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by buckhx 9y ago
It's not a full-blown rewrite, but it's not just spin up new infrastructure and run it over here either. We're receiving Zagat specific code, but there are significant gaps from missing Google dependencies and data that need
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by buckhx 9y ago
We love The Wirecutter and is something we look to a lot from The Infatuation. Their content is fairly "evergreen" and useful. They cover utility aspects great, but generally feel like they don't take design/taste/s
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by buckhx 9y ago
The Infatuation will continue to write reviews and guides in house. We're looking to build a community to power the content on Zagat and curate content while we build that out. Building a community will definitely be a challenge, but h
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by buckhx 9y ago
Google will run Zagat in prod for an agreed amount of time while we develop a separate platform that implements the same endpoints on our infrastructure. Once we're done with that, we'll switch client applications over to read fro
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by buckhx 9y ago
Don't have too much context on high (er) quality content in the rest of Google's portfolio, but we definitely were drawn to Zagat and saw it as a great counterpart to The Infatuation for exactly this reason. Quality over quantity
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by buckhx 9y ago
Love this and we've been thinking about it a lot. I'd say that most UGC platform ratings fall into the base rate fallacy and there is a lot more information available that could be leveraged for recommendations. A very indicative
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by buckhx 9y ago
Our main source of revenue right now is through partnerships with brands who we see as sharing in our values. We have always believed that by providing quality content and by keeping our partnerships no bullsh*t and to brands that gel with
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by buckhx 9y ago
Our take right now is that The Infatuation will focus on subjective takes with our reviews and guides and Zagat will be more data driven from the community. That being said, we're going to have to be pragmatic through this. Would love
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by buckhx 9y ago
I fully support snob-mentality and am onboard with your take on most UGC. It's something we are going to be very conscience about as we grow the platform. In general, want to take a top-down approach by identifying quality contributors
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by buckhx 9y ago
They're out living their best life right now. We'll have a relationship with them, but right now they don't have formal roles with us. We had a good chat with them a couple weeks ago about the technology side of things and th
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by buckhx 9y ago
Yeah we're getting all of the Zagat specific content, but there is loads of Google data that we won't have access to moving forward. We'll continue to have a symbiotic relationship with Google from a data/content perspec
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by buckhx 9y ago
Thanks! Zagat really was the OG user generated content platform. They distributed surveys out and used the responses to form their short iconic reviews. We want to bring Zagat back to it's roots, but powered with modern technology to m
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by buckhx 9y ago
On The Infatuation we have staff writers visit a restaurant multiple times and make sure we have our opinion has been as informed as possible. Our biggest problem is scaling that process and we want to use Zagat to help with that via user g
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by buckhx 9y ago
We have an aggressive timeline to extract Zagat from Google. We're still going to leverage a number of their technologies (GCP, Go, Protobufs, etc..), but we basically need to re-implement their platform on infrastructure we own. Going
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by buckhx 9y ago
CTO of The Infatuation here. We're excited to get rolling on this and have some really unique challenges ahead to extract Zagat from internal Google technology. Feel free to reach out with any questions. If you want to help us tackle t
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by buckhx 9y ago
The Infatuation | Platform Engineer - Go | NYC, NY | Onsite, Full Time or Contract | https://www.theinfatuation.com At The Infatuation, we're building the world’s greatest restaurant discovery platform. We reach our audienc
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by buckhx 9y ago
There is also the grpc-gateway project for JSON transcoding https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway
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by buckhx 9y ago
Thanks for the shout out. Glad to see that post is aging well. Happy to answer questions about it if they come up.
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by buckhx 9y ago
The Infatuation | Platform Engineer - Go | NYC, NY | Onsite, Full Time or Contract | https://www.theinfatuation.com At The Infatuation, we're building the world’s greatest restaurant discovery platform. We reach our audienc
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by buckhx 9y ago
Fair Market Value determined by a 409a valuation.
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by buckhx 9y ago
Wow and I thought removing AMT was throwing folks with ISOs a bone.
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by buckhx 9y ago
It's not presented very effectively, but my understanding is that 'd' means penny. Pence is the plural form of penny. "The French Livre, sou, and denier are equivalent to the pound, shilling and penny (Latin liber, solid
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by buckhx 9y ago
Happy with the build quality and comfort so far. The color itself surprised me even after seeing the swatch in person.
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by buckhx 9y ago
Spot on. I had a typo in my original comment, but they do indeed show up unannounced for the reasons you stated.
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by buckhx 9y ago
My bad, that was a typo. They show up unannounced.
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by buckhx 9y ago
Sorry that was a typo. They show up UNannounced.
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by buckhx 9y ago
Not to huck our product too much, but next time you're in one of the cities we cover, try out https://theinfatuation.com/ . We focus on highlighting great restaurants and not just ones that are good for an Instagram sho
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by buckhx 9y ago
Just got one from Joybird. The swatch samples are a big plus. It definitely creates some anxiety not knowing how things will actually play out though.
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by buckhx 9y ago
Looks pretty neat. Our GRPC services are currently bundled with a JSON-REST proxy as well as a GRPC-WEB proxy in the service itself and then placed behind an NGINX k8s Ingress. This could be a really nice way to extract those proxies as a s
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by buckhx 9y ago
I'm not a Yelp sympathizer, but this does pretty clearly look like a violation on Google's side. Building up local content is hard and expensive and to represent someone else's content as their own is pretty unethical. If Goo

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