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by ashu 19y ago
Hey, we are not hiring just right now, but will be doing so very soon. Send your resume our way? :)
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by ashu 19y ago
Marvin: I know that Norwegian banks don't use OFX, but maybe they use an equivalent protocol. Do you know if they use / support HBCI? Or anything else? Let us know! Also, there _is_ a chance that we can make a system for each of the banks (
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by ashu 19y ago
We use the Direct OFX protocol for accessing the data. We use screen scraping only for 2-3 banks which either don't support OFX or charge their users exorbitant fees for OFX access.
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Buxfer is giving Mint, other personal finance sites, a run for their money(venturebeat.com)
31 points by ashu 19y ago|11 comments
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by ashu 19y ago
Well, nothing may be new in this case, perhaps. But innovation happens very erratically and in spurts. One never knows what an artifact will be used for in the future, or what it will inspire to be created next. Regardless, my main argument
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by ashu 19y ago
Fascinating! Just what I had been hoping for ever since the Bigtable paper came out... It remains to be seen if the system will perform as advertised in real deployments.
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by ashu 19y ago
Silly. This is like saying "Stop innovating." Everybody thought search was a done deal when GOOG arrived. Mp3 players all seemed fine until the iPod arrived.
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by ashu 19y ago
Actually, PHP 5 with all its object orientation and reflection features is quite liveable despite being filled with kludges around every corner.
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by ashu 19y ago
A rather silly post especially since it only talks about one side of the coin. Obviously customers don't care what your code looks like. That does not mean you shouldn't care about it - especially startups - since ugly, fragile code can c
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Finance app Buxfer gets some iPhone love(buxfer.com)
6 points by ashu 19y ago|1 comments
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by ashu 19y ago
And why exactly?
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by ashu 19y ago
I used to hate coffee most of the time but gulped it down since it kept me awake. And then I visited Barcelona. The coffee I had in the small cafes in the town was the most awesome, fresh and tasty beverage I have ever had. Interestingly,
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by ashu 19y ago
cute!
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by ashu 19y ago
I think in a lot of cases (me, personally, for example) the motivation for contributing to OSS is just plain fun and education. Sometimes, I also end up improving some software that I personally use. That is the reason why OSS has a good re
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by ashu 19y ago
Man, I was toying around with this idea for so long. I hope Google makes this into some kind of an open-source project...
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by ashu 19y ago
"Quantum Information and Quantum Computation" by Nielsen and Huang is also a fascinating book if you want to look at Quantum Mechanics from a distinctly mathematical and CS perspective.
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by ashu 19y ago
Yah, we (aka Buxfer) are alive :) Guess we need to be posting more frequently to the blog. Btw, we just announced support for synchronizing with over 300 financial institutions. http://www.buxfer.com/blog/2007/11/21/synchronize-accounts-w.
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by ashu 19y ago
fantastic. congrats!
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by ashu 19y ago
i was listening to loud music and felt vibrations on the floor. at first, i thought some dude was going around with a very very loud bass! however, i soon realized everything else was shaking as well and ran downstairs scared shit!
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[SouthBay] Buxfer: looking for smart hackers to join the gang(docs.google.com)
15 points by ashu 19y ago
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by ashu 19y ago
TeX is Knuth's invention. It changed mathematical type-setting forever.
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by ashu 19y ago
sergey's wife's company (23andme.com)? http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/22/google-takes-stake-in-s...
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by ashu 19y ago
somewhat regularly, with comments having score 5 only.
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by ashu 19y ago
Absolutely. Twitter is asynchronous IM.
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by ashu 19y ago
We don't really need the browser's implementation of Javascript. For example, consider Steve Yegge's rails port to JS which he developed on top of Rhino (the mozilla engine.) IIRC, rhino includes a very basic shell.
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by ashu 19y ago
i dont understand why people are giving skype such a bad time. they have been quite honest (technically) about what happened - a bug got exposed by some really really extreme workload. Also, whoever thinks that they should have "modeled" th
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by ashu 19y ago
There's also the SoundExchange fees for each song that is played from a friend-radio.
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by ashu 19y ago
love the newly coined word and its etymology :)
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by ashu 19y ago
Tripadvisor's ambiguous statement actually fuels the rumour even more.
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by ashu 19y ago
<evil> Or _maybe_ somebody who's investing in facebook is also somehow involved with the acquisition. get one of the apps an exit => facebook's value shoots through the roof again. </evil>

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