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by melvinmt 12y ago
"It seems like you could game the system by simply only driving during surge pricing." The more drivers stay at home, the more there is surge pricing. The more drivers drive, the less there is surge pricing. Such is the game of eq
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Am I the only one who's excited about this? I was in the middle of rolling out my own SMS authentication (US-only) but now -great timing, Twitter!- I will definitely take a look at this. EDIT: The documentation is kind of hard to find
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by melvinmt 12y ago
There is no "previous form factor", the iPhone 6 Plus is still a "newer form factor" absorbing the older one.
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Can you explain why a collapse in China would affect the West Coast?
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by melvinmt 12y ago
Are «» the Armenian quotation marks? Lav lav es, hamar sowroomem; the only Armenian words I know.
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by melvinmt 12y ago
It's not just comments, it's also the permanent nature of the internet that will keep haunting your Google results for years if you don't choose your words carefully.
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"I'm personally quite skeptical of all the Lean Startup methodology, I think the really great companies did something of a quantum improvement that really differentiated them from everybody else. They typically did not do massive
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by melvinmt 12y ago
" If the founder gives away 10% more than they should to the first 10 employees, then that's 10% less that's available for fundraising and future equity grants -- and that might break the company." This is not how stocks
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Concealed carry is in general not allowed in CA without a permit, but you are allowed to carry a handgun in a locked case in your trunk. That limitation is only for handguns by the way, you can keep a shotgun and other rifles with you in th
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by melvinmt 12y ago
This is spot on (especially for the "Hackers & Founders" kind of meetups) but there are a subset of (technical) events that are full of smart people and less bullshitters. None of them will probably be your real customers but
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by melvinmt 12y ago
They're getting pretty good though at predicting intent. A couple months ago, I was looking for a cheap hotel in San Diego on several travel websites outside of Facebook. I didn't click any FB like buttons on those websites but no
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There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village. As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish. The businessman was impressed and asked
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by melvinmt 12y ago
"As I see it, eventually Yahoo would rack up such a bill that they couldn't afford it, and any collection of the fee by the government would force Yahoo to close its doors." Yahoo is about to get $20bn+ in cash in about 2 wee
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by melvinmt 12y ago
AMZ is 910 P/E, so yes, you're paying quite a premium on today's value.
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It's a bit similar with Lending Club. They give out the loans and you buy the notes for those loans from LC.
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Banks are actually all about "peer-to-peer" loans, where do you think their massive funds come from? You deposit money, the bank lends it out. In reality it's a bit more complicated than that but that's the essence of ba
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Facebook Is Down on Web and Mobile in Several Parts of the World(techcrunch.com)
59 points by melvinmt 12y ago|17 comments
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by melvinmt 12y ago
Looks like it's down for everyone: https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=facebook%20down&src=...
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What counts as a startup? Both 9gag and Upworthy raised many VC millions.
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It took about 3-4 iPhone generations before Apple finally caught up to the immense feature set of the N95 (which was released a year before iPhone 1). I remember I was live video streaming on N95 (Qik) before video recording was even poss
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by melvinmt 12y ago
Please highlight your swift code examples: ```swift
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You might not have enough data yet but now I'm curious to see a study into the localization sensitivity for various languages.
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It's probably only available "to own", not to rent.
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"everything we're currently doing on the server-side like keyword scanning can be done on the client side" See the problem there?
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"Independent Kurdistan" not including claimed Turkish territory of course, only Northern Iraq.
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by melvinmt 12y ago
I use Xoom.com every month to transfer money back "home" (US -> NL) and it's way cheaper than an international wire transfer ($5 vs $40) and more convenient too.
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I convinced Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan to invest $86M in my startup. AMA(reddit.com)
4 points by melvinmt 12y ago|0 comments
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I never understood why adults in the US wear a helmet when they bike (I'm from Holland, no one does that) but now that I've been cycling in LA for a while… I understand. The roads are not built for bicyclists (this "bike map&
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by melvinmt 12y ago
Start here: http://highscalability.com/blog/category/facebook
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Ask HN: How do normal people find jobs?
11 points by melvinmt 12y ago|8 comments

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