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by rsuttongee 14y ago
They actually have been trying to move the government functions to Sejong City(which is 120km south of Seoul), but the courts stopped it from happening: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18670195 I don't follow Korean politics, so I do
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by rsuttongee 14y ago
One scary fact is that one chemist ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley,_Jr. ) is largely responsible for the development of both Tetra-Ethyl-Lead and CFCs. Scary to think that the things you're working on can have such huge unint
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by rsuttongee 14y ago
I think one of the most compelling stories as to why 23andme (and other genotyping services) is amazing is Sergey Brin's: http://too.blogspot.com/2008/09/lrrk2.html Because of 23andme he found out early that he has a high chance of gettin
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by rsuttongee 14y ago
Nice, pretty good for a first game! Now that you've started writing some code, you can start talking to users! Here's some quick feedback I've got: -It's a little hard to tell where on the screen I can touch to move the miner vs. where I ca
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LendUp (YC W12) Raises From KP, A16Z, Others To Disrupt Payday Loans(techcrunch.com)
11 points by rsuttongee 14y ago|0 comments
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PlanGrid (YC W12) is hiring a salesperson to help reform construction
1 points by rsuttongee 14y ago
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Virus specifically targets and mails CAD designs and sends them to China(telegraph.co.uk)
8 points by rsuttongee 14y ago|0 comments
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PlanGrid (YC W12) Raises $1.1M to Transform Construction with Mobile(techcrunch.com)
41 points by rsuttongee 14y ago|0 comments
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by rsuttongee 14y ago
Someone also made an iPad app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-typer/id435837770?mt=8
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by rsuttongee 14y ago
Great acquisition for Facebook. People are wondering what kind of monetization strategies Facebook will use to make them worth their post-IPO valuation, and Karma is now one good example. People spend a LOT of money on gifts.
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Start-Ups Good At Y Combinator Demo Day, But Is Price Right?(blogs.wsj.com)
7 points by rsuttongee 15y ago|1 comments
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by rsuttongee 15y ago
Actually, we just added the ability to attach iPad taken photos to project drawings in our last version. You're right that people really wanted the feature - we're getting amazing feedback on it from our users.
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by rsuttongee 15y ago
All of us at PlanGrid agree that the in-field use of 3D bim models is still a ways away, which is why our solution is focused on 2d drawings. Basically, what we are trying to do to paper plans what HTML did to paper documents: Make them dig
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How Tablets Will Transform Construction(techcrunch.com)
62 points by rsuttongee 15y ago|27 comments
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Loopt acquired by Green Dot for $43.4 Million(allthingsd.com)
6 points by rsuttongee 15y ago|0 comments
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by rsuttongee 15y ago
Two of the four of us have extensive backgrounds in the construction industry: http://www.plangrid.com/about Also, we've had dozens of users for several months and none of them to date have broken their iPads. You'd be really amazed at h
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How the iPad will change the construction industry(plangrid.com)
13 points by rsuttongee 15y ago|8 comments
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by rsuttongee 15y ago
Yeah, except for the fact that both Jack Dorsey and Keith Rabois are both already horrendously wealthy and almost certainly have no interest in being acquired.
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by rsuttongee 15y ago
It’s funny, people often ask about whether the guys in the field are willing to trade their super high-resolution paper drawings for a smallish iPad screen, but if you think about it, it’s basically the same situation as with paper maps vs.
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by rsuttongee 15y ago
I agree that BIM is totally transforming constructability reviews and massively reducing MEP conflicts with clash-detection etc. The problem is, after all this 3D BIM work, how does that information get to the field? What are the actual wor
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by rsuttongee 15y ago
For us, the ROI on any project - but particularly large projects - is pretty simple: An iPad ($800) plus 3 years of PlanGrid ($1500 for the big plan) is almost always cheaper than the initial half-size set of thousands of drawings (a hospi
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Plangrid (YC W12) Builds A New Market For The iPad: The Construction Industry(techcrunch.com)
60 points by rsuttongee 15y ago|28 comments
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Facebook and Privacy: Broken Promises(economist.com)
9 points by rsuttongee 15y ago|0 comments
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USGS Bay Area Earthquake Prediction Map(earthquake.usgs.gov)
2 points by rsuttongee 15y ago|0 comments
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by rsuttongee 15y ago
Yeah, they made a really strange decision with the way the headlights pop up 4 inches or so above the hood. I recall hearing somewhere that Nissan did for aerodynamic reasons to make sure the slipstream goes over the side-view mirrors, but
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by rsuttongee 15y ago
6500 sales is actually pretty significant. By way of comparison the Nissan Leaf (which is much cheaper) has only sold 7217 cars in North America since launching in Dec 2010. To be fair though, Nissan originally had 17,000 pre-orders but had
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by rsuttongee 15y ago
Amazon is listing both Andrew Warner and PG as co-authors.
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by rsuttongee 15y ago
For what it's worth, they still ask on the YC app if you are applying in response to an RFS. Hard to tell, but that's probably a good indicator that they still are interested in them.
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by rsuttongee 15y ago
I switched from BOFA to Schwab about two years ago (after them nickle & diming me for years with spurious fees) and I couldn't be happier. Like Ally, there's no physical bank branches (but they do have physical brokerage locations), yo
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by rsuttongee 15y ago
As cool as this sounds I still can't imagine using it in public at all. I felt like I got enough unwanted attention as owner of the first iPhone, I can only imagine the sense of embarrassment I'd feel when using this. "Siri, please remind m

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