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by hglaser 11y ago
yep
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by hglaser 11y ago
(Periscope co-founder here.) There needs to be a route from the internet to your DB, yes. Sometimes this works because the DB is in the cloud, or sometimes a port or SSH tunnel is opened into a local network.
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by hglaser 11y ago
Unpaid wages are one of the few ways to pierce the corporate veil. In the US, officers of the corporation can be personally liable for unpaid wages.
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by hglaser 11y ago
Periscope co-founder here. We plan to treat the email addresses as people who might be interested in our product, and at some point we'll reach out to everyone who signed up and ask if they'd like to try it out. If you know you do
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by hglaser 12y ago
Periscope ( https://www.periscope.io/ ) is a data visualization tool that automatically and transparently syncs customer data into a huge multitenant data cache that runs queries ~ 150X faster than customers' own databas
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by hglaser 12y ago
Great post. BTW, this product (Scalyr) is a lifesaver. We (Periscope) are able to operate ~ a dozen heterogeneous servers with no FT DevOps largely because of Scalyr.
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Come for the tool, stay for the network(cdixon.org)
55 points by hglaser 12y ago|9 comments
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by hglaser 12y ago
Periscope co-founder here. We have plans as low as $350/mo. for startups with small datasets. I'm harry at periscope.io if that sounds appealing.
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Demystifying Redshift – What's Up with My Disks?(periscope.io)
1 points by hglaser 12y ago|0 comments
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by hglaser 12y ago
I have heard of loans either secured by or "based on" shares of privately-held startups. I have no idea how common this is -- probably pretty uncommon. See e.g. https://www.svb.com/private-bank/founder-liquidi
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FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition(github.com)
135 points by hglaser 12y ago|49 comments
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by hglaser 12y ago
I get so much love from customers when I email them a few days ahead of the renewal and let them know that they're over quota, that I didn't want them to be surprised by the CC bill, and give them an opportunity to pare back down
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by hglaser 12y ago
Wow, this is a great comment! Thanks for writing.
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by hglaser 12y ago
Spend less than you make.
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by hglaser 12y ago
That page doesn't load for me. :) We went by this: https://twitter.com/dnsimple/status/539521794802483202 https://twitter.com/dnsimple/status/539520808599957505
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by hglaser 12y ago
We switched periscope.io from DNSimple to Amazon Route 53. DNSimple doesn't have an exporter so it took about an hour, including having one engineer review the other engineer's work. Many customers were able to resolve the domain
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YC Female Founder Stories(femalefounderstories.com)
4 points by hglaser 12y ago|1 comments
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by hglaser 12y ago
It's pretty common to solve these problems with multiple votes per person. E.g. 2 founders + 1 investor is very common for Series A stage startups right now. Those with one founder tend to have two votes for the founder and one vote fo
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Everything I Missed in “Vim After 11 Years” (2013)(statico.github.io)
1 points by hglaser 12y ago|0 comments
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by hglaser 12y ago
Periscope - fulltime in SF. Visa-transfers OK. Periscope is a data analysis tool that uses pre-emptive in-memory caching and statistical sampling to run data analyses really, really fast. Customers typically see a 100x-10,000x speedup of th
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by hglaser 12y ago
There have been persistent, credible rumors of a 12" MacBook Air with retina display. The current thinking is that they are waiting on Intel's Broadwell chips, with a planned launch mid next year. The latest rumors are that it&#x2
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Legal Defense Fund for Women Targeted by GamerGate(spacekatgal.tumblr.com)
5 points by hglaser 12y ago|0 comments
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Applying to YC(blog.samaltman.com)
178 points by hglaser 12y ago|112 comments
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Beyond Random() – Normal Distributions in SQL(periscope.io)
2 points by hglaser 12y ago|0 comments
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by hglaser 12y ago
This is great! Thank you so much. I basically use Freshbooks.com as an invoice generator. This is way cleaner. Some polish-level things that would make it cleaner to use for a SaaS product: * There aren't really "quantities"
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by hglaser 12y ago
This is a great comment, thank you! > I learned that most startups fail, and that when they fail, the people who end up doing well are the ones who were looking out for their own interests all along. Can you elaborate on this? How were p
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by hglaser 12y ago
What do you say in those situations?
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Standard Markdown(standardmarkdown.com)
1167 points by hglaser 12y ago|366 comments
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by hglaser 12y ago
Periscope - fulltime in SF. Visa-transfers OK. Periscope is a data analysis tool that uses pre-emptive in-memory caching and statistical sampling to run data analyses really, really fast. Customers typically see a 100x-10,000x speedup of th
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Use Subqueries and Window Functions to Compute Running Averages(periscope.io)
1 points by hglaser 12y ago|0 comments

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