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by gomox 10y ago
If you have any beyond-superficial interest in food, Serious Eats columns by Lopez-Alt are a guaranteed treat. A personal favorite is the article on getting perfect french fries in McDonalds style, including managing to get a bag of still-f
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by gomox 10y ago
A locker wouldn't have that problem, as there is nothing to break. Public bikes in many big cities don't have that problem either (i.e. there's no assessment of the returned bike). A smart car doesn't have to have it eit
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by gomox 10y ago
This might sound funny in light of recent events, but the idea is that a smart contract requires no trust in a 3rd party as the rules are specified within the contract and the Ethereum platform guarantees proper execution of the contract.
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by gomox 10y ago
For example, a smart contract might withhold $100 from an account, and grant whoever owns the private key to that account access to open a lock. When the user is done using the resource (say, a shared car or apartment or locker), he can req
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by gomox 10y ago
Some simple use cases: - a multisignature wallet, that requires more than one person to sign off on a transaction before it can happen. - payment schedules or any kind of transaction that does not function exactly like a one time, full size
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by gomox 10y ago
WSJ is running a story as well: http://www.wsj.com/articles/chiefless-company-rakes-in-more-...
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by gomox 10y ago
It's at 110M now, and will very likely take the #1 spot for largest crowdfunding within a few hours.
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by gomox 10y ago
Tried to get a thread going a week or so ago when this was at $30M (!). Paste of my original comment there: --- The DAO is a decentralized "venture" fund based on the Ethereum blockchain. It is meant to invest in projects and coll
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Leaderless, Blockchain-Based VC Fund Raises $100M and Counting(fortune.com)
5 points by gomox 10y ago|3 comments
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by gomox 10y ago
Post never took off, but 4 days later it's at $76M. 14 days to go still.
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by gomox 10y ago
Ha. If anyone can make a Subaru pretty and user-friendly it's the guys that originally made Unix work as a desktop OS.
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by gomox 10y ago
The DAO is a decentralized "venture" fund based on the Ethereum blockchain. It is meant to invest in projects and collect rewards for investors. The amount raised 9 days into the fundraiser already makes it the #2 largest crowdfun
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The DAO crowdsale reaches $30M with 18 days to go(daohub.org)
7 points by gomox 10y ago|2 comments
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by gomox 11y ago
But a given airplane can carry a lot less people in a business-grade seat than in an economy seat. Also, NYC <-> LON for $500 is the price of only very few seats in a plane.
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by gomox 11y ago
In case of discrimination alegations (race, disability and veteran-related matters in the US), the burden is on the accused to provide proof of non-discrimination. In this case, the usual practice for proving innocence is to show that the s
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by gomox 11y ago
Most large companies stay out of a 10-foot-pole range of anything that legal labels with the L word (liability). The fact that not giving reasons because of liability is commonly accepted wisdom in recruiting means that deviating from it ta
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by gomox 11y ago
For me the main point about Tableau is not building dynamic dashboards, but actually working with data interactively in an intuitive fashion. It's for when you want to figure out what the data is telling you, and not how to wrangle the
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by gomox 11y ago
That is somewhat fine if your deliverable is the dashboard. But if your deliverable is the analysis and the report, this is a lot of investment.
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by gomox 11y ago
Honestly I have never used anything similar to Tableau in the balance of "straight-forwardness" and quality of results. My use case is: here's some data, let's take a look at it and make some decent graphs including any
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by gomox 11y ago
Tableau is a surprisingly good desktop application for business intelligence and analytics that, IMO, grew too big for its own good. You plug it into data (spreadsheets, databases, you name it) and it makes it very simple (drag-and-drop sim
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by gomox 11y ago
Good job guys. The SMB space desperately needs some new players.
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by gomox 11y ago
In terms of conventional job titles, that's the job of the Product Manager.
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by gomox 11y ago
Software Architect in general implies a high-level (in terms of abstraction) technical position within an engineering team. This person is usually in charge of the design of the software, as in "use a queue here instead of a database&q
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by gomox 11y ago
Seems like that is just a command-line version of an e-mail client filter: it connects to the server, runs a query, and moves stuff to folders. Based on my experience with the average IMAP server search performance, I wouldn't let my u
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by gomox 11y ago
That's not necessarily bad. It just means someone thought that it was more important for the interface to be easy to discover than it was to keep it clean. In my opinion a good IM system needs to be both easy (as it targets a mainstrea
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by gomox 11y ago
I gave you an issue-tracker-spirited upvote for this. Pretty much the only reason I still put up with Skype.
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by gomox 11y ago
What would you want to use it for? It seems like HOA sessions for most of the use cases that spring to mind would be scheduled ahead of time, and therefore not suffer as much from the bad-contact-list issue.
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by gomox 11y ago
It's just the UX guys at Google acknowledging this article from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10036061 Namely, Joe-the-user can't see the hamburger menu at the top and looks for more tools where
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by gomox 11y ago
I don't think GMail is pretty, but it's very functional. Good UX != visual beauty. As a result of a fairly recent job change, I have been forced into desktop IMAP clients again. I have to admit I have discovered a whole new leve
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by gomox 11y ago
The complaint is not usually about the in-videoconference UI, but about the general product and overall confusing portfolio of applications that exist under the Hangouts moniker. There's the Android app which replaced GTalk, which also

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