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Google Hangouts Chat Is Down(twitter.com)
2 points by teej 7y ago|0 comments
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by teej 7y ago
Maybe I spend too much time on HN, but I’ve literally never seen someone take Google’s side in these situations.
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by teej 7y ago
I don't have anything new to add, other than to say - this is a very well written startup pitch. I'm in awe of how clearly you've laid out the opportunity.
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by teej 7y ago
Not available on all clients, notably mobile.
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by teej 7y ago
Poor communication with zero accountability. A few hours could be 2, it could be 12. “I (name the individual accountable) will give you an update at 12:00 PT (name a time) as an update to this post (name the communication channel) with the
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by teej 7y ago
To serve as a data point, I effectively built an in-house version of this a few years ago built on top of AWS Lambda, all in Python. The "entry point" code or orchestration code was hosted normally on an EC2 instance. More specifi
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by teej 7y ago
How many folks am I exposing to Google Analytics that weren't before, if I added GA to my blog? I would be shocked if it was anything other than 0.
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by teej 7y ago
EPS beat estimates by 4%, $2.46 vs $2.36.
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by teej 7y ago
Check out CRDTs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
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by teej 7y ago
Code is read many times more than it is written. If someone scrutinizes code for clear intent, I don’t think that should be considered a “pet peeve” or some quirk to be explained away.
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by teej 7y ago
Authors who write for the Economist are anonymous, so there’s little incentive for making a bold call because there’s no payoff for being right.
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by teej 8y ago
You go on the website, click a couple boxes, and it tells you a price. You pay what you see on the website. How is that more confusing than a regular dealership?
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by teej 8y ago
I mean sure. But my gas vehicle is purely recreational, it gets a few hundred miles a year at most. I really enjoy teaching myself car maintenance and repair with it. Being an 80s car, it’s super roomy in the engine area and easy to work on
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by teej 8y ago
Different target audiences for a science YouTube channel and a scientific findings press conference.
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by teej 8y ago
In this case it’s just poor survey question design.
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by teej 8y ago
Everything you’ve claimed about Amazon applies to traditional retailers.
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by teej 8y ago
Woah, I knew illegal cab driving in Baltimore was called “hacking” but never considered the term had old roots. Turns out it all comes from the use of Hackney horses in the 19th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il
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by teej 8y ago
Every office with a kitchen and a coffee maker in the world needs to deal with reordering supplies. This doesn't seem massively overpriced nor massively over-engineered. It's basically a scale that auto-presses a dash button for y
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by teej 8y ago
Super quick napkin math on YC's investment. Many of these assumptions will be wrong. YC investment: $120,000 [0] YC shares: 1,050,000 [1] PD market cap: $1.3 billion [2] PD share price: $20.23 YC investment value:
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by teej 8y ago
The Facebook advertising spend is most likely remarketing, not post/page promotion.
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by teej 8y ago
Half the growth in G&A expenses is due to their one-time donation to the Tides Foundation. If you back this out their expenses growth here is in line with everything else.
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by teej 8y ago
> If we fail to offer high-quality support, our business and reputation could suffer. I don't know how common this is in S-1 filings but it stuck out to me. Support is often viewed as a cost center, I love that PagerDuty makes it su
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by teej 8y ago
Given that some of the bad actors worked for the universities, specifically athletic staff taking bribes, I think it’s not crazy to sue them.
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by teej 8y ago
This format is a known use case and results in some of Imgur’s most interesting content. Imgurian missfilipina feeds her village’s kids for free every Sunday using donations from the Imgur community and shares her stories like so - https:&
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by teej 8y ago
Yep, Jupyter notebooks have an execution API, you can find more of it here - https://nbconvert.readthedocs.io/en/latest/execute_api.html . Hosted notebooks as a service is a growing area of investment and those ser
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by teej 8y ago
The founders (theoretically) created $20B in value and you think $90M is sufficient compensation? $90M is definitely enough to be more than comfortable the rest of your life. But a $5B payout would have meant they could start a VC firm, inv
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by teej 8y ago
I felt that this was notable because of how real Ethan’s sentiments felt to me. It’s the exact opposite of an “incredible journey” non-answer to why a company is shutting its doors.
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Perlara (YC W16) is shutting down(twitter.com)
2 points by teej 8y ago|1 comments
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by teej 8y ago
I think "needs adjustment" is reductive. Wikipedia could easily 10x pageviews and article count over the next 20 years. If Wikipedia doesn't grow content, coverage, and quality they could become irrelevant. Thinking donation
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by teej 8y ago
A 4% withdrawal rate has a non-zero failure rate over 30 years, let alone in perpetuity. I would say they are no where close to being completely self sustaining. Also, using math calculated for personal retirement (The Trinity Study) is not

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