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by skewart 10y ago
By spending unreasonable amounts of time on HN - at least that's how I rationalize things to myself.
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by skewart 10y ago
I second this! I would love to read a blog post - or a series of them - where you explain your thoughts in more depth.
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by skewart 10y ago
The desire to keep a city looking the same as it was decades ago does seem to be a powerful motivator for a lot of anti-housing people. It's always seemed a little perverse to me. Cities are dynamic, constantly changing organisms. Try
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by skewart 10y ago
The same places that you put urban developments in most cities - you repurpose existing underused buildings and spaces in existing urban neighborhoods. There are lots and lots of parking lots, underutilized commercial buildings, and low den
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by skewart 10y ago
I'm one of those people! And I appreciated your summary comment. I hope it becomes something more people do when submitting things on HN.
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by skewart 10y ago
What does your tool do? Is it a replacement for all those AWS services you listed, or does it run on top of them?
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by skewart 10y ago
Yeah, I agree with the other commenters that "serverless" is a pretty silly way to describe something that involves lots and lots of servers. If you told me you created a "serverless app" or your app had a "serverle
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by skewart 10y ago
Why are people downvoting this? It seems like a perfectly reasonable wish. If something like this already exists then then please share it. The replies so farention things that are similar in some ways but either aren't parametric or
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by skewart 10y ago
Yeah that's the incredible thing about Rails. It's just so fricking fast to set up a project. I kinda feel like it's going out of fashion - being eclipsed by Node mostly -and that sucks because I've never found another
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by skewart 10y ago
Yeah, I don't think you deserve downvotes either. Your skepticism is perfectly reasonable, and you explained it well. I've never been to Kenya, but I have spent a lot of time in countries with roughly similar levels of developmen
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by skewart 11y ago
You have a really great insight about teams often wasting lots of time and effort because people don't really know what other people are working on. I've experienced this myself and I would love to find a solution. I started read
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by skewart 11y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. It sounds like you were facing a really tough competitive landscape. Throwing in the towel sounds like a wise thing to have done. One thing I didn't totally get from the post is what exactly you were
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by skewart 11y ago
That's fascinating. Thanks for sharing. FB and Microsoft's excitement about chatbots makes a lot more sense now.
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by skewart 11y ago
There are lots of successful aggregators: NerdWallet and Credit Karma for credit cards and financial products, all the different car shopping sites, also Trulia/Zillow for real estate. All of those companies have a clear value proposit
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by skewart 11y ago
> People already seem to prefer to interact with a brand using Twitter than the phone. Do you think they prefer to use Twitter because of the conversational UI? I've always thought it was because Twitter is public, so brands respon
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by skewart 11y ago
True indeed. > Chat could be the ultimate discoverable API - with bots talking to one another. This is something I've thought about a lot recently. It would be amazing if natural language becomes a viable protocol for machine-to-mac
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by skewart 11y ago
That's a really interesting point. And it certainly would be phenomenal if we could interact with computers using natural language. At the same time, fascination doesn't necessarily make a person an active user of any particular p
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Ask HN: Is anyone actually excited about using chatbots?
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by skewart 11y ago
> If the drivers were employees then they could have prevented them from driving for other services. This. I feel like this doesn't come up often enough in discussions about whether drivers should be considered employees or not. A l
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by skewart 11y ago
Rails or Django. Both have rich ecosystems that make it easy to plug in functionality - authentication, authorization, worker queues, logging, sending emails, etc. Plus, both are battle tested and have been heavily refined over the years.
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by skewart 11y ago
This is one of the best explanations of an ML topic that I've read in a long time. It strikes a great balance of being approachable for non-experts and being in-depth enough to give a reader a feeling that they understand how things wo
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by skewart 11y ago
No problem! I think it's a really interesting product, and the general problem of giving people a way to vent about their problems has a ton of potential. There's a lot of good advice and ideas in other comments in the thread. Goo
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by skewart 11y ago
Thanks for sharing your story. It's super interesting. I've seen the long, drawn out and high touch enterprise sales process shock a lot of product and engineering driven startups. It's too bad. I think this heavy sales proce
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by skewart 11y ago
I'd suggest you post questions on various forums sites asking for advice while also being sure to mention your site name and why it's better than the competition. Lots of people will see your ad, and you might even get some good a
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by skewart 11y ago
I'm wondering the same thing. Presumably the question asker was trying to promote his hosting company. It seems like a pretty risky way to promote your business though. I mean, maybe the old saying that any publicity is good publicity
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by skewart 11y ago
> they shouldn't complain when it turns out that real estate and transportation are limited resources that somebody has to pay for. I whole-heartedly disagree. It's much better to try to change things and improve the world inst
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by skewart 11y ago
Sure. The point is that Paris is about three times as dense as SF and it still is widely considered a "beautiful" city.
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by skewart 11y ago
Peole wouldn't have to leapfrog over the greenspace to find a place to live. I think urban green space is great, as long as it also comes with housing density. The problem is excessive greenspace coupled with mandatory low-density sin
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by skewart 11y ago
Absolutely. > or making your schools overcrowded To which I say, build more schools! With more housing and people comes a bigger tax base and more money to fund infrastructure improvements. I don't know a single pro-construction pe
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by skewart 11y ago
Because it works better in practice. Consider other markets where supply is not artificially constrained. There are no laws specifying how many cars can be manufactured, or how they can be priced. Manufacturers are able to make cars at a wi

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