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Dropbox Sign(dropbox.com)
2 points by gregdoesit 3y ago|0 comments
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
I was recently in Palo Alto, and bumped into a newly founded startup (I don't remember the name unfortunately) who set themselves the grand the vision of exactly this: winning a gold medal on the international Olympiad using AI. Their
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Cloudflare releases HAR santizer in response to the Okta breach(blog.cloudflare.com)
16 points by gregdoesit 3y ago|2 comments
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
Neat idea! If I recall correctly, this was the same frustration that Lobsters[1] was created. In the case of Lobsters, moderation decision have carefully been considered and implemented. My two cents is that it's when it comes to comme
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
Threads.com is owned by an ex-Facebook employee who launched a Slack alternative in 2017. I would be surprised if they were to give up a strong domain name (and brand that they surely have trademarks for) that easily!
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
As someone living in the EU who wants to use Threads but cannot - as Meta has blocked it here, while they work out GDPR compliance that has not been solved since launch - its amusing to me to read how Meta is planning to do various growth
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
Surely in a post about Google Cloud Spanner, all examples mentioned use Google Cloud Spanner? It would be moot listing them as examples if they would not: so my assumption is they are all using GCP infra already for Spanner. I really want t
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
I tried to find it in this video, but failed. Could you please share a time stamp on where to look? It’s a pretty big deal if Gmail migrated to GCP-provided Spanner(not to an internal Spanner instance) and sounds like he kind of vote of con
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
“ According to the Amazon Prime Day blog post, DynamoDB processes 126 million queries per second at peak. Spanner on the other hand processes 3 billion queries per second at peak, which is more than 20x higher, and has more than 12 exabytes
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
It's pretty amusing how a bunch of teams are posting videos on how they built a specific, bespoke hardware/software component or two of MrBeast videos. This one was about the ~100 hardware button sets and LED strips required for
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The SPAC Scam in the Arena(newcomer.co)
2 points by gregdoesit 3y ago|0 comments
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
Note that a competitor to VanMoof, Cowboy Bikes, have also created an iOS app - with a beta on the App Store - that supposedly does the same (saving the encryption keys locally). I say supposedly because the source is not available to inspe
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
Coming back - as I can no longer edit my comment. I am pretty sure I was wrong, and you were right. Thank you. Deleted the original tweet, replaced with: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1671959124337217536
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
Thank you. After having gone through more of this - and receiving more long-form input - I am with you that this is, almost certainly, not "selling of customer data." Thanks for your comments, I appreciate it. Now is the part when
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
But this is NOT a company being sold! And not even a division or a product sold. It’s not a merger or acquisition. It is, what you described as this: “two standing independent companies exchanging personal data.” Google Domains and Google C
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
With a company being sold: yes, customer data is also sold. Google had not been in the business of selling its businesses until now (and thus was not selling customer data either). They were in the business of building own products (sometim
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
Author here. I noticed this tweet made it to Hacker News. (I didn’t even notice that another one did yesterday as well) I don’t care about the views or clicks or “engagement” or “driving attention” or similar. I understand talk is cheap so
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Hey Amazon, why do you allow book hijacking?(twitter.com)
4 points by gregdoesit 3y ago|0 comments
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How Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract (2022)(twitter.com)
4 points by gregdoesit 3y ago|1 comments
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
Larry and Sergey have 51% voting power. They are the ones deciding how much Sundar is paid. Put it the other way: if they don’t want to pay him that much: they have the power to do so. As the ultimate owners of the company by shareholder vo
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
Got to give it to Larry Page and Sergey Brin for having their cake and also eating it. They control ~51% of voting power with shares thanks to owning ~85% of class B shares. They have had the benefit of someone else running the company for
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
Are we ignoring how one of Substack's major competitors, Ghost is doing just fine? Bootstrapped, on a $6M run rate, their growth speeding the past years and openly sharing their revenue details [1]. What would happen if Substack went o
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
Sure, but as a newsletter author, portability means that if this happens, I'll just move to e.g. Ghost or Beehiiv, or another platform. The portability is the reason I am on the platform, and not on another platform. Take away this por
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
> "Substack is to newsletters what Spotify is to podcasts, Medium was to blogs, and what Google Reader was to RSS: an aggressive player that dominates an entire segment with artificial and unsustainable advantages in a risky bet.&qu
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
Books are not VAT free. On a €15 book I ended up getting charged €9 for customs: €1 for the reduced VAT for books €6.50 for the customs handling fee €1.50 for VAT on the customs handling fee So it’s the customs handling fee being added that
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
I do wonder if Brexit and customs to be paid for all of the EU has anything to do with this decision. Book Depsitory is based in the UK. I have inadvertently ordered from them, to the Netherlands, as they had a “Bookdepository NL” store, wh
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
sigh I am the author. I have zero stock or any financial exposure in Uber, Lyft, or any other company I mention: and in the rare cases that I do have (because I am an investor) then I disclose it. Here's the list of all companies I&#
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
I wrote the tweet. Didn’t realize it’s would be posted here. I cannot edit tweets after it has replies (apparently by design). I added follow-up tweets, but seeing those are not read: I deleted the tweet. Here are numbers in context, not lo
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
I wrote this tweet but didn’t realize it would get picked up. The numbers are not correct (or ant least misleading due to stock-based comp) and I can’t edit it. I deleted the tweet and here are correct numbers: https://blog.pragm
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by gregdoesit 3y ago
For anyone wondering about the underlying reason for these events suddenly being cancelled: it is connected to Google laying off the team that organized these four events, as part of their January job cuts. I covered more details I could fi

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