chejazi

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   by chejazi 11y ago

   Maybe a clarification is in order. BUT, this is YC's attempt to make their advice available to the broader community. If you're interested in YC and listen to their advice, you will likely have heard about Peter Thiel's monop
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   by chejazi 11y ago

   They might be trying to unify their product offering across desktop and mobile. This would mean less things they have to optimize for, therefore more money in the long run.
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   by chejazi 11y ago

   You can stuff the logic of "who can do what" somewhere else. eg: var permissions = { "Superadmin": ["selfdestruct",...], "Admin": ["ban",...], "Plebe": ["post&quot
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   by chejazi 11y ago

   Just finished watching Samurai Champloo, where I first learned about Nujabes. I was saddened when I discovered the artist died in 2010. Great music! RIP
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   by chejazi 11y ago

   Currently listening to intense focus. I've been casually looking for background music like this for a while. Thank you.
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   Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus(medium.com)

   1 points by chejazi 11y ago|1 comments
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   by chejazi 11y ago

   Breaking the law is part of the "disruptive" entrepreneurship strategy for these companies. Incumbent companies tend to influence the law, not necessarily break it. For a disruptor to break the law, the company needs a lot of mo
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   by chejazi 11y ago

   Haha I thought the same thing. The author probably chose to include it, since it has a promo-code specific to the site.
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   Silk Road Employee's Plan Z: Take to the Internet(myplanetganja.com)

   1 points by chejazi 11y ago|0 comments
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    Lost in the transformation was three solar masses’ worth of energy, vaporized into gravitational waves in an unseen and barely felt apocalypse. As visible light, that energy would be equivalent to the brightness of a billion trillion suns.
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    On the bottom of https://brand.uber.com/#our-new-look , they explain the roots of the new icon as well: 01. The Bit At the center of our app icons is the Bit—the symbol of our technology. 02. Product shape Surrounding the Bi
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    I'm bootstrapping a product startup as well and I have to agree. My logo is the cent symbol, in Arial font. Lots of other things to be working on!
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    Here's a graph of the transaction volume: http://imgur.com/ScNqb4I The big spike in the beginning was before we implemented fraud checks (eg, users directing botnets at the shortlinks). Since then, the transaction volu
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    Just generated this graph: http://imgur.com/iqnaGem We had 38 signups yesterday, grew ~44% in the last 30 days. EDIT, mathfail: grew 79% in the last 30 days.
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    We've had around 2.8k signups so far (launched in October). We have about 200 users active per day. I just checked and 89 of them have been active in all previous 5 days. We have a few outspoken believers in the concept (< 10). We j
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    Hi YC partners, Founder of https://credhot.com here. We're a link shortener that uses interstitial advertising to make money. We rev-share with people who share content using our shortener, so they get paid based on their t
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    Haven't looked at the source but worth noting there's a Bitcoin logo on the homepage near "Browse Better."
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    Winning!
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    I imagine Apple provided a superior experience since they manage the App development frameworks on Mac / iOS. The flop must have been inventory. A lot of advertisers are now turning to exchanges (DoubleClick, AppNexus, OpenX...) for in
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    Good that it's open source, but I found this blurb from their contributing guidelines [0] to be contribution inhibiting: You will need to complete a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) before your pull request can be accepted. This ag
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    Are you happy with the outcome? Would you make the same decision knowing what you know now?
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    Flypping typical – compare the fonts you have(flippingtypical.com)

    1 points by chejazi 11y ago|0 comments
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    Gigabyte: Decimal vs. Binary(blog.codinghorror.com)

    2 points by chejazi 11y ago|0 comments
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    Yahoo shuts down Yahoo Screen(techcrunch.com)

    2 points by chejazi 11y ago|0 comments
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    As a candidate you might have better luck with companies that embrace Holacracy [0]. On the recruiting side, I have a hunch that the best way to get more Product Engineers is to have the Product Engineers in your org conduct interviews in a
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    Thanks for offering an alternate perspective on this. Could you clarify how they make themselves a middleman in Bitcoin transactions?
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    He's not a criminal but he stopped being the lead contributor to Bitcoin Core to join the contentious Bitcoin XT project. The motivation for this project is a debate about whether increasing the Bitcoin blocksize is an acceptable way t
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    Interesting. I found more about this on Wikipedia [0]. As a tech hobbyist with a PS3 in my teens, I was genuinely interested in a desktop replacement. I shared this interest with others in my cohort at the time. [0] https://en.wi
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    > The PS3 was outclassed by generic PC hardware pretty quickly I agree here. Running Yellow Dog Linux [0] on my PS3 was a fun weekend project, but it never came close to replacing my dedicated computer. I didn't even notice the upda
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    by chejazi 11y ago

    The excerpt you mentioned sounds exactly like the Coinbase Shift Card [0] with the exception that it's via Wire instead of ACH. [0] https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/222864...