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> A very small % of total work. That seems valid in today's world. Right now it's expensive, slow, and accurate. I imagine in the fairly near future it will be cheap, slow, and acc…

The savings can be a lot more than 20% - last month I had a roundtrip ticket of $2000 brought down to $1300 (and got there faster!) via the switching airlines approach. It did come…

Used to do this job once upon a time - can't overstate the importance of just being knee-deep in the data all day long. If you outsource that to somebody else, you'll miss out on a…

Yeah this is the changing times I was talking about

The controversy around this one was always wild to me. Mods editing comments was the most standard behavior on every phpbb/vb board I grew up on. His edits were clearly edited, cle…

For lots of companies, 'increasing their margin' refers to increasing their margin from 0. That would be my charitable reading of parent post, and does anybody believe that Bandcam…

If we're taking this opportunity to shout out others Thank you Shawn - in many ways I owe my career to you! -HR 33

I mean I have a yahoo chess account with a password of like abc123, that's not the point. Your HN password doesn't provide access to your money, never mind other people's money.

That's the point. In a distributed world, the domain registrar doesn't get to determine who gets a domain and who doesn't. If one registrar doesn't want to work with you, you can w…

You're working under an inaccurate mental model of the web...or at least how the web used to be. The OG model here is one of decentralization. In this model, the registrar (Google)…

The WebSub spec recommends this approach, and I've implemented it, and I really would recommend against doing this. It adds a tremendous amount of complexity to all of your service…

Disclaimer - used to work at Twitch. The policy may make Twitch look stupid, but it's for a pretty good reason - people would get banned, and then just play multiplayer (with voice…

Oversimplifying, but an unsubscribe link is a legal requirement under many different laws (CAN-SPAM, GDPR, CASL) for this sort of email. It's 2022, unsubscribe links are a solved p…

Huh, I didn't expect to come across something I have such direct knowledge of. I used to work with this data directly - I worked with MACPAC to prepare reports for the CBO on the e…

Are we looking at the same Carlos Watson show? Looking at their most recent upload, it has 363 views in 3 days, and that's actually above average .

Afterpay has been a godsend for my girlfriend's (brick-and-mortar) business, which is in niche luxury items (keeping it vague). Customers love using Afterpay, they search on Afterp…

If Oracle wins against Google, presumably DocumentDB would be infringing in the same manner, as DocumentDB also is a drop-in replacement adhering to the same API.

The situations are in no way analogous. CA gathered data on users who did not opt in. They paid 270k users to take a quiz, and gathered information on 87MM of their Facebook friend…

That's an unusual definition of first hand... Here's Merriam-Webster's: > obtained by, coming from, or being direct personal observation or experience These lessons are not from th…

Having done it both ways this would not be my recommendation unless it's necessary - I think it adds a fair amount of complexity. Some considerations: you'll need some sort of stor…

Honestly it's not a bad idea. Erlang is not a language that is easy for an experienced engineer to pick up and quickly create maintainable code.

Previously worked at a Node company - at one point in an effort to improve code quality we ran statistics on errors we'd seen over the past [period - forget exactly]. Type errors w…

It's important to keep in mind that efficiency isn't usually particularly important for a startup. I'm sure they knew when they initially set up this system that it wasn't performa…

I use it for shutdown channels. It doesn't matter what you're putting in the channel if you're never putting anything in the channel