo/Inferno because of a connection my university (RIT) had to bell labs. I took the course in... 1998? and wrote a version of Tetris for limbo. The code was awful, but did find
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by adam_gyroscope 7y ago
Please do ping me! My company was pretty starightforward, but I know they handle some fairly complex companies.
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by adam_gyroscope 7y ago
We used pilot at my company (Gyroscope; sold to BlueVoyant in March last year). I had been doing my own books, which was annoying and not a good use of my time or something I’m good at. Pilot saved me a few hours a week for not too much mon
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by adam_gyroscope 9y ago
We built https://github.com/GyroscopeHQ/grpcat at my company, which takes text-format protos as input and sends them to a gRPC endpoint. Looking at Prototool I think I should just merge the functionality into Prototool
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by adam_gyroscope 9y ago
This is great. I used to work on on both the traffic/network side of YT and the encoding side, and could see the value of this approach handled by distribution nodes at the edge of a network.
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by adam_gyroscope 9y ago
Oh, and I get a report every month with all my reports (balance sheet, P&L, etc) and summary data, and they do amazing customer support.
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by adam_gyroscope 9y ago
Yep - all of that is automated. Importantly, all the the classification of the transactions is automated as well, so I no longer have to look at a charge like "GUS99PWR-T BILL.COM " on my credit card statement and figure out a)
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by adam_gyroscope 9y ago
Pilot customer here; they are amazing. It's pretty different from a regular bookkeeper largely in that Pilot is super accurate and timely. My time spent doing bookkeeping for my small startup went from an hour or two a week to zero hou
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by adam_gyroscope 9y ago
In 2012 I wondered if it was possible to build a 4 year CS degree from what Coursera offered at the time: http://www.thesimplelogic.com/2012/09/24/you-say-you-want-an... (spoiler alert: kinda, but not really)
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Ask HN: What apps/services/software do you miss from your home country?
4 points by adam_gyroscope 9y ago|4 comments
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by adam_gyroscope 9y ago
I'm a pilot customer; my company is an early (seed) stage software startup, and I use to do my bookkeeping by hand... and I had no idea what I was doing. "dubious thoroughness" is a great way to express my bookkeeping. Pilot

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