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by jlees 12y ago
Is this the only reason bank transfers take so much longer in the US than UK? Why are UK banks happy to take the risk? (I'm genuinely curious and don't know much about why the US is slower.)
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by jlees 13y ago
I'm your target user right now. I'm desperately trying to sell my car without using Craigslist - I have a loan still, and I'm afraid of risk and scams. Feel free to ping me for a user study if you need. I've tried anothe
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by jlees 13y ago
The accountability is key, too. Joining a gym you can go whenever you want -- which also means you can not go whenever you don't want. If people are relying on you for their morning bagels, you don't have an option, and removi
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by jlees 13y ago
Or adopted a dog!
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by jlees 13y ago
Close - We're a tiny startup hiring in San Francisco. We're analyzing professional networks to help folks make the most of who they know. If you've ever tried to answer the question "Who do I know that's..." (l
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by jlees 13y ago
I think that's partly because watching great dancers is a very entertaining thing by itself, even to the completely uninformed; the sizzle doesn't need to be manufactured. In fact, SYTYCD helped me learn a lot about the nuances of
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by jlees 13y ago
Probably just looked in strings.xml and perhaps for some obvious variable names / validation against string values. There might be some hashing check they can do that means they don't query every valid string in their database.
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by jlees 13y ago
The work is interesting. I've been consulting for a few startups doing MVP development and it was a lot of fun getting those first few decisions off the ground and doing a bunch of product as well as code work. It depends on the length
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by jlees 13y ago
I agree with you and your parent. If this system goes into place I'll probably spend far more time on HN than I usually do these days -- at least at first -- specifically trying to approve comments made by other women, in the fear that
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New York Fashion Week: Ma' which colors are we gonna wear on fall?(rosariomgomez.me)
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by jlees 13y ago
I got in the habit of not using mine since some of my past employers' email schemes didn't allow numbers. :-(
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by jlees 13y ago
Can't say I ever found it particularly bad, just mild poking fun - my Scottish friend at uni in England with me had it a lot worse. Kind of like being Canadian in America, I suppose.
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by jlees 13y ago
I've found that some of the folks I took to lunch interviews were reluctant to ask certain questions because despite assurances that the lunch has no feedback, they didn't quite believe me (natural cynicism, I suppose). It was a
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by jlees 13y ago
What did you like about it? I'd suggest Tad Williams' Otherland, Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age & Snow Crash, and Gibson's Pattern Recognition purely based on subject matter (gamey-cyberpunk-ARG-AI), but none is quite
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by jlees 13y ago
Someone on HN tipped me off to the Workshop in SF recently, which has a similar pay-per-minute (well, hour) model. Coffee's still expensive, but you don't have to buy it, and there's concierge service with food etc. It's
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by jlees 13y ago
Now I have to change my interview question. :(
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by jlees 13y ago
I kept my surname, and am frequently called Mrs by random shop assistants reading my name off my credit card and noticing my ring. No; that's my mother. However, having experienced this weird identity/title disconnect a few times
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by jlees 13y ago
Great point. Situations like this make it abundantly clear that folks out there are more than happy to bash away at some poor indie the other side of the world, as well as making demands, publicly vilifying and the like. I guess it's t
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by jlees 13y ago
Blogging about creating it would be much more interesting.
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by jlees 13y ago
So, if I can IAP to get an extra 5 moves in a puzzle game, or infinitely replay the same level and get stuck, never playing the game again, that's a sham? What about currencies/powerups that I can either get via IAP vs social obli
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by jlees 13y ago
I'm working on a game data project and one of the things I'm trying to figure out how to track is exactly this difference. How can you tell whether a game with IAPs has "good" IAPs -- and the critical path of the game re
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by jlees 13y ago
The marketplace isn't viable. Refunds aside, people aren't willing to spend that level of money on a mobile game when they don't know if it's going to be good or not (and many are not).
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by jlees 13y ago
Many game companies work like this.
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by jlees 13y ago
Saying 'scientifically proven' with no about page or justification is like saying 'healthy'. Might want to rethink that copy...
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by jlees 13y ago
Well, you can kind of use decision forests, and similar approaches, to combine algorithms. The lack of human-readability makes it pretty tough unless you're in a domain where you can effectively apply weighted heuristics (which I found
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by jlees 13y ago
Interesting idea, but why is it an iOS app?
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by jlees 13y ago
Since you can install Android apps remotely on your device via the web, desktop ads for mobile aren't that ridiculous.
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by jlees 13y ago
Doesn't sound too much worse than The Social Network .
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by jlees 13y ago
What are the other usages? I genuinely don't know of any beyond the "bro culture" thing. But then I'm not a bro, so maybe I wouldn't.
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by jlees 13y ago
I don't feel excluded by the name, but I did think the tool must be a joke rather than something that could actually be useful. Surprised to find it's the latter.

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