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by aguynamedben 8y ago
+1, I use the syncing but originally YNAB didn't have that feature and you entered things by hand. Either works.
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by aguynamedben 8y ago
YNAB gets around this in an interesting way with their "age your money" concept. When you spend money, you aren't looking at your account to see how much actual money you have. You're looking at your budget to see how mu
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by aguynamedben 8y ago
Yes, YNAB, it rocks: https://www.youneedabudget.com/ They have an opinionated, cult following that seems a bit weird at first, but if you approach the situation with humility and the real need to budget you'll realize
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by aguynamedben 9y ago
This is great, the examples in the README are very interesting.
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by aguynamedben 9y ago
Nice, I like this a lot. I'm curious: How did you get the event data? It's really accurate a clean for San Francisco (Dreamforce, Fleet Week, etc.)
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by aguynamedben 9y ago
I agree. The number of engineers who don't understand simple indexing in RDBMSes is tragic. Too many engineers see a slow query and immediately say "this database can't scale, let's switch databases!"
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by aguynamedben 9y ago
This seems like an interesting idealogical argument to follow, but anybody using Emacs in the real world is going to just go ahead and install Magit. Nobody uses Emacs on the default settings anyways. Part of learning Emacs is sorting out y
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by aguynamedben 9y ago
That was legit
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by aguynamedben 9y ago
Been playing guitar for 20 years, and this is spot on! The John Mayer comment is ridiculous, he's a great guitarist. Even many of John Mayer's biggest pop radio hits have great chord voicings and writing built-in (No Such Thing, W
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by aguynamedben 9y ago
An Ableton thread made it to the front page of HN?! YES. Awesome work. +100 on the expanded dedicated mixer view. I like Live because it's so music and the Push 2 is epic, not because I make electronic music. I noticed metering was on
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by aguynamedben 9y ago
Interesting side note, Ableton actually has a really interesting low-level API for music makers called Max for Live that lets anybody create interesting instruments or effects and share them with others. I'm not a pro at it, but it see
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by aguynamedben 10y ago
I'm the other engineer at First Round and it's really fun. The people are very smart, there's a lot to build, and working in VC teaches you a lot about how startups work.
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by aguynamedben 11y ago
Been using it for a while. Great for hacks, downloading 360 VR videos, downloading all videos for a channel. Was happy to see it here, it's nothing new, just a great tool, great job of surfacing it HN!
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by aguynamedben 11y ago
First Round Capital | San Francisco | ONSITE We're hiring for 2 positions on a small engineering team that works in seed stage venture capital. Full-Stack Software Engineer - https://medium.com/@firstround/full-sta
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by aguynamedben 11y ago
First Round Capital | San Francisco, CA | Full-time / Onsite First Round is a seed stage VC firm. We invest in the worlds best companies when they are just getting started (Uber, Blue Apron, Warby Parker, Square, many more...) We'
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by aguynamedben 11y ago
I've done this before. Don't underestimate the opportunities that talking with the CEO (and board members) about your situation may present, especially if you're on good terms with the company, have dutifully served for 7 yea
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by aguynamedben 11y ago
Wirecutter is a similar format... a list of "Best X to Buy" http://thewirecutter.com/
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by aguynamedben 11y ago
There is an excellent book about "the Longitude problem" that details John Harrison and the invention of high precision chronometers: http://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Genius-Greatest-Scientific-P... Great short boo
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How to Get into Reading Science Fiction Books(aguynamedben.com)
2 points by aguynamedben 11y ago|0 comments
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Why Mobile Will Win First in VR(medium.com)
2 points by aguynamedben 11y ago|0 comments
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by aguynamedben 12y ago
This guy is awesome. He has an online book about typography that convinced me stop typing 2 spaces after periods: http://practicaltypography.com/
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HTTP/2 working group charter and drafts(datatracker.ietf.org)
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by aguynamedben 12y ago
For me, it's difficult to hire an engineer that's not specifically interested in what my company is doing. A very common reason I've passed on engineers in the past is "they're okay... but they don't seem real
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by aguynamedben 12y ago
San Francisco. Full-time. I'm the hiring manager, please email me directly at ben@firstround.com if you're interested. First Round Capital is building an in-house engineering team to work in venture capital. We’ve funded compani
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by aguynamedben 13y ago
This happened to my work email tab, but not my personal email tab, so now I can finally tell them apart!
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by aguynamedben 13y ago
"Ben Dover" sure is a popular name... https://www.evernote.com/shard/s97/sh/5a445178-f0ab-4eb2-863...
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by aguynamedben 13y ago
Yeah, fair. Regarding "I wish it was a real price though" that's why we want to run this analysis for insurance companies. They're the ones that have the best real data, and can benefit from it the most.
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by aguynamedben 13y ago
Here's the Jon Stewart segment: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-may-13-2013/bi-annual-... Some other links to more info are at the footer of the page. There was an interesting US Senate hearing with St
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by aguynamedben 13y ago
Chargemaster is kind of like (a more screwed up) MSRP when you buy a car, so not exactly, but it's an indicator of the pricing disparity for the same procedures. We've also indexed the Medicare DRGs which are a more accurate predi
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Show HN: We structured and compared hospital chargemaster prices(pricemed.org)
171 points by aguynamedben 13y ago|47 comments

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