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811.
by scosman 10y ago
They didn't break SMS wholesale; they got access to one telco's network. Saying they were hacked is like saying Slack/Netflix/etc were hacked whenever a single email provider is hacked. That said, SMS isn't a very s
812.
by scosman 10y ago
This blog post is missing some important details. Sometimes legal actions from businesses are empty or meritless. However, what if it's legitimate libel? Labeling any legal action as "questionable" seems odd. How do they diff
813.
by scosman 10y ago
Yes, MySQL, the shiniest of new toys...
814.
by scosman 10y ago
yup
815.
by scosman 10y ago
Whatever you do, don't consider Mandrill/Mailchimp. What they pulled earlier this year makes this issue look like nothing.
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by scosman 10y ago
PagerDuty is one of the unique companies you can hate (because it wakes you up in the middle of the night) but also love and recommend to everyone. If you don't have it in your stack, get it.
817.
by scosman 10y ago
The first one, "What do you do?", should potentially be renamed "What do you do for your customers?". It took me a while to realize the importance of the distinction when pitching. Using the Google example from the artic
818.
by scosman 10y ago
Agreed, they need a way to keep Christian Slater on screen. My guess, they'll realize the split-personality is tiresome, and bring the the real person back from the dead somehow.
819.
by scosman 10y ago
I went through the updated app (v1.0.1) and the oAuth flow clearly indicated what I was granting access to. I'd be very curious if this was a fix by Google, a Google bug where requesting "full access" is missing that step, or
820.
by scosman 10y ago
This is the first time I wished a company had a giant "jumbotron" video on their marketing page. You sell robots, add a video!
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Ask HN: How to volunteer for social causes as a software engineer?
4 points by scosman 10y ago|0 comments
822.
by scosman 10y ago
I don't understand #2 (and I've heard it a lot). Theil with all his money was unable to sue/destroy them for a decade even with their despicable behaviour. It wasn't until they did something illegal (the Hogan case) that
823.
by scosman 10y ago
or mullets in 1987
824.
by scosman 10y ago
A few of the continuous integration companies that support iOS/Mac development run fleets of Macs. If you need info, talk to the folks at bitrise.io or CircleCI
825.
by scosman 11y ago
What is insecure about more entropy + blocking scanners? By that rational any internet connected service with a password is insecure.
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by scosman 11y ago
I'm looking forward to when this exists for every almost language. Go added "c-archive" build mode in 1.5. There is no reason gobind couldn't support any language which can work with c libraries (ruby, node, etc).
827.
by scosman 11y ago
The problem is if you can't work without them. Not every terminal you sit down at or connect to will have them. Customize all you want, but don't become dependant on your customizations.
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by scosman 11y ago
"I’d become dependent on these shortcuts." The intro to this article is as much a caution of becoming dependant on non-standard tools, as it is a pitch for omzsh. If you can't sit down at a normal bash window and get shit don
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by scosman 11y ago
While nerve racking, this ended up being quite civil. A party proposed a tax plan, the community gave great feedback, and they revised. Thanks to Tobi, OMERS and everyone who spoke up.
830.
by scosman 11y ago
Almost! I got a twitter ad for "Monkey throw a wrench in your email system?"
831.
by scosman 11y ago
Just to be clear: I'm happy paying a premium for all the great features services like SendGrid/Mandrill offer. We knew about cheaper services like SES, or the ability to roll our own, but we didn't want to re-invent the wheel
832.
by scosman 11y ago
Oh, and the pricing page that's live right now is a bald faced lie. I wouldn't trust much/anything from these guys.
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by scosman 11y ago
It's way worse than just the TOS change. Mandrill has a lot of advanced features (webhooks, reporting, AB testing, templates, etc). Some companies may be able to switch to SES or mailgun in a day, but more advanced integrations could t
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by scosman 11y ago
KPMG's statement is pretty standard in any GAAP financial statement. If your company is losing money, it pretty much has to be included. Not many startups wouldn't have it.
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by scosman 11y ago
For anyone wanting to go deeper, this book on deep neural nets teaches them using character reco as the example. http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com
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by scosman 11y ago
This is really awesome. I've spent a ton of time optimizing high throughput PG instances. Every time one of my optimizations failed it was from an incomplete understanding of the physical storage layer and/or MVCC. These 2 docs re
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by scosman 11y ago
Sites you probably haven't visited: "myspace.com" < pffft. That's too easy.
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by scosman 11y ago
$20B market cap. You could argue it should be $10B, but 'dubious hit' for an early stage investor is ridiculous.
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by scosman 11y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=evernote
840.
by scosman 11y ago
Maybe for late stage investors, but if you applied that strategy as an early stage consumer investor you would have missed almost much every big hit (FB, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, etc).

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