melvinmt

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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   Why is this not a npm module yet? Name suggestion: kik2
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   > without realizing that Tweets can also be deleted. Yep, just like NPM modules.
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   If you're having trouble (like me) to find your "Google Cloud Platform user account ID" to sign up for Limited Preview access, it's just the email address for your Google Cloud account. Took me only 40 minutes to figure
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   Or, you know, prefix with author's username, a la Github.
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   I discovered 3D Touch after watching an Apple commercial on TV, 3 months after I got the iPhone 6s Plus.
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   Titles at startups (especially early-early stage) are somewhat negligible. Since you don't manage any engineers and not dealing with the responsibilities of a VP of Engineering of say, a 200-500 FTE startup, you shouldn't hinge to
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   How instrumental was YC in the development of Boom (money/advice wise)?
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   > They could be fined hundreds of thousands daily for refusing to act. Apple's revenue is $658 million per day (2015), not sure if they care too much about "hundreds of thousands".
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   by melvinmt 11y ago

   Yes, but is that enough to overcome Facebook's pull?
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    What would you get from Nextdoor what you couldn't get from a Facebook group for your neighborhood?
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    PHP Ceo's response to one of sama's tweets [1] had me literally laughing out loud: ".@sama SO I SHOULD SELL SOFTWARE… AS A SERVICE? WOULD I DO THIS ON COMPUTERS? PLS ADVISE THIS SAGACITY IS SURELY WORTH 10% OF MY COMPANY&quot
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    Nothing is impossible: Philz Coffee has raised $15m [1] and The Melt (grilled sandwich chain) has raised money from Sequoia [2] [1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/18/philz-coffee-funding/ [2] http:/
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    "After some years we will die. If we just think that it is the end of our life, this will be the wrong understanding. But, on the other hand, if we think that we do not die, this is also wrong. We die, and we do not die. This is the ri
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    Is there a boilerplate repo somewhere with all these frameworks and tools combined? Would love to dig more into this but configuring them all together would take me days.
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    If you can't bring your product to every part of the world, bring every part of the world to you. Pretty impressive of the Stripe team, I must say.
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    You're not storing credentials, but you do store financial data?
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    Congressman Ted Lieu Statement on Apple Court Order(lieu.house.gov)

    126 points by melvinmt 11y ago|30 comments
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    > I do not think Kanye/Reuters/Trump/Chipotle/Intel would bat an eye to pay for the privilege to get a message out to millions of users. This "privilege" already exists: it's called advertising.
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    Encryption is optional. Online syncing (w/ Simplenote) is optional.
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    I don't even have 0% time.
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    > So either the file already exists and I thus add to it or a new file is created instantly. If you want the same thing but want to do it in an app instead of manually in the terminal you should check out Notational Velocity ( http:&#x2F
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    Why would your commit fail?
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    Securing low interest loans to buy assets that appreciate in value with relatively low out of pocket money is basically investing on margin. The ROI on just the downpayment portion is many times more than if you'd lock up all the money
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    Very interesting article but a bit of a weird ending: " Which is another way of saying that I object to mukbang on classist grounds, and am hard-wired to do so. There are very few excuses for bad table manners, and being on video certa
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    Amazon (intentionally) does not make profits to begin with [1], so there's no dividend to give. [1] https://d28wbuch0jlv7v.cloudfront.net/images/infografik/norm...
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    AJ+ (their social media offspring) is pretty well disguised. I always like to watch their video news items from their Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish ) but it took me a while (months) to figure out that
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    Well, then it's time to buy ProShares UltraShort FTSE China 50 http://www.etf.com/FXP
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    > I've repeatedly asked the Respondly team to build Buffer-like scheduling into their product Respondly brands itself as the "The Fastest Way to Tackle Twitter as a Team" so not sure when it makes sense to schedule repl
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    Curious to know what the privacy policy is with this thing.
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    by melvinmt 11y ago

    You buy an ETF that shorts the S&P500: http://www.proshares.com/funds/sh.html