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Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet(a16z.com)
170 points by robzyb 11y ago|78 comments
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Say hello to the redesigned YouTube mobile app(youtube-global.blogspot.com)
3 points by robzyb 11y ago|0 comments
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by robzyb 11y ago
> But that doesn't mean that YC can't offer me any useful advice. But what can you offer them? It's clear what YC Fellowships offer to companies, but I suspect there's also some not-as-obvious benefits to YC. Would Ta
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by robzyb 11y ago
They were visa gift cards. He could use them like a regular credit card.
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by robzyb 11y ago
I might've been a bit too black-and-white with my comment, let me clarify... Betterment seems utterly awesome. Truly a product I'd expect to see from an innovative fintech startup. Wealthfront did not. It was clear that Betterme
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by robzyb 11y ago
I work in the finance industry and only today found out about both Wealthfront and Betterment. Betterment is utterly awesome. Truly a product I'd expect to see from an innovative fintech startup. Wealthfront is... not.
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by robzyb 11y ago
> Once you realise that the business is really about running illegal hotels where the risk is outsourced then it becomes a very good idea. No, thats exactly why I'd say it was a bad idea, because who would accept that outsourced ris
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by robzyb 11y ago
That sounds like a bad idea from a counter-party risk perspective. But I suppose so did AirBnB.
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by robzyb 11y ago
> FTA can be used either pre- or post- event. Fair point. OP's objection to a post-event FTA still makes no sense, though.
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by robzyb 11y ago
> You're supposed to do the fault tree analysis before you build the rocket Elon. How can you do a fault tree analysis before things go wrong? Maybe fault tree analysis means something different to you. According to Wikipedia, it
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by robzyb 11y ago
Tension? Or upset-ness?
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by robzyb 11y ago
Your post was in my mind when I was watching the live stream. Your post was the first thing that I thought of when I realised what had happened.
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by robzyb 11y ago
Zimbabwe. A prime use case for Japanese yen? "At the height of the country’s economic crisis, Zimbabweans had to carry plastic bags bulging with banknotes to buy basic goods. Prices were rising at least twice a day." Japanese yen
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by robzyb 11y ago
> What does "time to get to work" even mean here? Doing what? Sometimes the first challenge is to figure that out. Sometimes it makes sense to note the problem in the early stages. I think its kinda cool that Google is explorin
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by robzyb 11y ago
> I can't see shareholders liking Google trying to enter every market in the world. Maybe the shareholders aren't investing in an advertising company and app store, but they're investing in the company that succeeds to a h
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by robzyb 11y ago
Hey, I've been watching that guy on youtube recently, I didn't realise that he was the guy behind the Joule thief!
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by robzyb 11y ago
> (If GH don't want to pony up the T-shirt, that's fine, but they can't send customer notifications before the researcher publishes.) In my uneducated opinion, that seems like a really good way to judge whether something q
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by robzyb 11y ago
Its already been made. See TinderBox. It uses Eigenfaces to figure out if it should like someone for you, and then has a basic conversation to judge if they are sufficiently interested for Tinderbox to alert you. https://github.c
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by robzyb 11y ago
Pyre, the console app, was built at the 2015 Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon. The API was created by Tinder for reasons I don't know.
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by robzyb 11y ago
> pricing is an open conversation I do not want pricing to be an open conversation. That sounds horrible to me. To take a wild guess - maybe you think that an open conversation is good for the customer because it represents flexibility?
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by robzyb 11y ago
Possibly from a purely financial perspective, but unlikely from a holistic perspective. The headaches involved with owning aeroplanes would be immense. They're large expensive heavily-regulated mechanical beasts.
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by robzyb 11y ago
That resume is beautiful. Was there any particular inspiration?
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by robzyb 11y ago
Craigslist is in Australia. Its not as good as Gumtree - but it is in Australia. https://geo.craigslist.org/iso/au
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by robzyb 11y ago
It might not be insider trading in a legal sense, but in a moral sense it kinda is.
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by robzyb 11y ago
Thanks, just signed up!
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by robzyb 11y ago
Thanks for the tip on Nakameguro lounge. I live rather close to there. Any other suggestions? I spent most of my time at FAB Cafe in Shibuya. They have WiFi, 3D printing, and laser cutters, but I'm looking for somewhere new. This weeke
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by robzyb 11y ago
> A bit OT, but I have never understood how AMD can win both the XBox and the PS4 chipset contracts and yet not be profitable. For a moment I agreed. But then I realised that it could be said that the reason they won the contracts is tha
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How to know you've been coding too long in .NET(metaltheater.com)
1 points by robzyb 12y ago|0 comments
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by robzyb 12y ago
Why is support limited at all? I would have thought that displaying up to N pixels - where N is much higher than the number of pixels in an 8K display - would generally be possible.
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by robzyb 12y ago
> It isn't illegal to run on the streets, it does not follow you have a legal right to run on the streets? It does NOT follow thaty ou have a legal right to run in the streets. It some entity declared a street to be walking-only, th

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