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by nicholasjbs 7y ago
I saw a subway ad for this a few weeks ago and immediately downloaded it. During setup, it asked for my home and work addresses so it could save my commute. I trusted the app when it said, “We won’t share this info with anyone.” Here’s a sc
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The Recurse Center (YC S10) Is Hiring a Facilitator(recurse.com)
1 points by nicholasjbs 8y ago
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by nicholasjbs 8y ago
Congrats to the whole PagerDuty team! We were in the same YC batch (S'10), and the founders were all kind, smart people. They were also determined and hard-working: I believe they'd been rejected by YC three times before getting i
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by nicholasjbs 8y ago
Recurse Center founder here. Many people have asked over the years what types of things people do at RC. It's a surprisingly hard question to answer, because the work people do here is varied and diverse, from contributing to OSS proje
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Show HN: Joy of Computing, one neat project/hack/etc every day(joy.recurse.com)
6 points by nicholasjbs 8y ago|1 comments
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$10,000 Fellowships for women working on open source(recurse.com)
6 points by nicholasjbs 8y ago|0 comments
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by nicholasjbs 8y ago
We don't run our own instance; we're hosted by zulipchat.com. Perfect uptime isn't a priority for us, so I don't know what (if any) availability they promise. But we've had almost no downtime over the past five yea
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by nicholasjbs 8y ago
As far as I know Dropbox has no connection to Zulip now. Zulip was initially started as a company, which was acquired by Dropbox several years ago. Dropbox open sourced the code, and Tim (one of the Zulip cofounders) later left Dropbox to f
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by nicholasjbs 8y ago
We (the Recurse Center) have been using Zulip since early 2013, and it is the core of our online community. Zulip is excellent both for small teams (we use it for our team of 7) and big groups - we also run a realm with over 1,000 users pos
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The Recurse Center is moving(recurse.com)
1 points by nicholasjbs 8y ago|0 comments
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Living Room: Making RC Programmable(recurse.com)
3 points by nicholasjbs 9y ago|0 comments
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Rbspy: Building a Ruby profiler [video](recurse.com)
22 points by nicholasjbs 9y ago|0 comments
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Type checking Ruby with minimal effort(medium.com)
2 points by nicholasjbs 9y ago|0 comments
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Testing Database Changes the Right Way(heapanalytics.com)
2 points by nicholasjbs 9y ago|0 comments
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How traceroute works(blog.wesleyac.com)
1 points by nicholasjbs 9y ago|1 comments
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Join the Recurse Center and build useful software(recurse.com)
1 points by nicholasjbs 9y ago
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by nicholasjbs 9y ago
Thank you!
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by nicholasjbs 9y ago
It's very inaccurate for my batch (S10) at least, for which I know of about twice as many exits as are listed. And as others have mentioned, the bigger challenge is that "exits" aren't a good metric for either gauging YC
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Zulip Server 1.6 released(blog.zulip.org)
60 points by nicholasjbs 9y ago|14 comments
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Dragon taming with Tailbiter, a bytecode compiler for Python(codewords.recurse.com)
1 points by nicholasjbs 10y ago|0 comments
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by nicholasjbs 10y ago
YC continues to support my company nearly seven years after our batch, even though we're still tiny and have no plans to exit (and thus will likely never give them any financial return).
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by nicholasjbs 10y ago
This is a refreshingly honest shutdown notice. Congratulations to Dalton and co for trying something hard and worthwhile, and wrapping it up responsibly when it didn't pan out.
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Opendoor: A Startup Worth Emulating(stratechery.com)
1 points by nicholasjbs 10y ago|0 comments
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A history of storage media(codewords.recurse.com)
5 points by nicholasjbs 10y ago|0 comments
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by nicholasjbs 11y ago
I'm a cofounder of a YC company. This June will be the sixth anniversary of when we did YC, and our company isn't exactly a billion-dollar darling (to put it mildly). Nor do we have any interest in going public or being acquired,
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This just isn't functional(codewords.recurse.com)
43 points by nicholasjbs 11y ago|9 comments
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by nicholasjbs 11y ago
(RC cofounder here.) Sorry to hear our previous answer wasn't clear. Yes, residencies are an invite-only thing, however, everyone is welcome to apply to attend RC :) We recently updated our User's Manual (see: https://w
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Beyond Disruption(stratechery.com)
3 points by nicholasjbs 11y ago|1 comments
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Effective Learning Strategies for Programmers(akaptur.com)
231 points by nicholasjbs 11y ago|40 comments
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Zulip: Supporting OSS at the Recurse Center(recurse.com)
7 points by nicholasjbs 11y ago|0 comments

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