dhruvarora013

Worked there for half a decade and helped a little on this deal but exited right before.

Like another commenter pointed out, the deal is a data acquisition. Ookla is multimillion dollar business thanks to its awards and data programs with almost every telco a customer. Accenture was already a competitor thanks to their Umlaut acquisition

For most consumers, Ookla = Speedtest but there’s a lot more beneath the surface. Ookla owns a drive-testing firm, Downdetector (consumer based outage reporting) and a thriving SDK & server network. Most of the data comes via background tests and embedded SDK tests.

Ookla | ookla.com | Software Engineer, Data Engineer, Software Architect | US, Ireland, UK, Finland | Remote, Full-Time

As the global leader in network intelligence and connectivity insights, Ookla is the company behind Speedtest®, the world’s most popular internet performance testing platform. Today, Ookla empowers businesses, governments, and consumers to measure, understand, and improve their internet connectivity and performance worldwide.

We are growing our team and hiring for the following roles (medium to senior experience):

Software Engineer (multiple openings)

Data Engineer (multiple openings)

Software Architect (multiple openings)

Technologies: Javascript, Python, Go, Airflow, Postgres, AWS

If interested, apply here - https://www.ookla.com/careers or email me at dhruv[at]ookla.com. If you email me, I'll ensure your resume is looked at.

An Ireland focused project on the frontpage - delightful!

For my workplace, I built an internal orgchart and the backend is entirely Google Sheets. It's been completely hassle free and I've spent almost no time on the code since building it three years ago. As employees join and leave, HR adds/deletes a row in the sheet and only they have access to the "database" besides myself. In case of accidental deletion, there's the handy restore ability built into sheets so a database "rollback" is also trivial and can be done by HR without my input.

Sheets as a database for light web apps is absolutely joyful to build with.

My "dumb" solution here is that I've plugged all peripherals into a dock. I have a cable go from my dock to my Macbook or desktop. I have to physically replug every time but it's just the one cable for charging + data transfer so it is simple enough

I made something very similar for our company's internal directory. HR is used to maintaining Google Sheets and fit really well into their workflow

Outlink to https://downdetector.com/status/stackoverflow/ since their native status checker (stackstatus.net) is also down!

It's not the default browser on most devices. I think the parent comment is stating that if you're technical enough to install a 3rd party browser, you're technical enough to pick your own search engine. So people chose Firefox and chose away from Yahoo

Interesting. Is this basically a browser that's focused on productivity? Seems like it's just adding different sites as "apps" that I can switch between?

I've been using the "Modern for Wikipedia" chrome extension for a while and it seems like they Wikipedia team has borrowed a lot of ideas from the extension. I still prefer the extension since you can change the theme away from bright white. Great changes overall.

I have one of these in my inbox every single day and it is so incredibly frustrating! I've banned the entire phrase using a filter but definitely not ideal

Spent the last few months migrating to Vite. The Javascript ecosystem is exhausting and exhilarating all at the same time

So the recommended solution to losing your full time job and H-1B, is to get a part-time H-1B and a second job?!

Also a Green Card is not something you can lose/have to protect. I think the title should be updated to reflect "Green Card Application", which you absolutely can lose/have cancelled.

> Vite’s default dev server port is now 5173.

That's a very strange change

I've been keto on and off for the last year and I've found it incredibly effective for weight loss. I understand the principles for effective weight loss, and while a lot of dieticians hate on keto, there is one thing that it taught me that no other diet did - read the label on packaged products in the store.

Simply because of how strict keto is I began to read the breakdown for every single thing I purchase in the store. This may seem obvious to all but I never did it to the degree I do now. There is sugar in everything and the serving sizes are often completely ridiculous - I saw a protein bar where the serving size was half the bar! Other diets teach you food groups to eat and encourage but don't seem to have this side effect of teaching you just how messed up some packaged foods are.

I use Drops on iOS for this exact reason - it's been very accurate from my experience (I think there is an Android equivalent)

There are citizens of countries that need visas that live in primarily ESTA countries. This is a larger demographic than you think!

And that's if you can find an appointment at all. It's over 150 days here in Ireland and you have to check the portal pretty much daily to try your luck. I've been waiting for two months already and can never land one!

I'm a big fan of Stratechery and the original thought behind most of the posts but I think this one completely misses the mark. Advertising is not a new model in the streaming space - Hulu has done it for years and is one of the things I hate most about it. As most people have said here int he comments - if Netflix adds advertising there would be an uproar.

Here are some ways I think Netflix could make money just off the top of my head,

* Netflix Live - Amazon does this to an extent and there's clearly a demand for live content. This could be sports, or a Twitch competitor or something original (reality tv meets live maybe).

* Pay for different regional content - Every VPN advertises the ability to switch countries to watch Netflix from a different country. I would happily pay more if I got access to the US content in addition to the UK. This is a legal problem more than an engineering problem though.

* Netflix Infra - every company out there seems to be creating a streaming service and frankly most of them are rubbish - they constantly buffer, have terrible apps and casting functionality. Netflix could create a product similar to AWS and rent out their infra. Yes it does cannibalize their own offering/product strengths but thats happening anyway as their competitors get their shit together

* Merchandising - there are a lot of crazy viral hits that Netflix seems to create - Squid Game was one of the most popular Halloween costumes last year. I should be able to order merch right from the app especially for Netflix originals. You only have to look at Disney to see the possibilities here.

Yeah their monetization strategy is extremely puzzling. As a casual user I loved their Chrome extension that lets me grab data and put it into a sheet in a click but it only lasted as long as my Pro membership. All of the advanced features seem to be locked behind a subscription.

Looks like its taken down SendGrid, NPM, Twitch, Auth0 so far

Possibly due to an AWS outage https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

Looks like both npm and Auth0 are related to a possible AWS outage. https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

Do you mean Redux? If yes, it's still quite popular

Just because something hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it will never happen. Tesla is doing extremely well and has a bright future but it's hard to make a solid argument for its current valuation.

Aren't you missing the biggest point of the Act? The free market equilibrium that you mention is what it seeks to correct.

It's not about the prices but the monopolization it attempts to break. If there is only a single entity dictating the prices in the market, then it doesn't matter what the price spectrum is - the motive is anti-free market

Amazing how many products are clearly getting affected due to this. The top 18 products on downdetector.com are all Google-owned or related

Could someone explain why this acquisition makes sense? The core competencies between the two companies seem to have little overlap from my outsider perspective. Is this diversification or does Hyundai make more than automobiles?

I think this is a little harsh. The comment does point out a feature on the topic site. I'm personally glad that they brought it up because as an English speaker I didn't see this feature exposed. Internationalisation is a complex yet required feature for large websites these days, and a clever feature like this to find translations is great!

I think the author touched on this lightly, but I feel like there is a little more to be said about “signaling” or what I like to personally call, “resume flexing”.

In India, all people at all times are building their resumes for a semi-vague goal usually wealth or a happy retirement. This idea is embedded quite early on in age as the article author suggested - you’re usually pointed at a career in middle school that makes it easier to achieve above said goal.

The flywheel then spins ever faster as every decision you make thereafter is about getting closer and closer to this vague goal of “success/wealth/societal perception”. You pick universities based on rankings, large tech companies over startups, management over individual contributor work and of course America over everything else.

This problem isn’t isolated to India by any means, and like all stereotypes isn’t applicable to all people from India but in a country of 1B+ people, it’s just dialed up to 11. Hacktoberfest and GSOC are just unfortunate victims to this resume building. The fastest way to put these on your resume and flex it, is to create a spam commit and shortcut your way to a tshirt or certificate.