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by polote 6y ago
> even if Google wanted to expose an API for editing Google Docs in third-party editors, it would probably be very challenging It does, https://developers.google.com/docs/api/reference/rest/v1/doc
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by polote 6y ago
I'm not sure there is a public writeup. I know that the incredibly talented guy who created the first CH setup at CS planned to write a more global post about data analytics at scale, but after 2 years I still wait for it
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by polote 6y ago
Because people have nothing to compare their AWS cost to. They don't know how much it would cost them to host their service outside of AWS. And it is not only a cost comparison. You need different kind of people to manage in-house vs c
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by polote 6y ago
I have absolute respect for people who are able to do that kind of things. A few years back I've tried to play with reverse engineering but I never managed to get the skills.
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by polote 6y ago
previous discussion (348 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20323246
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by polote 6y ago
What is surprising is that outside of HN everyone blame Facebook. I mean, Facebook is giving free traffic to news websites in exchange of users' longer time spent on Facebook. How could Facebook to blamed by publishes ? By users mayb
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by polote 6y ago
The ARPU that Facebook can make is higher than the average price people are willing to pay to get access to whatsapp. That's all, dont look further
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by polote 6y ago
> Have less exposure towards super fun things If that is not "forcing yourself" I don't know what "forcing yourself" means
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by polote 6y ago
If you have something to argue it has probably already been discussed in the previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26131138
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by polote 6y ago
For example, don't you think Trump acted well regarding getting vaccine quickly ?
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by polote 6y ago
Same thing happened 2 years ago in Hawaii https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140761
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by polote 6y ago
You totally missed my point. I didnt say anything about Trump being right or wrong. I just said that for NYT anything that is related to Trump is bad. And I'm pretty sure this is not the case
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by polote 6y ago
The pandemic made me realize how much newspapers have impact on people opinions. If they keep telling a vaccine in unsafe, a big part of their readers will believe the vaccine is unsafe. If they keep telling a vaccine is safe a big part of
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LinkedIn is uniquely positioned to solve the biggest businesses' problems(blog.luap.info)
1 points by polote 6y ago|0 comments
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by polote 6y ago
Can you stop spamming the forum with useless or repetitive posts ?
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by polote 6y ago
Let's hope that half half doses works too
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by polote 6y ago
> Most kids prefer not being at school to being at school. OK let's listen to them, and just delete school and see what these kids say in 20 years? Maybe kids don't like school, but school doesn't exist because kids like i
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by polote 6y ago
> Big Auto and seat belts, they fought mandatory seat belts for decades The linked article doesn't mention any lie. It was mostly some people saying that it should be up to the person to decide whether or not he wants to wear a belt
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by polote 6y ago
There is no evidence that they tried to hide that. The company was created in 2020 and one of their API is not encrypted, that kind of things has probably happened to most of companies created less than a year ago
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by polote 6y ago
This is not the bug of the year. Ok, the id is not the encrypted. So encrypt it and next. Nothing to see
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by polote 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean, even though you probably talk about my (bad) english
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LinkedIn is uniquely positioned to solve the biggest businesses' problems(blog.luap.info)
2 points by polote 6y ago|3 comments
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by polote 6y ago
Not mentioning that to get the blue mark on Instagram, you can pay a facebook employee that will give you the badge. This is surreal https://mashable.com/2017/09/01/instagram-verification-paid-...
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by polote 6y ago
I honestly really wonder what is going on at Notion. These guys have a gigantic growth of users. Every one is complaining that the tool is slow. They use the DNS of somalia even if they have the .com. They say everywhere that if you have is
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by polote 6y ago
Damn, you submitted the link 5 times in 5 days, at what number did you plan to stop? https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=lihaoyi
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by polote 6y ago
Soon we will have an article about "If you use Signal to talk to your mother, FBI can see your messages if your mother send them to them"
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by polote 6y ago
growth is usually in percent. If you make $1000 more dollars per month, it doesn't mean the same thing if you do 1M ARR or 10k ARR
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by polote 6y ago
- How the founders were selected ? And where ? initially they say "hundreds of non-venture track" but then 14% raised money - What is a MRR Growth in dollars ? Thats not how we compute growth - Is that data statistically significa
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by polote 6y ago
In theory the same can be said of glassdoor. In reality it is different
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by polote 6y ago
The parent link also says "A new report claims it’s mostly powered by renewables. Be skeptical." I don't try to say it is true or false. I give an alternative point of view.

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