melvinram

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by melvinram 6mo ago
This service is provided "as is" without warranty. MalusCorp is not responsible for any legal consequences, moral implications, or late-night guilt spirals resulting from use of our services. :)
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by melvinram 3y ago
Jack Ryan and Reacher are pretty good.
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by melvinram 3y ago
Would you still need more financing if you cut costs enough? Are you able to cut costs enough to become profitable, cashflow positive and still grow revenues?
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by melvinram 4y ago
It wasn't omitted. It was covered in the keynote. It's also on their website: Let friends know how remote you go. If you’re on an adventure without cell service, you can now use Find My to share your location via sa
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by melvinram 4y ago
When they don't charge money for it and you're not using it (so no views for ads), they aren't getting paid and it's costing them storage money. How is it hard to see that they are giving it away for free?
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by melvinram 5y ago
> Apple with settings ads Say more?
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by melvinram 5y ago
Imagine telling someone in 2003 that this was going to happen. It would have been seen as a joke (as some are seeing it today) or something that absolutely wouldn't happen. If this is not a joke, this seems like the best indicator that
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by melvinram 6y ago
Why is this on "Hacker News"?
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by melvinram 6y ago
There are numerous comments that essentially are saying "he shouldn't be doing this." That's shortsighted. You don't have insights into how this is working in practice for them. He, together with the other people at
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by melvinram 6y ago
> Of course we are ... more involved in ad tech Not all tech is ad tech. Please don't lump all tech into your statement of "get paid to sell out those beneath us for a dollar".
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by melvinram 6y ago
To be fair, it's not just for delivery. It's for bringing the restaurant customers/revenue.
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by melvinram 6y ago
`shirt -stripes` gives the type of results one would expect. I guess we haven't reached that level of natural language processing yet.
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by melvinram 6y ago
Without "sales leeches", many very successful companies would not be able to employ the large amounts of engineers they employ. Not all sales professionals are used-car slime-balls. I've known many sales pros that really get
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by melvinram 6y ago
Yes, but the goal should not be to treat everyone fairly. The goal should be to help people get through this crisis.
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by melvinram 7y ago
> anyone on here has good recommendations for this area Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
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by melvinram 7y ago
Pardon my ignorance on the topic, but why would moving a business into new areas be considered lucky? I wouldn't consider Apple moving into phones as lucky. Would you?
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by melvinram 7y ago
Similar site: https://jobshadow.com/complete-list-of-interviews/
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by melvinram 7y ago
Give me an ad-free option. I'd rather pay a monthly fee to fund the BAT that gets distributed to content creators than to view ads.
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by melvinram 7y ago
It says that right on the page: > Keep in mind, keyword searches return only ads related to politics or issues of importance. You can try your search again and select from the Page results.
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by melvinram 8y ago
> AI+Humans Sounds like just marketing bull . It sounds like they have libraries and they are using them to spin up apps faster. That might have value if the libraries are good but that's clearly not AI.
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by melvinram 8y ago
You likely could to a limited extent but artistry would not be their core competency.
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by melvinram 8y ago
Resources, even at a semi-large company, are finite. Teams have limited head counts and usually an ever increasing list of asks from Product team. Being efficient is not optional.
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by melvinram 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15098643 Did you end up going to some conferences? There are serious problems with many conference apps. Even AWS Re:Invent's app had major problems this last year. If you're w
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by melvinram 8y ago
Sounds like you need to talk with these users.
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by melvinram 8y ago
Have you made progress in trying to understand your customers and their problems? You mentioned that 1 or more customers in the pilot are paid-customers. If someone is paying you, either they are forking out the money in the hope that you&#
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by melvinram 9y ago
Stand for part of the day.
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by melvinram 9y ago
My typical cycle is 1 week. 2 feed days. 5 days of depletion.
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by melvinram 9y ago
* Lots of water. * Accept that you're not going to be 100%. * It gets better over time. After 2 weeks, I didn't even feel drained on a 25g carb day (while carb cycling.) * Carb cycling keeps the impact on work to one day. * Work o
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by melvinram 9y ago
They have their own Function As A Service offering: https://cloud.google.com/functions/
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by melvinram 9y ago
Both "cloud" and "serverless" are cheaper if capacity needs are opaque (high growth or unpredictable swings.) If you have predictable capacity needs, I agree that dedicated servers are a better value.

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