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I used Waymo about 10 times in Austin - it was great. I wish they'd accelerate the rollout to other cities. I wonder what the major technical hurdles are for launching in a new cit…

You can absolutely walk into a showroom and buy one. Not a rare model but you could walk in with no relationship and buy a 296 now. I'd suspect many of them are - almost all go thr…

Lots of issues in us-east-2 for instances for us but also other regions when connecting to RDS

Yes - our service is down right now from connectivity issues (can’t reach RDS)

I worked with Kaz at Facebook - he's the reason I would want to work at Shopify.

Without doing the sales pitch, it's using comments as the medium for indicating purchase intent instead of clicking on a link "Oh, you like this item you see on your facebook feed?…

Love Canny We use them at CommentSold for feature ideas, bug reports, and even top 1% feature ideas. The ability to tie it into our product and see the features voted on from an MR…

Having used tiktok for a total of 10 hours now, I get programmer humor, car videos and funny animal videos - exactly what I want That's the whole point - the ability to curate cont…

"very fit" - not from a purely medical perspective. He had a pre-existing and related respiratory condition - asthma

This is entirely incorrect The ultra-rich will have a variable level of "decreased performance in their portfolio". They're still rich, especially if not over-levered. They are als…

It was a lot of fun watching the project and community evolve. I think you and the team did an excellent job. I remember a huge spike in users around when discovery.etcd.io launche…

"We want to buy Shopify but we can pay 1/10th of Shopify's valuation" I think Magento is "fairly priced" priced at ~10% of Shopify's valuation

Are you sure? They were adding 1 million users/day http://www.thefactspeak.com/whatsapp-adding-one-million-user... Even at $1/year - their 1.5 billion active users should be an equ…

CommentSold ( https://commentsold.com ) | Lead UI/designer | Full-Time | Remote or Onsite | Huntsville, AL CommentSold is a social selling platform, where people order products thr…

I'm surprised this comment isn't #1!

They should just do an ICO /troll

I mentioned this in the price reductions of S3 announcement People fail to realize the true cost of operating on S3, specifically when hundreds of TB of usable data is in play "By …

This is a fantastic move for Amazon and I'll tell you why. The cost of long distance is nearing 0 and application providers are making bank. The pricing is also extremely disruptiv…

It's worth noting that, at that scale, you actually get PAID for inbound calls. At MagicJack, the cost of our went into the negative because of access fees. Even though Amazon is n…

Openstack Swift - easy to get setup and reliable. Takes a little expertise but was well worth the investment in learning it!

This is one of the times that I am glad to be running my own distributed object storage. I'm sure it's not as robust as Amazon, but......

Yes, I run about 800 of them now. They have not been as reliable as the 6TB archive drives. I think this was related to a bad run that seagate had while manufacturing. Our numbers,…

(repost) Sorry for the delay - yes it's ploid.io - nothing up there yet. We've been in stealth mode while we've been building the system for our first client - HudsonAlpha institut…