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by zilchers 9y ago
I'm off uber after a BS "5 minute" issue. I've been using it for years, they literally had to burn so much goodwill to get me to stop using them, it's almost impressive.
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by zilchers 10y ago
Market your way out of the problem, I like it.
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by zilchers 10y ago
I'm not bothered by the fact that these guys got investment, it's an interesting idea and could have been a great kickstarter. But, $120 mil is a staggering amount for a company like this that should have relatively small startup
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by zilchers 10y ago
Is there an official response from Uber on this?
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by zilchers 10y ago
Super interesting for Microsoft to be releasing this narrow of a product. Don't get me wrong, there's probably a market, but Salesforce would never do this, for a big company it's a platform play, let a partner build the tiny
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by zilchers 10y ago
Hi! We're the builders of Nines, looking for some feedback. At a super high level, nines addresses some problems with uptime monitoring solutions (such as the basic ping service that New Relic provides) by 1) allowing you to send probe
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Show HN: Nines – Insanely Detailed Uptime Monitoring(nines.ws)
2 points by zilchers 10y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Nines – Insanely Detailed Uptime Monitoring(nines.ws)
4 points by zilchers 10y ago|1 comments
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by zilchers 10y ago
The way they harvested the sugar involved burning the fields (I believe after harvest, but could be wrong) which lead to unusually high levels of respiratory illnesses on Maui - I think this is net-net good, but like the rest of the country
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by zilchers 10y ago
Well done sir, this is a great service.
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by zilchers 10y ago
One thing you don't really mention here, but it's mentioned a lot in the comments, is the data extraction piece. Is data extraction a pretty solved problem at this point, and it's really the intelligent cleaning, transforming
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by zilchers 10y ago
I was just at slush, and I think one of the startup finalists was working on this problem, though honestly, it's a pretty foreign problem to me. The company is ShipWallet: http://www.shipwallet.com/ Article about the
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by zilchers 10y ago
They missed it by 50 years, but sure, people will be summering in the North Pole in no time.
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by zilchers 10y ago
Lots of discussion here - is there any more hard info? Statement from the CEO, press release, something like that? Could be innocuous, the first company might be a major shareholder in the second, or similar.
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by zilchers 10y ago
Ya, good call, that's kind of the irony here, huh?
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by zilchers 10y ago
One of the issues with blockchain solutions in general is they usually DON'T mean proof of work. It's generally a proof of stake solution, which is honestly not that much different than some sort of certificate based system.
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by zilchers 10y ago
Ya, this is kind of silly. I'll actually say - before this election I was all about a Blockchain / electronic voting system. After Russia and Wikileaks and everything, no way. The paper based, locally run elections are incredibly
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by zilchers 10y ago
That’s how the most successful people use lists … under a specific time block. Wow, talk about a spectacular exaggeration.
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by zilchers 10y ago
Hacker News doesn't have the churn that means other news sites are always different when you visit them...perhaps you could call that a downside, but I actually really like that aspect.
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by zilchers 10y ago
Is it just me, or is C# basically becoming Scala (or, insert your favorite functional language here). Don't get me wrong, this is awesome, .net on Linux, dockerized, is all good, but these moves definitely show Microsoft responding to
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by zilchers 10y ago
Auth0 does a good job taking some of the pain out of integrating authentication, but I tend to agree. I have a nice couple of templates I use to bootstrap side projects.
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by zilchers 10y ago
Wow, America crashed Canada's immigration website.
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by zilchers 10y ago
I'm with you on the embedded HTML in JavaScript files. There's a reason everyone went nuts for MVC, the seperation of UI code (in my opinion) just makes your life as a developer easier.
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by zilchers 10y ago
I agree with the comment about distributed transactions - basically, Mongo had the first mover advantage and Rethink (albeit a great platform and easy to setup / administer) needed a big differentiator. That's actually why I'
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by zilchers 10y ago
I think the author just misses the point - some people's hobbies (I bet a lot of people on HN) are programming or working on new business ideas, I know it's one of mine. What's important is doing things that make you happy an
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by zilchers 10y ago
I'm not sure I see what's novel about this - maybe it's a verbiage thing around "wait free," but if they're atomically updating the top pointer and linked list, there will be lock contention on writes, and simi
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Hope Driven Development(hopedrivendevelopment.com)
1 points by zilchers 10y ago|0 comments