jasonjei

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by jasonjei 15y ago
I didn't see anything disruptive about Hipmunk. ITA Software's Matrix UI and iOS app are already excellent. Isn't Hipmunk already using ITA anyway for data?
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by jasonjei 15y ago
This is a sort of weird criterion, but I'm partial to the CVs done in LaTeX...
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by jasonjei 15y ago
Tyler, thanks for the kind words! The original reason we built this software was to increase the security of the Quickbooks file at my last job. We had one guy creating an invoice for $3000, then giving the customer that copy, and then cha
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by jasonjei 15y ago
My name is Jason Hung. I'm the founder of Levion. We're just getting started, let us know if you have any questions.
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Show HN: We let you access your Quickbooks Windows from the Web(levion.com)
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by jasonjei 15y ago
It would be more encouraging to see the Chinese government praising the actions of legislators like Reid and Smith. If they praised SOPA and PIPA, the Chinese government would look as if it were telling the US government Internet censorshi
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by jasonjei 15y ago
An easy way to show solidarity with SOPA protesters is whenever the main Google page is loaded (not when a query is already passed to Google) is to have it load black with some text saying how this is Internet might look like if SOPA is pas
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by jasonjei 15y ago
I honestly don't know why so many people care where a company starts. For example, Microsoft started in Redmond. Rovio isn't even in the US. Notch is a Swede. For what it's worth, people should really look at their product and build it wher
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by jasonjei 15y ago
Honestly, if you've got a good product and you have access to the Internet, does it really matter where you are physically located? I understand the energy that being physically present in a particular locality gives, but what confuses me
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by jasonjei 15y ago
I use Redis as a distributed locking mechanism too, especially with its setex feature which can help reduce deadlocks. We have a UUID string as the value for the key, and the only way to release the lock is that the UUID must be passed and
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by jasonjei 15y ago
From a developer standpoint, the App Store did eliminate the barriers to entry for mass distribution. In order to distribute for Sony, Nintendo, or XBox, you had to go to large publisher. Just as it is with iTunes, any studio, big or large,
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by jasonjei 15y ago
Is Navicat OK? I've been using it for a while simply because it was one binary that did SQLite, MySQL, Oracle, MS-SQL, and PgSQL.
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by jasonjei 15y ago
Apple obviously uses VPN in its non-Cupertino locations, presumably too with its production lines in China. I know that China allows the use of VPN for businesses with a legitimate need. Even though Pakistan was never an ideal location for
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by jasonjei 15y ago
The screen real estate argument as well as the separate keyboard/trackpad argument never made sense to me for a MacBook Air. Can't you hook it up to a Cinema Display (which has hookups for USB, Thunderbolt, etc)? I also use a wireless keybo
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by jasonjei 15y ago
I think it would be a real cool concept if I could upload my list ahead of time or have my groceries retrieved from a conveyer belt at the market that's automatically retrieved similar to how Amazon's automated distribution systems work. Of
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by jasonjei 15y ago
There's also an interesting tool that's open source in case you don't want to pay for Interview Street called WebCat used by some universities to run automated test cases. Not all software can be automatically tested (and in the case of Web
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by jasonjei 15y ago
I think it's a trade off of having a decentralized system vs. a centralized system. Just imagine if we could only use Gmail or Facebook for email--now that would be just plain scary.
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by jasonjei 15y ago
While the US doesn't exactly have an untarnished record with free speech, at least it is a constitutional right. The UK, on the other hand, doesn't guarantee freedom of speech and has in recent years banned certain forms of literature. Mich
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by jasonjei 15y ago
My greatest problem with Gladwell (and the New Yorker as a whole) is how he tries to write objectively, when it is clear where his opinion stands. Purporting to write objectively is a facade in validating the ideas behind supposed white st
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by jasonjei 15y ago
What the British author of the article should point out is that the US states determine how and what professions are licensed. Some US federal laws and regulations require licensure in a profession in federal domain, but those requirements
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by jasonjei 15y ago
I'm not sure we could ever give robots the same intelligence as man. If you think about it, there are many digital constraints in modulating analog ideas. For instance, with a floating point processor, there is something lost when we make a
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by jasonjei 16y ago
It's sad to say this is true. In many cases, it's just as cheap, if not cheaper, to use Starwood SPG.com or Priceline, plus you get free points or have points to use from a credit card. You also know that while it won't be as personalized
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by jasonjei 16y ago
A company that I think many consider less than interesting on HN is "ITA Software," who is solving the age-old O(n) problem of a million ways to purchase a ticket and have made traditional travel agents obsolete (e.g there are 400 x 400 dif
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by jasonjei 16y ago
I am all for services that help us find plane tickets in a lower price bucket, but how exactly is this different from ITA's new matrix interface and OnTheFly app? I guess understanding how you position yourself differently from ITA will hel
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by jasonjei 16y ago
Is it interesting timing that in-app subscription rollout is happening as Steve Jobs is taking a step back? I wonder if this says anything about the potential PR fallout to happen that Steve would handle better than most others just as he d
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by jasonjei 16y ago
Wow, a lot of dislike of SQL, and a bit biased in their description of scaling SQL and sharding. Again, use the right tool for the right purpose, not what you think is intrinsically better. Our app does double entry accounting, and conside
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by jasonjei 16y ago
Considering that he's been sentenced and assuming he has served the term of probation, if he were to set foot on the US, could he be tried and sentenced again, or does Double Jeopardy protect him even if he already had proceeded through the
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by jasonjei 16y ago
These questions remind me of the time when I took AP Computer Science AB, many years ago (10 years ago to be exact Freshman year). To be honest, many of these concepts are good to know, but I find a much more useful test is to test them on
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by jasonjei 16y ago
Believe it or not, I have had applicants who have felt entitled not only to $85/hour (52 weeks x 40 hours equates this to 176,000 USD for this particular programmer whose only skill is Basic and C#), who was even asking for equity at this r
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by jasonjei 16y ago
If you are being paid market rate, there is no reason for you to know the % of equity offered until you bring the company to an important stage. But if you are discounting your salary for equity, then it should be in writing.

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