ngould
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Comment · 3 years ago
You're a dark pattern
Comment · 4 years ago
OP here. Did not mean to imply that web5 sprung out of web3 in any sense. Really I just found web3 to be a useful reference point for explaining SSI. Lots of people understand how web3 works at this point, but there's way less mindshare around the idea of a digital wallet that actually holds credentials and not just private keys.
To that end, I'm generally happy to support the hype, and hope this stuff gets more attention from the web3 lot.
Comment · 4 years ago
Bingo! =)
Comment · 4 years ago
It's a little bit tongue and cheek. (Read the post.)
Comment · 4 years ago
Definitely possible that Apple will win the identity wars. That said, I don't agree with the characterization of web3/web5 as "having to trust nobody". If anything, all the efforts around identity are meant to allow for bringing IRL notions of trust onto the internet. In other words, the whole pseudonymity thing is not a result of using blockchain, but just the fact that nobody's bothered to add identity verification to a lot of stuff happening in web3. That's changing though.
Comment · 5 years ago
> We hope to ultimately build a Slack/Teams alternative designed for rich, asynchronous human interactions that encourage deep work.
All I can say is keep going. I've been feeling the absence of this for a while, and have taken to making occasional videos on Loom to supplement live meetings and Slack messages. But it's a disjointed experience, and Loom is not trying to be a collaboration tool at all. It would be great to have a solution that does the whole thing end-to-end, with a focus on being more async-friendly than Slack.
By the way, I downloaded the PingPong app, and it seems great. Are you selling subscriptions, or just putting the free version out there for now?
P.S. If you haven't read this article on Figma's growth strategy, I'd take a look. There are some parallels with what you're doing -- i.e. SaaS, collaboration-focused, and attempting to dislodge incumbents with a similar list of features, but less focus on collaboration pain points. https://kwokchain.com/2020/06/19/why-figma-wins/
Comment · 5 years ago
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Comment · 6 years ago
Seconded
Comment · 7 years ago
You comparing apples and oranges. Subsidies are a direct transfer of wealth, whereas Amazon's investments would remain assets of Amazon.
Comment · 7 years ago
Electric AI | New York City (NYC) | Software engineers, Data analysts | Full-time (Onsite)
Electric is the world's first all-in-one, real-time IT support solution for small and midsize offices. Through a chat interface, personalized service and flat-rate pricing we keep your email, computers, Wi-Fi and software running smoothly at a fraction of the cost while eliminating headaches normally experienced with traditional managed service providers.
Behind the scenes, we're building out a hybrid human/software platform to resolve and execute IT tasks with maximum efficiency and automation.
Electric AI is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Primary Ventures, and others. We're currently a few months post- Series A, and hiring across the board for engineering roles. Our stack: RoR/React/Redux running microservices on Heroku/AWS, plus some Python for data infrastructure, ML, etc.
Check out https://www.electric.ai/careers, and feel free to shoot me an email at [email protected].
Comment · 8 years ago
Electric AI | New York City (NYC) | Software engineers | Full-time (Onsite)
Electric is the world's first all-in-one, real-time IT support solution for small and midsize offices. Through a chat interface, personalized service and flat-rate pricing we keep your email, computers, Wi-Fi and software running smoothly at a fraction of the cost while eliminating headaches normally experienced with traditional managed service providers.
Behind the scenes, we're building out a hybrid human/software platform to resolve and execute IT tasks with maximum efficiency and automation.
Electric AI is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Primary Ventures, and others. We're currently a few months post- Series A, and hiring across the board for engineering roles. Our stack: RoR/React/Redux running microservices on Heroku/AWS, plus some Python for data infrastructure, ML, etc.
Check out https://www.electric.ai/careers, and feel free to shoot me an email at [email protected].
Comment · 8 years ago
Care to enlighten us pension finance non-experts on what the article misses?
Comment · 8 years ago
This is the first time I've come across the approach of storing database snapshots and saving them in a data lake. Do you find those snapshots are useful/used for analytics or data science end-uses, or are they more there for debugging and answering one-off questions?