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by daave 9y ago
Agreed this is super-exciting. Hope they add the same functionality for Google Cloud HTTPS Load Balancers soon as well.
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Why (and how) we revamped our employee equity(blog.mixpanel.com)
2 points by daave 10y ago|0 comments
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by daave 10y ago
..and yet, TV advertising is still a huge business YouTube can target ads much better than TV, and with TrueView ads the advertiser only pays if the viewer doesn't skip, so more of the revenue is going to be coming from ads that mutual
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by daave 10y ago
Did you consider using something like ESO Fund to finance the exercise of your options? If so, why did you decide not to use them? Assuming they're willing to do the deal, if your alternative is letting the options expire worthless, it
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by daave 10y ago
Mixpanel | San Francisco, Seattle | Full-time, ONSITE Mixpanel's mission is to help the world learn from its data. We help companies learn how people use their products and applications so they can grow their business. Every day we fac
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by daave 10y ago
The menu of the linked post has an entry named 'Source' which points to: https://github.com/librespacefoundation?query=upsat
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by daave 10y ago
How close is the shelter to the tower? That's gotta be terrifying. I'd have thought people would need to be pretty far away just to avoid permanent hearing damage in an event like this.
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Autotrack for web: Collect everything, track anything(blog.mixpanel.com)
2 points by daave 10y ago|0 comments
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by daave 10y ago
> The reason why Google didn't offer cloud services earlier is because they were using up all of their cloud. [citation needed] It was a (poor) business decision not to go for public cloud earlier, but not driven by datacenter capac
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by daave 10y ago
Diplomacy is wonderful. I find it hard to get 7 people to commit to 4+ hours to make it through a game, so the mail option is good, but IMO in person is more fun.
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by daave 10y ago
So you're assuming there are compromised CA keys in the hands of governments & corrupt corporations? Even if this is true, isn't it mitigated by certificate pinning?
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by daave 10y ago
Looks like Safari doesn't provide the Intl object (ECMAScript Internationalization API), which I depend on in my module initialization. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by daave 10y ago
OP here. A couple of small known issues I haven't fixed up yet: * I'm not correctly taking into account the number of coupon payments in the current year and final year for each bond, just assuming it's 4 like every other
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Show HN: OzBonds, do-it-yourself inflation protected pension(ozbonds.info)
8 points by daave 10y ago|6 comments
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by daave 10y ago
Not YC-specific, but this sounds a fair bit like OfferBoard: http://www.offerboard.com/
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by daave 10y ago
In my interviews you code in whichever language you prefer. Some interviewers will ask you to use a specific language that's mentioned on your resume. In general I think that if you show strong coding skills in some language , it is b
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by daave 10y ago
I'm an SRE-SE and regular do phone interviews for SRE-SE candidates. While I do tend to spend more of the interview time talking about sysadmin tools, operating systems, networking, databases, security and troubleshooting, I still expe
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by daave 11y ago
Unlike Google Reader, this product was replaced with a newer (and, IMO, better) alternative, Google Photos. Albums you had in Picasa aren't gone, they're just accessible through the new UI. Why should Google maintain two competing
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RCE Vuln in FingerTec Biometric Access Control Devices(digital-panther.com)
4 points by daave 11y ago|2 comments
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by daave 11y ago
The site is now blocked by Google Safe Browsing as a result of these complains. Author has been emailed asking that he corrects this behavior in order to be removed from the blacklist.
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by daave 11y ago
The site is now blacklisted for Chrome users. I've emailed the author letting him know about this issue.
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by daave 11y ago
When visiting this blog post on my Android phone, the ads (or something) redirect me to a page with popups telling me my phone has a virus and encouraging me to install an app to 'clean' it, using Google branding on some dodgy dom
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Google BigQuery improvements(googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
2 points by daave 11y ago|0 comments
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by daave 11y ago
Sounds fairly similar to bradfitz's Camlistore ( https://camlistore.org/ ). If you're familiar with that project, could you comment on the main differences in YouTransfer?
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Static Websites with TLS/SSL Using Google Cloud Platform and StartSSL(blog.daave.com)
3 points by daave 11y ago|0 comments
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by daave 11y ago
> I can just set my cookie to $their_session_id:$hmac_of_their_session_id If you can steal somebody else's cookies (which are not Channel-bound) then that's true. If you can only steal or predict somebody else's session ID
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by daave 11y ago
Exactly. A better, or at least more general, mitigation than enabling HSTS (though that's a good idea anyway), is to not design your web application in such a way that a modified cookie in the client creates a vulnerability. Since cook
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by daave 11y ago
> Since the full dataset is ~285GB, you only get 4 queries per month. That's only true if your 4 queries need to read every single column. One of the big advantages of BigQuery's column-oriented storage is that you only pay to
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by daave 12y ago
I don't think sampling's even necessary. Presumably Spotify log every play. If they pushed their logs into BigQuery or something similar, it would be trivial to calculate the revenue breakdown the way the OP describes. 'Big d
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Shazam Replaces Amazon Music with Google Play(shazamers.com)
2 points by daave 12y ago|0 comments

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