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flibble

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    Comment #48098354

    This could well be to help prevent sms pumping — where someone makes money by receiving smss to a particular set of numbers. Requiring the user to first send an sms breaks the econ…

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    Comment #46948162

    Another article related to this was on the first page but censored away.

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    Comment #46055409

    I do like watching these comparisons however it reminds me of a conversation I had recently with my 10 year old. Son: Why does the croissant cost €2.80 here while it's only €0.45 i…

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    Comment #40327088

    +1 on this request. Would also like to be able to kick a report off automatically -- eg, on any exception or on any 4XX from the server.

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    Comment #40306636

    [edit: I retract my comment that it's bad advice to not cancel holidays to work hard. I misread the comment that I replied to -- I had thought the commenter was saying don't work e…

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    Comment #38628327

    Unicorn tech founder here. Google — if you are reading, it’s stories like this and examples where you c.10x the price of products overnight like Google Maps that I would never let …

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    Comment #38386733

    Mine to Q of Star Trek.

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    Comment #36081527

    I find assuming that there IS a solution helps focus the mind.

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    Comment #34663325

    Thanks arnon. This makes lots of sense for software. Did you change SKUs based on changing pricing for hardware? If so, did this confuse or annoy 3rd party logistics providers who …

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    Comment #33822626

    REMOTE | CTO / VP Engineering | Flipdish An opportunity to lead all of engineering in a European break out tech company and Ireland’s 5th unicorn. https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/f…

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    Comment #32366621

    If the codebase is ginormous and hard to decipher then you could use the magic source control to go back in time to an early point in the codebase. It’s probably going to be easier…

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    Comment #32366578

    This sounds like a problem you will face many times in the future and therefore you may benefit from finding a solution that will solve for both this request and all similar future…

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    Comment #31436147

    The strings attached were the equity they gave up in exchange for the deal.

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    Comment #30135470

    Co-founder of https://flipdish.com here (Unicorn whitelabel online ordering provider). We felt very similar to the author in 2015 — utterly frustrated needing to enter email addres…

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    Comment #28346662

    There’s definitely value in a shared driver pool but it does not need to come hand in hand with a consumer facing marketplace. Doordash offer access to their driver pool for orders…

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    Comment #28336564

    You nailed it — the primary value of these marketplaces is the consumer facing ordering technology, not the fact that it’s a marketplace. This is an excerpt of a recent article tha…

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    Ask HN: How do you automate Google Workspace and other staff account management

    We are a company of about 200 people and have no automation to help manage accounts. Everyone in the company uses Google Workspace, Slack, Notion and various teams use a variety of…

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    Comment #25721096

    Flipdish (HQ in Ireland with a distributed tech team) is one. Full disclosure - I’m the technical co-founder.

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    Comment #25082150

    Is this not flat out illegal under GDPR?

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    Comment #24982573

    Can anyone recommend and good articles on how to track paid advertising without being reliant on cookies?

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