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by gleb 11y ago
I buy a lot of stuff on Amazon, would be happy to get some money back. My concern is that if I take margin away from Amazon, and a take up a bunch of their CS time using Paribus, Amazon will classify me as a customer they would rather not h
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by gleb 11y ago
"flew relief aid missions into Russia in the 70's and 80's" does not compute. Soviet Union had a whole branch of military dedicated to anti-aircraft warfare, meant to stop such things. But yuh, the civilian maps were te
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by gleb 12y ago
I agree. Think their price point is too expensive for most healthy consumers, so they are currently positioned for people who have a significant need to use them.
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by gleb 12y ago
There is a YC company that will collect and maintain medical records for you. PicnicHealth - https://picnichealth.com/ I am a customer, recommended. Also, "medicine for the rich" companies like Pinnacle Care an
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by gleb 13y ago
I'd month-normalize this chart. Otherwise it looks to support the opposite conclusion of what you are trying to say.
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by gleb 13y ago
Zapier is one of these things that totally blew away my expectations. It works really well and is easy to use even for non-technical users. Doubly impressive given that the problem they are solving is really messy underneath it all.
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by gleb 13y ago
Yes, video is very helpful. But an application without video is much better than no application at all.
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by gleb 13y ago
The copy is not my best work. But hope it gets the point across -- a quick application is good enough.
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Last Minute Y Combinator Application Guide - Apply in 30 Minutes(glebarshinov.com)
36 points by gleb 13y ago|22 comments
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by gleb 13y ago
Which integration is most solid - Sublime Text?
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by gleb 13y ago
Also, the modal popups in Emacs when it breaks ("failed to apply patch") make it breaking extra annoying.
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by gleb 13y ago
That's how I normally load things from .emacs
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by gleb 13y ago
Very neat. Quick patch to make (require 'floobits) work: diff --git a/floobits.el b/floobits.el index 5f05d33..029e6bd 100644 --- a/floobits.el +++ b/floobits.el @@ -451,3 +451,5 @@ See floobits-share-d
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by gleb 13y ago
Congrats!
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by gleb 13y ago
A.k.a. "worse is better" approach. Seems like a good call to me.
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by gleb 14y ago
It's more subtle than "worse." Apparently CTE optimization fence is part of SQL standard, and it can be useful to hand-optimize queries. But you are right, when using CTEs for readability it tends to hurt more than help. Interesting thread
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by gleb 14y ago
From experience, this is an incredibly effective way to DoS yourself. It was the default behaviour of nginx LB ages ago. Maybe only on EngineYard. Doesn't really matter as nobody uses nginx LB anymore. Even ignoring the POST requests prob
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by gleb 14y ago
BTW, here's a counter-intuitive solution if using pgbouncer is not possible. Simply drop and reestablish connections on every request. In theory this is horrible, since PG connections are so expensive. In practice the cost of establishin
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by gleb 14y ago
Shouldn't this be s/thread/process/ ?
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by gleb 14y ago
It doesn't appear that running on Heroku is free for them in terms of time.
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by gleb 14y ago
Postgres has a limitation on number of open connections. This is because 1 connection = 1 process. MySQL uses threads, which scales better but has other downsides. The thread-based approach is also possible with Postgres using 3rd party
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by gleb 14y ago
There is routine 10x variation in disk performance between different VPS's on Linode. It's luck of the draw and performance will change (i.e. get worse) over time. You'd need to provision and benchmark a bunch of Linodes to get meaningful
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by gleb 14y ago
Yuh, I have the same question too :-). Hard to do cost/benefit analysis when you only see the costs.
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by gleb 14y ago
It seems that every GutHub downtime I can recall was caused by automated failover.
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by gleb 14y ago
There are limits to what you can accomplish by putting anything in and over your ears. It's about 37NRR. That's because even if you completely block your ears, the bones of your head still transmit a lot of sound. To make it really quiet
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by gleb 14y ago
Most answer the question "what would your Facebook friends find most amusing." I don't think it's an execution problem. People seem to misunderstand the question. That's my impression, anyway.
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by gleb 14y ago
Majority.
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YC W13 application guide - what is "impressive achievement"(acunote.com)
40 points by gleb 14y ago|21 comments
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by gleb 14y ago
Couldn't agree more on all counts. What works for one team will not always apply to another. I started filling out our application 2 hours before the deadline, and I am a slow writer. It worked out for us, but I wouldn't recommend this ap
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by gleb 14y ago
That's a good question. I'll try to cover this in emails. Obviously can't use real answers, but should be able to make up some reasonable examples.

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