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Interesting. How did that work? Does that mean that they would only create the user account under the + suffix? I imagine they must have had two email fields - the canonical email for login and then a separate notification email?

“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” - supposedly John Maynard Keynes

You'd think at their size of their team they'd understand that they would need to scale back up in anticipation of the post holiday return to work.

Slack has the most outages of any major company.

Got lost in a rabbit hole after reading this news. Most incredible thing to me was that due to the reusability the per launch costs may end up being $2M (vs $185 million in 1969–1971 dollars - $1.23 billion in 2019 value for the Saturn V).

This is exactly my workflow!

I learned a ton of SAT words just by playing Diablo 2 over and over again searching for magical and unique items. Kind of incredible.

I do suspect their focus on logistics and having an existing network would make it easier for them than others. They are doing food delivery through Amazon Fresh and also have been hiring contractors to do package delivery. Food, of course, has it's own constraints but compared to many they would be in a decent spot.

True. But that industry already has a duopoly with very strong network effects. Food delivery is extremely fragmented and it looks as if there's no one actually doing it profitably.

Yea for sure. At the same time they did acquire Whole Foods and are doing food delivery through prime. They do own the warehouses here rather than acting as couriers but I would not be surprised if they just found out the economics (especially given their strengths) to just not work out for them.

This quote summarizes it all for me: "Amazon just bailed on restaurant delivery in the U.S."

If amazon, a "real" business with a reputation built on ruthlessly cutting margin can't get it to work why would anyone else?

I've been thinking along similar lines - in my mind it boils down to that these days we have problems that only a global government can solve. And you can see this through history - tribes, cities, states, countries, X.

Yea - and it was still better than the Equifax nonsense!

I wonder if you can have 20% in the stock and the remaining in various forms of options that end up acting as the remaining 80%. If each of the options counts as its own stock you can do some interesting financial engineering work to make it happen.

Although options themselves are riskier so not sure what sort of incentive that sets.

That may help the one adtech company but they still wouldn't be able to "sync" (https://www.adpushup.com/blog/cookie-syncing/) their cookies with other companies in the supply chain.

There's an AMP workaround I found a few years ago that surprisingly still works. Basically open up the article as an AMP page and then disable the HTTP request to the access module.

More context here: http://dangoldin.com/2017/04/16/amp-and-subscription-paywall...

There's also https://www.instaclustr.com

We don't use them but had a pretty in depth conversation with them about Kafka and they seemed sharp.

(Author here) Oh that's pretty clever and better than my approach. I was going to point out that subtraction would still need to be supported but realized we don't need to support negative numbers.

I had a similar issue - turns out you can generate it statically locally and commit the generated HTML files: https://help.github.com/en/articles/using-a-static-site-gene...

That can be a helpful part of the writeup. I'm sure it would motivate a bunch of us to actually do that.

Didn't know that but makes a ton sense. Also surprisingly how Instagram became Instagram when they realized all it was being used for photo sharing. People love their photos.

Have you heard of Bump? They were doing something similar until they were acquired by Google: https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/16/4736860/bump-acquired-by-...

TripleLift | Full-Time, NYC or Remote

TripleLift (https://triplelift.com) started by launching the world's first and largest Native Programmatic ad exchange that allowed publishers to ditch banner ads and make money through in-feed "native" experiences. Since then we've gotten into the branded content space (https://contentdial.com) and OTT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI0zYPOWKbE) and are always searching for seamless and respectful ways to help publishers make money off of their content.

AdTech is a complicated and tech heavy space that's pushing the boundary of what's possible so if you're interested in solve hard problems at scale definitely reach out to me at dgoldin@triplelift.com.

We use the following technologies:

- Java: Netty for the high performance NIO

- Scala + Spark: Spark for our data pipeline

- React + PHP + Node: Our UIs and APIs

- Lots of distributed tech: ZooKeeper, Kafka, Spark, Druid

We're looking for the follow roles so please reach out if you're interested:

- Lead DevOps Engineer: DevOps is core to what we do and we want to bring someone on to lead the team.

- Data Scientists: All seniority levels but AdTech experience is preferred since the industry context is so valuable.

- Senior Exchange Engineer: Work on our real time bidding exchange handling billions of auctions every day.

- Solutions Engineer: Work with our commercial team to make sure our customers are successful on our platform by pushing our tech to do more.

- Engineering Manager: We're growing significantly this year and want to grow our engineering team by building a strong management layer.

In all these cases we're hiring aggressively and if you're smart and motivated I'm sure we can find a place for you so please reach out.

I think creating a small/lifestyle startup is easier than ever since distribution/globalization is much easier but creating the next big thing is much more difficult.

And don't forget "The Dream Machine" (https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-Licklider-Revolution-Co...).

It's not solely about the internet but does an awesome job covering the rise of the PC industry and the launch of the internet.

TripleLift | Full-Time, NYC or Remote

TripleLift (https://triplelift.com) started by launching the world's first and largest Native Programmatic ad exchange that allows sites to monetize using formats that are unique to their sites. Since then we've gotten into the branded content space (https://contentdial.com) and OTT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI0zYPOWKbE) and are always looking to find new areas of content consumption.

AdTech is a complicated and tech heavy space that's pushing the boundary of what's possible so if you're interested in solve hard problems at scale definitely reach out to me at dgoldin@triplelift.com.

We use the following technologies:

- Java: Netty for the high performance NIO

- Scala + Spark: Spark for our data pipeline

- React + PHP + Node: Our UIs and APIs

- Lots of distributed tech: ZooKeeper, Kafka, Spark, Druid

We're looking for the follow roles so please reach out if you're interested:

- Lead DevOps Engineer: DevOps is core to what we do and we want to bring someone on to lead the team.

- Data Scientists: All seniority levels but AdTech experience is preferred since the industry context is so valuable.

- Senior Exchange Engineer: Work on our real time bidding exchange handling billions of auctions every day.

- Solutions Engineer: Work with our commercial team to make sure our customers are successful on our platform by pushing our tech to do more.

Author here. The old code should still be in version control but there's very little reason to keep it in an active code base. It just adds complexity for someone actively developing.

I'm not saying destroy for the sake of destroying but more when you have made a choice to remove something do it to completion.

Interesting take. I'm not close enough to either Bezos or Spiegel but that does not seem like a good combination. Although at that point I'm not sure Snap will have a choice.

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If interested or just want to learn more please email me at dgoldin@triplelift.com and I'd be glad to chat more. Please mention HN in the subject!

For those interested in the theory of lobbying and special interest groups one of my favorite books is Mancur Olson's Rise and Decline of Nations (https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Decline-Nations-Stagflation-Rigi...). It's an incredibly approachable read that does a wonderful job digging into the incentives and explains why lobbying exists and why it works.

Reminded me of the McGurk effect (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk_effect). I'm constantly surprised by how our brains work.