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   by conroy 14y ago

   No problem Grace, thanks for the update. I don't want to come off as negative, I love what Watsi is doing and wish you best.
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   by conroy 14y ago

   Chase, thanks for the reply. It makes perfect sense that your providers would perform the treatment before getting your funds, as you operate as an (almost) insurance provider. I was worried they were waiting for funds to proceed, but it's
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   by conroy 14y ago

   I'm a huge fan of Watsi, but looking over their transparency document has me worried. The funds for 47% of funded treatments haven't made it to their medical partners. On average, the unsent funds have been waiting for 43 days, with the lon
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   The Website That Never Was(kyleconroy.com)

   1 points by conroy 14y ago|0 comments
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   by conroy 14y ago

   Any chance you can post the code you used to benchmark? That's an insane difference.
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   by conroy 14y ago

   If you have boto installed, this is all you'll need to do import boto.ec2 conn = boto.ec2.connect_to_region("us-east-1") conn.request_spot_instances('0.005', 'ami-2400984d', instance_type='t1.mi
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   by conroy 14y ago

   The "gang member pointing a gun" is actually the main character in Ubisoft's upcoming game Watch Dogs[1]. My guess is that this page / slide was shown in the context of mobile gaming. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Dogs
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   by conroy 14y ago

   Any reason why pricing isn't available on the site?
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   by conroy 14y ago

   Just found the API that reddit uses to check for usernames[1]. I'll be adding it to handlehelp right now. [1]: http://www.reddit.com/api/username_available.json?user=foo
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    by conroy 14y ago

    You should add more services! I wrote http://handlehelp.com which checks for username availability across multiple sites. It's open source[1], so you can use some of my checks if you'd like. [1]: https://github.com/kyleconroy/handlehelp
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    by conroy 14y ago

    A sustainable replacement already exists: statically generated website on S3. You own the domain, and there is very little chance that S3 is going away anytime soon. It will also be cheaper than $5/month.
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    by conroy 14y ago

    jazzychad made something similar a year or so ago http://shoutkey.com/
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    by conroy 14y ago

    The majority of the items on the website are password reminder emails. This is after the initial sign up, which means the do indeed store it in plain text.
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    by conroy 14y ago

    Github uses Campfire. http://zachholman.com/2011/01/automating-inefficiencies/
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    by conroy 14y ago

    As a developer of a downloadable desktop game [1], this change really hurts me. I distribute binaries for OS X and Windows via Downloads. The entire build and upload process is automated, and has been working great for the last six months.
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    by conroy 14y ago

    This is my latest weekend project[1] and first web application written in Go. Go's concurrency model made it very easy to query multiple sites at once and stream the data back to the client. Specifically, I'm creating a Gorountine for each
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    Show HN: HandleHelp - Easily check username availability across sites(handlehelp.com)

    2 points by conroy 14y ago|1 comments
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    by conroy 14y ago

    Author of Stashboard here, love what you guys have done. I'd love to integrate your frontpage design as an optional template. When I wrote Stashboard, monitoring was explicitly not a requirement. Since it has an API, the idea what to write
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    by conroy 14y ago

    Remember that they also have the exclusive rights to the new season of Arrested Development. So it sounds to me like they are moving in the HBO direction.
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    by conroy 14y ago

    Working on my video game. It's a 2d platformer / adventure game, based on the show Community. It's open source if anyone is interested in writing Lua. http://projecthawkthorne.com
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    by conroy 14y ago

    You can run Go applications on App engine[1] and Heroku[2] [1] https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/go/overview [2] https://gist.github.com/299535bbf56bf3016cba
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    by conroy 14y ago

    It's ridiculous that iOS doesn't offer an API for scheduled background tasks. The clever tricks developers use to solve this problem (geofencing, silent audio[1], etc.) shouldn't be necessary. [1]: http://www.148apps.com/news/silence-golde
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    by conroy 14y ago

    Please do. Speaking as someone who has open-sourced similar tech, I'd love to use this at work.
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    by conroy 15y ago

    Migrating living documents to a public source-control repository is fantastic. I can now subscribe to changes in policies (and maybe even propose my own).
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    by conroy 15y ago

    For those interested, here is a link to the series that H_E_Pennypacker mentioned. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/slaverya21stcenturyevil/
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    by conroy 15y ago

    In response to c, pypy has been getting ridiculously fast as of late. In some very specific (ie pointless) benchmarks, it can outperform C [1]. And it's only getting faster [2]. [1] http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-is-faster-than-
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    by conroy 15y ago

    I took this class last year (Spring 2011). Hammerbacher's a great professor. He focuses on teaching real-world data analysis tools and skills.
28. 358.▲
    by conroy 15y ago

    Please allow me to control a presentation in Keynote. I've wanted this feature for so long.
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    by conroy 15y ago

    I'm obviously biased because I have a similar site of my own ( http://areyouresponsive.com ), but I love seeing new tools to facilitate building response websites.
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    by conroy 15y ago

    Google and Facebook don't work because they utilize the X-Frame-Options[1] response header to prevent their content from being served in iframes. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/The_X-FRAME-OPTIONS_respons...