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by ludicast 13y ago
I'd like to reiterate that Obama was against gay marriage during 2008 and California, the most liberal state ever, voted against it. A lot changes in 6 years(1). I'm a democrat in support of gay marriage because citizenship, bene
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Ask HN: Faith eroding in Bitcoin and Coinbase security?
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by ludicast 13y ago
It really is awesome being in NYC. I have lived here my whole life, from when every neighborhood was dangerous to now when even harlem is hoarding hipsters. I have no basis of comparison, but this city really kicks ass. The restaurants, t
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by ludicast 13y ago
wow, thanks for posting this. throws some cold water on the situation. not saying she is right or wrong about how things went down with the founder's wife etc. but she clearly is insane.
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by ludicast 13y ago
Still worth it to me. The quick free shipping is great and the streaming educational kid's tv is a godsend. Plus for a family there are considerably more packages coming down (tools, toys, etc.). Seems like they crunched the numbers
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by ludicast 13y ago
I am a lifelong liberal but I did work for a year as a correction officer on Riker's Island (a decade ago, at ARDC which is the jail discussed). The "box" was referred to by everyone as the "bing". This isn't
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by ludicast 13y ago
Don't want to be "that guy" but compare these offerings: GA Data Science (4000$ and taught by MBAs): https://generalassemb.ly/education/data-science/new-york-cit... Johns Hopkins Data Science via Co
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by ludicast 13y ago
I liked them better when they were a gorgeous co-working and hackathon space. They really had a "future of NYC tech" vibe. Their pivot/focus on education seems to be unfortunate, not sure how they can get money back for thei
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by ludicast 13y ago
Not looking to pair (plus not a python/excel/ui guy), but dropping a note to say this seems like a great idea. Plus you have a huge market in the financial industry (obviously), which is where the pain points mean $.
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by ludicast 13y ago
I don't believe he has (yet). He is really good about posting disclaimers when he recommends something he has invested in. He has been posting links to hackpads for a while and I noted the marked absence of any disclaimers.
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by ludicast 13y ago
Very touching. My own wife (at 33) was diagnosed with breast cancer this year, but I feel almost guilty to say everything turned out okay (we believe). The disease is a motherfucker. I can't imagine watching someone I love going throu
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by ludicast 13y ago
This is a tremendous resource, but may I suggest you rather point here: https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/haskell-fast-hard . It's the same course/series, but with interactivity, so Haskell can coded/eval
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by ludicast 13y ago
Kindof a big deal, but won't get any press here because some random startup just got 1 mil in funding and that's what matters. I think if there are more examples of scala.js and clojurescript doing the intensive stuff that javascr
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by ludicast 13y ago
I think there is a great use case for this framework. It seems like Scala is a platform that some Rails projects move towards. It would be nice to be able to do this transparently to existing customers. Play is fun, but I'm not sure a
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by ludicast 13y ago
Great site, enjoying it. It's a shame that stuff like this gets no upvotes so we can find out important stuff like what startup got funding.
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by ludicast 13y ago
I like this a lot. Seems genuinely useful. A simple version might be something that beeps like a seatbelt-detector if there is weight in back seat but not in front.
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by ludicast 13y ago
Really cool. Would be nice to see firebase include way more of these types of sets (stocks, sports scores, trending news etc.). I need hipaa compliance so firebase doesn't work for my use cases, but have enjoyed the times I've pla
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by ludicast 13y ago
Yes and no. I think: 1) Rails (I don't know Django) will continue to be the quickest way to have a quick full-stack demo/MVP. It is opinionated, and has tools like railsapps that let you customize it. So you can have a solution
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by ludicast 13y ago
I'm either being trolled or bullied here. A text field adds time to type out (which can lose customers, alienate handicapped etc.), all to accommodate an exception, rather than a rule. I don't care if you have a slider, dropdown,
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by ludicast 13y ago
>> Speaking to the fluidity of human gender, "Other" is the majority of the spectrum I agree 100% about the fluidity of human gender, but rather than lecture people via a form/api etc. it is probably simplest to have wo
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by ludicast 13y ago
Nobody is saying a form can't have "other", etc. as an option. Just that someone's MVP that guesses gender is allowed to do that without political-correctness police. I fail to see how this API needs to accommodate trans
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by ludicast 13y ago
I like this from a usability standpoint. Just as some forms auto-fill the city/state based on the zip (and might get it wrong), this enables something similar. And it might get it wrong, but if your mom gave you a girl's name* b
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by ludicast 13y ago
Unleas you're an undercover ladyboy. Then you can "flip the script" and dish out some pain. Wait, what are we taking about?
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by ludicast 13y ago
Your simile is right, but I think the problem is always in part these things: 1) Programming isn't impossible to learn. An outsourced MVP might be a sign that the non-tech founder is not fully committed (my grandpa owned a small factor
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by ludicast 13y ago
Presenters are awesome (I second the that draper is excellent). Once you start decorating you find yourself decorating everything, because Ruby makes it so easy to throw on one-off delegates. I've even taken a presenter-ish approach t
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by ludicast 13y ago
Congrats, a very sweet story. My wife is not interested in tech (though she has a very strong science background...) but working together would be a lot of fun (and stress).
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by ludicast 13y ago
This can actually be huge if well-executed. The vert.x ruby examples have had no rails afaik. Look forward to playing with this.
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by ludicast 13y ago
I'm not being a hater, but tbere is a lot of "I'm not sure" in your answers. Not the sort of thing that is reassuring to see from somebody claiming a solution is "secure". That said, there is definitely a niche
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by ludicast 13y ago
This really is a fantastic newsletter/post. Was excited to see it in my mailbox, and am enjoying it (taking some detours to look at the referenced articles).
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by ludicast 13y ago
I agree with some of the negative comments (as of a month ago). I found a phonegap/angular/firebase app of mine kept crashing when angularfire was injected, so I just hand-did the requests. The good thing is that firebase and ang

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