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Brooke & Ben were key PMs for the success of DigitalOcean. Both worked on the core Droplet product which was successful because of it's UX.

I used to work at DigitalOcean. Can confirm we didn't think a lot about Linode. We saw AWS as the real competitor. If there was someone in the VPS market we respected and tried to emulate it would have been OVH, not Linode.

This wasn't really a 'hack'. A laptop repair store backed up the drive and then sold the backup. It's shady, but not illegal.

I read the policy. I think that's a good policy that isn't politically motivated.

The content of the article is relatively benign, but unflattering to Hunter Biden. Just interesting that social media platforms are censoring it.

Just location metadata which the hedge funds overlay with known retail locations.

They also sell this data to hedge funds who can use it to try to predict retail sales.

Preprint on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00011

nice! i didn't know about half of these.

UI is not part of the package. Thanks for the feedback!

Bowery is a street/neighborhood in New York City.

that's good feedback. Would a pricing calculator help or is it just that there are too many cost centers?

There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes. Think about DynamoDB vs Riak.

"What if HTTP endpoints were as cheap as git branches? What if you had an active endpoint for every branch?"

I really like that

Sorry, that's a typo. It's supposed to be in cents and not dollars.

I think the cool part is that that you could do all of this stuff and not have to worry about any of the infrastructure.

The node package only works inside of the hosting environment. You're paying that much money for everything to be hosted. It says in the docs that there's no local development environment.

What do you think about Square's cube? https://github.com/square/cube

Startups that sell things don't need as much traffic to make the same amount of money. Dropbox & Airbnb should be a lot higher than Scribd. Also, the list is missing Shoptiques.

"Have you ever tried to sell a diamond" is an amazing read that will change your view on most consumer products.

Readability style page cleanup would be a good feature.

``` (function drain() { var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');

  for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
    var link = links[i];
    var href = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[i].getAttribute('href');

    if (href) {
      href = href.replace('tag=braipick-20', '')
    }

    link.setAttribute('href', href);
  };

"and I don't want to spam people just to try the thing out".

Branch is really close to being really useful. They just need to make it for the everyday person the way HN/Reddit is without loosing the "Davos of Social Media" elements.

awesome! Page Weight matters for youtube though ;) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4957992

Cool project, but I think it's been done before in less lines: https://gist.github.com/4176087

I think the title is a little misleading. This is just a sample of people who used the #code2012 hash tag on twitter.

Alexis, this is awesome, but why did you do all of this?

the network solutions bot who did that is kind of a dick.

TechCrunch is more like the TMZ of Tech.

any suggestions/feedback would be awesome! thx.

Glad to hear your brother could end up somewhere happy. My younger brother fits the same archetype but is only 17.

If they have a github contribute to one of their projects. This will also help you figure out whether or not you would actually enjoy working there.