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by albertwang 7y ago
Salesforce Press release: https://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases...
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Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B(techcrunch.com)
950 points by albertwang 7y ago|376 comments
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by albertwang 8y ago
2016 article with more details: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/ibm-sues-groupon... It links to the original lawsuit ( https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016&#x2
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by albertwang 8y ago
Link to the research paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3195066 From the abstract: Using algorithms to analyze the blockchain data, we find that purchases with Tether are timed following market
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Hawaii Approves Bill Banning Sunscreen Believed to Kill Coral Reefs(npr.org)
2 points by albertwang 8y ago|0 comments
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by albertwang 9y ago
Disclosure: I work at Datadog -- Tracing requests across services and hosts to identify bottlenecks is one reason why Datadog decided to build a tracing component in APM! A flamegraph is one such method to visually infer critical path anal
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by albertwang 10y ago
Note that on Robinhood you're only entering a "pre-ipo" bid but are not participating in the ipo -- i.e., you aren't guaranteed that your order will fill at any point Source: https://support.robinhood.com&#x2F
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by albertwang 10y ago
To add -- a better comparison in the open-source world might be Zipkin or Pinpoint, which aim to offer similar tracing capabilities with language integrations.
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by albertwang 10y ago
There's frequently a lot of confusion in the APM market -- As you might have noticed, there's a lot of overlap in what both tools can do. Graphite is primarily used for time-series metrics, whereas AppDynamics is a full-stack APM
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by albertwang 10y ago
Except Bobby Axelrod doesn't have a "Billionaire Pig" which gets to live in it's own room and retire on a vegan farm: http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-cohen-did-have-a-pig-20...
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by albertwang 11y ago
You have a few hardcodes that assume where the service is being run: https://github.com/fatiherikli/klassify/search?utf8=%E2%9C%9...
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by albertwang 11y ago
Blog post with full presentation and more details: http://blog.angel.co/post/131017147560/csc-upshot
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AngelList Announces $400M Early-Stage Fund(wsj.com)
182 points by albertwang 11y ago|74 comments
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by albertwang 11y ago
That caniuse link refers to mobile safari. WebRTC in iOS is supported for native apps
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by albertwang 11y ago
I think Alexa's chart is worldwide, not US-only, so it's not a perfect comparison to Quantcast. That being said, Compete (which tracks US-only) also shows growth in traffic: https://siteanalytics.compete.com/Reddit
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by albertwang 11y ago
Thanks Charlie! Lets me check one item off my backlog of things to do. Genuinely super easy to use. Future feature request: Can we get a /status page to check whether the webserver and db are still up?
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by albertwang 12y ago
Question for those who've used Magic: how was your experience? What did you buy, and under what circumstances? (ie, was the item cheap? hard to find? Did you need it immediately?) I've found that the tech behind this is actually
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by albertwang 12y ago
I wonder how they are able to pay for 3rd party transactions with Stripe? Charging the customer's credit card with Stripe then paying with your own payment method incurs a transaction fee and potentially chargebacks (Disclaimer: co-fou
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by albertwang 12y ago
brightroll
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by albertwang 12y ago
found more info here as well: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/11/20/246390302/beer-t...
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by albertwang 12y ago
I live in Manhattan and I now prefer to take Uber/Lyft to the airport whenever there's no surge pricing. Taxis are _supposed_ to have flat pricing but I've never found that to be the case: given all the bridge/tunnel to
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by albertwang 12y ago
If you're ever in Asia, I highly recommend trying out real (fresh) wasabi. As the article mentions, the taste is much sweeter and more nuanced. And it doesn't look a neon green paste.
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Mink is a 3D printer for makeup(techcrunch.com)
6 points by albertwang 12y ago|0 comments