maxmorlocke

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by maxmorlocke 1y ago
Upsolve (YC W19) | Senior Software Engineer | Remote US | Full Time | https://upsolve.org Upsolve is a nonprofit that helps low-income and working-class families improve their financial situation through free online education, t
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by maxmorlocke 2y ago
We review the web presence of a business as our core product offering for payment processors, etc. as they look to onboard ecomm merchants. This (and techniques like it) make a great way to find scummy actors and have a proveable piece of
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by maxmorlocke 2y ago
I've found rapidfuzz to be a good, digestable C/Python integration. It's especially nice as the algorithms implemented in C frequently have good pseudocode or other language representations, so you can reference really well.
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by maxmorlocke 3y ago
Seriously. As an engineer and engineering leader, I cannot maintain focus to code, sit in meetings, and a variety of other tasks for more than 2-3 hours without a break. It is good to get up, move around, catch up on the news, etc. Takin
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by maxmorlocke 3y ago
ZoomInfo is in the same general area on quality and the price per record is competitive, but they have historically required a high minimum annual spend and have a reputation for litigiousness. There are a few other large players (e.g. apo
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by maxmorlocke 3y ago
For a typical db.t3.xlarge instance, you're talking about 29c/hour vs 27.2c per hour. That's $157.68 as the total difference for one year's runtime, when the whole instance cost for postgres would be $2540.4 for the yea
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
Generally speaking, it's inadvisable to 'discard' migrations with django. If the migration set is getting too large, the general practice is to 'squash' migrations, which is a django-supported function for merging
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
I think this is a really naive idea, I think you're seriously underestimating the level of complexity in a real estate transaction. You're dealing with what is for many people is the most impactful and expensive purchase of their
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
Our latest release should have more clear language on airports and 'All London Area Airports' as opposed to 'City of London Airports'. The point about multiple airlines should also be addressed. Your point about at a gl
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
Thanks. Our roadmap isn't currently public, but this is on it. That being said, this is a medium-term priority, so definitely not something coming in the next couple weeks.
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
Works in all Chromium browsers actually. Support for Firefox and Safari is on the way, but does require some more work.
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
As a simple example, United probably isn't going to offer a flight where one leg is on United and another is on American. Yet, it might be substantially cheaper or less painful to take that flight. Certain codeshares may be more prof
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
Your gut reaction is not wrong. That being said, I think it's wise to pick the right time to leverage this capability. Our resources are extremely limited at the moment in comparison to one of the most aggressively litigious entities
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
I don't know which is the biggest, there are a lot of known unknowns still floating around. Will we run out of money before we monetize? Will we have to deal with constant lawsuits? Will other innovators in the space attempt to mo
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
I don't think this is a big city thing. I live in a medium sized city in the states and I hate going to the airport. 20-30m commute there, parking, walk, wait in line, go through the scanner, inevitable pat downs, cinch back up the b
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Re: codes: yup, that's a bug and will be fixed (or at least the obvious one will be...) Re: performance - this is on our radar, and we'll keep chipping away at making things a little better as we go. We d
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
We don't handle the booking, we redirect you to the travel site that we found the best price on. Many online travel search agencies and metasearch sites can put together itineraries the airlines don't offer directly.
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
There are a few reasons: 1.) When a user reports an issue to us, it is much easier to find any issues in our error reporting stack. if we have their name and email address attached to the issue as opposed to asking them for all the search
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
I think I've gotten them all. Appreciate you bringing this to my attention!
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
Candidly, the Firefox extension framework is significantly nicer. Blam'ing chrome.runtime.lastError. There's a lot of small amounts of work to get everything working right using the webext module. We're slowly chipping away,
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
The short answer is because certain airlines behave in ways I can best describe as 'scummy'. Some airlines are now demanding anti-consumer provisions when they do deals with travel sites, such as insisting that sites hide cheaper
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
A big part of why we're crowdfunding is to be able to grow the team and support more platforms (e.g. Desktop Firefox & Safari, mobile devices)
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
There shouldn't be any reference to a subscription. Can you let me know where you saw one? We used to have this setup as a paid extension, but pivoted away as that business model didn't work as well as we'd have liked. Re:
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
I tested locally with noscript installed. After giving the extension permissions to run scripts, everything worked for me. If you've blocked FlightPenguin, chrome extensions, or any of the sites we collect data from, you're goin
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
Adding alliances is on our near term roadmap. Should be live before the end of the month. Feel free to drop me an email (max AT flightpenguin DOT com) and I'll let you know when it's out.
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
Re: airports. You can select any airport or the city - which should grab them all (e.g. City of London (LON), London Heathrow (LHR), etc.). Re: Noscript. I haven't tested with noscript, but have with most major adblockers. We do use
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
Flight Penguin's flight selection and timebars should feel very, very familiar. You can check out just how much we are inspired by the UX and values of Hipmunk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzOAtn2sNCo
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by maxmorlocke 4y ago
It doesn't, this is a side effect of requesting the chrome.tabs permission which we use to manage which tab is currently being highlighted. Chrome includes this note because the chrome.tabs permission set is very broad and includes an
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by maxmorlocke 5y ago
And where did TPG enter into a commercial relationship or affirmatively agree to these terms?
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by maxmorlocke 5y ago
Disclaimer: Founder of a company in the travel space that relies heavily on scraping. What's interesting here is that there's conflicting precedent... and fundamentally that is what matters. hiQ vs LinkedIn is a great example of

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