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by dylanlacom 3mo ago
One of my favorite pieces of technical writing is Brandur Leach’s “Transactionally Staged Job Drains in Postgres” where he reasons through the outbox pattern from first principles. I remember reading it for the first time and feeling like I
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by dylanlacom 8mo ago
Ironic to show ads only to your users with the least spending power. Me thinks this will not last. Once the ads get “good enough” they will be everywhere.
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by dylanlacom 8mo ago
https://www.dylanla.com
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Show HN: My Best Sport – Match your body dimensions to sports with AI
3 points by dylanlacom 9mo ago|0 comments
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We prompted LLMs for their opinions on over 250 brands. Here are the results(langmon.com)
2 points by dylanlacom 2y ago|0 comments
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by dylanlacom 2y ago
I just want to express my gratitude to Wes and the team of people who worked on this. I had to go back and read it twice that it's been 10 years since the PR for v5 was opened. That's wild! I can only imagine the immense amount
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by dylanlacom 2y ago
I propose we call these engineers Fungineers
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Perplexity AI plans to start running ads in 4th quarter(cnbc.com)
5 points by dylanlacom 2y ago|1 comments
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AI Emojis(emojis.alexandru.so)
1 points by dylanlacom 3y ago|0 comments
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by dylanlacom 3y ago
Really cool! But your site could really benefit from having more examples. One image is not enough. Maybe you can link to an instagram account with examples that users share with you. I could see this being a fun activity at a wedding even
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by dylanlacom 3y ago
Because Nacha (and ACH) is explicitly not a government system
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by dylanlacom 3y ago
I’ve been enjoying the ByteByteGo newsletter. The content is often very abbreviated, but the breadth of topics touched on keeps it interesting. I always learn a little bit about something new. https://blog.bytebytego.com/
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by dylanlacom 3y ago
Yes - 5 years ago I had my own small startup building Shopify apps. The business wasn’t growing as fast as I’d have liked and so I was taking on part time contract work on the side. I responded to a job post here on HN from a YC company, an
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by dylanlacom 3y ago
I read it for the first time last year and found most of it still very relevant. And there’s an updated version with a chapter on http/2. I’d love to see an http/3 chapter added.
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by dylanlacom 4y ago
Eh, I’d bet the arbitrage window is pretty brief, and that prices will fall closer to $0.15 pretty quickly.
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Developing the Natural Language Understanding Behind Shoppy Bot(lightninginabot.com)
2 points by dylanlacom 8y ago|0 comments
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Open Sourcing Oclif, the CLI Framework That Powers Heroku's CLI(engineering.salesforce.com)
1 points by dylanlacom 8y ago|0 comments
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by dylanlacom 9y ago
Cool. Where have you found good coaches for these activities?
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by dylanlacom 10y ago
Intelligence Squared[1] did a debate on this topic. It's definitely worth listening to. To summarize a couple of the more compelling arguments in the camp _against_ extending lifespans: 1. Turnover of ideas from the older generation to
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Finding Product Market Fit by Segment CEO Peter Reinhardt(rein.pk)
5 points by dylanlacom 11y ago|0 comments
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by dylanlacom 11y ago
> Also do the same rules hold for higher up in the management (like say for instance the CEO ;-)). Brian Halligan (the author) is the CEO.
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by dylanlacom 11y ago
AA was built on their wholesale business, and only later built their direct sales model. So it's hard for me to believe 'edgy' had much to do with their initial growth. As of Q1 2015, retail sales still only made up about hal
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by dylanlacom 11y ago
Good points. Sometimes value added becomes much clearer after a product or feature has been built and people are using it, in which case we don't have the option of choosing how fast we go by how much value we're providing. I thin
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Ask HN: Is speed the ultimate weapon for a startup? Let's discuss
3 points by dylanlacom 11y ago|2 comments
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by dylanlacom 11y ago
> you have to pay the exercise price + applicable taxes (which can exist even if you only have theoretical gains) yourself... Is this certain? My understanding is that the spread between the current stock price and exercise price _can_ b
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An experiment in making modular typographic scales for responsive web design(codepen.io)
1 points by dylanlacom 11y ago|0 comments
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by dylanlacom 12y ago
Congrats on shipping. How is this different or better than Kissmetrics/Mixpanel/Heap?
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by dylanlacom 12y ago
According to Dharmesh, Inbound.org is a custom app built on the LAMP stack. http://inbound.org/discussion/view/we-build-grow-and-manage-... Not sure about outbounding.org though.
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How Kickstarter Onboards New Users(useronboard.com)
2 points by dylanlacom 12y ago|0 comments
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by dylanlacom 12y ago
This is cool. It reminds me a bit of Matthew Wagerfield's Flat Surface Shader. http://matthew.wagerfield.com/flat-surface-shader/

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