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by kwindla 6y ago
[codounder of Daily, here] Hi Ish, thank you for choosing Daily. We really appreciate it. We monitor our own call quality and reliability, that of all the other API services, and that of Zoom. We think we're making progress towards get
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At the 1963 March on Washington, John Lewis was asked to tone his speech down(washingtonpost.com)
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by kwindla 6y ago
It depends on what you mean by "live." Twilio video is WebRTC, so it's very low latency. (Much lower than IVS.) But Twilio scales only to 50 people watching at a time, and costs ~10x what IVS costs. On the other hand, IVS sca
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by kwindla 6y ago
mmcclure is way too polite to say so, but Amazon IVS is definitely not going to give you 2s latency. Currently, IVS configured for "ultra low latency" is using HLS segments that are three seconds long. The client tries not to buff
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The Walkman, Forty Years On(newyorker.com)
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The Walkman, Forty Years On(newyorker.com)
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by kwindla 6y ago
Tandem has done a really nice job with persistent video/audio rooms for distributed teams: https://tandem.chat/
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The Athenian Plague, a Cautionary Tale of Democracy’s Fragility(newyorker.com)
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Daily.co is hiring WebRTC video systems engineers(notion.so)
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Why Remote Work Is So Hard–and How It Can Be Fixed(newyorker.com)
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by kwindla 7y ago
Co-founder of Daily.co, here. Just a quick note: if you're building something related to COVID-19 and you're not charging users anything, unlimited use of everything you can do with our APIs is free. Ping us at help@daily.co, tell
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3-D Printers Are Helping to Fight the Coronavirus(newyorker.com)
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If you’re interested in spatial interfaces it’s worth looking at John Underkoffler’s work (Minority Report and Oblong Industries). https://www.ted.com/talks/john_underkoffler_pointing_to_the_...
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The Infuriating Story of How the Government Stalled Coronavirus Testing(gq.com)
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by kwindla 7y ago
We're a startup that makes a video API that competes with Twilio. I can tell you that we're seeing a big increase in interest this week from both big companies and startups, across a big range of use cases. (Lots of telehealth and
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by kwindla 7y ago
Our company, Daily.co (YC W16), makes APIs that compete with these new Twilio offerings. A couple of lines of js code embeds a video call in a web page: https://docs.daily.co/docs Our focus has been on doing as much as
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Fascinating Fascism – Susan Sontag on Leni Riefenstahl (1975)(nybooks.com)
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by kwindla 7y ago
The Times obituary mentions two books that give a sense of what Dyson was like as a thinker and conversationalist. > He appeared in John McPhee’s book “The Curve of Binding Energy” (1974), a portrait of Ted Taylor, the nuclear scientist
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by kwindla 7y ago
A good COVID-19 preparedness guide that is regularly updated and aimed at the general population: https://theprepared.com/wuhan-coronavirus/
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The US–Saudi Story, Through the Eyes of an Aramco ‘Brat’(nybooks.com)
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by kwindla 7y ago
We use Stripe for usage-based billing of our video calls API. We wrote a blog post about how we built on top of Stripe's "subscriptions" API: https://www.daily.co/blog/implementing-api-billing-with-stri..
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by kwindla 7y ago
also tramp, for editing files on any machine you can ssh into ... https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
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The Shadow Commander, Qassem Suleimani (2013)(newyorker.com)
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The New Yorker profile of Rui Pinto earlier this year was super-interesting: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/03/how-football-l...
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The Prepared's 2019 Tool Guide(mailchi.mp)
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Against Economics(nybooks.com)
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The wonderful world of Chinese hi-fi(theverge.com)
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by kwindla 7y ago
I think subscriptions are complicated because the surface area of the problem is so large. The Stripe Billing APIs (the recurring revenue/subscriptions part of Stripe) have gotten very good. But the challenges involved in the average s
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Jack Kerouac and Robert Frank’s Shared Vision(nybooks.com)
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What Happened to the West Village?(nybooks.com)
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