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by quartz 5y ago
There was and I believe still is a fantastic typewriter repair shop still operating in Arlington, MA (just outside Cambridge): http://www.cambridgetypewriter.com/ I had them do a tune up on a 1930's Royal Quiet Deluxe
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OpenSea raises $23M to scale the largest marketplace for NFTs(opensea.io)
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Instagram Launches ‘Live Rooms’(techcrunch.com)
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by quartz 6y ago
Wow! I used to ride that model (Honda Metropolitan) scooter to work at Harvard years ago when I lived in Boston. The guy who owned it before me removed the restrictor so it would zip right up to ~40mph and I thought THAT was a bit too fast
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by quartz 6y ago
You only need to validate it to the depth that your target can validate it, which likely means via (among other sources) paid-for IP Reputation services.
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by quartz 6y ago
People get angry because there's JUST ENOUGH parking for it to be worth it to chaotically circle and fight over spots. I'd imagine reducing spaces to the point where the assumption is "there is no parking" instead of &qu
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by quartz 6y ago
> Chill before the call. When we had our in-person YC interview way back in 2010 it was incredibly helpful to have time beforehand outside the interview room where we got to hang out with other hopeful founders and casually chat, learn a
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Mmhmm Raises $31M Pre-Launch(forbes.com)
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by quartz 6y ago
Interesting that two of these (three if you count Unicorn Rides which is a note within Boosted) are hardware companies and both were a result of the recent tariff war with China. I've always known startups are hard but it seems that ha
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by quartz 6y ago
Most (road) cyclists I know use a combination of: - strava heatmaps ( https://www.strava.com/heatmap ) - ridewithgps routes ( https://ridewithgps.com/find ) - club routes posted on club websites (like sf2g rout
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by quartz 6y ago
Finally someone built this! I HATE juggling video windows vs. application windows. 2 Questions: - Can I still share my screen? - Your "How it Works" section says $50/user/month but your "Get the Band Back Together&
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by quartz 6y ago
Pepper spray is not illegal in NYC. The places to buy them are limited (specific sellers), the size of the canister is limited (pocket sized only), and the laws around using it are strict (self defense only where physical force would be ju
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by quartz 6y ago
If you’re on iOS: I’ve been using the same YC reader app for over 6 years and it hasn’t been updated in over 2 years now but it still works and has had fully configurable colors schemes since as long as I can remember: https://ap
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by quartz 7y ago
I'm a cofounder at Kintaba ( https://kintaba.com ) where we spend a lot of time with companies that are implementing postmortems as part of their larger incident management process and it has been fascinating to see how varie
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by quartz 7y ago
Yep I believe mac -> linux was fine but we didn't do much deep testing in that direction.
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by quartz 7y ago
Just tried this out, really cool concept and something we want at our 100% remote company. Sadly it didn't work out for us on the first test. Here's our experience in case it's helpful: Signup: - There's no concept of u
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by quartz 7y ago
Can any remarkable owners comment on the reliability/robustness of the document storage? Does it store versions and/or backups? I made the mistake of buying an equilpen2 at an apple store years ago. I say mistake not because I d
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by quartz 7y ago
New York started doing this earlier today in New Rochelle, minus the corporate partnerships [1]. You call a phone number, get a reserved time to show up, and show up. 6 lanes, 200 cars per day capacity. [1] https://www.lohud.com
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by quartz 7y ago
This is cool. You may already know this but Talkbin [0] was building this for physical locations back in 2010/2011. I remember them having a "text the owner" sign in Coupa Cafe off of University Ave. They were acquired by g
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by quartz 7y ago
Yikes-- fixed the spelling, thank you! Thanks for the spamboxing report. Seems gmail isn't a fan of us today... working on it now.
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by quartz 7y ago
For a lot of companies I think the internal processes and tools for major incidents have been sort of cobbled together over time. It's somewhat recent that organizations (especially smaller companies) are thinking about major incident
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by quartz 7y ago
Conference line + transcription support is an awesome idea and something we can likely add without too much trouble! Netflix is definitely on the good end of companies with custom tooling in this space. Would love to chat more about how yo
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by quartz 7y ago
100%. Finding ways to identify the relevant data related to an incident is something that requires a lot of additional integrations that we're actively working on. One thing Kintaba is really good at right now is wiring your slack cha
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by quartz 7y ago
Kintaba cofounder here-- thanks for the feedback! We really wanted the interface to feel comfortable for non-technical folks who needed to stay up to date on incidents so we focused on bringing as much of a human element as possible into th
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Facebook Workplace co-founder launches downtime fire alarm Kintaba(techcrunch.com)
84 points by quartz 7y ago|47 comments
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by quartz 7y ago
NYC has a bunch of these on most of the avenues that break down at rush hour but work pretty well at other times, especially on weekends when you can do miles at a time. You can actually watch the downtown wave approach and pass when you&#x
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by quartz 7y ago
I thought this was weird too but my understanding is that miniature horses actually make fantastic service animals. That article touches on some of the reasons, including that they're housebroken, intelligent, capable of leading the b
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by quartz 7y ago
There's a pretty succinct (2 minute) non-engineering description of how a nuclear reactor works in the Chernobyl miniseries you might want to check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpwU4mtWXAE
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by quartz 7y ago
True, but considering the Instagram team has claimed that the dog photo was the first photo uploaded [1], I'm just not convinced the timestamp proves otherwise on its own because of how easy it is to make timestamp errors in the early
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by quartz 7y ago
Seems far more likely the timestamp is incorrect. When writing a feed-based app, timestamps are one of the first things you inevitably screw up (read it from local vs. the server, pull it from exif and then decide to pull it from upload dat

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