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Most of Dubai air traffic is transit for South Asian passengers. So mostly Air India and IndiGo.

Honestly this is hard to believe. Many uber wealthy suburbs attached to NYC, LA, and SF. Probably many other large cities too.

By what metric is this city the richest?

When you sell stock A and buy stock B, if you had capital gains on stock A, it is a taxable event.

Crypto is the same.

Why do you think converting from BTC to USDT is not a taxable event?

This is the best project I’ve found to that for that - https://github.com/lukeautry/tsoa. Uses decorators mainly.

If there are other such projects, please share.

Maybe but angelfire page makes you even older.

If you are going to use a centralize database coupled with edge compute, you may end up with far worse end-to-end latencies if your compute<->db does multiple roundtrips per request (which is fairly common in practice). In most cases, you need compute and db to be colocated.

I am skeptical of edge compute being generalizable. I do forsee a bright future for it for embarrassingly parallel problem space, where data sharding can be done cleanly based on an end user.

Is this really true?

They and Vercel both seem to be going thru a lot of growing pains. Quite a few outages over the past year.

PS: we use both (for different sites). Probably should consolidate to one.

Thanks for adding the AWS perspective.

I guess grass is not greener on the other side. Oligopolies for the loss.

Hi Kevin ;-)

I am founder of another YC backed company. We based our startup on GCP infra. They have great tech (for the most part) but I regret it so deeply for two reasons:

Support or desire to help customers is non-existent. For any questions, they want us to upgrade to paid support and pay them at least 10% more every month for that (we ask like 1-2 questions a year). What? We are already paying you thousands of dollars every month! I get included support for all my software subscriptions - so this is my biggest beef. Also, when they do help, they keep passing you around from team to team and dont resolve issues as well I’d like. It is just not a company I can love as a customer.

Their status dashboard is a joke. They dont even report minor outages, when they do, they start after a huge delay and update very slowly. And worst of all - when it only affects a single zone or a single region, they remove it from historic reports so everything looks green/great.

I’ve experienced both these times multiple times.

I have to assume AWS is better.

Trey - congrats on the launch! Love what you are doing and cant wait to see how you evolve it. Integrations are definitely a PITA and Oauth2 is a great starting point! Best wishes!

What parts? Been using it for months on Firefox.

Been using Linear everyday for the past few months and love it.

For many that may find it interesting, here is a recent conversation I had with Linear co-founder Tuomas Artman about how they iterated by listening to their users: https://www.heraldhq.com/userstand/how-linear-leverages-thei...

Wasn’t Modi democratically elected — twice?

Congrats James! This would indeed make a great last-minute father’s Day gift. Good timing on the launch!

Technically, 2.5 orders of magnitude.

Good question. Probably the same. English, and especially business English, is not a precise language. I am not really an expert but was part of the larger org.

Just to be clear - colocation here is in order of thousands of square feet. The datacenter provider provides redundant utilities. The customer does everything else.

Where is this place? I agree with grandparent - for the past decade or so, having your “own datacenter” means leasing floorspace in an actual datacenter run and managed by someone else.

I live and work in the Bay area. I was part of the larger org that ran Uber’s datacenter (co-located) and that’s how it was talked about.

I’ve recently started working on documenting (still very, very early) on “measuring” user feedback at https://datadriventeam.org after having 50+ conversations about it with various startup founders/leaders. It is backed by an open source GitHub repo and I hope people would contribute once I’ve gotten the initial version ironed out.

Yup, totally agree. I will update the guide with this quote/source and expand on this line of thinking on my next edits. As you can see it's very early days for the guide. Thanks Ray!

Zerzar - this looks awesome! Right now we're a small team in the same timezone, but can definitely see value as we expand our team!

Netlify announces move from .netlify.com to .netlify.app with the note that "it’s important to note all of your existing sites will continue to operate properly using their current URLs." Even says so here now: https://community.netlify.com/t/changes-coming-to-netlify-si....

What is their solution? Just fwd .netlify.com to .netlify.app. This breaks Chrome extensions that hotload code from a specific domain. The Fix? To publish a new version to Chrome webstore to unbreak this. The approval takes a few days.

Netlify obviously did not think of all corner cases or allow users to test this before hand!

This is a great comment. Love it.

On my end, I’ve recently started working on documenting (still very, very early) on the “measuring” part at https://datadriventeam.org. It is backed by an open source GitHub repo and I hope people would contribute once I’ve gotten the initial version out.

Thought I'd write up a technique that's helping iterate a lot faster on our startup. Would be happy to answer any questions or entertain thoughts I may have missed.

This comment is aligned very much with my current thinking. Hiring highly paid engineers but not maximizing their problem solving ability is a significant problem in large companies.

Empowering bottoms-up problem solving by sharing customer pains and feedback broadly is the exactly problem I am trying to solve with my current project/startup [1].

I am gonna shoot you an email later today to see if you have any further thoughts on how do this effectively within an org.

If anyone has ideas on good implementing this, would love to learn so we can incorporate this within our offering. My email is in my profile.

[1] https://www.heraldhq.com

Uber has always been self hosted. Some workloads are on Cloud and migrating more there. I last worked there 2 years ago.

What did you end up buying? Any regrets?

I got something from cable matters but think it is faulty and cuts out on PD at times. I am looking for a replacement.

We just launched a new blog. It's called Userstand (https://www.heraldhq.com/userstand/), and we aim to chronicle how innovative companies understand their users.

Our first article is a conversation with Deel (YC W19) co-founder Alex Bouaziz] on How Deel's Customer Service Fuels its Growth. Let us know what you think!

Congrats on the launch Rob and Martin. M3 is an amazing product which I had the privilege to use at Uber. Wish you two the best for your journey ahead!

My co-founder at Midtype, Neel, wrote this article by looking at onboarding flows of a dozen or so successful companies.

We have picked up a few tips on how to improve our own onboarding process.

What is a good onboarding that you experienced recently?