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by guptaneil 6y ago
As others noted, that was FaceTime and the reason for changing directions was because they lost a lawsuit to a patent troll[0], forcing them to switch from P2P to routing calls through their servers. 0: https://www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F
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by guptaneil 6y ago
A sudden release of numbers might cause that, but ideally the culture is built around transparency and salary gaps are actually an opportunity to have discussions with your manager like "what can I do to close the performance gap and m
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Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon(theverge.com)
56 points by guptaneil 6y ago|16 comments
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DIY Video Streaming(blog.metamorphium.com)
1 points by guptaneil 6y ago|0 comments
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by guptaneil 6y ago
video2hls looks awesome, thanks for sharing that! I usually use AWS MediaConvert[0] to do the conversion for me, but nice to see an open-source tool to easily do the same. [0]: https://blog.metamorphium.com/2020/07&#x2F
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American Passports Are Worthless Now (Map)(medium.com)
23 points by guptaneil 6y ago|15 comments
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by guptaneil 6y ago
Credit cards are near the bottom of the value stack. Uber, Apple, et al are built on top of that and need to pay the credit card transaction fees, which means they need to charge X% more than 2-3% to keep any money for themselves. You could
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by guptaneil 6y ago
It's way easier to build good tools when your first customer is you. It's also easier to pitch AWS when you can say it works at "Amazon scale".
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by guptaneil 6y ago
What if it’s a mailing list you signed up for but lost interest in?
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by guptaneil 6y ago
What about a mailing list you signed up for and enjoyed at first, but lost interest after one year? Was that email always spam? Is it spam now? Not all messages that get put into the spam folder are actually spam. There’s a wide variety of
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by guptaneil 6y ago
For the mailing list owner, it’s bad because then their emails are more likely to end up in the spam folder for other subscribers too.
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by guptaneil 6y ago
This requires a huge correlation != causation flag. The article briefly mentions this, noting that it’s possible vitamin D is just a sign of a healthy person, so of course they’ll do better with COVID. Another correlation that doesn’t get d
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by guptaneil 6y ago
What makes you think that? There's a link in jwt.io's footer to the GitHub repo.
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by guptaneil 6y ago
Makely looks nice! Thanks for sharing. I sent the link along to someone who was considering starting a 3D design business :) I haven't signed up myself, but how are you planning on solving the chicken/egg marketplace problem?
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by guptaneil 6y ago
Peer review is something I've been thinking about a lot lately as an outsider. I've never gone through a formal peer review process or worked in academia, but it's pretty obvious that the process has significant problems. How
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by guptaneil 6y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say with that quote? As I mentioned, HEVC is subject to licensing costs. If you try to wrap your HEVC video content in an HEIC container, you don't suddenly get to skip paying the original l
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by guptaneil 6y ago
You're thinking of HEVC (video encoding, like h.265): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#P... HEIC (image encoding) is available without royalties: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by guptaneil 6y ago
Those are all perfectly valid points. However, I don't think WFH advocates are claiming that working from home is definitively better. Both options have different trade-offs. You're right that collaboration is much easier in perso
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by guptaneil 6y ago
I think this is what a lot of people who complain about Slack don't get. It's just a better message queue for your business. The fact that you can funnel all your business events, regardless of whether they originate from humans o
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by guptaneil 6y ago
Ha, that makes me wonder if we could have a future standardized protocol where your browser handles the responsibility of storing a signed package of data, and sending it back to the company when needed. Basically treat each package of data
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by guptaneil 6y ago
This is how I’m building my startup[1]. All data stays with the customer and we actively don’t want it, because that’s how I wish all my products worked. I suspect you will see more startups who treat data more respectfully in the future, a
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by guptaneil 6y ago
It reads like debt funding that turns into a SAFE if you decide bootstrapping isn't for you after all. That sounds reasonable to me, but the devil is in the details. As a founder, it's nice to have options though. Fundraising is a
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by guptaneil 6y ago
If you want a tight timeline, you can still use the traditional application form? I agree that's super valuable if you're in fundraising mode. However, their target market is bootstrappers, who are probably not actively fundraisin
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by guptaneil 6y ago
Congrats on the launch! Both Trailhead and SEAL are very interesting ideas, and I really hope they take off (read: get copied by more investors ;) As an early stage bootstrapping founder, I'm curious to see how Trailhead works in pract
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by guptaneil 6y ago
Looks nice! Some feedback: if I saw those disabled buttons without an active button next to it, I would have no idea they are disabled and would wonder why the button isn’t working. I recommend using gray for disabled, instead of just a lig
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by guptaneil 6y ago
Clickable link: https://www.researchexplained.org Direct link to most recent explanation: https://www.researchexplained.org/10.1101/2020.04.16.2006592...
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Show HN: Easy to understand, visual explanations of the latest Covid-19 research
1 points by guptaneil 6y ago|1 comments
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by guptaneil 6y ago
One of the largest open-source Rails apps has all of those features: Canvas LMS[1]. It uses Switchman[2] for abstracting the multi-tenancy logic. Their approach has scaled to millions of concurrent users, but admittedly not helpful if you’r
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by guptaneil 6y ago
This is a nice list for playing with people already familiar with euro games. If you’re looking for more social games that can be picked up by casual gamers, I’ve been keeping a running list of sites I’ve used at the bottom of https:/
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How the Privacy-Friendly DP-3T Contact Tracing Algorithm Works to Stop Covid-19(kottke.org)
4 points by guptaneil 7y ago|0 comments

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