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ffumarola

485 karma · joined February 23, 2011

Product @ Pinterest.

Double BS in Supply Chain & Marketing. Have worked in sales and marketing, distribution, warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, consulting, ecommerce, and ad tech. I have a passion for technology.

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ffumarola··on Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
Some thoughts:

1) Clean up the plural duplicates, e.g. peanut/peanuts, leek/leeks, carrot/carrots, etc.

2) I've never considered the author, is that common?

3) Mode to toggle pictures on would help scanning, cooking is very visual

4) Not simple to design, but some way to have either/or ingredients (e.g. peanuts OR cashews) could be useful

ffumarola··on How Tim Cook transformed Apple after Steve Jobs
You're holding your phone wrong, mate.
ffumarola··on Fintech spy – the best fintech and neobank tracking tool
Hey folks!

"Fintech is eating the world", as a16z says, but right now it can be pretty hard to keep track of:

- what companies exist

- what countries they serve

- what products they offer

- how large they are (users, employees)

- whether the employees are happy

- whether the users are happy

- how much they've raised

- whether they're part of the social "zeitgeist"

- etc

So I built http://fintechspy.co/ as a way to more easily stay up to date with what's going on.

That's pretty much it, would love any thoughts, feedback, etc!

ffumarola··on Show HN: I built a service to help companies save 35%+ on their AWS bills
4649Dgx.png is taking forever to load. 1MB and 41s for me... just did a speedtest and got 70Mbps down and 60 Mbps up.
ffumarola··on Ask HN: What to do with a old MacBook Pro?
I made a home media server with plex when faced with the same question.
ffumarola··on Show HN: Matters.ai – Keep track of company emails
Have you thought about doing this for Slack/Teams? The native search their is awful in my experience.
ffumarola··on Show HN: Vela: An Equity Marketplace for Contract Development
How long does this equity vest over? What kind of cliff/vesting schedules?
ffumarola··on Show HN: Bold – Create internal apps from your Google Sheets or Airtable
Any chance I can test without the onboarding call?
ffumarola··on Show HN: Django React Boilerplate – Hybrid Model, Session Auth, CSRF Protection
Why does this impact SEO? Thanks!
ffumarola··on Show HN: Web App to Send and Manage Offers to Your Clients
You should give a preview of what an invoice looks like so I can see if our definitions of awesome are the same, and then decide to signup :)
ffumarola··on Ask HN: Why don't we place ads based on the content?
By most measures, both for ad platforms and advertisers (and subsequently users), audience-targeted ads outperform context-targeted ads. You could go back to a world of only context-targeted ads, but publishers would need to make their business models work with lower RPMs, advertisers with lower ROAS, and users with less relevant ads (to them).
ffumarola··on Ask HN: I have a portal with 500k monthly users? How do I monetize it?
How many pageviews are you doing per month and what is your Google Adsense RPM? Before throwing advertising out, wondering if the ads are working as effectively as they should.

In addition, agree with keiferski that ebooks could be a good path forward.

You could also do classes or "bootcamps" for skills training.

ffumarola··on Launch HN: Belvo (YC W20) – Financial Data API Platform for Latin America
Conversely, Plaid has been pretty successful here.
ffumarola··on What are some overshadowed careers that pay well?
Orthodontist

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/What-Is-the-Average-Or...

NY average is $320k, but range is $80k to $435k. Braces ain't cheap!

ffumarola··on Ask HN: Reality for the Average Developer Outside Silicon Valley/Big US Markets?
What are some of the top tech companies? I have to imagine the normal ones like Google, Facebook, and Amazon. But then more local companies would be UOL, Itau, Banco do Brasil, Bradesco, etc?
ffumarola··on Amazon expected to announce NYC and Northern Virginia as new headquarters
I don't know why the person you're replying to thinks their viewpoint is representative of a wide swath of people?

I love NYC, if I was looking for a job this would be a draw for me.

ffumarola··on Beset by Homelessness, Rising Rents, SF Cracks Down on Dockless Scooters
The taxes you're referring to, I presumed, are things like DMV fees. Those are used for things like roads (construction, repair, salting, plowing, etc), bridges, highway patrols, etc. They aren't market rate because they don't actually cover their stated purpose, thus are subsidized from other taxes. Additionally, they don't price in externalities like noise, pollution, emergency services due to accidents, death and injury to persons, etc.

The scooters are indeed left on sidewalks. Luckily the 20 pound scooters aren't actually killing or maiming people, spouting out toxins into the air, ripping up the asphalt, blaring "honk" noises at all hours of the day, etc. Not much of a public nuisance all things considered :)

ffumarola··on Beset by Homelessness, Rising Rents, SF Cracks Down on Dockless Scooters
+1, wish they would start towing cars that park on the sidewalk.
ffumarola··on Beset by Homelessness, Rising Rents, SF Cracks Down on Dockless Scooters
Parking fees, tolls, taxes, etc aren't market rate.

Also, visit any of the neighborhoods on the western half of San Francisco and you'll discover that it's de facto not allowed to be handicapped or pushing a stroller due to cars owning the sidewalks.

ffumarola··on Beset by Homelessness, Rising Rents, SF Cracks Down on Dockless Scooters
Meanwhile, dockless cars park wherever they want, block sidewalks, inhabit large swaths of the city without paying to do so, etc.

What a weird world where "scooters" are the problem.

ffumarola··on Delta Air Lines Tightens Rules for Service and Support Animals
One of the problems is that people misclassify pit bulls all the time. Dog bites someone and looks like a terrier type? Pit bull!

There have actually been studies to show that the precision in which shelter workers and other professionals can identify a pit bull is startingly low and the error rate of mislabeling non-pits as pit bulls is surprisingly high.

ffumarola··on Delta Air Lines Tightens Rules for Service and Support Animals
And "large" is a loose definition out here. There are some places with weight restrictions at 50 lbs, and I've started seeing more and more at 35 lbs or even 25 lbs!
ffumarola··on Delta Air Lines Tightens Rules for Service and Support Animals
Hah, was waiting for that response :)

I chose her 12 years ago when I lived on the east coast where it seems like the majority of dogs are pit bulls. I never have heard of anyone having issues renting in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, nor DC, all cities in which I lived in over there. It wasn't until I came out here a few years ago that I had an issue and realized that this issue even existed.

ffumarola··on Delta Air Lines Tightens Rules for Service and Support Animals
Find out what? There is nothing to find out, it's easy to prove any dog is an ESA with the help of a friendly doctor.

You may be suggesting that lying about service animals is easily discoverable, which is indeed true. This is already illegal.

ffumarola··on Delta Air Lines Tightens Rules for Service and Support Animals
I have a pit bull who is amazingly well behaved, including having a CGC (Canine Good Citizen) training certificate. However, moving in to an apartment in San Francisco was damn near impossible. I was on the brink of leaving the bay area because of how hard it was to find someone willing to rent to me, until I found a private landlord who took pity on me.

Many times I had friends suggest I just lie and say my dog was an emotional support animal. It was quite tempting because of how awful it can be to find a place to rent in SF with a dog. If you think it's bad and you're not a pet owner, imagine it being 10x worse. The only reason I didn't do that was because I didn't want to contribute to rules like this which make it harder for people who really need the ESA.

ffumarola··on Tim Ferris comments on his move from Silicon Valley
Whereas I agree with you in principle, let's not normalize Trump by calling him a "major party nominee" as if that abdicates us of our responsibility to push back against dangerous political identities. We can point to many a "major party nominee" in history that people supported who also shouldn't be normalized...
ffumarola··on Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expel Them
They haven't really been caught on anything. These aren't ad measurement results saying they did reach more people than exist, this is a reach estimation service. It's a technically complex problem that needs to take an arbitrary targeting spec with boat loads of dimensionality and return a reach estimate in 100s of milliseconds. It's based on a sampling method, of course. The reach estimation tool is a planning tool for approximations and nothing more. That's why advertisers aren't making a big fuss.
ffumarola··on Sedentary Behavior and Mortality in U.S. Middle-Aged and Older Adults
Seconded. I used to feel lower back pain due to the amount of sitting at a desk. Running and lifting weights did wonders for how I feel on a daily basis.
ffumarola··on Stop Faking Service Dogs
100% yes.

Looking for an apartment in the Bay Area is impossible with a dog. Doubly so if your dog is more than 30 lbs (really a large cat). Triply so if you have one of the breeds the large apartment complexes don't allow.

ffumarola··on Interviews on Skype: Test candidates using a real-time code editor over Skype.
That's why I was wondering. For companies that need to scale, a high false negative rate is inherently costly. But, if you only need to hire a small number of people that may be a cost you're willing to eat.
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