bradyo

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by bradyo 4y ago
Agree that it's an abstraction that OP doesn't know the definition of, but there's also a tendency for people to * over-abstract (where you could replace the abstraction name with a slightly more verbose but clearer definitio
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by bradyo 5y ago
With enough investment, Firefox could also innovate and introduce features that aren't in Chrome or Safari to actually win users back
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by bradyo 5y ago
Part of the problem is that the in-app purchase cut isn't just for payments infra, it also includes the rest of the infrastructure and value prop for the app store(s), which is otherwise only $100/year, which is nothing for huge c
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by bradyo 5y ago
Yeah the comments in this thread are baffling (or they didn't read the 100 character tweet lol). The tweet is just describing domain specific database-like websites. Have people not heard of allrecipes.com? Yummly? Or one of the other
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by bradyo 6y ago
Yeah this feels a little bit like a declarative configuration file for Hasura/Firebase (which is already a good idea). Looking forward to seeing how far you can take the frontend stuff!
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by bradyo 6y ago
Did you even read the article? The author addresses this concern.
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by bradyo 6y ago
> this book reminded me what a time saver a good book is compared to lots of googling and blog posts I had the same reaction! The information density is perfect. If anybody else loved this book and has similar recommendations, please sha
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by bradyo 6y ago
A lot of commenters are focusing on the RPA part, but what seems to be more novel (to me at least) is the passive discovery of what could be automated with RPA. That seems like a generically hard problem, good luck!
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by bradyo 6y ago
I made a janky open source version of this. I haven't gotten around to polishing it. https://github.com/boconnell/spatially-aware-video-chat
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by bradyo 6y ago
Yeah, this title is currently overadvertising the product. Without even getting into the non-OLTP DB parts of Firebase, Hasura is much further along towards being a Firebase replacement. It already handles auth and a basic admin UI for both
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by bradyo 6y ago
Until yesterday, I would've voted Prisma. There was actually a Show HN post recently that debuted Zapatos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273543 . The top comment also mentions mammoth: https://github
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by bradyo 6y ago
As far as I can tell, prisma has turned into just an open source typescript query builder (probably the best in it's class though). Prisma used to be graph.cool which was very similar to Hasura.
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by bradyo 7y ago
If you didn't have unlimited PTO, how much would you be happy with? Tell, not ask, your manager your expectation. This is ideally done immediately upon starting. Afterwards, act like you have that amount of a vacation, and then take it
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by bradyo 7y ago
I presume you are a vegan then
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by bradyo 8y ago
I want a social network consisting entirely of people who have walked the walk before writing about it please. The r/ask* subs are a decent start. Experts in their field who tweet about their field (and not unrelated bullshit that&#x27
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by bradyo 8y ago
"Filling business needs" is also not an objectively useful thing. There are many businesses I would prefer not advertise (e.g. cigarette and gun companies) and many more industries that are nearly zero-sum (and thus advertising ju
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by bradyo 8y ago
If they stop this option, I'm moving off of it ASAP. It's the only feature keeping me on there.
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by bradyo 8y ago
What if we provided the proper funding and... didn't hunt them.
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by bradyo 9y ago
> As a former Googler, I can see why people post these: internally Google is hyper-evangelized as the best place to work ever (why would you work anywhere else). When leaving, its a necessary step to form a good argument for yourself as
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by bradyo 9y ago
And on the flip side, if you're the interviewee and you don't pass an interview, try not to beat yourself up. It just means the interviewer / interviewing company is looking for something different.
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by bradyo 9y ago
I agree, but I think companies who build a product where the end user isn't the customer unsurprisingly tend to be worse.
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by bradyo 9y ago
I'm not sure about resources for starting a co-op outside the US, but here are some resources I've found on how to start a co-op. Web searching will find more. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14135068 - ht
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by bradyo 9y ago
This is the dream. OpenStreetMap is another great example of such an idea. To take it a step further, I'd encourage setting the non-profit up as a worker's cooperative. Just imagine all of the big companies out there organized as
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by bradyo 9y ago
I recently went through a job search focusing on organizations doing social good. Full disclosure, I now work at Remix ( https://www.remix.com/jobs ) and we're hiring! We're a for-profit founded by a collection of f
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by bradyo 10y ago
Did you really just imply a richer person has a more nuanced view on politics because they're rich? Smh
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by bradyo 10y ago
Look at companies the fast forward accelerator features on their website (mobile or would link otherwise).
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by bradyo 10y ago
Sure, the system doesn't _have_ to be that way for people to work together. But sooner or later they'll come to the same conclusion you have - what's the point if they're not seeing equal returns? Who knows what will hap
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by bradyo 10y ago
Because people working hard in aggregate can improve the situation of _all_ people in the system if the system equally distributes rewards. The problem is we don't live in such a system. So I (and others in this thread) will continue t
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by bradyo 10y ago
Did the exact same things.
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by bradyo 10y ago
> Since leaving I'm slowly remembering life - despite having had time off over the last decade, there was only one one month period five years ago when I was uncontactable - other holidays were consumed by me staring at my phone and

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