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by pushtheenvelope 8y ago
not sure I understand. cryptocurrencies in aggregate still have a market cap in the billions, which points to some demand.
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by pushtheenvelope 8y ago
that's a good point. However, in this case, won't it be more like a bond-fund, where the fund essentially has a ladder of bonds that are constantly expiring and getting reinvested (and also investing new investments from retail in
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by pushtheenvelope 8y ago
I'm curious if the Estonian e-residency can help workaround the need for an European permanent address? (wrote this prior to trying to google around for the info)
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by pushtheenvelope 8y ago
the Indian example you cite is correct, but only works well for the middle and upper classes who can afford to pay for the care (for now, see below). For the majority of lower-middle and poor class, medical care is hard to obtain because th
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How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data(backchannel.org)
3 points by pushtheenvelope 8y ago|0 comments
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by pushtheenvelope 8y ago
Facebook code kinda has three layers: 1. clients (Objective-C for iOS, Java for Android, JS for Web and React Native) 2. application logic (Hack) 3. services (c++ and python are most prominent and well-supported, but there's a long ta
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Merkle puzzles(savil.in)
3 points by pushtheenvelope 8y ago|0 comments
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by pushtheenvelope 8y ago
you may be interested in Gittorrent. I'll link to the recent HN discussion, since the original article was from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17234498 original article: https://blog.printf.net&#
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by pushtheenvelope 8y ago
I kinda disagree with this. Its the company's job to be on top of whichever forum its users are using to discuss its products, especially looking out for security/safety issues. While it would nice for the Op to directly contact t
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by pushtheenvelope 10y ago
it wasn't obvious to this layman. thanks for clarifying.
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by pushtheenvelope 10y ago
that's his meeting room. its enclosed (like all meeting rooms are) so that discussions there don't disturb other employees whose desks are nearby. He has a dedicated desk nearby like everyone else.
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by pushtheenvelope 11y ago
The four months is for the whole year. Many people take some time off initially and then the rest over the course of the year. So, its premature to judge that Zuck is taking "half his parental leave". (disclaimer: FB employee, vie
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by pushtheenvelope 11y ago
I’m really excited this was finally shared. A little backstory. This framework is the manifestation of ideas that Mike developed at Mixtent, a startup that produced three products in 2 years and eventually got acquired by Facebook. The bigg
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by pushtheenvelope 12y ago
better response than I can write. This is why: http://balajiviswanathan.quora.com/Indian-Space-Mission-Pove...
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by pushtheenvelope 13y ago
As I understand it, it was a technicality they got him under: don't use software not officially sanctioned on official machines. Go forth and use wget on your own machines!
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by pushtheenvelope 13y ago
Actually, Facebook (the company) does a remarkable amount of internal company communication using it.
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by pushtheenvelope 14y ago
this talented person is to blame for the design: http://dribbble.com/mhrescak
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by pushtheenvelope 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We reasoned that the signed-in experience is a lot richer than what we could show signed-out on the landing page, but perhaps we should not take it to such an extreme :)
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by pushtheenvelope 14y ago
I love reading stories by people getting started. On software dev, and other things too. Keep on hacking !
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by pushtheenvelope 14y ago
it's a hassle but if you google the author's name, chances are high that you'll find their webpage that links to the pdf of the paper. They're likely to also have other resources like videos, and related reading.
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by pushtheenvelope 14y ago
At Storylane, we're making a platform for people to share their life stories. Everyone has experiences that give them a unique perspective on this world and we want to enable a community of asking and sharing these stories. We would love fe
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by pushtheenvelope 14y ago
what i find interesting is that despite the large number of speakers of sub-continental languages (hindi, bengali, etc.), the use of these languages on the internet is miniscule. I suppose this reflects the fact that the subcontinental elit
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Show HN: a platform for life stories. Featuring Sahil Lavingia of Gumroad.(storylane.com)
3 points by pushtheenvelope 14y ago|1 comments
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by pushtheenvelope 14y ago
For any NYT article, you can remove the part of the URL after the "?" and that should show the story to you.
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by pushtheenvelope 14y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. As someone who hasn't explicitly tried out backbone.js yet but wanted to use it for a future project, this is something that was at the back of my mind.
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by pushtheenvelope 15y ago
I wonder how the "$12 per iOS device" changes when considering iPad versus iPhone apps. I tried looking around but couldn't find anything definitive. Anyone know?
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Bruce Dawson: Tricks With the Floating-Point Format(cygnus-software.com)
1 points by pushtheenvelope 15y ago|0 comments
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by pushtheenvelope 15y ago
The author's blog post claims this: Chrome Canary, WebKit nightlies, Firefox Nightly: 64% Chrome, IE10PP4: 63% source: http://lea.verou.me/2012/02/exactly-how-much-css3-does-your-...
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by pushtheenvelope 15y ago
A link to the original source which includes a note from the author of the infographic: http://frugaldad.com/microsoft/
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by pushtheenvelope 15y ago
I feel you have some very valid points. However, re #1: there are still many markets out there with little smartphone usage. re #2: perhaps Nokia can help them out here. As a small case study consider India. 3G services have just been intro

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