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Studies on Slack (2020)(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by calvinfo 5y ago|0 comments
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Largest Permanent Carbon Removal Delivery of All Time(twitter.com)
1 points by calvinfo 5y ago|0 comments
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This is how America gets its vaccines(technologyreview.com)
1 points by calvinfo 6y ago|0 comments
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Newfront (YC W18) raises $100M(newfront.com)
5 points by calvinfo 6y ago|1 comments
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The real magic of GPT-3(calv.info)
4 points by calvinfo 6y ago|0 comments
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by calvinfo 6y ago
Author here. I'm sad to hear this and want to understand how we can do better. Do you mind following up over email? I'm calvin at segment.
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Segment is hiring a growth designer to re-imagine our onboarding(segment.com)
1 points by calvinfo 7y ago
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by calvinfo 7y ago
I don't know a ton about the embedded/IOT world, but it's an area that has been coming up more on my radar recently. This project seems like a super interesting solution to the problems of deployment, updates, and monitoring.
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Segment (YC S11) is hiring engineers to join our billing team and help us scale(segment.com)
1 points by calvinfo 7y ago
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Segment (YC S11) is hiring platform engineers in NYC(segment.com)
1 points by calvinfo 7y ago
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Segment is hiring a fullstack engineer to build our developer platform
1 points by calvinfo 7y ago
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Segment is hiring engineers to build our Developer Platform
1 points by calvinfo 7y ago
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Segment is hiring engineers to create our developer platform
1 points by calvinfo 7y ago
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by calvinfo 7y ago
Disclaimer: I’m a cofounder of Segment [1], we build a product to help with these problems. Given what you’ve shared here, it sounds less like your problems are related to scaling for data volume, and more related to all of the complexity t
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by calvinfo 8y ago
We originally moved to Boston to be close to universities. It seemed like a better location for convincing our professors to use the edtech product we'd started with. We made the move back to SF to be closer to our customers (since we
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by calvinfo 8y ago
Thank you! I'd agree with the other commenters that Peter's talk is the best place to go for hearing the in-depth story: https://blog.ycombinator.com/peter-reinhardt-on-finding-prod... I'd say more generally
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Segment (YC S11) Is Hiring Software Engineers in San Francisco(grnh.se)
1 points by calvinfo 8y ago
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by calvinfo 8y ago
Thanks, fixed!
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by calvinfo 8y ago
I can't share the exact number, but it's high (above 33%) across all customers on our paid plans. For companies on our business tier, it's even higher (above 66%). Most of these companies are doing more advanced data analysis
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by calvinfo 8y ago
Ah sorry about that, this is a great point. I generated these via the seaborn palette in matplotlib[1], but agree that these could be way clearer. I'll see what I can do about changing the line type on them to make them a little bit mo
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by calvinfo 8y ago
Thanks, glad you liked it! 1) Honestly, there are a _lot_ more than just three startups here who seem to be growing actively. In general, I tend to bias towards great product quality and design, which puts Vitally, Split, ClearBrain, and Ku
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by calvinfo 8y ago
I'm Calvin, one of the Segment co-founders. We're excited to share some of our data around the evolution of the growth + saas ecosystems. There are so many tools out there, that it's often incredibly hard to pick one. We want
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by calvinfo 8y ago
Thank you! > How does a director recover from a failure? From my understanding it would require fetching all job IDs from jobs that are in an active state via the job transactions table (which sounds expensive) and then loading the assoc
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by calvinfo 8y ago
Hey HN, author of the post here. A number of Segment engineers are hanging around today, and we are happy to answer questions in the comments. Thanks in advance for any feedback and thoughtful discussion!
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Segment (YC S11) Is Hiring an Infrastructure Tooling Engineer(segment.com)
1 points by calvinfo 9y ago
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by calvinfo 9y ago
This comment might be in jest, but we've actually been working on a few different ways to help optimize [1] and manage our AWS spend [2]. That said, there are quite a few places left for us to optimize. We're hoping to share more
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by calvinfo 9y ago
Hey, I’m one of the Segment founders. I helped instrument a lot of these metrics and built the status page Peter linked to above. I’m hoping I can help shed some light on some of those numbers. The 44ms you’re referring to is the time it ta
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by calvinfo 10y ago
Segment – Engineering | SF (local) Segment is building the analytics routing layer for the world. We transform data into over 150 different services, adding new ones every day. We’re processing billions of events each month, and maintaining
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by calvinfo 10y ago
Segment – Engineering | SF (local) Segment is building the analytics routing layer for the world. We transform data into over 150 different services, adding new ones every day. We’re processing billions of events each month, and maintaining
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Segment is hiring infrastructure engineers to build a streaming data platform(boards.greenhouse.io)
1 points by calvinfo 10y ago

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