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by dbyrd 5y ago
Brooke & Ben were key PMs for the success of DigitalOcean. Both worked on the core Droplet product which was successful because of it's UX.
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by dbyrd 6y ago
I used to work at DigitalOcean. Can confirm we didn't think a lot about Linode. We saw AWS as the real competitor. If there was someone in the VPS market we respected and tried to emulate it would have been OVH, not Linode.
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by dbyrd 6y ago
This wasn't really a 'hack'. A laptop repair store backed up the drive and then sold the backup. It's shady, but not illegal. I read the policy. I think that's a good policy that isn't politically motivated.
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by dbyrd 6y ago
The content of the article is relatively benign, but unflattering to Hunter Biden. Just interesting that social media platforms are censoring it.
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by dbyrd 6y ago
Just location metadata which the hedge funds overlay with known retail locations.
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by dbyrd 6y ago
They also sell this data to hedge funds who can use it to try to predict retail sales.
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by dbyrd 6y ago
Preprint on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00011
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Nature: Finding the ground state of Hamiltonians with reinforcement learning(nature.com)
1 points by dbyrd 6y ago|1 comments
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by dbyrd 13y ago
nice! i didn't know about half of these.
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by dbyrd 13y ago
UI is not part of the package. Thanks for the feedback!
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by dbyrd 13y ago
Bowery is a street/neighborhood in New York City.
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by dbyrd 13y ago
that's good feedback. Would a pricing calculator help or is it just that there are too many cost centers?
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by dbyrd 13y ago
There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes. Think about DynamoDB vs Riak.
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by dbyrd 13y ago
"What if HTTP endpoints were as cheap as git branches? What if you had an active endpoint for every branch?" I really like that
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by dbyrd 13y ago
Sorry, that's a typo. It's supposed to be in cents and not dollars.
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by dbyrd 13y ago
I think the cool part is that that you could do all of this stuff and not have to worry about any of the infrastructure. The node package only works inside of the hosting environment. You're paying that much money for everything to be
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Joyent Manta(joyent.com)
9 points by dbyrd 13y ago|0 comments
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In Defense of Gawker's internship(medium.com)
1 points by dbyrd 13y ago|0 comments
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by dbyrd 13y ago
What do you think about Square's cube? https://github.com/square/cube
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by dbyrd 14y ago
Startups that sell things don't need as much traffic to make the same amount of money. Dropbox & Airbnb should be a lot higher than Scribd. Also, the list is missing Shoptiques.
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by dbyrd 14y ago
"Have you ever tried to sell a diamond" is an amazing read that will change your view on most consumer products.
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Dave Grohl SXSW Keynote(youtube.com)
3 points by dbyrd 14y ago|0 comments
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by dbyrd 14y ago
Readability style page cleanup would be a good feature.
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by dbyrd 14y ago
``` (function drain() { var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) { var link = links[i]; var href = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[i].getAttribute('href'); if (href) {
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Node.js client for Slanger (open source Pusher)(github.com)
1 points by dbyrd 14y ago|0 comments
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Node.js client for Slanger(npmjs.org)
5 points by dbyrd 14y ago|0 comments
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by dbyrd 14y ago
"and I don't want to spam people just to try the thing out". Branch is really close to being really useful. They just need to make it for the everyday person the way HN/Reddit is without loosing the "Davos of Social Media" elements.
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by dbyrd 14y ago
awesome! Page Weight matters for youtube though ;) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4957992
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by dbyrd 14y ago
Cool project, but I think it's been done before in less lines: https://gist.github.com/4176087
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Google Glass Competitor Released Today(meta-view.com)
1 points by dbyrd 14y ago|0 comments

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