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Comment · 3 years ago
Interesting! Have you considered reaching out to one of those (e.g. Citymapper) and see if they would like to work with you? Either employ you, subcontract you, use you as an API, or whatever! :)

I think it's really cool that you maintain such a service and maybe they can find in you a good partnership!

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Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks! I just can't wrap my head around the fact that someone is willing to pay $5 a month for a meme app! XD

Are the users active? Have you thought / analyzed if they pay and forget that it's a subscription? :-?

Comment · 5 years ago
From your comments, you turned from a one-time purchase to subscriptions.

Can you share your attrition rate? Also, how many want to pay per-month VS the full year (heavily discounted price)?

Thanks!

Comment · 5 years ago
Mmmm, not sure if that would be the case / possible with something like "First home for your use, you get tax exemptions, etc. Second house, for you, X amount of taxes. If rented, Y% of the income. Third house rented, insane % of the income (like 50%)". That would discourage people from buying-to-rent massive amounts of properties, as they would simply not be cost-effective, regardless of how much you want to pass on to the renters.

If you think that would raise rents by a huge %, I don't think so, as it would be completely impossible for people to pay.

Comment · 5 years ago
Yup! paper covers / paper bedding, and the expert handling of midwives. Pretty simple and straight-forward!

P.S. also enemas were used in the past... but fortunately, interventions such as this, or pubic hair shaving are no longer ordered for women during labor and birth!

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Comment · 7 years ago
The number in the article is 2.5 TB/s, not GB/s :)

(disclaimer: I work in Scribe)

Comment · 7 years ago
Interesting! Just found out about this, and I googled it out. TIBCO acquired Scribe Software, and Scribe Software was running as early as 1998-1999! :D

https://web.archive.org/web/20120301000000*/http://www.scrib...

The initial stuff seems to not be so related, but the current description of what they do seems much much closer to what Facebook's Scribe does today :)

Naming is hard! :D

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Comment · 7 years ago
That's actually not the case, there's access control :)

The article just focuses on certain areas of the system and doesn't go into the security and privacy parts, that's all.

(I work in Scribe)

Comment · 7 years ago
As others have pointed out in another HN discussion (1), Mongodb's reply is definitely questionable, if only by its tone.

I already replied to metheus on Twitter (2) in a thread where we asked for a way to repro their claims. I found their reply and comments very inappropriate, similar to the comment in here. Arrogant and derogatory to OnGres.

Anyway, I was writing this to note that OnGres has replied to Mongo's reply setting an example of how tech discussions should happen: without derogatory and arrogant comments, open to valid criticism (i.e. with something more than words and numbers that cannot be reproduced) and transparency.

Check it out: https://ongres.com/blog/benchmarking-do-it-with-transparency...

In there you'll see how Mongo consistently mis-interpreted (or mis-represented?) the results. They kept mixing the benchmarks and constantly talked about an experimental driver and missing connection pooling. In fact, they did use the official Mongo Lua driver and the official Java driver for different benchmarks and they did some of the benchmarks with and without connection pooling and published both results.

It's really sad to see Mongo reply to a thorough benchmark like this. It probably has its flaws but instead of correcting them or publishing a better benchmark like the one they did (to magically get 240x...) they chose to mischaracterize the work of others, spreading FUD and accusing them of cheating and being dishonest.

Hopefully they'll turn around and fix it. All it takes is to publish how they got they amazing numbers so that others can comment, repro or dispute the benchmark.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20479670

(2) https://twitter.com/javiermaestro/status/1151849279226556417

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