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by alex_sf 10y ago
I'm on board, but when talking about stuff like this it's best to use the textbook answers: less wiggle room.
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by alex_sf 10y ago
That's awfully ignorant. Hating on McDonalds and the like is the trendy thing to do now, but to say that there is no nutritional or health value in their food is ridiculous. I just looked up the nutrition facts for a kid's happy
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by alex_sf 10y ago
You're looking at it wrong. Twilio _could_ be profitable with 28M users, easily, but they'd rather not be profitable and spend more money on expansion.
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by alex_sf 11y ago
Twilio has a product specifically for the 'get a code via SMS and verify it' use case: https://www.twilio.com/authy
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by alex_sf 11y ago
Just so you know, from a third party perspective, this reply looks ridiculous.
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by alex_sf 11y ago
It's static html.
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by alex_sf 12y ago
They're just being facetious. That reason is immediately followed up by: > In other cases, our partners had already run out of spaces on the year's Schedule D and feared that another entry would require them to attach a separa
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by alex_sf 12y ago
Clickable: http://goo.gl/forms/1LNVgQ8BSv
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Ask HN: What do you dislike about system monitoring?
2 points by alex_sf 12y ago|1 comments
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by alex_sf 12y ago
My first thought was an integration with GAE. Right now the default URL for a GAE app is foo.appspot.com. foo.app is quite a bit cleaner (and subtly advertises GAE).
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by alex_sf 12y ago
Taxi data from NYC was deanonymized: https://medium.com/@vijayp/of-taxis-and-rainbows-f6bc289679a... And then used to identify Muslim drivers: http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments&
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by alex_sf 12y ago
That's a tough question to answer without context. For us, on this problem, Go was superior to C++ (and Python). On another problem, that may not be the case.
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by alex_sf 12y ago
At Fog Creek, we converted our SSH load balancer from Python to Go. Paramiko had a number of bugs and memory leaks that were forcing us to restart it nightly. We had trouble getting patches accepted upstream over the years. Eventually, a c
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by alex_sf 12y ago
Yeah, no, you clearly don't know who you're replying to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike If there's one person that I would trust with my privacy, it's Moxie.
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by alex_sf 12y ago
Do you realize who you're replying to?
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by alex_sf 12y ago
I'd be surprised if anyone got discounts as deep as Netflix considering their usage. For what it's worth, 3.5m/yr is about 0.08% their revenue.
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by alex_sf 12y ago
I'm a tech guy at Fog Creek. If you'd like to swing by our office for lunch, shoot me an email. Alex@snapfiber.com
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by alex_sf 12y ago
That's a mischaracterization of the situation. ISPs complained about the amount of traffic originating from Netflix. This traffic was requested by the ISP's customers, and the bandwidth to carry it was promised by the ISP. But, st
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by alex_sf 12y ago
There's no announcement, but I got my invite. You can check if you got in here: https://news.ycombinator.com/susrsvp?venue=NY
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Startup School NY Invites Sent
1 points by alex_sf 12y ago|2 comments
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They Write the Right Stuff(fastcompany.com)
3 points by alex_sf 13y ago|0 comments
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Feist v. Rural(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by alex_sf 13y ago|0 comments
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by alex_sf 13y ago
We had to go with Paychex because we have some remote employees in states ZenPayroll isn't available in.
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by alex_sf 13y ago
I get his point and it's a solid plan in most fields. But for the tech jobs most people want, it's a really bad idea to put a suit on for a interview.
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by alex_sf 13y ago
Linode could handle that the same way other providers do: bill per-hour, charge per-month. I love Linode's performance and stability, but not having per hour billing is an absolute dealbreaker. And it's a shame, because even if th
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by alex_sf 13y ago
The post was written prior to the 15th/16th, but scheduled to be posted on the 21st automatically. In the event nothing went wrong with the 'date', she would cancel the auto post. If something happened to her, the auto post w
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by alex_sf 13y ago
Agent Steal, maybe? http://web.textfiles.com/hacking/agentsteal.txt
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by alex_sf 13y ago
I could see this eventually being tied into a Klout score, and different tiers of customer service being provided based upon it.
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by alex_sf 13y ago
That's way more compensation than I would have expected. AWS usually won't even notify you until after the node has gone down. Hardware failures happen; an application needs to be tolerant of it.