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by sah2ed 6y ago
Yes. Not affiliated in any way, but Stripe offers a service called Atlas that will help you with the paperwork so you can begin processing payments. Setup fee is a one-time payment of $500 but be sure to read the fine print as there are oth
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by sah2ed 6y ago
Such a flexible design in a part that is out of view and non-serviceable by the owner only adds avoidable costs to the total costs of manufacturing each car.
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> Clinton, as the first black president, should have been better able to express himself. Clinton? Or you intended to write Obama?
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> I don't know what they were thinking. I'd love to hear how they arrived at the decision to just brazenly flout copyright law like this. In a previous HN discussion [0], @Apocryphon linked to [1] speculation on a possible ex
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> What's wrong with working for others? Nothing really. I guess what the parent was getting at was that if you are an employee at a point of your life when society expects you to be retired, then you will not be able to allocate y
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> What about retirement savings? If you had funded your 401(k) and IRAs with an engineer's salary for this many years you should have many millions to live off of. Retiring to millions may be true in theory for certain programmers
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> Generally any large social network will need to follow the 1 database per account strategy to some extent because of the tricky many-to-many relationship that groups/users have with other groups/users- this creates a cartesi
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> You roll the feature out incrementally to the users who are ready. You build backwards compatible features. Basic software engineering. The parent mentioned having to support ~150 B2B customers, so the effort is amplified x100 — more
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by sah2ed 6y ago
~2k account deletions in just 3 days is a lot. Would be nice to get a ballpark on the total number of accounts?
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> Yeah... we made this better yesterday (removed the delay and the request for ID). It was totally a dark pattern. We built the initial deletion process right after GDPR passed. We were thinking about it mostly from a legal perspective
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> to HTML pages with various css applied (I often use github's). Mind sharing the subset of GitHub CSS that you use?
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> We're not making anyone's job search details pubic. All that the profile will show is that an engineer created a Triplebyte profile at some point in the past, and any badges they earned. You are totally missing the point. Y
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by sah2ed 6y ago
He’s on Twitter! https://twitter.com/forstall
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> Can you imagine if Apple snapped it up? Or Qualcomm? Or even Intel? Apple perhaps, but they tend to avoid generic M&A like this. They tend to only do M&A when there is a very strong fit; they’ll happily continue to license AR
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by sah2ed 6y ago
As a quick fix, can you add a hyperlink to the next pages at the top of the page [“Page 2”, “Page 3”], rather than just a single “More” hyperlink at the bottom of the page?
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> Elastic compute of the type provided by EC2 and similar services (Google Compute Engine, etc.) is a fundamentally different service than simple VPS. What is the fundamental difference that you speak of? At least to me, the only major
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by sah2ed 6y ago
WebKit doesn’t count? Google, BlackBerry, Amazon, Opera, Tizen, etc all maintain different derivations based off of Apple’s work with WebKit, with the most well known being Google Chrome. (Although I’ll grant that WebKit itself is a fork of
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> Zapier is doing something complex? So asks a commenter on the Internet. Essentially, you are implying that enabling no-code integration with thousands of 3rd party services is easy. Classic case of: https://danluu.com&#x2F
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> I fall for this time and again. That tactic is called price anchoring and the reason it tends to work on a lot of people is because it relies on a cognitive bias called anchoring [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by sah2ed 6y ago
That’s because the language designers overloaded the arithmetic operator (+) to perform string concatenation when the operands can be cast as Strings. Without overloading the + operator, string concatenation which is a common operation, wou
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How The Economist shaped the liberal mind (2019)(newstatesman.com)
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> No improvements/bug fixes/etc., just a guarantee that whatever sort of phoning-home the hardware was doing before could continue after. With no new sales, so no growth to worry about, seems like it should be pretty easy to p
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by sah2ed 6y ago
That was hilariously good! I died laughing!
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> Shopify, Amzn, Zoom. WTF! Their charts seem hyped. Or may be I’m just plain wrong and don’t understand the fundamentals. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, demand for the kind of services offered by those 3 Internet businesses have in f
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> Masks are for keeping your own particles from spreading far AND for lowering the probability of virions found in the environment from entering your respiratory system. Both of you may be correct. I think the person you responded to m
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by sah2ed 6y ago
To get up to speed on Amazon's sub-par attitude to warehouse workers' welfare, prior to Bezos re-assuming day-to-day leadership, start here: 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22759575 1: https://n
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by sah2ed 6y ago
Perhaps they are basing it on this [1] ultimatum supposedly issued by GCP’s top brass to best the top 2 cloud providers by a certain date. It was widely discussed on HN some months ago. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by sah2ed 6y ago
That was a funny read! It’s been a while since I saw links to TDWTF. Didn’t know they were still kicking.
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by sah2ed 6y ago
Your post still reads like marketing-speak — it is not immediately clear how you differ from other home builders. Anyway, I’m not really sure the point of your criticism of VCs. That you eventually found investors is good, but your grouse i
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by sah2ed 6y ago
> I was planning to go through all of his replies to other posters and debunk them one-by-one. If you disagree strongly with someone, there are much better tools you can use like the down-vote button. Down-voted posts are harder to rea

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