shah_s

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by shah_s 8y ago
Am I missing something? Plenty of restaurants have self serve policies.
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by shah_s 10y ago
That's just an excuse. There is early voting and most, if not all states, legally mandate that a company give time off to employees to go vote.
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by shah_s 10y ago
How is a company that isn't making money and struggling financially worth $1B? Let me guess... "users"..
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by shah_s 11y ago
Who is they?
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by shah_s 11y ago
Hi, Thanks for your response. I am not knocking on you or the product because it is a lucrative market (if done right). So, you are taking the risk on the houses? Do you guys rent out the house? What happens if it doesn't sell?
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by shah_s 11y ago
How is this any different from the countless companies that have been doing them for ages?
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by shah_s 11y ago
Make sure you learn to organize your time well. Do not get distracted. Make your environment as close to an office environment as possible. Take any breaks that you would normally take in an office environment. Also, keep great communicatio
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by shah_s 11y ago
It's been a while since they invested in UBeam. Any updates? I can't seem to find any.
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by shah_s 11y ago
How can they raise $40m and fail so quickly? How did they burn through that much cash? I hope they actually explain why they failed so others can learn from it.
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by shah_s 11y ago
I wonder what they need that much money for. Their product is pretty solid and I assume they are making a profit. Is it for marketing purpose?
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by shah_s 11y ago
Congrats. I checked out Algolia a while back, and its great to see such progress. I wonder if Algolia and Swiftype will merge because they both offer great products.
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by shah_s 11y ago
This is great news for the node community because a splinter would not have worked for any one. Hopefully, we can leave this behind us and continue to build great node apps.
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by shah_s 11y ago
Yes it is! Wow, small world. I will reach out to you actually, I am interested in learning more!
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by shah_s 11y ago
They are both pretty great, and there are other companies such as linode and atlantic.net (disclaimer: i work for them) that might be good fit. AWS have a lot of services and features, but depends on what you are looking for. You can certai
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by shah_s 11y ago
What exactly are they spending the money on? Is it marketing? I assume their overhead should actually be very low.
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by shah_s 11y ago
Rails is still the best framework for building CRUD applications. It shouldn't be used for every scenario but if you want to build a traditional CRUD app, nothing is better than Rails in my opinion.
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by shah_s 11y ago
I had an IBM Thinkpad T30 that lasted me 6+ years.
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by shah_s 11y ago
I think the rise of these development 'boot camps' is causing more harm than good. It devalues programmers skills and worth as well as give people false hopes. I am all for people wanting to improve their skills or learn something
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by shah_s 11y ago
Slack is a great product but I do not think it's worth $2.8B. Hipchat has a much bigger company behind it and people switched to Slack pretty quickly because for the most part it is a better product. The reason for that switch is becau
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by shah_s 11y ago
LinkedIn has been making a lot of acquisitions lately. Do they feel that their revenue source from their main product is drying up?