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hdpq··on Amazon Has Long Ruled the Cloud. Now It Must Fend Off Rivals
this is paywalled pretty hard. the chrome incognito "trick" doesn't work for WSJ. can somebody please post the story?
hdpq··on Meetup.com alternatives
I would have been OK with We buying Meetup if they offered their space for meetups ... but alas ... they did literally nothing and likely we'll see that the product was killed in the end.
hdpq··on Ask HN: Did your AWS bill literally double from last night?
I'm showing double the amount of hosted zones in Route 53. Kind of odd
hdpq··on Uber lays off 435 people
they're about to get a LOT more ...
hdpq··on Troubles Mount for the We Company as Softbank Reportedly Calls for Shelving IPO
if you could get your hands on the stock, which would have been fairly unlikely.
hdpq··on WeWork Parent Weighs Slashing Its Valuation in Half
...so short CRE REITs, am i right?
hdpq··on FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon
makes sense. Amazon has built out their network pretty well.
hdpq··on How to Find Hidden Cameras in Your Airbnb
Are hotels somehow immune to hidden cameras?
hdpq··on New Report/Dataset: Just 10% of Workers Receive Nearly Half of Global Pay
Global pay ... in the US, if you earn minimum wage, you're in the top 1%.
hdpq··on Mitch Kapor Introduces Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheet (1983) [video]
this is so wholesome.
hdpq··on How Did WeWork’s Adam Neumann Build a $47B Company?
Not all VCs are above water on their Uber investment.
hdpq··on How Did WeWork’s Adam Neumann Build a $47B Company?
I'll just go on the record to say that I think WeWork is the biggest deck of cards that is begging for a collapse. I've only been to a handful of locations, but they never seem busy and I'm not sure how they're making rent.

Plus, not to mention, back in my day, when you did a startup and got funding from your rich uncle (not Uncle Rich), you grew your startup from your apartment, and when you outgrew that space, you got a bigger apartment. (ala Silicon Valley style)

I dunno, I can't put my finger on it, but I think this whole thing is a massive game of charades...

hdpq··on What does it mean when a product is “Amazon’s Choice”?
those end-cap spots are usually paid placements as well.
hdpq··on Uber’s underwater investors
>spews "sharing" nonsense

People forget that is how Uber got into this business - they started skirting medallions (which was an artificial market in the first place) by telling regulators that these drivers were headed in a particular direction and just picked up a fare.

hdpq··on A Profile of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan
They were billionaires of their time.
hdpq··on Foods for healthier people and a healthier planet [pdf]
seriously what i thought when i clicked on this ...
hdpq··on Design Considerations for High-Throughput Cloud-Native RDBMS [pdf]
paywalled ... is there a free version available somewhere?
hdpq··on Design Considerations for High-Throughput Cloud-Native RDBMS [pdf]
curious, why is this paper just now making the front page of this site? it's been published several years ago.
hdpq··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
I have creative thoughts, just don't go through the effort of writing them down ...
hdpq··on Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak
then it should be more than 52,000,000 people.
hdpq··on Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak
this is what i was looking for when i saw this headline.
hdpq··on Collaborate, but only intermittently, says new study
"It's warm inside the herd"
hdpq··on SF DA Sues Angie's List
tl;dr?
hdpq··on Ask HN: How to pursue acquisition?
Wish you could have had both departments bidding against each other
hdpq··on Ask HN: What would you work on, if you had enough free time?
I'd spend time learning AI/ML stuff.