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by liyanchang 12y ago
> For instance, they could easily jam or run out of product. They could erroneously dispense several bank notes instead of just one—all without the owner's knowledge. I think this impresses me the most about ATMs. I've never pe
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by liyanchang 12y ago
I was surprised by how few OS/Browser combinations were tested. For instance, I'd think that the OSX + Chrome population is pretty big and I'd (selfishly) like that combination tested. It feels like, just the fact that this c
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by liyanchang 12y ago
The group split was something that happened after S12, which was at the time the largest batch[0]. As the numbers of startups scaled, connecting all partners to all startups was order o(n^2). I was in this batch - there didn't seem to
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by liyanchang 12y ago
Was similarly curious. Reading the rules here: http://zerodayinitiative.com/Pwn2Own2015Rules.html Major points: - You register for which browser + os combination[0]. Then they randomly order the contestants. - When you are
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by liyanchang 12y ago
I've always advised other startups using AWS to begin on us-west-2 as it has a couple key pros: 1. Lower latency to SF/Bay Area 2. Cheaper then US-West-1 (California). 3. Updated and cared for. West-2 is sometimes behind East-1 on
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by liyanchang 12y ago
Disclosure - I met David Recordon via Healthcare.gov It's a true statement that he is facing an uphill battle. However, it's heartening to hear that he's making the move because he's been doing this job already for the l
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by liyanchang 12y ago
The best interface is indeed no interface and it's the end goal of a long design and product process. There's probably some Maslow's hierarchy for design that looks like (designer friends - please let me what wheel I'm r
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by liyanchang 12y ago
For those of you on OS X, I had to modify the command to the following: > sudo tcpdump -l -e -I -i en0 | grep 'Probe Request ([^)]' Not at all a tcpdump expert - fuddled around with manpages to make it work so others should ple
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by liyanchang 12y ago
People high up in the government agree with you! From the aftermath of healthcare.gov, two US government entities were created: 1. 18F - An pool of in-house developers working with agencies to build (or rebuild) services. https:/&#x2F
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by liyanchang 12y ago
Looks really great. Have you thought about submitting to CocoaControls? ( https://www.cocoacontrols.com/ ) It's the second place that I look for iOS components (after a simple Google search, that is).
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by liyanchang 12y ago
Agreed. No one is doubting his ability to form sentences. Rather, he packs so much into each sentence that I question my ability to keep up. Every sentence he said (as well as his responses in the AMA) was a a complete idea, full of insight
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by liyanchang 12y ago
Just met him once or twice, but my impression is this is how he talks in real life as well.
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by liyanchang 13y ago
Very similar, but not exactly: Cloudflare. Takes over your dns routes and will detect when you are down and tries to continue serving.
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by liyanchang 13y ago
The difference here is that they had a very public deadline.
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by liyanchang 13y ago
Congrats to Benchling! They're a phenomenal group of guys who are really going to do great things.
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by liyanchang 13y ago
I would encourage you to write the entire thing, frontend, backend, content, PR releases, etc. Two reasons: 1. You're young and still figuring out what you love doing; no better time to experiment and learn. I still have fond memories
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by liyanchang 13y ago
Alternate question: Is there room for a 3rd-party Gmail web client, in the same way that Mailbox is a 3rd-party Gmail iOS client?
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by liyanchang 13y ago
Technology, just like fashion, is cyclical. There are only so many configurations of communication patterns so technological constraints dictate usefulness. The two being contrasted here are the one centralized database (w/ master&#x2F
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by liyanchang 13y ago
Summary for those of you on text-based or js-free browsers: It's a sphere, subdivided into squares. Everyone shares the same space, so you can draw in a random square (if you login) or browse other peoples marks.
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by liyanchang 13y ago
Scaling an education venture is a hard problem. You work really hard to figure out how to distribute quality content cheaply to lots of people and it turns out that, at the end of the day, it seems that we still rely on labor/cost inte
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by liyanchang 13y ago
That's true. Having been briefly in academia, I only evaluated algorithms based on Big-O and just a bit of practical experience taught me that there tends to be a sweet spot, where the o(n^2.7) is both much faster then your naive imple
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by liyanchang 13y ago
> No way, substantial speedups can really only come from algorithm changes. I've often found the reverse to be true; that implementation details matter most. The best fixes tend to be altering my code so that the compiler/cpu c
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by liyanchang 13y ago
Chase Sapphire Preferred offers EMV cards[0] and no foriegn exchange charges. Makes a good travel card. [0] Technically: chip-and-signature rather then chip-and-pin. Also, you have to ask for the EMV but they're super friendly about it
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by liyanchang 13y ago
If you're looking to learn iOS, I'd suggest contributing to an open source application. An app requires a bit of setup so taking someones app means that most of the minutia is set up. Therefore you can take on manageable size chun
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by liyanchang 13y ago
That's awesome. Glad there are others out there as well.
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by liyanchang 13y ago
Being able to resize images via url parameters is one of those great ideas, but I've always been surprised by how long it's taken to catch on. Awesome.
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by liyanchang 13y ago
Totally agree. It's definitely a "why didn't I think of that" idea. Looking forward to the oh-my-zsh extension that puts this in my shell. Or a chrome extension that inserts it on random code snippets.
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by liyanchang 13y ago
Thanks for the support. To your concern, yes. But we're also looking at how we can give not only commit rights to github but also deploy rights on the app store for frequent committers.
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Open Source and the iOS App Store(blog.inkmobility.com)
64 points by liyanchang 13y ago|40 comments
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by liyanchang 13y ago
You're right. The Ink Mobile Framework is trying to solve the app to app communication problem on ios where apps don't work together.[1] Because it's the pipes between apps, in order to demonstrate it, you need the source app

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