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by teej 9y ago
Won't help if your cache is empty and Cloudflare can't access S3. I originally discovered this service outage when an image in cloudflare was returning a 500 error about 40 minutes ago.
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by teej 9y ago
My experience is that when people say FTP a lot of the times they can mean SFTP.
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by teej 9y ago
Here's the thing though - most programmers are not working on "genuinely difficult problems". Yes, abstraction is a useful tool but like many tools it's harmful if used improperly. Code has a tendency to live way longer
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by teej 9y ago
> I never consented to having all my eggs in those three vulnerable baskets Your information does not just magically make it into the database of a credit bureau. It gets there via public record or because you allowed a creditor to repor
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by teej 9y ago
Fentanyl has been a major accelerant in the opioid crisis. It's extremely potent and extremely cheap to manufacture. This has driven prices down, brought drug strength up, and shot overdoses through the roof. > Why wouldn't the
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by teej 9y ago
Dear HN reader - if you're not quite ready to buy the book, take a listen to this episode of Software Engineering Daily ( https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/05/02/data-intensi... ). It will give you
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by teej 9y ago
Let me lend you this handy piece of code, straight from my production codebase, written the day this feature was released. # disable homebrew from tracking metrics # see https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/bl
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by teej 9y ago
I thought the fundamental (and well documented) problem with Juicero is that they over-engineered themselves into a product that was far beyond what a consumer would ever pay for a kitchen appliance. Kinda like exactly what the article says
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by teej 9y ago
I assumed delivery in this case meant local delivery like food.
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by teej 9y ago
Japanese cars are famously reliable. German cars are not. A Toyota Corolla is miles ahead of a Mercedes S Class.
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by teej 9y ago
The way people handle it is to triangulate on the value based on a couple different sources. For example, you may test your TV ad in a handful of markets first and see if you experience lift in those areas. In addition, you may offer a uniq
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by teej 9y ago
Recent convert to Dark Sky. Highly recommend it. One of those increasingly rare instances where you can pay upfront for quality software.
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by teej 9y ago
I haven't been to a demo day in a while but it's typically been split into an "on the record" group and an "off the record" group. Startups like to share their MRR number because it can help grab the attention
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by teej 9y ago
When Siri decides your request needs web search results, it uses Bing by default. You can override this by asking Siri to "google search" for your term. The behavior is different in that it will open your default browser to a Goog
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by teej 9y ago
It's not media exposure. Thailand has a similar crime rate to the US. Latin America on average is much much worse. https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp
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by teej 9y ago
They report on it because it drives traffic. BCH had major media coverage and I had people with no understanding of cryptocurrency asking me questions about it.
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by teej 9y ago
I thought the same thing! Small design agencies could justify investing time and effort to craft resources like this as it signaled craft and quality. Facebook doesn't really have any justification, they're only doing it because t
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by teej 9y ago
The FTC actually says explicitly that starting a Twitter post with #ad is OK [0]. They don't mention Instagram in that document. I imagine the legally can't be overly prescriptive due to first amendment issues. FTC sent notices ou
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by teej 9y ago
I'm not anonymous. You can identify me by going to my profile if you'd like. To be completely honest, I don't remember. It was 2 years ago and I sit on lots of these pitches. I remember pushing back on them about the methodol
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by teej 9y ago
I once sat in on a pitch from an antivirus software company who was selling the ability to look at the full browsing history of people who had visited your website. You could see all of their searches, if they visited competitors, and more.
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by teej 9y ago
What hero do you think would be a better test?
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by teej 9y ago
I have a friend and former coworker who has been working in games since 1990. He is an incredible software engineer and I ended up learning a lot from him. He just recently got out of games and now works at Tesla.
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by teej 9y ago
I'm annoyed that you came in, advertised your product, took up front page space, and didn't bother to answer any of the interesting questions. I feel as if you are taking from the community and not giving back.
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by teej 9y ago
There's also a lot of money to be made in keeping addicts hooked. In South Florida, there's a huge issue where opioid addicts are put into "treatment centers" that use them to defraud insurance carriers. The victims don&
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by teej 9y ago
For every hit like Tinder, there are a hundred dead dating apps that never got enough traction to take off or couldn't nail down the brutal acquire-retain-monetize math. Tinder's greatest "growth hack" is that it's
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by teej 9y ago
I think you're painting with too broad strokes by likening all marketing to hacks. Marketing is more like finding alpha in a changing, inefficient market. There are going to be short term and long term strategies that work. The only gu
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by teej 9y ago
The thing is, the exact customer you are describing already exists and takes the Accela. And that trip takes 2 hours one way! Cutting that by 5x would be transformative. Plus, lots and lots of commuters in the del-mar-va area are already us
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by teej 9y ago
> If this is true, the Python Software Foundation should be ashamed. With Zed can come... drama. At least that's the way it used to be. I would take what he says with a grain of salt.
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by teej 9y ago
Given that Amazon's system can be described as: "... for every item i1, we want every item i2 that was purchased with unusually high frequency by people who bought i1", I'd say it's completely rational that their sy
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by teej 9y ago
Because this post is spam. The submitter has only posted direct iTunes link to this app and made no other contribution to HN. For this reason I have flagged it.

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