drewinglis | 11 years ago | on: Heroku Beta Pricing
It's probably worth it for your company to pay the $84/yr rather than have you go through hoops to move Hubot somewhere else.
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drewinglis | 11 years ago | on: In surprise FCC filing, Sprint endorses net neutrality
They're saying that they doesn't even have the signal strength part.
drewinglis | 11 years ago | on: Spoofers Tricked High-Speed Traders by Hitting Keys Fast
Can someone explain to me why this is illegal?
drewinglis | 11 years ago | on: The pitch deck that helped us get an $865M valuation
Their average MRR per customer is four or five digits (see slide eight), and they have 2,814 paying customers according to their homepage, so their MRR is at least ~three million, which puts their ARR at at least 36 million. This implies a multiple of 25 at most. (I think 20 is a common multiple for SaaS companies at this stage.)
drewinglis | 11 years ago | on: Why Uber Might Well Be Worth $18 Billion
UPS is a shipping company first and a technology company second. Uber is a technology company first and a (taxi|courier|etc) company second. It's a difference in mentality.
drewinglis | 12 years ago | on: Apple Explains How Secure iMessage Is
As I understand it, most fingerprint scanners can only distinguish between on the order of tens of thousands of fingerprints. 50,000 is higher than other numbers I've heard for fingerprint scanners (30-40k).
drewinglis | 12 years ago | on: Bill Gates loses to Magnus Carlsen in 9 moves
The game can be over after each player makes two moves. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool's_mate
drewinglis | 12 years ago | on: How Does Facebook Know What's In My Amazon Shopping Cart?
This might also be custom audience targeting. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/ads-api/custo...
drewinglis | 12 years ago | on: Why Nobody Should Use Rails
There are gems like shoulda (https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda) that make it really easy to do the 'types and typos' kind of unit tests. The marginal time required for any given class is negligible.
drewinglis | 13 years ago | on: Jury foreman says Apple patents valid due to different processor architecture
The bit about code/processor interchangeability is actually between 3:00 and 3:30.
drewinglis | 13 years ago | on: Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist’s Devastating Hack
You would also need to enter your username or email address, though, and that's hard to do over the phone... I guess voice-to-text is improving, so that might be an option.
drewinglis | 13 years ago | on: Student Is Sanctioned for Creating Class-Registration Web Site
They did successfully block his requests. The issue is that he was charging for the service, and that was against their policy. That's why he was disciplined (though I find their response laughable and misguided).
drewinglis | 13 years ago | on: Google Fiber Plans & Pricing
It's laying the fiber that's the expensive part, and there is a $300 fee to pay for that. In terms of marginal cost, it really doesn't cost them anything to serve another 5MB/1MB connection. They want to get you hooked so you'll want to upgrade later.
drewinglis | 13 years ago | on: Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work
When you work more than 40 hours per week, you're borrowing time from your future self. However, the interest rates are very high, and so usually it doesn't make sense to borrow this time.
drewinglis | 13 years ago | on: On Technical Entitlement
At CMU, one of the first classes is, in fact, in SML.
drewinglis | 14 years ago | on: All the oxygen trapped in a bubble
This article left a bad taste in my mouth. Companies that have millions of active users are hardly bridges to nowhere that are devoid of economic or public value.
drewinglis | 14 years ago | on: Simple - An Obtvse clone written in Python
I did a quick and dirty port of obtvse to jekyll last weekend. It still needs some work, though. It's here: https://github.com/drewinglis/obtvse-jekyll
drewinglis | 14 years ago | on: Download Public User Data with Oink's Export Tool
It's still down for me. =\
drewinglis | 14 years ago | on: Fight SOPA/PIPA -- let your visitors call their senators in 1 click
This is on our to-do list for tonight. Thanks for the feedback. =)
drewinglis | 14 years ago | on: Fight SOPA/PIPA -- let your visitors call their senators in 1 click
You can! Just click on the "Not your representatives?" link at the top. =)
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