jamescmartinez

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by jamescmartinez 2y ago
Your second point misses an important fact: the Tesla Model S Plaid set a 7:25 Nurburgring lap time, and the Porsche Taycan did it in 7:07. Both of these lap times are faster than many high-performance ICE cars, and close to GT2/3 time
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by jamescmartinez 2y ago
This is an option for those who want to learn from a more interactive medium instead of from a textbook. Different people learn in different ways. I wouldn’t call any of it a waste.
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by jamescmartinez 3y ago
Mergent (YC S21 - https://mergent.co ) might be precisely what you're looking for in terms of a push-over-HTTP model for background jobs and crons. You simply define a task using our API and we take care of pushing it to any
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by jamescmartinez 3y ago
Ok, I'll bite. We (mergent.co) have looked at similar tools before but ended up managing our own infra. This is primarily because the tools we've found focus on recreating Heroku/similar on our AWS, which doesn't suit ou
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Ask HN: What should we keep in mind while implementing telemetry in our SDK?
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by jamescmartinez 4y ago
Thanks for the shoutout! For anyone that sees this, the URL is https://mergent.co (.co, not .io). - James
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by jamescmartinez 4y ago
Mergent (YC S21) https://mergent.co -- our crons & background tasks are free for the first 1k invocations per month and pay-as-you-go after that. There are two ways to set up a cron job: the dashboard or via the API if you n
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by jamescmartinez 4y ago
If you're diving into Postgres and want to better understand how it works under the hood, there is a great talk from PGConf Silicon Valley 2016 titled "How does PostgreSQL actually work" on YouTube: https://www.you
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by jamescmartinez 4y ago
Mergent (YC S21) - https://mergent.co (disclaimer: I’m the founder)