misterbowfinger

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   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   Honestly surprised that AWS, GCP, or Azure haven't acquired BackBlaze by now. Seems like an obvious move.
2. 32.▲
   Twilio beats Q2 estimates(zdnet.com)

   4 points by misterbowfinger 8y ago|0 comments
3. 33.▲
   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   Nice, I'll check it out!
4. 34.▲
   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   What's "soft" real time mean, vs .... "hard" real time? Real real time?
5. 35.▲
   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   When I say this out loud, it sounds like a stupid question, but I'm still curious... Outside of the fact that different programming languages run on BEAM and the JVM, what's the difference between the two? I believe BEAM ships wit
6. 36.▲
   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   So.... it's like Rails?
7. 37.▲
   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   The most interesting and promising part of this school is the support for parents: > Parents can use the institution’s job and family services, study through its GED program, or design meals at the on-site food bank to cook at home. This
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   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   At a previous job, we got so annoyed with recruiters that we decided to create a honeypot account - fake LinkedIn, fake Github, fake Twitter, everything. We took the first picture off of Google for "bro" as the profile picture. Fo
9. 39.▲
   by misterbowfinger 8y ago

   Not someone who's moved to GraphQL, but still curious how people do load testing and such with GraphQL APIs. Do you log which queries are made, and then plan around that?
10. 40.▲
    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    Thanks for the replies. Despite the incessant whining that can happen on HN, I assure you that there's many here who appreciate the response. I'm sure it was a big deal for your team. While you're right people will want an ac
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    Being mindful of your own emotional state presumes that you understand it. And judging by years and years of psychology, we're pretty bad at understanding ourselves.
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    Their "methodology" of tracking happiness https://www.trackinghappiness.com/about/method/ Not knocking on the idea of sleeping more & general well-being, but "tracking happiness" seems so w
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    I'm confused how this comment got rated "-10": I use Backblaze now and once I get my NAS, I’ll probably end up using a B2 based backup. But let’s make an honest comparison. Backblaze does not replicate your data across data c
14. 44.▲
    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    I can't find the article anymore, but the "open office vs. cubicle" debate suffers from the same thing that so many of these hot-buttons topics suffer from: nuance. The original "action offices" by Herman Miller wer
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    > A large proportion of these bot countermeasures use javascript to determine if the request is coming from a crawler or a human (Javascript engine checks, font enumeration, WebGL and Canvas, etc.). How effective are scraping countermeas
16. 46.▲
    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    Similarly, I'm interested in what blockers exist for using Flutter for production/complicated apps
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    > Maybe one moat could be scooter durability. There's also the option of more efficient support & operations, which is arguably the approach that Lyft took. Uber chose to raise a ton of money and outspend their competitors in th
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    And also this for the lulz https://xkcd.com/1319/
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    I honestly refer to this whenever I want to automate a task: https://xkcd.com/1205/
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    Man. It'd suck to be the dev that committed that. Even blameless post-mortems would feel rough.
21. 51.▲
    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    "Delivery dates have often irrelevant but very simple to understand impacts. Good and bad solutions have dramatic but very difficult to understand impacts." https://minnenratta.wordpress.com/2017/01/25&#x
22. 52.▲
    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    What are "signaling issues"? Signaling that you're seeking a series A, or that you're seeking a series A from YC?
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    > The tuition subsidy will apply only to associate and bachelor’s degrees in two programs that are somewhat related to retail work, but the areas of study could be expanded to other areas in the future, Walmart officials said. Hmmm... so
24. 54.▲
    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    agreed, what's the difference?
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    Thanks for the insight! > In fact, we all use the same set of contracts. They tend to get passed around founders. Care to share? ;)
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    > How do you pay people if they live in different countries? What about contracts? — The things people ask about most often all have straightforward answers. Really? I just read a comment from the CEO of HashiCorp who has a very differen
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    Jacquard by Google partners with Levis(atap.google.com)

    1 points by misterbowfinger 8y ago|0 comments
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    This is a great response post!
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    At first I figured Instagram would just rate-limit likes/comments via the API, but these people are handing over their account & password to services like Fuelgram.... Although I don't think that's a bad idea in principle
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    by misterbowfinger 8y ago

    Really random question - what's the difference between a seed fund and an early-stage VC?