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by mbesto 4y ago
> It's easy to say "scalability is overrated" if you've dealt with unnecessary k8s deployments. Exactly. The author forgot the put the word "premature" before the word scalability.
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by mbesto 4y ago
Value are marketing.
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by mbesto 4y ago
The trend outlined in the article is that startups tend to ditch openness once they mature. I think the explanation is pretty simple - it's no longer a marketing advantage to do so. If your'e selling to a startup audience then bei
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by mbesto 4y ago
Also look at https://pipedream.com/
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by mbesto 4y ago
If you're going to call something terrible, it's a little more productive to offer a suggestion for something better.
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by mbesto 4y ago
I get your point (yours is written much better), but having comments that feel more like inner monologue is actually a good thing.
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by mbesto 4y ago
The best comments I've seen go something like this: # this is going to loop 4x and call foo_bar on the 4th time because when you calculate this number it needs the 4th time to calculate the difference from the sales tax. weird, I
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by mbesto 4y ago
> TikTok’s innovation was to show you stuff using only algorithmic predictions, regardless of who your friends are or who you followed. It soon became the most downloaded app in the world. Artifact represents an effort to do the same th
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Google is so badly managed. Google's market cap is $1.2T and their TTM net income was ~$65B.
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by mbesto 4y ago
It also massively discounts all of the computing help they had from cloud providers. So if you tried to compare this to a company in say 1998, the team would probably be 10x fold (just data center people admins alone).
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by mbesto 4y ago
> It's scope that increases headcount, not users. 100% And adding a way to accept payments (which WhatsApp never really did) and have functionality for businesses is an increase in scope. So, 50 engineers is terribly understaffed fo
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by mbesto 4y ago
> that can dictate prices Prices that are capped by the government: The Fed’s 2011 rules capped fees at 21 cents plus five basis points of each transaction, and also allowed an additional one cent fee per transaction for fraud preventio
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by mbesto 4y ago
Why are you talking about grid batteries when I was talking about EV batteries?
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by mbesto 4y ago
Friendly reminder: Resume's get you interviews and interviews get you jobs. Optimize as such.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Batteries generate heat when charging and discharging /scratches head. Huh? How do you explain why my iPhone drains so much quicker in the cold then, if it's able to heat itself from the discharge? > but it is not some maj
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by mbesto 4y ago
FTA: > "It is possible to “winterize” natural gas power plants, natural gas production and wind turbines, experts said, which prevents such major interruptions in other states with more regular extreme winter weather." This is
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by mbesto 4y ago
Energy is fungible, so if both fossil and renewables are both online and producing energy how can you blame one over the other? My understanding is that neither source of energy was winterized to transmit the energy to the grid, not that
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by mbesto 4y ago
> EVs have less range in winter because more of the energy is being used to heat the cabin, and that was done with resisitive heating until recently (more vehicles are starting to use heat pumps). I thought it was this PLUS the fact that
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by mbesto 4y ago
I think this sentiment comes from Universities (which do have cases of bloated diversity groups) and then that sentiment is passed on to the idea corporations, which to your point are a drop in the ocean in terms of overall costs.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> but I get extremely wary when a relatively small company gets a shitload of money that they'll then be forced to grow into a way that means they'll lose focus on their core product. Irrationally so. That's my point. Ther
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by mbesto 4y ago
Your sentiment is overall very valid, however please also remember this was PG who wrote this in 2008 and YC was only 3 years in. > I'm guessing it's being posted again due to the recent layoffs. This was submitted again (by
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by mbesto 4y ago
Ya, but can you name any products where this is the opposite? Meaning, how many products do you use that aren't VC backed?
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by mbesto 4y ago
> VC funds and acquisitions are rarely good for users Where does this sentiment come from? I know very few applications I use that are VC funded or haven't gone through acquisitions...
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by mbesto 4y ago
> why is payment processing the most uptight industry on this planet? I cannot imagine one other business model that would require a company to treat their customers with such disrespect. There is zero compassion. There is zero regard fo
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by mbesto 4y ago
> It's the social feature. Agreed. But this is a feature that only works on a free model. I'm not aware of any major social network makes money on 100% of its user community.
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by mbesto 4y ago
> Is private equity involved here? Nope. But VCs are involved. > Seems like the private equity playbook is to cut development to the bare bones, increase prices, and let the app rot while they burn the goodwill to turn it into short&#
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by mbesto 4y ago
https://intervals.icu/ - just no social features. https://app.trainingpeaks.com/ - if you have a coach
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by mbesto 4y ago
https://intervals.icu/ - for the lazy The app is incredible if you're a data junky and very serious about performance. Strava is more sexy about maps and sharing though.
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by mbesto 4y ago
Not surprised. My take - Strava was founded over 13 years ago, which is a dinosaur in startup land. They've raised $150m+ from investors and they want a return, so the company is scrambling to make decisions which can make the company
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by mbesto 4y ago
Huh? I'm not excluding any portion of the cohort I'm speaking of. You're either an A player or you're not.

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