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by alexjray 5y ago
This is the same argument as fiat. The fact that it's paper is not what makes it valuable...
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by alexjray 5y ago
Utah sucks, go to Colorado
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by alexjray 5y ago
Famous last words; would love to see where Crested Butte is at in five years. The only business that will be left will be the ones supporting the rich second homers why wouldn't it just stay like that or even get worse?
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by alexjray 5y ago
100%, the amount of houses that are just sitting up at Park City, Sun Valley, [insert popular ski town] is shocking.
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by alexjray 5y ago
What do the gray columns represent?
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by alexjray 5y ago
You summed it up perfectly, react-query aims to literally solve this exact problem. It does it quite well I might add. React, Mobx etc are all reactive frameworks exactly for this reason. Given a set of data render x, update the render ever
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by alexjray 5y ago
It's 100% a competitive edge to be able to adopt new technology faster than others. "The future is here it's just not widely distributed yet". Kudos to you for recognize that early on. It's funny that hiring for thi
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by alexjray 5y ago
I was one of the first few cohorts at the first "coding bootcamp" by Shereef Bishay called Dev Bootcamp. This was the first skill they taught us and they told us the exact same thing. "You are in the business of learning, lea
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by alexjray 5y ago
Good stuff. I would love to see the open source community get together to create a web based open source version of Microsoft Word rather than hundreds of basic text editors. Even adding something as basic as "Pages" would help mo
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by alexjray 6y ago
Lawyaw ( https://lawyaw.com ) (YCW18) | REMOTE FIRST (headquarters based in SF) Lawyaw is a vertical SaaS platform focused on enabling the digitization of legal services. Our platform solves a foundational gap in the market by mak
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by alexjray 6y ago
Modals kept getting stuck, couldn't click out of them and then the app would freeze.
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by alexjray 6y ago
Things I like. - projects and feature section. - Simple clean design, easy to edit - printable Things I don't like - Super buggy - no support for company lookup/reference (need to build company DB and connect the social graphs, th
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by alexjray 6y ago
This was very informative
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by alexjray 6y ago
That would be incredibly useful
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by alexjray 6y ago
Gold?
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by alexjray 6y ago
That's a best case scenario and feels overly optimistic. What are the chances it gets fully repaid?
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by alexjray 6y ago
The fed has pumped 2.3 trillion dollars into the economy in the past six weeks.... I don't see how the dollar won't crash eventually. Why would foreign countries still buy US bonds?
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by alexjray 6y ago
Most of that is Ian Storm Taylor. This is what happens when software is treated as a first class citizen and the co founder(s) are technical. It's a specific class of companies like Stripe and Square. The business itself is treated as
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Twilio Set to Acquire Segment for $3.2B(forbes.com)
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by alexjray 6y ago
Spot on
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by alexjray 6y ago
My thoughts exactly.
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by alexjray 6y ago
I have a bit of a contrarian view on data on the web. I think, eventually any data on the web is going to be in the public domain at some capacity. Data will be everywhere and readily available, mostly for free.
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by alexjray 6y ago
Charged particles from space randomly flip computer bits and crash software. The biggest bug you've never heard of.
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Bit Flip: The biggest bug you've never heard of.(wnycstudios.org)
2 points by alexjray 6y ago|1 comments
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Covid-19 Dashboard(arcgis.com)
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Jōmon Period(en.wikipedia.org)
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by alexjray 7y ago
Utah houses traditionally do not have many bathrooms, in fact most made before 1980's only have one. It's quite odd actually
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by alexjray 7y ago
So I updated the suggestion list so that the locations are ordered by population size, the largest appearing at the top. I figured the cities with higher populate would be the most relevant.
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by alexjray 7y ago
ocdtrekkie Great suggestion(pun intended), timely too; international features are next on my list. Great reminder of how important this use case is for people who need tools for timezones.
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by alexjray 7y ago
Hey hacker news, Alex here! I created the timezone tool I have always wanted. Something simple, useful and shareable. The application is URL based and saves to your browser's storage so you don't have to keep adding/removing

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