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by flibble 4mo ago
This could well be to help prevent sms pumping — where someone makes money by receiving smss to a particular set of numbers. Requiring the user to first send an sms breaks the economics that type of fraud.
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by flibble 7mo ago
Another article related to this was on the first page but censored away.
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How we solved for Cloudflare and Azure outages(thesidedish.flipdish.com)
5 points by flibble 9mo ago|0 comments
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by flibble 10mo ago
I do like watching these comparisons however it reminds me of a conversation I had recently with my 10 year old. Son: Why does the croissant cost €2.80 here while it's only €0.45 in Lidl? Who would buy that? Me: You're not paying
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by flibble 2y ago
+1 on this request. Would also like to be able to kick a report off automatically -- eg, on any exception or on any 4XX from the server.
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Defending against SMS pumping fraud(thesidedish.flipdish.com)
3 points by flibble 2y ago|0 comments
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by flibble 2y ago
[edit: I retract my comment that it's bad advice to not cancel holidays to work hard. I misread the comment that I replied to -- I had thought the commenter was saying don't work extra hard in your role as it's never worth it
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by flibble 3y ago
Unicorn tech founder here. Google — if you are reading, it’s stories like this and examples where you c.10x the price of products overnight like Google Maps that I would never let our team use GCP. Your reputation is losing you business he
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by flibble 3y ago
Mine to Q of Star Trek.
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by flibble 3y ago
I find assuming that there IS a solution helps focus the mind.
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by flibble 4y ago
Thanks arnon. This makes lots of sense for software. Did you change SKUs based on changing pricing for hardware? If so, did this confuse or annoy 3rd party logistics providers who were asked to change labelling on boxes and have different S
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by flibble 4y ago
REMOTE | CTO / VP Engineering | Flipdish An opportunity to lead all of engineering in a European break out tech company and Ireland’s 5th unicorn. https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/flipdish/jobs/4060568101
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by flibble 4y ago
If the codebase is ginormous and hard to decipher then you could use the magic source control to go back in time to an early point in the codebase. It’s probably going to be easier to understand a codebase that is 3 months old vs 6 years ol
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by flibble 4y ago
This sounds like a problem you will face many times in the future and therefore you may benefit from finding a solution that will solve for both this request and all similar future requests. For example, instead of writing any customised r
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by flibble 4y ago
The strings attached were the equity they gave up in exchange for the deal.
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by flibble 5y ago
Co-founder of https://flipdish.com here (Unicorn whitelabel online ordering provider). We felt very similar to the author in 2015 — utterly frustrated needing to enter email address, be asked for a DOB!!, create a password etc
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by flibble 5y ago
There’s definitely value in a shared driver pool but it does not need to come hand in hand with a consumer facing marketplace. Doordash offer access to their driver pool for orders placed through any channel (Doordash Drive), Uber offers on
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by flibble 5y ago
You nailed it — the primary value of these marketplaces is the consumer facing ordering technology, not the fact that it’s a marketplace. This is an excerpt of a recent article that explains my thinking on it a bit better. There is little (
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Ask HN: How do you automate Google Workspace and other staff account management
2 points by flibble 6y ago|0 comments
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by flibble 6y ago
Flipdish (HQ in Ireland with a distributed tech team) is one. Full disclosure - I’m the technical co-founder.
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by flibble 6y ago
Is this not flat out illegal under GDPR?
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by flibble 6y ago
Can anyone recommend and good articles on how to track paid advertising without being reliant on cookies?
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Farmers seeking 'veggieburger' label ban in Europe(rte.ie)
2 points by flibble 6y ago|1 comments
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by flibble 6y ago
I find myself holding back upvoting posts on HN as analysis of my voting habits would give such a clear indication of my inner thoughts.
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by flibble 6y ago
Starting to compete directly with a lot of their customers. Big change in strategy.
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Ask HN: If you plan success, why ever raise equity instead of debt?
4 points by flibble 6y ago|5 comments
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by flibble 6y ago
This sort of anti-marketplace sentiment is making mainstream media on the other side of the Atlantic. Today’s Sky News coverage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbt-l-RnQZo Disclaimer - I’m the bald guy.
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by flibble 6y ago
We are facing the issue of SMS not getting delivered and have implemented failovers (Messagebird, Nexmo, Twilio) when we detect delivery problems. However we have a problem that frequently we get sent positive delivery receipts despite the
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by flibble 6y ago
Flipdish | Online ordering for restaurants - think Shopify for hospitality | Dublin, Ireland | High growth startup of 100 people Hiring .NET backend developers. REMOTE All roles at https://www.flipdish.com/careers/
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by flibble 7y ago
Flipdish (food-tech / online ordering for restaurants) is hiring remote developers (.NET) https://www.flipdish.com/careers/ Mention HN in the application and I’ll make sure it’s prioritised. I’m totally biased, bu

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