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I've been a beta tester for a few weeks now. And as a Search and Discovery person I have plenty of granular feedback and feature requests for Dan, Brett and team that I still owe :…

I am sure of this. I help lead search for Hulu and Disney+ and own a RokuTV. Roku already allows you the option to voice search inside the app you are already in (this has to be en…

I worked for a company that had 100 of these, AMA

GIPHY has agreements with pretty much all the major content studios, including ones historically protective of their content, such as HBO, the NFL and Disney.

And undercut them offline in Amazon Go, Whole Foods and whatever other physical grocery initiatives are coming

Yes. I only posted once, but did get a few replies. I will say that more than one of them was by people who were not hiring managers but rank-and-file employees fishing for referra…

You mean Vultr is pretty similar to DO :) When I worked at DigitalOcean all we could do was shake our head and laugh at how blatantly hard Vultr tried to copy what we did.

Ha, nice domain name!

I am guessing that people outside the US do not have as much trouble, as the format is naturally dd/mm/yyyy instead of mm/dd/yy, so reading left to right is more natural. It took m…

I'd want the touch bar to sit on top of the function keys, but I agree. I also would be much happier if it was just easier to turn it off or if it at least made each touch action t…

And now the community's hard work is licensed under a new and restrictive license which, due to legal constraints, cannot be used in entreprise setups. Sure it can. It is fairly na…

I really wish this was the top comment. I feel like HN is turning a little too much into an echo chamber dunk fest sometimes.

Cars are often not faster in dense cities. In NYC most deliveries are by e-bike.

We noticed that too having recently moved here from NYC where Dominos is still largely available :[

I've had people find me on LinkedIn and reach out to do due diligence on companies I've worked at, which I thought was pretty smart. I would do the same if I were looking at a smal…

Position: Product Manager I have over ten years experience building products and product teams at companies like Amazon, DigitalOcean and GIPHY. You can read more about what I look…

Amazon had a chief lobbyist even when I worked there years ago and they now have the largest in-house lobbyist team in tech: https://www.ft.com/content/56ddca24-3752-11e8-8eee-e06b…

This is a bit of a myth. Yes, there was a mandate for everything to be SOA. However, AWS built almost every service from scratch. For example, S3 and EC2 were NOT used for producti…

Religion and/or morality is a cultural change that has definitely proven to be not neutral to our species in the long run, so far.

All due respect for the authors and engineers that worked on this, but this solves a problem that does not exist. In fact, it has produced confusion as my wife and I can't find a t…

Agree; I went to a smart cities event where one of the leaders who helped make it happen admitted essentially "we had no goal going into the project except to install a bunch of se…

Gold is only a store of value, even less so than Bitcoin. With Bitcoin I can actually buy things, both via e-commerce and locally if I am motivated enough to. If I walked around wi…