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by jrpt 11y ago
I think everyone agrees that a fix at the root cause (local governance) is better but YC can only do so much, so what Sam said about increasing the funding for their startups is really what's directly under their control. I suppose the
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The cost of rent in the Bay Area is getting really high, both SF and down south. The archetypal startup in a garage in Palo Alto is not as affordable as it once was. For various policy reasons it's really hard for new people to move to
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The concept reminds me of Infobitt and also S+C's Snippets. I think the concept is a great idea. Your implementation is too verbose still and has too many bullet points - it should be maybe a maximum of 4 bullet points per item, and if
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More likely that these were just fun pictures, not intended to be very predictive. I mean, what else would explain the sea horses. For what it's worth, the telegraph was in regular use by then and Morse code is a digital signal.
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Having used RN and, years ago, PhoneGap, I can say RN is way better. With PhoneGap you were constantly making things feel more native, and I had to do a hacky thing to speed up touch responses. With RN you actually use the native elements.
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This is great - Redshift consistently comes out with new features that users appreciate, one of the reasons it's becoming the de facto standard for data warehouses. If anyone's company is looking to set up a Redshift data warehous
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React Native is pretty interesting, and I could see it becoming very popular over the next five years.
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Despite the nitpicking in this thread, I've only heard positive things about Conrad Egusa and Publicize. I heard about him through YC, where other people recommended him. He gave me some useful advice, and if you're looking for a
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by jrpt 11y ago
Honestly I'd just push back and have them set up MySQL, assuming they have Macs. It's pretty simple to install. If Windows, IDK if it's easy or hard. Or you could try using a CSV plus textql https://github.com&#x2F
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What website is this for? The answer depends on your budget.
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Ask HN: What open source projects do you wish existed?
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Do you know if there's research into whether VR is harmful for your eyes? Obviously not short-term, but if you played a couple hours a day, would it be bad for your eyes? That's my biggest concern.
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Just double checked because I didn't believe what you said about the highest grossing game. The top grossing games on iPad varies by market but is one of Clash of Clans, Game of War: Fire Age, or Candy Crush Saga, except in Japan where
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by jrpt 11y ago
The problem isn't difficult without programming. It's the programming that's elegant because it's an interesting way to solve the program, by expressing their statements as functions and using the know and tell functions
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by jrpt 12y ago
I had this exact problem so I empathize with you. It was really painful, because my internet would go out sporadically for at least a minute every once in a while. My problem was also too much noise coming from a crowded apartment complex.
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I was curious too so I Googled it. Looks like it's true: http://www.phonearena.com/news/A-modern-smartphone-or-a-vint... You'd still need the right chess AI running on it but smartphones today are more powerf
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It's because the article literally says it's 50.6 million uniques in the US: "Between desktop and mobile devices, MySpace reached 50.6 million unique users in the U.S. in November. That’s a massive surge of 575% versus the sa
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by jrpt 12y ago
Thanks!
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I hope Haxe succeeds even more than it already has. Congrats guys. What's a good and up-to-date Haxe tutorial for making mobile apps, targeted at Mac developers?
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Not really, it was mostly made for my own use then thrown on Github in case someone wanted it. It works for most games, but isn't guaranteed to be able to parse all games. I added example code to the readme.
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Relatedly, if you want to analyze PGNs, I put together some Python code that can analyze PGNs in combination with a chess engine. It can also draw chess positions, if you find interesting positions you want to programmatically draw: https:
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Translation of terms: Play -> ply (or half-move) Match -> game The data doesn't support the conclusion that chess is becoming more defensive. It could be that time controls or new rule changes have changed the play. For instance,
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No, I wasn't aware of that, but that is interesting. Betty just grew out of my cheat sheet of commands. I was tired of repeatedly looking up things in my cheat sheet or Google, and decided to make this. The current project has a limite
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Betty – English-like interface for the command line(github.com)
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by jrpt 13y ago
Here's two super easy test ideas that can produce big wins. 1. Change text, specifically around your value proposition. Emphasize different things and see what happens. 2. Remove content. Make the page more focused on what's impor
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by jrpt 13y ago
It depends. What is your use case for the CRUD app? Who will be using it?
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This calculator makes reasonable assumptions. For example, it doesn't use bootstrapping, and it assumes a normal distribution. I don't see how making these assumptions makes the calculator bad, it just means if you are a stats per
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The arrows are better because they're shorter, more math-like, and because there's two of them (skinny and fat arrows) that do useful things. For what it's worth, the arrow syntax is likely going to be in JS at some point: h
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The 1024/2048 games are themselves clones of Threes: http://asherv.com/threes/ Threes is doing really well in the app stores right now.
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I'd go with Optimizely. If you want to also send the data to a server for analytics external to Optimizely, you can use their API.

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