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This approach makes a lot of sense. Advertising is a marketplace and this is a great way to bootstrap advertising inventory. Its inevitable they will allow advertisers to manage ad…

Yes, we've discussed that, it makes sense IMO

> Being able to tag chats with keywords would be nice. Being able to pull chats into docs easily would be nice. Being able to pull chats into more than one doc -- not just move, bu…

Thanks for the advice. One challenge for us will be how to price-in token based costs, e.g. downstream GPT services. There was an interesting post earlier today on HN related to th…

This is in the works. We have a prototype integration with Github that supports the deep search use case you mentioned. My favorite anecdote from this was a few weeks ago I was rev…

This is good feedback, thanks. We packed a lot into the product so far and could have spent more time focusing the media assets to distill things better. Early adopters range in si…

Amen. We've migrated teams from Workplace who really appreciated our hierarchical discussion model

Thanks! One of the benefits of dogfooding our product everyday is that we invest a lot in working out the everyday kinks in addition to the marquee features.

Purely coincidence but we just posted about emdash, our Slack/Zoom alternative on Shown HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184362 Check it out @ https://emdash.io

I should introduce the rest of the crew. We're a team of builders who have worked together for the better part of the last decade. Neville and I were early engineers on Facebook Ad…

Hi HN, I’m Phil, one of the co-founders building emdash. Previously, I was an early engineer at Facebook and led Customer Products at Square. We’ve focused on making chat and video…

In particular, I appreciate that you assign value to the consequences and not the decision itself. Anytime junior engineers on my team would complain about "shitty code" I'd assure…

emdash | Bay Area | Hybrid | Full-time | Senior Frontend & Infra Engineer | https://emdash.io We’re looking for engineers to join our small but mighty team at emdash to build the n…

"Caring about the economy" and "analyzing returns" are not mutually exclusive.

its more likely he was mocking doomsayer articles like this one

this is a poor definition for what a startup is

i'm an engineer working on promoted posts (same guys as https://www.facebook.com/georgehtakei/posts/475040805858711 ) I offered up a response here: http://philztheengineernotthecof…

Its better than banner ads

if you work in palo alto then its roughly 40 miles from the city, 80miles roundtrip. assuming 30mpg, 2 2/3 gallons * $4/gallon > $10 in gas. + saving time. if the shuttle ran regul…

That phrasing is a bit loaded. I'm an engineer on Facebook ads (I actually work with Paul, he's sitting right behind me. hi paul) and as much as people want to demonize ads, they d…

First things first, you need to chill the f*ck out. You're 20 years old. You've only accomplished a small fraction of your life's mistakes, you have plenty more to look forward to.…

"FB charge a premium for CPC"? what do you mean?

i'd be interested to see him revisit this letter after he's had the chance to sit on the other side of the table in an interview.

is there a standard mapping for chorded keyboards? i feel like X has a much easier combo than E. would be interesting to use data on people's error rate for different key combos an…

Never, as long as other people are willing to pay to do the same thing :)