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by meritt 7y ago
Sure, Amazon does it all the time to small startups. They fly you into Seattle, setup a fancy meeting with strategy teams and M&A, make you run through a pitch deck, explain every aspect of your business. They take diligent notes until
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by meritt 7y ago
It's not uncommon for potential acquirers to feign interest in a purchase so they can derail your business for months while your competition (their actual investments) pull ahead.
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by meritt 7y ago
Redshift is a columnar MPP fork of postgres, definitely not NoSQL. Do you mean DynamoDB?
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by meritt 7y ago
> devoted to mega super over engineered Javascript solutions Hey now, let's not discount the rise and fall of NoSQL, reinventing of data analysis except using python and spark cause SQL is too boring, or discovering linear regressio
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by meritt 7y ago
> I mean.... so what? Why should I, as an engineer, care You shouldn't, you should always maximize your income. That wasn't my point. My point was the guy shouldn't interview at a 5-person bootstrapped startup and act bewi
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by meritt 7y ago
[1] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2920903/google-really-k... [2] https://www.businessinsider.com/rest-and-vest-millionaire-en... [3] https://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley-TV-
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by meritt 7y ago
> many (most) companies are grossly underpaying their engineers. No, that's simply unfair to the companies who don't have billions of dollars in free cash flow or effectively infinite amounts of VC money. The top firms have got
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by meritt 7y ago
> Not everything in the world has to be prescriptive. Unfortunately we're still on the rise of the current hype cycle around Machine Learning, and prescriptive solutions are precisely what nearly every company who use the phrase &qu
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by meritt 7y ago
Why is this a machine learning problem? Does your factory not have keycard access? Or just require your supervisors to carry some sort of RFID/BLE tracking device. These are well-solved problems.
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by meritt 7y ago
I don't think you're making a good case for yourself. It would be extremely difficult to run Slack on a computer from the 1990s, but we sure as hell still had chat apps.
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by meritt 7y ago
> For example, I work on an app which wouldn't be possible on the web 5-10 years ago What is it? Because I highly doubt that statement. Ajax, DHTML, ActiveX, and Java Applets offered effectively the same solutions in the late 90s.
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by meritt 7y ago
I think we're in agreement regarding Amazon: They don't take an active role in policing their marketplace. They have a "report this listing" mechanism that essentially bans a seller outright, with no effort to validate t
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by meritt 7y ago
Yes I'm aware of your case [1]. You sold non-retail unpackaged electronics on Amazon, you are not an authorized reseller, and were accused of selling counterfeit goods. TP-Link got you banned from Amazon. Now you're suing TP-Link
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by meritt 7y ago
> Not sure about that number Based on what? Why would your gut reaction to this entire story be "I'm suspicious of that dollar amount" [1]?. The fact that it's revenue and not sales doesn't somehow make the headl
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by meritt 7y ago
The title of this article is frustrating, it comes across like an ad for Netlify. The author moved to Google Cloud and Kubernetes because he wanted to attain hands-on experience on those platforms, not because he seriously thought it was th
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by meritt 7y ago
While caches and maps share many of the same underlying properties, they serve very different purposes. Caches generally come with configurable size limits, eviction policies, and collision handling (overwriting is a simple solution). They
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by meritt 7y ago
It's using FNV-1a [1] which is indeed a non-cryptographic hash function and is a perfectly suitable choice for a hash table [2]. The goals are speed and low chance of collision, not security. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by meritt 7y ago
> I've been coding for half my life If you already know programming and you're confident in your ability to continue self-teaching, I'd suggest you actually do a different route. MBA, Finance, Accounting, Medicine, Chemi
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by meritt 7y ago
Cliqz is currently gaming the shit outta HN with submissions every day this month, many staying on the front page for hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=0x65.dev
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by meritt 7y ago
DI.FM uses cloudflare + bandwidth alliance [1] for their streaming audio network, so I'd model after that. Cloudflare isn't exactly transparent about their egress pricing, but most discussion seems to indicate once you start hitti
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by meritt 7y ago
I'm talking about actual unmetered where you pay for a dedicated amount of bandwidth, e.g. 1 Gbps / 10 Gbps / 20 Gbps. 10 Gbps usually goes for about $1k-$2k/mo in the US. This is how colo facilities have operated for de
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by meritt 7y ago
5B requests/day is ~60k/second, that's big but nothing insane. There are numerous frameworks/setups that can do far more than that on a single machine [1] popular unmetered options: he.net, ovh, hetzner - You generally
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by meritt 7y ago
Then I feel like we're in agreement then that web scraping is a messy and imprecise art and the flexibility of a scripting language like PHP provides is immense. I have no affiliation with plaid, I've honestly only heard negative
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by meritt 7y ago
This is an awesome article but if your egress costs are so high that you're deciding which HTTP headers to exclude, you should probably be moving to an unmetered bandwidth provider, or at least one that charges a reasonable amount for
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by meritt 7y ago
> Invalid or broken content should return an error, the parser shouldn't try to "fix" it. You would have a really difficult life in web scraping. You do not have the guarantees of well-formed data. Instead you get HTML wit
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by meritt 7y ago
I wouldn't characterize it as "better" but specifically easier and more flexible for the people writing and maintaining these scrapers. I'm also speaking more broadly about scripting languages (not javascript specificall
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by meritt 7y ago
My guess is because their system is primarily issuing HTTP requests and extracting data out of responses: html, xml, json, plaintext, etc. Web scraping is a messy business and using a language that allows you to be flexible with string mani
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by meritt 7y ago
It was a tongue-in-check reference to the article I linked. > Your share ownership consists of just a number in a database on Schwab’s computers, and if Schwab wants to make that number floating-point that’s Schwab’s business. But let&#x
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by meritt 7y ago
I'm by no means a Python expert but I recently had a small project where I needed to convert the output of an SQL query to a parquet file, and I settled on using fastparquet to do so. I first tried using pip under a venv to install it,
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by meritt 7y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, I don't understand how this helps: all of these platforms prioritize sort order based upon likes/popularity/engagement. You're just putting yourself at an information disadvantage by hid

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