beager

13 ms·

91.
by beager 8y ago
Nothing stopping me from building it but hours in the day :) Would love to do it actually
92.
by beager 8y ago
EBITDA of $1 (or anything) doesn't tell me anything unless I understand what the prior period EBITDA were. - Were they also $1 in the prior period on EBITDA? That would indicate that their growth is stalled and they can't fix prof
93.
by beager 8y ago
I’d rather see a Glassdoor-like portal where you can see what people really paid for billed services directly or via insurance vis a vis the “list price”. That’d be helpful to advise folks who might be negotiating a medical bill to know wh
94.
by beager 8y ago
Search engines, messaging services, and social networks that are all threatened by this should forego their competitive instincts and share information about how to combat this issue. If Google doesn’t have this issue but Bing and DuckDuckG
95.
by beager 8y ago
It is ironic but not entirely surprising. Microsoft is enormous and the process for managing Bing as a product is probably so onerous that even integrating an “in-house” system might take years and incur heaps of bureaucracy. If Bing really
96.
by beager 8y ago
That’s an insane percentage of the mean annual salary of all these recruits, astronomically higher than just about any contingency firm.
97.
by beager 8y ago
Isn't it prohibitively hard to reside in Japan as an outsider? How can they expect to move up to 8mm houses unless predominantly to existing Japanese? Am I missing something?
98.
by beager 8y ago
This sounds like a possible reason why they can’t disclose the full extent of it. Cloudbleed was pretty tough to ascertain the extent of. Not a lot of caches I’ve had experience with have deep tools for introspection and auditing. I don’t b
99.
by beager 8y ago
Well said. There were numerous reports of insiders cheering and feeling reinforced after watching that movie in theaters. Whereas the public, by only their sensibilities, saw the ill effects of that kind of business.
100.
by beager 8y ago
`apt install this` would be problematic at App Store/Play Store scale, though. I agree that search engines as an intermediary don't do enough to curb confusion, but exploitation of `apt` and other "more stable" distribut
101.
by beager 8y ago
> The problem has nothing to do with the Edge browser, it has to do with search results returned by Bing, which happens to be Edge's default search engine. I think you're slicing this too thinly. This has everything to do with
102.
by beager 8y ago
> Bing makes it clear when a site is promoted by prepending "ad" to the search result. Other search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Google do the same. They very specifically do not make it clear, they (and I mean all of them) i
103.
by beager 8y ago
I thought this would be an examination of the fluid dynamics of poutine, perhaps a revelation that fully-integrated poutine dishes are non-Newtonian fluids. Additionally: given the heavy cultural significance ascribed to poutine by this “pa
104.
by beager 8y ago
One advantage Apple has here is they’ve eliminated the tyranny of choice that I see with non-Mac laptops. Which one should I buy? How much should I spend? What do I really need? I am paralyzed. OTOH, I know an MBP will do fine, and the pric
105.
by beager 8y ago
I actually agree with you. Cryptocurrency is not inherently "evil" nor does it do anything evil by design. The NSA has many programs and actors that could be construed as evil. However, that's separate from the point I was ma
106.
by beager 8y ago
I'll bite. The Department of Defense has a much larger purview than propping up the value of currency. Cryptocurrency doesn't fight terrorism (at best, it's agnostic to terrorism, at worst, it aids it). It won't fight ba
107.
by beager 8y ago
Anymail looks great, thanks! We’re on Flask but there might be some way to bridge those worlds. Appreciate your maintenance of the project.
108.
by beager 8y ago
Not the post you were replying to, but one of our biggest gripes while trying to work around Mandrill outages was the lack of idempotency keys in their API. Presumed uptime improvements aside, what does SendGrid provide in terms of idempote
109.
by beager 8y ago
Thanks for the links here, I'll check out Sparkpost in addition to SendGrid. Didn't realize Sparkpost was the sanctioned escape hatch from Mandrill's own blog postings. Also I mean "absorption" because at some point
110.
by beager 8y ago
I have my own concerns about SES since my impression is that you have to do your own IP hygiene, and you can't get "pre-warmed" IPs, so if we were to slam SES with our email traffic, our deliverability would fluctuate greatly
111.
by beager 8y ago
Was it the migration strategy that was a misstep or having a single point of failure for transactional email? If you're looking to support multiple transaction mail providers, any best practices you've come across to ensure that y
112.
by beager 8y ago
Good on them, but they’ve completely flubbed their absorption of Mandrill, and these days Mandrill suffers frequent production outages unbecoming of a serious email provider, and their support is abysmal. I guess part of building a big busi
113.
by beager 8y ago
Responding to a few other replies to this thread, you can see funds that give 30mm+ seed/A rounds in Crunchbase or Pitchbook. That’s not to say those rounds are a fund’s specific thesis or the norm, only that it’s possible.
114.
by beager 8y ago
Apple is actively trying to sell me MDM services. So they may not be in the business of making it easy, but they're certainly in the business of making money on it.
115.
by beager 8y ago
Assuming that the testimony would be to a bipartisan group and presuming the polling is correct and the House flips to Dem control, could this be pushed back to 2019 and the GOP’s larger focus on political bias by Google de-emphasized? Wond
116.
by beager 8y ago
It may be that the zesty quality of pepper outpaces any taste. I’m curious to put it on something bland now to see if I can taste it, but my original comment was meant to convey that I might be blind to the actual taste of black pepper as a
117.
by beager 8y ago
Salt and pepper both enhance the flavor of food without changing the taste or adding additional flavors, in my opinion, which makes both of them maximally versatile and leads to their primacy. However, I'm curious now if my assessment
118.
by beager 8y ago
That "hierarchy" of beliefs just sounds selfish, with an interest in disproportionately consolidating resources in your proximity, but then demanding permissive access to them once they're at arms length. Of course, policies
119.
by beager 8y ago
I have seen no evidence that supervised or unsupervised ML or "AI" has led to any more accurate application of justice. I'm not fine with integrating it into the legal system, not while it's vulnerable to the current bia
120.
by beager 8y ago
Conglomerated media companies like Sinclair are in the ballpark, but true independent media outlets don’t, for sure. And it’s not false equivalence in my mind, just worth noting the difference in magnitude and considering the difference tha

More ›