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by meritt 9y ago
Does KC have a startup culture yet? There's always been ample engineering jobs (sprint, cerner, garmin, dst, perceptive, etc) but that's what I imagine you're describing as traditional (as opposed to the less euphemistic &quo
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by meritt 9y ago
Like most businesses on a cloud provider, we're fairly locked-in to AWS without major changes. Going offsite would replace S3 PUT costs with significant bandwidth costs.
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by meritt 9y ago
While S3 storage costs are fairly reasonable, request costs are unrelated to file size, which makes it an absolutely terrible choice for filesystem-like activities. I say this from experience: S3 PUT requests make up a very significant port
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by meritt 9y ago
Me too. I'm trying to find better ARPU metrics to ensure I'm not misunderstanding that vague "over 17%" statement. As a company they tend to report "Number of Paying Customers" which are businesses and only occ
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by meritt 9y ago
Rough numbers here because BOX hasn't reported full 2017 yet but: Dropbox 2017: $1107M Revenue Dropbox 2017 Paying Users: 11M ARPU: $100 [1] Box.com (Q4-16 to Q3-17): $479M Revenue Box.com (Q3-17) Paying Users: 9
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by meritt 9y ago
Kudos to Signal for taking this approach and not jumping on the sketchy ICO bandwagon.
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by meritt 9y ago
I thought 42floors was just a slightly prettier Craigslist for office space to rent.
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by meritt 9y ago
It's all online gambling. This is the company (Infinity Networks LTD) they have a 15% stake in (names cited here http://inpublic.globenewswire.com/releaseDetails.faces?rId=2... ) * Daniel Doll-Steinberg runs Virt-U ( h
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by meritt 9y ago
Yeah the pricing is absurd. It should be related to capital gains and not simply the amount of transactions. I have a very large number of transactions (algorithmic trading) with a tiny profit. At this point just going to write a simple scr
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by meritt 9y ago
> Languages, styles, CI/CD, DI, git, containers, unit testing its a huge amount to learn I feel that a key trend in modern development is often needlessly focused on the mastering the complexity behind the coding infrastructure&#x2F
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by meritt 9y ago
The vast majority of developers don't know SQL beyond simple CRUD queries. The surge in popularity of NoSQL over the past decade has made SQL become a lost art. Even when using relational databases, ORMs often alleviate the need for un
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by meritt 9y ago
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7608.1259177709%40sss.... Answer from core PostgreSQL dev, Tom Lane
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by meritt 9y ago
This doesn't excuse Merrell's quality control at all but for a bit of consumer protection: If you purchase your shoes at REI and they fall apart like this, they'll happily provide you with a refund or replacement.
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by meritt 9y ago
Keep in mind these are the same people whose comments you're reading on HN and the same people upvoting/downvoting whether or not your contributions are seen. Pure anonymity sucks. Also see John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuc
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by meritt 9y ago
One example that I think fits very well is a websocket server. As you often have a large number of clients with long-running connections and relatively low-volume bidirectional communication, a single process running react/amp can easi
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by meritt 9y ago
Is there a parameter to exclude tweets from bogus accounts? Twitter has clearly identified these and they've been disappearing by the millions, but will they still appear in the search archive? It'd be nice to exclude those tweets
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by meritt 9y ago
It facilitated the ability for people to sell (or simply share, I believe you could set $0 prices) meals from their home kitchen to their neighbors. It'd be like putting up a flier saying "We're making a ton of chili, come by
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by meritt 9y ago
> Doesn't this simply mean that when people were selling their virtual currencies, they chose to stall their money in Tether? Correct, and that's precisely how Tether helps prop up the price. There is a limited amount of actual
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by meritt 9y ago
Since they are ignoring your online requests, have you considered simply visiting them in person? I understand that's not an option for many people but your profile indicates you're geographically close. Bring a lawyer for good me
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by meritt 9y ago
> who signed up because getting a master's in CS wasn't in his future Why did you make this statement? How did that help reinforce your point? I don't disagree with your broader point at all, but I am annoyed by the fact t
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by meritt 9y ago
> Maybe not the 19 year old grunt who signed up because getting a master's in CS wasn't in his future Can we please drop the elitist attitude and explicit assertion that enlisted military personnel are stupid and that CS studen
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by meritt 9y ago
F=15.7B, GM=20.9B, TSLA=0.26B
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by meritt 9y ago
Ford does ~$150B in revenue per year and they are worth $46B. Ford's P/S is 0.31 GM does ~$166B in revenue per year and they are worth $61B. GM's P/S is 0.37. Tesla does ~$12B in revenue per year and they are worth $56B.
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by meritt 9y ago
> What gives There's a tightening labor market and Starbucks has a long history of compensating employees relatively well with annual raises/benefits/401k/etc. They gave every employee a 5% or better raise in October
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by meritt 9y ago
Don't get me started about searching for how to configure/troubleshoot a piece of software and the best answer lives inside a 60-second video.
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by meritt 9y ago
> And new generations are opting for YouTube to self-teach over books I'm definitely in the older generation because it's completely mind-boggling to me how someone effectively learns to code from watching a video tutorial. You
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by meritt 9y ago
> I'm honestly really disappointed in it because 99% of the alerts I get from this camera are false alarms. The most frequent offender is light from passing vehicles. Yup. Have this exact same problem. Non-stop alerts saying "N
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by meritt 9y ago
I don't think it's hardware at all. I think it's quality of the games. The vast majority of mobile games are all the same type we've seen since they first crept-up on Facebook a decade ago: Farmville-clones, Tower Defens
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by meritt 9y ago
> run the tokenizer on the client side, client submits encrypted tokens to the search index. That would be an incredibly insecure method of encryption. > or don't provide a search service, have client have its own local index. Ye
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by meritt 9y ago
How does Slack provide a search service if the data is encrypted by keys they do not control?

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