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Dan Goldin

Dan Goldin

Shopify for food delivery

The existing food delivery apps charge high fees because food delivery is one of the highest costs. That’s the part that needs to be…

May 22, 2020

May 22, 2020

Dan Goldin

Netflix recommendation system failure

Many people will launch Netflix with their families around and having something so graphically violent greet you is a surefire way to lose…

Mar 23, 2019

Mar 23, 2019

Dan Goldin

Buying Kindle books on iOS

To be fair the entire experience felt like a race against time: can I buy the book before the train arrives? After realizing I couldn’t…

Mar 18, 2019

Mar 18, 2019

Dan Goldin

A personal DSP

There’s no solution that’s capable of doing that right now but it’s interesting to think about a solution that could make that possible…

Mar 11, 2019

Mar 11, 2019

Dan Goldin

Dropbox should drop the freemium model

I don’t know the details but I suspect there are a ton of customers just like me. We find Dropbox incredibly convenient but the free tier…

Mar 1, 2019

Mar 1, 2019

Dan Goldin

Java’s SimpleDateFormat: YYYY vs yyyy

An example illustrates this much better than words ever could.

Feb 11, 2019

Feb 11, 2019

Dan Goldin

Finally, some price increases

Modern digital products have moved beyond release versions and are constantly being released and deployed. This makes increasing prices…

Feb 10, 2019

Feb 10, 2019

Dan Goldin

GitHub’s new plan

I think this is an intelligent move on GitHub’s part. While they probably have tons of engineers paying the $7 for the Pro plan they’re…

Feb 3, 2019

Feb 3, 2019

Dan Goldin

Modernizing Makers Alley and Better404

The one saving grace was that for both repos I found an old commit containing a database dump so I didn’t have to start from scratch. It…

Feb 3, 2019

Feb 3, 2019

Dan Goldin

MySQL foreign keys

The MySQL docs give a nice overview of how foreign keys work but they’re light on examples and since I tend to learn best from examples I…

Jan 27, 2019

Jan 27, 2019

Dan Goldin

Dan Goldin

VP Engineering @ TripleLift. Before that I cofounded @MakersAlley and @GlossiApp. I try to build more than I break.

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