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by mrobins 4y ago
I think lots of website owners know exactly where the value in their content exists. Whether or not they want to share that in a convenient way, especially to competitors etc is another story. That said if scraping is inevitable, it’s immen
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by mrobins 4y ago
I’m sympathetic to the complaints about “rude” scraping behavior but there’s an easy solution. Rather than make people consume boatloads of resources they don’t want (individual page views, images, scripts, etc.) just build good interoperab
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by mrobins 5y ago
I sympathize. I became stir crazy working at home 6-9 months into the pandemic. I like having an office as a separation between my work and home lives. I like being at a place designed for working where other people are working. I like the
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by mrobins 5y ago
Slightly off topic but Target is often neglected as a tech company. They’re arguably the best at omnichannel ecommcerce. Generally cheaper than Amazon with shipping almost as fast plus same day delivery and curbside pickup options. Their ap
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by mrobins 5y ago
I think part of the larger challenge here is that the laws put the responsibility for enforcement on airlines. Flight attendants didn’t sign up and aren’t trained to be law enforcement officers. More stringent, wider ranging consequences ad
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by mrobins 5y ago
One of the ironic things here is that it’s pitted Spotify’s brand as a music company against their brand as a podcast company. For people originally drawn to Spotify as a music service the departure of even a few icons all of a sudden makes
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by mrobins 5y ago
Spotify’s purchase of JRE turns them into his publisher/sponsor. When consumers and musicians cut ties they’re speaking with their $$ and saying they don’t want to support his content. That’s not the same as silencing or censoring him.
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by mrobins 5y ago
He got paid $100M and his popularity is at least partly based on throwing red meat to stir up controversy. I think he’s thriving on attention from lots of people who would never otherwise think about him.
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by mrobins 5y ago
That’ll turn out like Kodak inventing the digital camera and shoving it in a drawer.
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by mrobins 5y ago
Keep in mind that the job of a journalist is distinct from the profession of running and programming a media outlet. In big newspapers journalists don’t even write the headlines that accompany the stories. I’m also dismayed and disheartene
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by mrobins 5y ago
With Amazon and Google you’re paying half in monthly fees and half with your mineable data. This service seems geared towards people who don’t want that. Rolling your own on top of a cloud storage provider is great too but for an incrementa
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by mrobins 5y ago
I’ve been watching this project for a long time and personally am very excited. The fact that it’s #1 on HN today (congrats!) makes me think I’m not the only one. There are also a lot of valid concerns in these comments about privacy and us
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by mrobins 5y ago
This breaks in systems where an empty string “” != null but I don’t have an elegant solution.
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by mrobins 5y ago
I think it’s less in Google’s long term best interest and more a marriage of convenience. Hopefully a temporary one. Google increasingly wants users to find what they want on Google itself and not have to click through to the direct search
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by mrobins 5y ago
Crime doesn’t “proliferate” around housing projects in Bed Stuy, it exists just as it does everywhere. Bed Stuy and NYC as a whole rank as one of the safest cities, especially large cities. Linking the housing projects to crime without rigo
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by mrobins 5y ago
Except that moving inventory, and to a lesser extent generating repeat business, is more critical than ancillary ad revenue. If The screens don’t work or the ads aren’t effective, and I don’t open the door to get those high-margin also-boug
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No more 1Password “Teams” plan?(1password.com)
1 points by mrobins 5y ago|1 comments
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by mrobins 5y ago
That’s fair. Things that start out as a killer feature definitely have the potential to break out into wildly successful products/ecosystems. Instagram is a great example but I’d argue their early killer feature was even more similar t
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by mrobins 5y ago
Clubhouse feels like a prime case of “that’s a feature not a product”. They did a great job pioneering a new conversation medium but implementations like Twitter Spaces that piggyback off a social network feel more natural. Audio rooms are
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by mrobins 5y ago
I can’t speak to the conversion costs, but let’s pretend there’s a creative solution (modular construction?). Converting office space to mass market housing could be a huge long term win. Cities like NYC and SF already have a huge shortage
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by mrobins 5y ago
Whether it’s capped or not is irrelevant. It’s still taking advantage of a paid resource without explicit permission. Also if it leads to increased demand across an ISP it will inevitably cause higher prices.
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Apple removes app that requires a 3 star review to function(macrumors.com)
4 points by mrobins 5y ago|0 comments
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Scientists are closing in on the causes of long Covid(economist.com)
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Facebook pledged to stop political contribs, gives $50k to voter suppression grp(popular.info)
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Lax oversight at One Medical lets ineligible patients skip vaccine line(npr.org)
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DeansList (YC IK12) Is Hiring a React Native Eng to Build Apps for Schools(apply.workable.com)
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by mrobins 6y ago
That is a great explanation. It’s to Uber’s credit that their app seems so deceptively simple. That said all those special cases make me even more skeptical about them getting on the right side of profitability. Every one of those localized
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by mrobins 6y ago
+New Relic One
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by mrobins 6y ago
The article doesn’t say Andelans think only making 1/3 of their billing rate is unfair. It says they don’t make 1/3rd of their bill rate but the company perpetuates the fallacy that they do. It both makes Andela’s pay scheme seem
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by mrobins 7y ago
Most bucket-based APIs I’ve used allow you to go beyond your tier and you’re either automatically bumped up to the next expensive tier or charged overage rates (i.e. SendGrid). If you use less than you commit to they keep the extra but go o

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