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by nevir 7y ago
> Combined with amazon promises that it takes only a few weeks to integrate (seriously??) I believe it. Their new grocery was really quick to fill in (I walk by it every day, and was able to see progress while it was being built)
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by nevir 7y ago
Ironically, express came to Node from Ruby's Sinatra much the same way.
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by nevir 7y ago
Enternal? Did you mean external?
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by nevir 7y ago
After having worked at Google, it is the only company I actually do trust with my data. (But I am also ok with them using it to customize my experience, and even target ads) Their internal privacy controls are extensive. As a human, it is n
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Convoy raises $400M, to a $2.75B valuation(businessinsider.com)
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by nevir 7y ago
When they own/lease a shit ton of physical assets
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Tour de Convoy–onboarding engineers in hypergrowth(medium.com)
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by nevir 7y ago
Fair point!
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by nevir 7y ago
V8 did this a while ago.
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by nevir 7y ago
Our CEO gave up on slack long ago. Email is the best way to get their attention.
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by nevir 7y ago
I think TypeScript is a good example of one extreme. You've got conditional types, literal types, type mapping, and a bunch of other very advanced parameterized types. (I also think it makes sense for TypeScript given JavaScript idioms
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by nevir 7y ago
That's kind of the goal. Recent efforts to strip browsers down to their core functionality, and provide a world where the current web is effectively userland code: * web components * service workers * Houdini Imagine a future where bro
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by nevir 7y ago
Wanted to echo this. I've worked in downtown Seattle for the last 10 years, and frequently use the bus system. (caveat: I'm a white male, so generally in less danger, and may be more oblivious): * I've seen a few brawls (~5)
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by nevir 7y ago
FWIW, this is part of why Amazon's product identifiers (ASINs) are obfuscated the way they are
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Google's Translatotron(google-research.github.io)
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by nevir 7y ago
Which services that support U2F do not support multiple devices (that you care about)?
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by nevir 7y ago
Well, also in Rome :P
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by nevir 7y ago
It's definitely a far more complicated space than you expect at first glance :)
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by nevir 7y ago
There's a lot of inertia in the industry behind the traditional brokerage model (very sales-centric, and all about relationship building). Consolidation is also hard on the trucker side, where there's a ton of fragmentation in the
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by nevir 7y ago
Agree with almost all of this, but one section bothered me: > This problem is, by the way, the thing that takes most of my time, 60-70% of my time at a guess. I once spent over a week trying to get a broken LDAP server to work - my boss
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by nevir 8y ago
Many teams
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by nevir 8y ago
Seems unlikely to be the real reason
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by nevir 8y ago
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/sensitive-data-and-ml-dat... has some high level guidance on different techniques that can be applied, depending on the type of data you're working with.
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by nevir 8y ago
And yet, they do. Source: worked there, on a ML focused team.
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by nevir 8y ago
FWIW, as an example, Google developers don't have direct access to production PII data. The best they get are aggregations (sufficiently large enough that you can't identity a person). Specific user information is only available i
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by nevir 8y ago
IMO yes: the promotion culture (technical complexity, impact) push people to come up with Big Ideas. The thing with Big Ideas, is that they're often iterations of existing ideas, but just different enough that you can make a case for a
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by nevir 8y ago
This HN thread appears to have been buried/removed from the main page
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by nevir 8y ago
Private package hosting
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by nevir 8y ago
Their seed round was in 2010—early investors are likely pretty interested in an exit
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by nevir 8y ago
Apple makes the rules; and they're mostly concerned about digital marketplaces that _could_ operate purely via IAP

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