veeralpatel979

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   by veeralpatel979 7y ago

   You're right, maybe the tool or script would be more maintainable if it was written in the company's main programming language. But also, a developer may not even write it if he or she feels pressured to do this. Here's a tho
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   by veeralpatel979 7y ago

   Great work! Is being self-hosted something small teams are interested in, in your view? For me, if I was part of a small team, I would choose a hosted service everytime so I don't need to do any ops work.
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   by veeralpatel979 7y ago

   > there's no official Rails graphql solution yet either I use https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby !
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   by veeralpatel979 7y ago

   Link to the GitHub repo: https://github.com/Netflix-Skunkworks/riskquant
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   by veeralpatel979 7y ago

   I've used Netlify as a "Heroku for static sites". I deploy my React apps and landing pages there and don't need to worry about the underlying compute, or load balancing, or anything else. Thankfully I didn't do any
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   by veeralpatel979 7y ago

   Scale offers labeling as a service. Datasaur is an interface that companies can buy for their own labeling personnel, if I understand correctly.
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   by veeralpatel979 7y ago

   I liked the Practical TLA+ book: https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484238288
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   by veeralpatel979 7y ago

   > I'm not into all this YC stuff, but does the YC20 in the title means that someone has funded this idea? Yes, Y Combinator (ycombinator.com) is a top startup accelerator (and the owner of the site you are currently on). They fund b
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   by veeralpatel979 7y ago

   Strange to say but I actually don't mind being woken up due to someone else's alarm. It lets me experience the pleasure of knowing I get to go back to sleep :)
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    Fair point. Typically I'm on the side of the free market and less government regulation, but this system breaks down if consumers have no choice but to use a small set of companies, who all have an interest in doing the same thing, and
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    Great post! I went ahead and read all your posts in the series: https://posthog.com/blog/before-the-yc-application/ https://posthog.com/blog/the-yc-interview/ https://posthog.
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    Something I read in another HN thread was that while $200M may not be much compared to T-Mobile's annual revenue, it's probably a lot compared to how much ISPs earn from selling user data. This doesn't factor in the ongoing P
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    I would also add learning to evaluate your idea(s) objectively. When you think you've thought of a great idea, by definition, you're biased toward it. If you then start building it, the sunk cost makes you even more resistant to a
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    I'm also a huge fan of the Mom Test! In your specific customer interview, I would probe deeper. For most real problems people have, they've hacked together a makeshift solution. It may work, but it doesn't mean it works well.
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    I wonder why they chose the name Autopilot! The name seems to imply something the tech does something that it's not, though in all fairness to Tesla, they are very clear about the fact that Autopilot does require an attentive human at
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    I think having a "complicated" type system like Haskell's is a good thing, because it lets you model data in your program accurately, and more importantly, lets you offload work from your brain to the compiler. One question:
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    The article seems to imply that if BBC launched its own video streaming service when Netflix was still sending DVDs, it would've become the next Netflix. I have to disagree. The execution is what really matters, not the idea. - Could B
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    Thanks for your comment! But I don't think all legacy will ever get phased out. Today's code will become tomorrow's legacy.
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    Hey - sorry your startup didn't work out. If you decide to try again, I'm sure it will be easier :) And thanks for open sourcing your tech! I see some legitimate critiques in the comments here - "it's not production-read
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    Why makes you saw it's a DDoS attack? Can confirm that it's back up now.
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    Thanks Nat! I would also recommend writing a blog post announcing Discussions and its features as soon as you get the chance. Reading this HN thread, I got the impression GitHub actually did just copy/paste Issues into a new tab, as a
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    GitHub bought Spectrum (spectrum.chat) in 2018: https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/spectrum-is-joining-g... But I would caution against integrating too many tools into GitHub. As a user, I like that GitHub err
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    Congrats on shipping! I like how quickly GitHub is shipping new features now, compared to earlier: the mobile app, Actions, Sponsors, security scanning, etc. That said, I was a little disappointed that Discussions is essentially identical t
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    I think the problem of determining whether a company is secure, given a particular attacker, is one that needs to be worked on. Unfortunately I haven't made any progress in discovering a solution that would accurately determine if a co
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    Got it! And how do you identify users of your open source version who you can upsell your paid version to, since there's no sign up needed to start using PostHog? Or is this something you don't do?
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    Hey - congrats on launching! I'm adding Posthog to my list of codebases to check out. Can you talk more about your tech stack? As an aside - it seems like most of the analytics companies I've heard of went through YC: MixPanel, He
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    Congrats on launching! How does this compare to something like OpenPhone ( https://www.openphone.co/ )?
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    Netlify ( http://netlify.com/ ) works great for static sites as well!
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    Great work!
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    by veeralpatel979 7y ago

    - Recognize that while the jargon is often complicated, the underlying ideas are not. As you read, keep asking yourself what the basic idea of what you've learned is. - Think about the topic yourself from first principles as you read.