misterbowfinger

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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
I love the general design. But as others noted, the scrolling behavior is WAY terrible. Do "normal people" enjoy this type of scrolling behavior?
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
As a founder, of course, I have mixed emotions. When you create a company, your job is to make sure it can one day succeed without you. Then eventually that one day comes and the celebration can be bittersweet. I've seen this before
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
> Previously I would check my FB feed a dozen times a day Wow. Is this still common these days? I rarely check FB. Honestly, I end up checking Twitter and HN way more.
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
Suuuuuuuuuure, although this will undoubtedly result in newspapers being paid less , not more. Given the currently bleak situations for newspapers, I'd doubt this would work. There's also the issue of unions that have been poppin
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
The Outline is really beautiful. They do a great job of designing a modern digital publication.
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
Mastodon can't be considered a real alternative unless you have a solution for all the child porn on some of the most popular instances.
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
How do you choose which incarcerated individuals get to be part of Promise? The most obvious media circus is going to be around high-profile arrests. Would you allow alleged high-ranking members of crime syndicates to be part of Promise?
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Supreme Court blocks redrawing of Pennsylvania congressional maps(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by misterbowfinger 9y ago|1 comments
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
If Robinhood opened up an API, wouldn't it be possible to invest in a way that mirrors existing index funds? I'm not super familiar with the details but it feels like it would be.
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
non-paywall https://outline.com/HKktYH
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
If anyone here has run Spoofer: https://www.caida.org/projects/spoofer/ What was your experience?
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
> just a marketing document for YC That's true, I just disagree with how you framed it. Some people may genuinely be inspired by it, and some good can genuinely come out of it, even if it "costs zero"
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
Isn't that true of most businesses that aren't Facebook/Twitter/Walmart size? I agree with what you're saying, but it seems more applicable to the economy in general as opposed to just startups.
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
Woah this is really cool! I'm a huge fan of The Infatuation. It's solving a really important need on the internet - quality reviews from trusted sources that you actually want to read.
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
> Posted by Ulan Degenbaev, Alexei Filippov, Michael Lippautz, and Hannes Payer — the fellowship of the DOM Nice
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
Relevant bit: 13. In April of 2017, Google's Technology Staffing Management team was instructed by Alogna to immediately cancel all Level 3 (0-5 years experience) software engineering interviews with every single applicant who was not
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
Escobar’s cartel died with him, but, despite a U.S.-assisted war on narcotrafficking that has cost thousands of lives and more than nine billion dollars, international consumption has spread enormously, and the drug economy remains strong;
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
Oh sure, I don't disagree, I just think it's important to know if a publication has a particular slant.
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
I wasn't familiar with reason.com. Looked through a bit, it looks like it's a digital publication with a libertarian angle: https://reason.org/frequently-asked-questions/#q1 Not an issue per se, but good to k
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
This year [2017], Lyft is on pace for $1.5 billion in net revenue -- the amount of money it generates after paying drivers -- on losses of $400 million, according to the document, which was prepared at the end of the second quarter. Since
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
From that post mortem: It was unfathomable to us why people would choose a system that barely does the thing it’s supposed to do (store data), has a big kernel lock, throws away errors at random, implements single node features that stop w
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
It feels like they want to move towards being more "useful", a la WeChat: http://blog.ycombinator.com/lessons-from-wechat/
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
I wonder if Amazon would be open to reselling access to their distribution centers, a la cellular networks. I feel like the upside to them would be enormous.
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CES 2018 Overview by Steven Sinofsky(medium.learningbyshipping.com)
1 points by misterbowfinger 9y ago|0 comments
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
Non-paywall: https://outline.com/H992nD I'm like, 90% close to making a bot that just does this for HN submissions.
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
I suppose it's difficult to answer what's specific to your architecture..... but it does seem interesting. I really wonder if there can be a open-source solution that makes it easier to do what you're suggesting, but for anyo
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
> that is to create an API for developers thinking like I'm designing an iPhone Albeit my request is quite selfish, I really would love to hear/read more about your thoughts on designing APIs. My experience using Redis has been
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
Would you consider open sourcing it? It seems quite interesting and valuable
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
> Infinite time horizon I get what he's going for here, but this phrasing just sounds too TED-talk-y for me. I also don't get what they'd change as a result, but I guess that's TBD.
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by misterbowfinger 9y ago
It's less about politics than it is about the "wisdom of the crowds". For example, it'd be really useful to get info from traders if they have special information about how the market will move.

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