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by samspenc 5y ago
I used to follow his blog posts when he was at Harvard and Google and didn't realize he left: https://www.mdw.la/mattwelsh-resume.pdf Looks like he left Google in 2019 after 8 years there, went to a startup, worked at
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by samspenc 5y ago
My suspicion is that this has more to do with propping up their falling stock price, through increasing prices and profit though this is secondary to the stock price. They've already maxed out their US and international subscriber base
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by samspenc 5y ago
There are the Moment photo lenses snap-ons, which are fairly decent photo lenses that could provide DSLR-like control on an iPhone: https://www.shopmoment.com/iphone-lenses
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by samspenc 5y ago
And there have been several music videos from famous artists shot on an ... iPhone https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/music-videos-shot-with-s... (actually looks like John Legend and Ellie Goulding filmed their m
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by samspenc 5y ago
Surprised to see some Series E startups giving almost 1% equity to ICs. I would have expected to see something like this more in Seed rounds. Even most Series A companies on the list are only giving 0.1% to 0.5% in equity.
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by samspenc 5y ago
Yup, this is why major retailers (Walmart etc) don't use Amazon cloud services and instead use a competitor. I believe Walmart and some other large retailers use Azure but the retail industry in general is split between Azure & GCP
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by samspenc 5y ago
Doesn't HBO Max streaming somewhat counteract the losses in the theater? When HBO & Warner Bros decided to release all their movies on big screen and streaming at the same time for 2021 (only), part of it was a play to increase the
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by samspenc 5y ago
JFYI for anyone interested in this space: I believe VentuSky - www.ventusky.com - is the most popular website in this space and has comprehensive & free weather information from around the world. I use it on a weekly basis after I first
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Omicron vaccine is coming, but ‘everybody’s going to be infected’(cnbc.com)
7 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Yeah, after contracting COVID in January 2021, and now 3 shots (including a booster), I'm just tired of the whole thing. If I'm not immune "enough" after all that, so be it.
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by samspenc 5y ago
My guess is it's staffing. I use Amazon Fresh (for groceries) and Amazon Prime, and it's more apparent with Fresh -- normally I can get everything delivered next day. Fresh didn't have deliveries at all for almost a week arou
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How could the Big Bang arise from nothing?(theconversation.com)
2 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
The change is worth it. I made the migration 15-20 years ago and haven't looked back. It's definitely "messier" since there are many tiers you have to learn to get a full stack web application working -- frontend (HTML,
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by samspenc 5y ago
If you want an open-source solution, would recommend HBase or Cassandra -- those have been battle-tested and used in a variety of small and large companies. They allow you to store huge amounts of data, and as long as you design the primary
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by samspenc 5y ago
They integrate with Azure as well: https://www.datadoghq.com/solutions/azure/ I'm guessing all the major SaaS players these days integrate with and support all the major clouds; in order to meet their custome
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by samspenc 5y ago
I heard that their (miserly) first and second year RSU vests are made up for with a cash component during those two years, or am I mistaken about that?
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China’s Locked-Down City Xian in Chaos After Covid App Crashes(bloomberg.com)
5 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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The Bogdanoff Affair (2010)(math.ucr.edu)
39 points by samspenc 5y ago|6 comments
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Patterns to Ace Any Coding Interview Question(hackernoon.com)
4 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Good stuff. A couple of comments to the post: Rate limiter: I would probably use a hash table of this structure -- called[yyyy-mm-dd][hh-mm] and then increment the hashtable for that minute, for example, called[2022-01-02][22-01]++ and drop
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by samspenc 5y ago
Unrolled version for easier reading: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1477290360355401735.html
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by samspenc 5y ago
While Google and Microsoft don't break down their cloud revenue publicly (Amazon does with AWS), there are several finance research firms that have dug into the breakdown and they seem to more or less align. Here's an example: ht
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by samspenc 5y ago
In addition to all the great points from parent comment above, one other important thing is that a web based application allows multiple people to use it at the same time. With (hopefully) proper authentication and authorization so each per
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by samspenc 5y ago
Ditto, the US North West, where I now live, has had one of its coldest winters on record. It's been heavily snowing with temperature well below freezing the past few days, which is almost unheard of at this time of the year in these pa
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by samspenc 5y ago
Per the comments: looks like author meant 31/12/2021 not 2022. And the company has given an official update confirming the issue, and asking users to retry later in the day or in the next year (2022).
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by samspenc 5y ago
I wonder if this will continue though. As some of the other comments point out, Apple stock has increased by 400% over the past 5 years, it's difficult to imagine that it will keep "popping" like this over the next 5 years.
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Seattle braces for dangerous cold snap unseen in a decade(king5.com)
3 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
And there were indeed more of both: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/11/17/overdo... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-11/teen-suic..
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by samspenc 5y ago
My prediction is the next country that will go through this in this century will be Communist China. It has stark similarities to Soviet USSR / Russia in the 1980s & 90s, as well as Germany in the 1930s & 40s: a totalitarian re
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by samspenc 5y ago
Just curious: have you donated to organizations that are solving the homelessness problem? Or do you think the work they are doing is not sufficient and this problem requires another approach.

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