pcmaffey

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by pcmaffey 11y ago
It's all done client side? Except auth.
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Given that's not what most sites' TOS say, viewing advertisements is not a transactional agreement in 99% of applicable cases.
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
An advertisement is not a transactional fee. I don't have to look at your ads when you're giving away free pastries.
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Seems awkward (and pricey, as mentioned) to handle an actual transaction each time. Why not just have a browser extension that aggregates and bills monthly? Like the opposite of an ad-blocker, an ad-unlocker. This has probably been discusse
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Just discovered that my wife and I can't get insurance until the next open enrollment period (November?), because we missed the previous one. Supposedly this policy was enacted to prevent people from getting insurance only when they ge
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
The difference is in adaptation: when challenged with new perspective / data, do they incorporate it into their vision or ignore the data?
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
The best part of this is YC's commitment to subverting their bias. Whether successful or not, you guys (and your machines?) will learn something valuable about your process vs. the wisdom of crowds. Really commend your approach to expe
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
US citizen. There on business (client meetings), denied access for visitor visa. Applied for work visa, denied because didn't fit NAFTA categories. I should have said I was there for pleasure, but I was trying to be ya know, honest. No
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Hah, I was denied access to Canada for a 3 day business trip to meet with a client. So we applied for a visa, and that was denied because there's no category for software developer or designer or PM in NAFTA. And even if there was, I w
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Critical thinking free-zone.
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Cool, thanks for the response. For now, want to make sure Bicycl is useful and empowering on an individual level. Then, those ideas would certainly seem like a natural progression...
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Did YC research ever find someone for the universal income study?
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
I'm curious when you say "publish to the web", do you have a specific output/platform in mind? One key difference with Bicycl from those other tools is that it's based on micronotes (think tweeting vs blogging). Thi
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Wow, thanks everyone for signing up. I was planning on sending out a few invites by hand... Yeah, so now I'm in the middle of writing up a script. I'll send out the first batch of invitations here in a little.
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
https://www.bicycl.com Bicycl is a calendar for your life's work. Record what you learn and accomplish each day (or week, month, etc). Organize these micronotes into stories of progress over time. See lots of cool data come
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
You're missing the point that organic results are also hugely influenced by financial motive. The underlying concept is that all information is biased. A system that incorporates bias is vastly more useful than one that ignores it.
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
>Power on this scale and with this level of invisibility is unprecedented in human history. I would argue that the influence of media has always been this powerful. And media has always been biased. Another angle to look at would be to a
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Money is absolutely part of the formulation of relevance. It's just not the whole equation. Nor is word-matching (altavista), nor is popularity (google). But each is relevant. Someone (advertiser) is paying money because they believe t
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
The library is a catalog of books produced by publishers for the sake of making money. Your example doesn't hold weight, as there is no "purity of information". Even your own insights are filtered through the perspective of y
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Yes. And it's always humorous (sad) when people use ideological reasoning to defend their right to x (e.g. guns). But then are blind to how it applies to y (e.g drugs).
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
In the interview, HS says he listens to everything at 2x speed. I've felt like you, that video/audio is too slow and cumbersome, and so have eschewed it as a learning method, except as background for some other task. I'll hav
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A solution to [social] anxiety(medium.com)
2 points by pcmaffey 11y ago|0 comments
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
I wonder if their primary market is for bridge loans to startups running out of gas or to seed lots of fledglings as an alternative to accelerators, without the "program" (YC started out giving 20k).
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
The real question is, would Stewart B. take the offer? Anyone who cares about their product knows a sale to MS is a death knell for innovation. Becoming a hit like Slack is such a rare opportunity. I mean, why are you in this business if no
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Right off the bat I would say a public gallery would be neat and engaging. It's really easy to make something beautiful with this (!), so if you create a public forum for sharing & competing to make something even cooler, you could
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
These things are not mutually exclusive given large enough time scale. In fact, they are correlative. Thus, the conclusion to be drawn from this is that most investors are bad at what they do. Even if that fault is only a short-sightedness.
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
The malignant stance of Canada towards US citizens you describe is exactly my experience in the 5 times I've traveled here for business. I can now add "been deported" to my list of life accomplishments... My work visa was rej
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
No, I design iOS apps and use Testflight, but not xcode.
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by pcmaffey 11y ago
Except I never installed this app. Never seen that icon before...
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Canadian customs installed spyware app on my iPhone?
14 points by pcmaffey 11y ago|23 comments

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