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by yashap 4y ago
YC is a big-time brand, being a YC company is a powerful stamp of approval for acquiring customers, hiring and raising further investment. Go YC first, then get more interest/better terms from VCs, hire more easily, sell more easily.
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by yashap 4y ago
For sure, it’s almost certainly a “growth hacking” attempt (they’re hoping the ppl they email signup to otter.ai), but a pretty terrible one. Every other similar growth hacking attempt I’ve seen will explicitly ask for consent before sendin
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by yashap 4y ago
Nailed it. Likewise, Enterprise customers don’t demand SOC-2 and similar certifications from their vendors because they actually think that will be effective in stopping data leaks, it’s just so they can say “reasonable measure were taken t
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by yashap 4y ago
Worth noting that “fake it till you make it” is a very old/well established strategy in the music world, it’s just being applied to social media. For example, read about some of the things David Bowie’s manager Tony DeFries did. Before
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by yashap 4y ago
Agreed - Firefox have very legit, useable workflows for avoiding tracking while still having the web function for you. Chrome has IMO a purposefully unusable approach. It’s theatre, they give you the option, but that option breaks the web s
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by yashap 4y ago
100% this. Pre-K8s I’ve done EC2 auto-scaling with ansible and packer, our own in-house healthcheck framework ( https://github.com/hootsuite/health-checks-api ), our own rolling deploys, our own in-house service discover
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by yashap 4y ago
I think it’s generally true that product shipping speed is very important for startups. You’ll always have competition, having the best product is crucial to “winning”, that means you have to be faster than your competitors. However, speed
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by yashap 4y ago
Another way to phrase this is “statically typed languages suck if you want to write highly dynamically typed code.” That’s true. I think there’s 3 options here: 1. Keep writing code in a very dynamically typed style, despite choosing a stat
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by yashap 4y ago
I haven’t used Supabase, but would it not be easy/standard to stick a CDN between the end user and S3, so that S3 is only hit on CDN cache misses, and thus S3 egress is minimal?
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by yashap 4y ago
It’s a work in progress, it’s definitely not meant to be ready for production workloads yet. It’s in beta, I’m assuming if they do get to a full stable release, node compatibility will be far better, Express will work, official docs will be
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by yashap 4y ago
Huh? This particular bug has everything to do with PHP. PHP is reasonably unique in the model of “treat everything like a standard webserver serving up files from the filesystem, except they’re PHP scripts/templates that get evaluated
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by yashap 4y ago
Hah whoops, typo, fixed :)
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by yashap 4y ago
From the article it sounds like it affects ~1% of cars, and causes a complete loss of ability to brake. The one guy in the article linked in the comments had it total his Ferrari in June 2021, bought a new one, and it happened to the new on
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by yashap 4y ago
Completely agree - it’s a tonne of extra ceremony for essentially no payoff. JSON-based RESTful services are just simpler and more universal. If you want code gen from API specs, you can have OAS specs that you create/edit with Stoplig
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by yashap 4y ago
Many of these started as acquisitions, but they massively transformed them. For example, they acquired some products in the mapping space, but none of them remotely resembled what Google Maps have become. Taking some starting point, hugely
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by yashap 4y ago
You really think Google have a failure to innovate? Obviously search was their first, core innovation, but over the years they’ve delivered so many other successful products (many acquired, true, but even those they’ve evolved really well).
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by yashap 4y ago
Another recent one, AlloyDB from Google Cloud. Looks pretty interesting/promising. Sort of like their competitor to AWS Aurora, built on top of Postgres, with the added ability to handle OLAP workloads well (along with apparently great
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by yashap 4y ago
The blog post in general was good/informative, but I gotta say, this quote does reduce my confidence in Fly quite a lot: > To get the merit badge, we also had to document an approval process that ensured changes that hit production
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by yashap 4y ago
Also, I will say that the normal CNN site is slow to completely load, but decently fast to become interactive. Like on my iPhone, everything above the fold is loaded and interactive reasonably quickly, even if the little blue loader bar doe
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by yashap 4y ago
Yeah, I think even when engineers are fully ramped up, a well written TS backend is a bit more productive than a well written Scala one. They’re actually decently similar languages, both are expressive languages with expressive type systems
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by yashap 4y ago
Same - I still like Python for scripting, and Scala is still the language I have most fun coding in, but … JavaScript got decent, and TypeScript got really good. I used to want Python in the browser, but no longer see the need. TypeScript i
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by yashap 4y ago
Agreed. As a datapoint, I’m fairly senior (staff SWE at 2 companies), and there’s absolutely no way I’d do a 4 hour take home assignment. I work long enough hours already, and when I’m considering a job move, I interview at multiple places.
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by yashap 4y ago
IMO if you’re a Holocaust denier who idolizes Hitler then yeah, you’re a neo-Nazi. The Holocaust happened. My grandfather was an Auschwitz survivor, the only survivor of his family - the Nazis murdered his parents, brothers and sisters. He
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by yashap 4y ago
As I posted here, take a peek at their past comments, they’re an outright neo-nazi Holocaust denier, and they seem to see Hitler as a hero: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31791070 Not surprising a racist disagrees wit
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by yashap 4y ago
Clicked their previous comments - they’re a neo-nazi Holocaust denier. For example, they posted this 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31722179 > Hitler is recognized and admired by many. If the change in
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by yashap 4y ago
Huh, I’ve never been at a company that did anything for Father’s Day - probably because it’s on a Sunday. What did your company do previously?
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by yashap 4y ago
That’s the joke
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by yashap 4y ago
Official deprecation like this helps companies say “sorry, we don’t support IE11 anymore either, you’ll have to upgrade.” Not all companies will do this, but plenty will.
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by yashap 4y ago
Agreed. Cost really is the big selling point of Grafana Cloud - it’s far, far cheaper than most competitors, and good enough. Not as good as NewRelic, DataDog, etc., but you get good enough metrics, logs, alerts, distributed tracing, and no
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by yashap 4y ago
I’d like to see that too, share it if you find it! My personal experience has been that the Go projects I’ve worked on have compiled a lot faster than the Java projects I’ve worked on. However, it’s hardly a 1:1 comparison, the Go projects

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