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by Finbarr 14y ago
How about indifferent?
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by Finbarr 14y ago
I created this API out of a frustration with Twilio. They don't provide such an API and when I requested a list of prices they were only able to provide me with an outdated CSV file. They've since reached out to me with an updated CSV but I
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Show HN: Twilio Pricing API hack(twiliopricing.herokuapp.com)
28 points by Finbarr 14y ago|4 comments
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NamelessApp, putting a name to every face in the world #swbayMEGA(namelessapp.com)
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New Macbook Pro
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by Finbarr 15y ago
I'm not sure that your numbers account for share dilution. Let's assume the employee stock pool is 10% before any funding is raised so the founders start with 90% and the employees 10%. Assuming your numbers above are correct, the founders
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by Finbarr 15y ago
It seems to me that Yahoo has bitten off more than it can chew. I bet Facebook can out-lawyer them at this stage.
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by Finbarr 15y ago
It's a fairly circumstantial question. If I had to pick one language for the rest of my life and could be asked to build all manner of applications, I'd pick Java. Otherwise it's ruby all the way - it's fun to work with, but has limits.
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by Finbarr 15y ago
Seems to me that QR codes are infinitely more useful to robots than humans. Forget addresses on mail, just QR codes (or the modern day equivalent) on everything that will be handled by robots.
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by Finbarr 15y ago
Finally a practical use of QR codes? Each landing pad could have some information embedded via QR to help the copter to distinguish them from one another.
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I wonder if this has been manipulated in the past.
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by Finbarr 15y ago
Well, I used redis to hold a few sets for each user. You can atomically add items to sets in redis. Mongodb doesn't support this functionality (AFAIK). MongoDB is great for dumping and retrieving lots of data and is more durable than redis.
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by Finbarr 15y ago
There have been intermittent issues. I was driving home from SWSJ and unable to deal with it for around an hour earlier this evening. Trying to fix a few bugs in the code now.
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I'm afraid designers were few and far between at the SWSJ event and we didn't have one on the team.
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by Finbarr 15y ago
We built this during Startup Weekend San Jose this weekend. It's built on node.js, socket.io, mongodb, redis and knockoutjs on the front end. Check it out - social networking in reverse!
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by Finbarr 15y ago
Looked at the trends for various different languages. Obviously, the trends are for all searches on Google - not only those related to the programming language. I couldn't find another language that was rising where Java is falling.
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What's eating Java?(google.com)
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There's a picture of a broken violin? Then it must be true! Why would anyone ever break such a beautiful instrument unless Paypal had told them to!?
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by Finbarr 15y ago
I built this as part of my dissertation in the 4th year of my CS degree over a year ago. Was talking to somebody about it yesterday and they suggested I should post it on HN so here it is. Essentially you are looking at a search engine that
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Show HN: getimgs - a search project I built in university(getimgs.appspot.com)
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by Finbarr 15y ago
Would second this. I'm from Scotland and moved here in October for a job. Got a very good response from targeting startup companies directly.
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First thing that came to my mind. Really gimmicky idea that could see the creator make a pretty penny if it catches on.
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by Finbarr 15y ago
Agree with this. Was disappointed the guide didn't delve into asynchronous even at a basic level. This is what makes nodejs and mongodb worth using and I don't think the concepts are overly difficult to grasp.
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by Finbarr 15y ago
Having watched the event live in person, I think this point has been taken out of context. Mark's point was that there's no way he could have succeeded with facebook without the valley as he was young and inexperienced, but knowing what he
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by Finbarr 15y ago
This post touches on nearly everything. Some interesting snippets - well worth a read if you are a [insert appropriate spin on how you add value as a programmer].
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I think this is really good for people in certain situations, e.g., you're going to pitch an important event with a new idea and you don't have a name or a logo. The design is nice and clean. My only suggestion would be adding share buttons
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by Finbarr 15y ago
Why did the chicken cross the road? To have his motives questioned. I particularly like this one.
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I like it too. However, it is a little slow at times and I do get the "there was a problem sending this tweet" message a little too often. It's particularly bad whenever you try to go through a long list of people you are following and try
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by Finbarr 15y ago
It's probably not too hard to solve the problem. You could create a directed graph where the nodes are triggers and the edges are actions and make sure there are no cycles created whenever a user turns on or creates a task. Caveats to the a
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by Finbarr 15y ago
Really like this - huge range of possible applications. One question though: what, if anything, does ifttt do to detect/prevent infinite loops? If I create a task to copy new photos added to flickr to instragram, and another task to copy n

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