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Had a friend that recently washed out of SoundCloud and returned to the U.S. I spent some time there and went to the disrupt Europe when it was in Berlin. I might be able to swing it long term as my wife has an Italian passport but would be a longer process with that.

Seemed like when I was there it was something about a rocket and cloning US tech and SoundCloud were the two big games in town.

Has there gotten to be a more critical mass of companies there recently?

Tech Scene for me personally provides a type of insurance. Here in the Bay Area you just have 1000s of companies bit and small contributing to this insane ecosystem that feels so that you could get a new job if necessary relatively easily.

In other cities it seems like you have a single or a few employers and if it didn’t work out with them you’d need to uproot your life and move areas again. Having an ecosystem like that allows a bit more options.

That being said I don’t imagine Chicago to be like that, what tech companies do you like in that area? As that’s what I’m qualified to do.

Sounds pretty interesting. On a more micro (neighborhood level) of suburb level what areas are worth checking out.

On the job front, what companies do you think are innovative or majors opening branches are worth looking at?

I love this. Clever to the Max. Reminds me of a time I remember vividly. Needed to build a high stakes click automation script I once wrote to fix some billing amounts before customers would be incorrectly charged. API doesn’t exist so what to do write a script to extract the visual location and automated click. So dirty but so satisfying when it worked.

I really think you're on to something here. I see at my place of work adding additional complexity as something to be celebrated in terms of overcomplicated pipelines, "Big Data" for questionable reasons etc. I'm starting to become more and more sure this is just that people don't actually know how any of it works.

My mantra that I'm thinking to myself is everything can and will fail and you're adding layers of things to will fail so your pipeline just becomes extremely brittle. And, while there's nothing more frustrating that an procedural dump of linear code, at least debugging it is possible.

With these overly complex systems, your layers of abstraction just start fighting against you, often they'll be on different servers etc. All this is hard, and if it's not necessary don't just jump there.

If it's foreclosed, is it just a waiting period? After that can't the be assumed by someone or government entity and then just sell it at auction?

So Redis that you don't have to setup?

Stripe specifically has a great subscription model. When Zuora was getting started and gaining momentum they didn't. We've recently onboarded a Stripe Subscription with their connect accounts even and it's been extremely smooth.

This so much. Worst company I've ever had the misfortune to interact with, integrating with them is a disaster, don't waste your time. As a developer or CTO somehow they seem to get the ear of someone in business management or finance or accounting who believe their reporting lies, and they may attempt to cause this company to be forced upon you. Do not acquiesce, they are terrible, just so terrible. And if you let them in you're stuck with them and their professional services etc. We ended up just hiring one of their now former employees full time just to make sense of it. Bottom line if you're a big enough company for Zuora, you're big enough to negotiate a deal with stripe for reasonable pricing.

Heed this warning!

Uptime wasn't the greatest at a critical moment when Slack was gaining market share as well.

Also, when talking to them they were stuck on requiring photos of a passport as a requirement for the recipient of the payment if I remember right. In the U.S. That's a non-starter as many people don't have passports and even if they did wouldn't be used to providing them in a business setting, so we ultimately passed.

Straight up this company should be dissolved. Is there any precedent of a corporation having its charter or whatever allows it to exist revoked for bad faith? It seems obvious now they completely indend to break the law as part of doing business.

Assuming this does nothing to change the trend of whatever executive decided this was how to turn around some metric. Most likely profit, we can start calling it officially a leading indicator of a march towards irrelevance. See Yahoo! I've always wondered if IBMs largely touted shift to consulting to maintain profits was just putting off the inevitable. Does anyone see IBM as cutting edge technologists?

Amazing! This more than anything else seems so sci-fi to me. Reminds me of the Diamond Age somehow. In the US we have so much space we take for granted building a new road a new subdivision a new 5acre parking lot. Imagine if there was no more space. Cars now become a whole lot more of a questionable use of space.

32 points as of now. Not that many upvotes really. Stripe has hundreds of employees most of which read hackernews, YC alums also you get people upvoting everything from the company to see their investment succeed and finally fans. Stripe is ridiculously dev friendly so upvotes from the general community.

Currently I'm having issues trying to figure out a new stack where we can't figure out where to put the backend for front-end logic in a React App over the top of GraphQL. I've been thinking of implementing something like this as the transforms or the formatters don't make a ton of sense to be on the client or the API or in GraphQL and I'm loathe to make another API call in the chain as it feels like I there's enough of those already?

Would that be a good use case for this?

Wow love to here the inside scoop on this. Anyone from Tesla want to comment. Accountability for late shipments?

Exactly why ORMs are a bad idea. I've always wondered whether ORMs help or harm. I feel like the one reason to use it is if you have a development team that isn't capable of writing SQL which in itself is bad.

Up next the Austin method. Local competition fills the void providing better service than before proving that it's the technology not the company that's making the difference. Being Canada it would be funny to see a government corporation as the replacement ala liquor.

What did I just read there, and why do I suddenly feel the need to buy gold?

This article tries to provide some sort of muddy historical perspective with Uber cutting out cabbies but it's been said in a million articles much better.

This is hilarious but there's no way in hell they'll be able to extract rent. They'll get their 90K back and a note from the mayor or something and the Presidio Hieghts owners will have to pay up in donations to Ed Lees campaign or the local district supervisor.

Are there similar projects to this one? I was thinking about doing a hack week project with nextjs it seems to have static page generation. How would this compare?

I have a hard time believing the term sheet says something to the effect of, for $680 million we would like to purchase all your stolen documents please.

The article is more about the due diligence reports where it might out that Uber knew that there was stolen documents, which Uber seems keen on keeping out of Waymo's hands.

Question, why use Optimizely for server side testing, you're going to pay a lot of money for something that has a ton of open source alternatives, and really isn't rocket science.

Their client side stuff was revolutionary, marketing can run tests by themselves FTW. The grid in this article goes into that.

On the server side, you're going to need to add triggers for goals etc in your development environment, just feels like shoehorning Optimizely in their non core competency is a mistake.

30 minutes causes time anxiety, so I couldn't imagine myself using it. How about a simple change to 90 min on par with a muni transfer, that way you might be able to run an actual errand. The current version is for commuting only, seems like a waste.

Quick glance shows feb 2027 (yellow line) highest ever?

How exactly is this not just people being fired? I understand they get severance so that's nice for employees, but what's the goal of doing it this way from the companies perspective?

By your house most likely means the one in laurel heights which I've wondered about why it was the only one for years. I think I have it figured out. First, low crime area, see 24 hours Walgreens for a rough estimation of where that is in SF. 2nd near UCSF (all nighter college students). 3rd near California Pacfic Hospital, Doctors and Parents giving birth want coffee at all hours. Making it economically viable.

Two things come to mind. 1.4 Billion Dollars raised. Secondly headquarters in Florida, where most shady companies are based, wonder a coincidence

Whomever dreamt up the idea of Indentured Servitude as a idea and sold it to ship owners was quite an amoral businessman.

Definitely parallels to the passage of migrants to Europe from Africa, but imagine after that ordeal they'd have to be slaves more or less for 5-10 years or so.