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Show HN: Play 20 Questions with ChatGPT(20qgpt.com)
1 points by sawyer 4y ago|0 comments
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Migrating Terabytes of Data from MySQL to Cassandra with No Downtime(easypost.com)
4 points by sawyer 4y ago|0 comments
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by sawyer 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20211112050628/https://markets.b...
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Logistics Startup EasyPost (YC S13) Is Planning IPO Next Year(businessinsider.com)
1 points by sawyer 5y ago|1 comments
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by sawyer 5y ago
The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits is a great book on this topic. It makes a great argument that, unfortunately, merit based admission to elite universities does nothing to increase equality of opportunity because the rich are so much
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by sawyer 5y ago
Scratch your own itch. Solving a problem you have will motivate you, but more importantly it’s the only way to be able to navigate through a problem space. Without being the customer you will have so much trouble coming up with solutions t
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by sawyer 9y ago
The article ends with: "It doesn’t mean it has an evolutionary basis." If not evolution, then what? Doesn't all behavior have an evolutionary basis?
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by sawyer 10y ago
We have a tracking analytics API for this at EasyPost that'll do the analysis - feel free to reach out to me for the details: my username at easypost.
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by sawyer 10y ago
Sawyer from EasyPost here. Yes, we're generally upstream of Shippo - we power a bunch of their competitors in the app / shipping UI space. We focus more on developer APIs and all of the tools and performance considerations that co
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by sawyer 10y ago
My gut is that this product will add more noise than signal to the process.
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by sawyer 10y ago
Yes, most carriers will assign a unique tracking code (and shipping label) to each shipment in the order, and also a "master" tracking code for the entire order. Depending on who the recipient is they may want to watch the entire
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by sawyer 10y ago
It'll probably depend a lot on marketing, and how much Uber and others spend to grow the market. Same-day delivery's already provided pretty economically by the regional carriers (think Ontrac), but it's never been a huge mar
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by sawyer 10y ago
We offer all three (Postmates, Deliv, and Uber) at EasyPost if you want to test them out with only one API integration.
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by sawyer 10y ago
We call them Orders, and support them for all carriers including Uber. https://www.easypost.com/docs/api#orders
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by sawyer 11y ago
This is not a company where micro-aggressions will fly. This seems like such a toxic philosophy to me. One of the worst things you can do for a workplace is stifle honest conversation and criticism, and this focus on not "micro-aggre
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by sawyer 11y ago
Failing to gain traction upstream, not failing to keep the lights on.
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Twitter Latest to Face Sex Discrimination Lawsuit(techcrunch.com)
3 points by sawyer 12y ago|0 comments
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by sawyer 12y ago
drop me a line at my name @ easypost if you want a hand looking into some of the shipping options - I think it's amazing that you guys are offering this a few hours after the announcement!
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by sawyer 12y ago
You forgot to include the pre-order form!
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by sawyer 13y ago
As a quick fix you can add a target attribute to the big anchor tag: <a href="..." target="_blank"> It'll still open the PDF in a new window but the underlying site with email prompt will still exist!
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by sawyer 13y ago
Last week: We'd be happy to respond to requests submitted via the handy dandy online form - these paper copies are invalid. Today: We're sorry, if we told you of the existence or non-existence of data about you it would help terro
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by sawyer 13y ago
Hi ck, we take care of the whole insurance process from purchasing it to dealing with claims. You'd buy your shipping labels and insurance through the EasyPost API; and if you ever need to make a claim you just email us the details and
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by sawyer 14y ago
Great example of how to make seculars feel like religious people when confronted with science; and actually quite educational! I had no idea wood smoke was harmful, but am now glad the fireplace in my living room is gas, heh.
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by sawyer 14y ago
Hehe, I have a recent relevant experience with this topic: I just finished a simple gift certificate purchase page[1] for a client where I attempted to cut out all unnecessary details; the client's immediate response? "Looks good, but can w
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by sawyer 14y ago
Your final sentence is cruel and out of line.
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by sawyer 14y ago
The meteor-router package does enable server side routing, yes. Take a look at the bottom of the README on github.
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by sawyer 14y ago
Minor nitpick with the title - the 3D printing will not be done in store (yet), it will be done offsite and shipped for pick up in store.
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by sawyer 14y ago
I can't click on any links in the top 155px pixels of the window because of the cloud header (even when scrolled down, it remains fixed at a higher z-index). OSX, Firefox 15.0.1
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by sawyer 14y ago
Isn't this exactly how ReDigi operates? Is it different if the first sale is to a consumer rather than a company? My reading was that ReDigi facilitates the "sale" of a song form one user to another by switching a DRM bit. Couldn't Zevida
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by sawyer 14y ago
The only problem with a calculator like this (intelligent as it is), is that it doesn't model the most significant cost of home ownership - upkeep. Compound that with a complete inability to model the risk associated with "home price apprec

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