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I saw this talk last year comparing the live stream industries in China and US from Twitch engineer Yueshi Shen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Ki-w84rP4

needs a bit of an update now..

tcsfon Humans vs. Machines: When to Hire and When to Automate

It’s a video + clickable interactive transcript, but if you prefer to read only there’s a ‘collapse’ button to make the video area a bit smaller.

tcsfon LaunchDarkly raised $21M to help companies test and control software features

It turns out that building and managing flags by yourself is a huge PITA, excited to see what’s next from this team

tcsfon The meaning of AMP

For a bit deeper understanding of AMP pages and how Google makes all of this work – check out this talk from Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen https://www.heavybit.com/library/blog/get-ampd-an-introducti...

tcsfon The Man Behind Windows PowerShell

Thanks for this, I've updated the transcript.

tcsfon The Man Behind Windows PowerShell

I have that habit as well. I'm not sure if this level of control is possible with video.js, but I'll take a look. Disabling click-to-time until the play button has been clicked might also be an option. Thanks for listening/reading

tcsfon The Man Behind Windows PowerShell

We get a first-draft transcript made through rev.com, then manually editorialize and format to make it easier to follow for folks who prefer to read.

The player itself is built with video.js which, when combined with the ttml format for the final transcript, allows us to provide that click-to-time interactivity.

tcsfon Ask HN: What are your favorite developer podcasts?

I'm biased here because I help produce these, but the shows on the Heavybit network are worth a look. Each show is hosted by founders, developers, or product/sales/marketing folks specializing in developer focused products.

https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/

Is there a specific topic you're looking for shows on?

tcsfon Apollo Client 1.0: A flexible, community-focused JavaScript GraphQL client

Sashko and Jonas from the Apollo team were guests on JAMstack Radio this week, it's a great primer if you're just getting into Apollo+GraphQL https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/jamstack-radio/ep-...

tcsfon Getting to your first 100 customers

Here's the spreadsheet if you want to plug in the numbers from your own company

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nohO_8S1X1G_1b-iv912...

tcsfon Ask HN: Is S3 down?

Blake Gentry gave a full accounting of Heroku's response process here - http://www.heavybit.com/library/video/every-minute-counts-co...

Amazon should take notes.

tcsfon Ask HN: What is a problem you face at work?

Depending on this photogs tech proficiency I think they could pretty easily achieve this using Amazon Turk or pay for a custom solution using a dev tool like https://www.scaleapi.com/

tcsfon Ask HN: Does social media influencer marketing work?

Anecdotal, but I regularly purchase apps and services that influencers post about. The influencers that come to mind for apps specifically (iOS even more specifically) are John Gruber / Daring Fireball, Loren Brichter, Louie Mantia, Marco Arment...

I think the secret to great success is knowing your own target audience really really well, so that you choose the right influencer for max ROI.

tcsfon Ask HN: How should Twitter win back Wall Street

Twitter already does video really well IMO. I use video in tweets all the time, and I watch videos from my timeline all the time. Why can't they continue both?

Yes they shut down Vine, but Periscope is making some interesting moves to mimic youtube and facebook live, but with the benefit of first-party blessing in the official apps and on the web.

tcsfon Ask HN: How should Twitter win back Wall Street

We would have Twitter the API, and Twitter the umbrella network. You might want to promote a sub group into the larger network, or you may not - similar to reddit in a way.

I imagine invite only groups, time-limited groups for concerts/conferences/sporting events, location-locked groups that you dynamically join and leave as you move around.

I may just be describing iMessage or Slack at this point.

tcsfon Ask HN: How should Twitter win back Wall Street

I think that's tricky. If Twitter is perceived to be charging users to not be abused, that's obviously crappy. Paid accounts or not I think there should be better first-party options for controlling who you see and who sees you.

At the same time, if the APIs are fully open, third party clients would be able to build more powerful filtering features. In effect that would allow anyone to build entire sub communities on top of Twitter. This is starting to sound more and more like app.net...

tcsfon Ask HN: How should Twitter win back Wall Street

Let users pay for the service.

I'd happily pay $10/month for a 'pro' level or whatever they want to call it. I use Twitter constantly, but have always preferred third party apps - Tweetbot is by far the best.

If the pro level killed ads, increased data privacy somehow, and fully opened up every API to third party clients that would be more than worth it IMO. For example, I'm tired of Tweetbot kicking me to the mobile site to view moments.