jayp

Joined 18 years ago

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Dec 27
Previously Co-Founder of Herald and also Co-Founder of Midtype (YC S19)
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Comment · 2 years ago
Most of Dubai air traffic is transit for South Asian passengers. So mostly Air India and IndiGo.
Comment · 2 years ago
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?

Comment · 4 years ago
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?

Comment · 4 years ago
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.

Comment · 4 years ago
Maybe but angelfire page makes you even older.
Comment · 4 years ago
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.

Comment · 4 years ago
Is this really true?
Comment · 5 years ago
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.

Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks for adding the AWS perspective.

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

Comment · 5 years ago
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.

Comment · 6 years ago
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!
Comment · 6 years ago
What parts? Been using it for months on Firefox.

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