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by fosk 9y ago
Who knows, maybe cryptocurrency will be the answer for this, by accepting Bitcoins/Litecoins at the cashier.
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by fosk 9y ago
~10 minutes avg ride time in SF. You also need to take into account the extra 4-5 avg minutes it takes for a driver to pick up the person. So I would assume a driver in SF can make 4 rides an hour.
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by fosk 9y ago
Yes, here you go: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/not-hotdog/id1212457521
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by fosk 9y ago
I haven't used Flowdock in years, but I remember their Threads feature was awesome. Threads would appear in the main chat, with different colors, and clicking on them would highlight the entire thread. https://www.flowdock.c
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by fosk 9y ago
I wouldn't be in SF running my company if Travis didn't decide to host this poor broke immigrant (me) at his house in 2009 (the JamPad) without asking anything in return. And like me, many others. He is a nice guy, he helps people
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by fosk 9y ago
> sometimes flips the order of a few messages, so that if you send two messages, the first one appears below the second one. Turns out eventual consistency doesn't work well with chat apps.
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by fosk 9y ago
99% of these companies don't have a significant market share in their respective niche.
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by fosk 9y ago
Despite the negative press Uber is growing, revenue is growing, and the average Joe doesn't really care about any of this as long as his ride to work still costs less than a taxi.
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by fosk 9y ago
I believe that when a company has not found the right product/market fit yet, or has not gained a significant market share in its respective niche, then it cannot afford to have core engineering done remotely. Any pre series-C company,
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by fosk 9y ago
> AWS has tried several times They have tried once, and it's called AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
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by fosk 9y ago
You are missing the point. It's not for you to re-enter the PIN every once in a while, it's to prevent a potential attacker with physical access to your phone to unlock it, exactly when the phone itself it's not phisically wi
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by fosk 9y ago
In real-time.
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by fosk 9y ago
LuaJIT is such an amazing piece of software - apparently to such an extent that only Mike Pall fully understands some of its internals. Besides being much faster than the official Lua VM, it offers extended features like the FFI library [1]
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Microservices and API Gateways (2016)(nginx.com)
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Kong 0.10 has been released(blog.mashape.com)
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by fosk 10y ago
Check this out: http://www.subzero-wolf.com/sub-zero
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by fosk 10y ago
> healthy markets Taxies are a regulated monopoly, definitely not a healthy market. Hordes of consumers moved to a better alternative like Uber at the first chance they had. > Uber is just a criminal organization acting solely out of
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by fosk 10y ago
To me the best advantage is that by following links, the client doesn't have to builds those links in the first place. So the client will keep working even if a few months from now you want to change the link to something else. A simpl
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by fosk 10y ago
same here
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by fosk 10y ago
If you need an API Gateway that can work with Lambda, but with better performance and feature set, take a look at https://github.com/Mashape/kong - there is an open PR for Lambda support which will land in the next ver
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by fosk 10y ago
Not always the case, I just tried and: $ time real 0m0.002s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s
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by fosk 10y ago
If anybody from GitHub is here, I have a feedback on the new Reviews feature. When the Review approval is missing or required, please make it clear in the "Pull Requests" list-view by updating the color of the little dot and it&#x
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by fosk 10y ago
It's interesting to note that the meetings time decreased as the management time increased, because often the two are strongly correlated. In my experience meetings and management time grow proportionally, since meetings are a good way
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by fosk 10y ago
Small number of players, and high barriers to entry the diamond market that prevents that number from growing and disrupt the cartel.
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by fosk 10y ago
Besides the model number, can you also tell us the firmware version?
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by fosk 10y ago
Or you may make even more money if the acquirer is a public company and you know when to sell. Stocks are an opportunity that can accelerate your net worth by a double digit multiplier if you, as an employee, know where to bet your time and
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by fosk 10y ago
> If Uber still hasn't gone public, when do you think Gusto is? IPO is only one of the exit strategies available, acquisitions being another one (selling to the private market being another one, etc). A company doesn't necessar
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by fosk 10y ago
You are making the mistake of comparing the Uber market size to the taxi market size. Uber, by providing an easier way to take rides, has made an existing market much bigger, and they are taking over it. The market size has changed thanks t
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by fosk 10y ago
This is one of the innumerable reasons why copying and pasting commands on the fly is wrong. This also includes the awful popular installation commands in the form of "curl -s ... | sh" - which means you are basically giving your
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by fosk 10y ago
> someone has to be responsible for deciding which TLD's should exist Why? Why can't we have as many custom TLD's as we want? Or why can't my blog just end with .helloworld if I decide to do so?

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