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mayop100
4,250karma·371submissions·September 17, 2008
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Shortwave CEO & Cofounder.
Previously, cofounder of Firebase.
http://twitter.com/startupandrew
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These guys have a fantastically simple-to-use platform. We've been at a number of hackathons with them and they always get killer adoption because it's something you can get up-and-running within a fe…
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I AM THE HIGH BIDDDERRR!! Oh wait nevermind... : (
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Works for me...
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This is the hack I built for TechCrunch Disrupt. It allows you to create a presentation using photos loaded from Filepicker.io. You can then push that presentation to another browser that's at the unp…
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The important point isn't so much how fast Trigger is moving, but how fast they let developers move. The html/css/js -> mobile app shift is letting build build things really fast. This A/B testing…
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Also, the invalidation on Cloudfront is pretty painful.
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Keep in mind that we can't afford to have a constantly-changing resource name, as 3rd-party developers link directly to our assets. For our own website, this might work fine, but even then it's a pain…
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Nothing new here. This is a common technique. Any email newsletter service worth its salt has been doing this for years, and I think many A/B testing tools have as well. A/B testing doesn't mean you'l…
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They do have support reps and a ticketing system. You have to pay for them though. I suggest upgrading your account when it comes back online so that you're paying for support.
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Thanks Riley!
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Still working! Security is our #1 priority right now.
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(Firebase founder here) I used to work for an RTOS company, so I do understand where you are coming from. Real-time has different meanings in different contexts though. For an operating system it mean…
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Firebase is true realtime. No polling. No waiting for disk I/O. We are trying to produce the absolute lowest latency possible.
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Security for the data in Firebase is one issue - and as I've mentioned above we're taking that very seriously, and we're working on it. The business implications of having client-side software are a d…