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jamescmartinez

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About jamescmartinez

I'm James, the founder of Mergent (YC S21).

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    Comment #41618641

    Your second point misses an important fact: the Tesla Model S Plaid set a 7:25 Nurburgring lap time, and the Porsche Taycan did it in 7:07. Both of these lap times are faster than …

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    Comment #40890537

    This is an option for those who want to learn from a more interactive medium instead of from a textbook. Different people learn in different ways. I wouldn’t call any of it a waste…

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    Comment #39681765

    Mergent (YC S21 - https://mergent.co ) might be precisely what you're looking for in terms of a push-over-HTTP model for background jobs and crons. You simply define a task using o…

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    Comment #36485216

    Ok, I'll bite. We (mergent.co) have looked at similar tools before but ended up managing our own infra. This is primarily because the tools we've found focus on recreating Heroku/s…

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    Ask HN: What should we keep in mind while implementing telemetry in our SDK?

    We're working on improvements to our SDK, expanding it from "just an API wrapper" to a more involved part of an application. As the complexity increases, so does the risk of code n…

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    Comment #34063520

    Thanks for the shoutout! For anyone that sees this, the URL is https://mergent.co (.co, not .io). - James

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    Comment #34063508

    Mergent (YC S21) https://mergent.co -- our crons & background tasks are free for the first 1k invocations per month and pay-as-you-go after that. There are two ways to set up a cro…

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    Comment #32967486

    If you're diving into Postgres and want to better understand how it works under the hood, there is a great talk from PGConf Silicon Valley 2016 titled "How does PostgreSQL actually…

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    Comment #32492663

    Mergent (YC S21) - https://mergent.co (disclaimer: I’m the founder)

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    Comment #26993175

    Try WASD: https://www.wasdkeyboards.com/ Quite a few of my former coworkers had their sets made by WASD.

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    Comment #8791125

    The job with the best team. Generally, the job where you have to jump through hoop will have a team who has jumped through those hoops as well. It's all about vetting.

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    Comment #7983301

    The Product Hunt results for sign ups, leads, and shares are skewed. You're pointing at a completely different part of your product (mobile). You should be pointing at the same lin…

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    Comment #6886037

    http://best.ly It's a SaaS providing A/B testing for mobile apps that started out as a side project.

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    Comment #5715138

    You're right for single messages, but I'm not seeing group messages in Adium.

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    Comment #5715133

    I'm not, at the moment. Let me know if I'm missing something.

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    Comment #5695192

    I add a lot of these articles to my Pocket and read them later. I wonder how GA reflects that.

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    Comment #5653165

    So, 7 figures?

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    Comment #5653162

    To what company?

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    Comment #5639123

    Now I'm curious - does Dropbox use rsync under the hood? (not rsync.net, the rsync protocol)

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    Comment #5437383

    Hub is wonderful. Everyone reading this, use it! :)