amirmc

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by amirmc 12y ago
I vaguely remember a YC company doing the kind of thing you described. I don't think they do it anymore (pivoted or shut-down?) and I can't recall the name of the company at all.
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "Are you going out of town and looking for someone to rob your apartment? This is the app for you." So is every check-in based app or anything that geotags your posts/photos. This is not news. Also, it's quite
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by amirmc 12y ago
I was chatting about exactly this kind of app/service with a few friends two summers ago. They have an apple tree and can't possibly use all the fruit they get from it. There are probably other local people with other fruits&#x2
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by amirmc 12y ago
In principle there isn't any reason a YC partner couldn't just give a talk if they wanted to. For example Harj did a session at HackerNews London just over two years ago [1]. I don't recall it being an official 'YC Event
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by amirmc 12y ago
Also, sync. Reading from multiple devices is frustrating if the read/favourite history isn't carried over.
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by amirmc 12y ago
Just apply. The form is pretty simple and will only take a few mins to fill out. There's no need to 'pre-reject' yourself.
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "Also, London is not really a tech center anyways. Poor choice." A lot of tech companies have made London their base, including some prominent YC companies. London is so big that it's many things to many people so if y
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by amirmc 12y ago
Many things have happened since Aug 23rd that could affect the stock price. It's ridiculous to claim that such a change over such a timespan is due to only one event.
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by amirmc 12y ago
Worth pointing out: "The changing tech company policies do not affect data requests approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which are automatically kept secret by law. National security letters, which are administrati
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "We have the ability to live with a level of anonymity that our ancestors would deeply envy." This is completely ridiculous. Just consider how many pieces of data are needed to take part in society as a normal person. Socia
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by amirmc 13y ago
People are not really being asked to give up their privacy. Or rather, they don't fully comprehend what they're giving up, so I'd argue that it's not at all a conscious choice for many. Moreover, I find this kind of at
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "What I've found is many people like to complain about a lack of privacy, but are willing to make no real sacrifices to get more of it." This is a false trade-off. Why should people have to make sacrifices to gain priv
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by amirmc 13y ago
The original quote is about mail: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." Which itself may have been derived from an earlier Usenet quote a
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "The fact that it makes no money ..." LinkedIn pulls in a lot of revenue. They're expecting $2bn+ in 2014. http://investors.linkedin.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=82...
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Quantified Toilets – Live feed from CHI2014 conference(quantifiedtoilets.com)
2 points by amirmc 13y ago|0 comments
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by amirmc 13y ago
While interesting I urge everyone to treat reports of neuroimaging studies here as anecdotes rather than data. This article seems to meander between generally accepted statements about brain networks, standard management 'self-help&#x2
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by amirmc 13y ago
It seems to me that they somewhat conflated 'deadlines' with 'goals' early on and then just ran with it. Edit: Any idea why this was downvoted? I've re-read it and I still think the author has slightly conflated the
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by amirmc 13y ago
I like the article but I don't think it makes its point clearly. What I took from it is that notions and mechanisms of defining leadership/influence are somewhat orthogonal to problem-solving. In the example, it was Martha who cam
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by amirmc 13y ago
I think it's a bad idea. It's already possible to have clicky links to elsewhere and seems sufficient. I don't see what value inline images would add.
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Why did you choose OCaml?(reddit.com)
4 points by amirmc 13y ago|1 comments
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "I wish they would've pulled a Craigslist..." EBay owns around 25% of Craigslist.
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by amirmc 13y ago
"When people ask us why we charge for WhatsApp, we say "Have you considered the alternative?"" It must be frustrating for those users who really did consider this and thought $1 per year was a bargain. Over time tho
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by amirmc 13y ago
Do you normally use email, calendars etc via the browser? Just curious as you say you've not found slick versions elsewhere and I'm not sure what that means to you. For example, I hardly ever access these things via the browser so
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "It's a sad but basic truth that we need identity and ability to accumulate reputation to be able to hold a meaningful, informative conversation." Not true. We do not need to accumulate reputation to have a meaningful
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by amirmc 13y ago
Moreover, not in the main canopy but the drogue, which was deployed a few seconds earlier. A fascinating and impressive bit of work.
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Reddit downgrades technology community after censorship(bbc.com)
1 points by amirmc 13y ago|0 comments
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by amirmc 13y ago
FWIW I got the following from them by email on the 19th about scheduled maintenance for today (21st). ------------------------------- We’re writing to inform you about a scheduled maintenance window we have this weekend to perform several i
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by amirmc 13y ago
Two thoughts 1. Has anyone suggested making yourself a new moderator account? eg dang_mod for all mod-related comments. It might ease the mental burden for the reader (at the cost of increased mental burden and user-switching for you - so m
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by amirmc 13y ago
Thanks for the info. That page talks about iOS but is the same true of OSX?
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by amirmc 13y ago
What I mean is that my browser (Safari) doesn't dial home (Apple) to decide whether or not it can try serving me content (HackerNews). NB That doesn't mean it never connects to Apple without my knowledge (or elsewhere), but rather

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