GraffitiTim

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by GraffitiTim 12y ago
In what ways do you think the communities will diverge over time?
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Show HN: Search only the best products on Amazon(toppp.com)
2 points by GraffitiTim 12y ago|2 comments
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by GraffitiTim 12y ago
MobileWorks is an example of an existing YC (S11) company that has the potential to do this.
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by GraffitiTim 12y ago
This reminds me of those 20 Questions apps. Have you tried a good one lately? "Akinator" on iOS has an incredible ability to predict the person or character you're thinking of. It successfully guessed "one of the twins f
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by GraffitiTim 12y ago
You could make it free for up to 2 habits.
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Oculus to Acquire Carbon Design Team(oculusvr.com)
112 points by GraffitiTim 12y ago|49 comments
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by GraffitiTim 12y ago
What do people think of an "Outgoing Speech Bubble" icon? Here's a quick mockup I just did: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9f0w2tsrbc3c55/arrowbubble.png and at 32px wide: https://www.dropbox
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Samsung is working with Oculus on a media-focused VR headset(engadget.com)
7 points by GraffitiTim 12y ago|0 comments
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Hexacopters Playing Instruments(youtube.com)
1 points by GraffitiTim 12y ago|0 comments
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Bloomthat raises $2M(techcrunch.com)
2 points by GraffitiTim 13y ago|0 comments
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
If you mean the vertical line (horizontal from camera perspective) of squares with no pieces on it, that's called an open file, and it's an important concept in chess. Rooks on an open file are generally more powerful.
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
It means making knowingly inferior moves in order to set a trap that you are hoping your opponent will fall for (which Gates did). Normally not something serious chess players do, but I guess this is a weird situation.
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
That analysis looks fine except for the end. At the end, Bill's 9. Nxe5 resulted in an immediate checkmate. Instead, 9. Re1 (Rook one square to the left) stops the mate since it gives white's king an escape route. In an even match
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
I've been an avid Evernote user since the beginning (one of the first few thousand users). I use it to record all sorts of ideas, thoughts, notes, reminders, research, and references. One year ago, my girlfriend was using Evernote (on
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
Primecoin is designed to search for prime numbers, which is at least somewhat useful. Ripple Labs is giving away Ripple (XRP) for donating your computing power to solving scientific problems at https://www.computingforgood.org&#x
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
Since they're still going to provide the data to new users, I wonder if some of their interpretations could be recreated and published by existing users who still have access to the interpretations.
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
This is similar to how I learned and how I teach beginning chess players. Good set of recommendations.
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
When did he say that? I couldn't find a source.
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The New Matterport (YC W12) 3D Camera Could Change Reality As You Know It(blog.ycombinator.com)
1 points by GraffitiTim 13y ago|0 comments
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The Mission of Tesla(teslamotors.com)
348 points by GraffitiTim 13y ago|191 comments
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
I meant in the context of trying to build a long-term business. Netflix would be dead in a few more years if they hadn't started doing digital streaming.
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
Here's a chart of the number of transactions excluding the 100 most popular addresses, which seem to be mostly the gambling service SatoshiDice [1]: https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-excluding-popu...
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
I agree with the premise. However, what happens to Lob when paper and mail get replaced by digital transactions? Netflix was able to pivot from sending physical DVDs to streaming digital movies. Will Lob be able to pivot from printing and m
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
If you find yourself not able to fall asleep until later than you'd like, I recommend trying the warmer flux setting. I've been using RedScreen + a little script I wrote instead of flux because it gets far redder, and for me works
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
At the shareholder meeting a couple months ago, Elon Musk said the gullwing doors will have proximity and pinch sensors to prevent them from hitting anything. I don't know for sure if he was referring to the first version of Model X, b
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
HipChat integration doesn't seem to be saving for me. I pasted in a Notification auth token that I generated (which caused a green checkmark to appear), and wrote in the ID of one of our HipChat rooms, but it doesn't seem to save
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by GraffitiTim 13y ago
I tried it out today and it worked great. They call it "Instacart Plus" and it shows up as one of the store options in the dropdown menu, along with Trader Joe's, Costco, etc. The delivery arrived at 1:00pm sharp for the 1-2p
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by GraffitiTim 14y ago
We may at least do a couple write-ups about some of the tech behind it.
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by GraffitiTim 14y ago
Just untested. It may work in IE9 and IE10.
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by GraffitiTim 14y ago
You're thinking of calculating touch typing speed in WPM, where the standard is to consider a "word" to be 5 characters.

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