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by shifte 11y ago
Hi Sam, You've mentioned many times, more so recently, that YC is committed to investing in hard tech problems. When considering companies solving these problems for the next batch, knowing that often times even getting a prototype rea
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by shifte 11y ago
With all the data that Foursquare has on places worldwide, I was actually expecting this to do more than ask my friends to build a list for me.
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by shifte 11y ago
It certainly gives you a feel for how they do development internally. End of the readme mentions a new version coming soon, instead of say, iterating on this one. Also, the main contributor is stripped of any personally identifiable informa
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Emoji based authentication for mobile(medium.com)
12 points by shifte 11y ago|7 comments
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by shifte 11y ago
Also listening to German heavy metal while coding, not sure if it helps, but there's a genre called "new german hardness".
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by shifte 11y ago
So far no. I've been using Duo Lingo, which has been surprisingly good to get the basics, plus a bunch of learn German audio files I found. I'll probably sign up for classes soon when I find some good ones. A friend of mine took c
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by shifte 11y ago
That's excellent. I'll remember that.
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by shifte 11y ago
I'm learning German. I've never learnt a non-machine language before and having just moved to Berlin I thought I'd try not being that jerk foreigner that only speaks english, even after living here for 2 years. So far it&#x27
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Revisiting 1M Writes per second(techblog.netflix.com)
119 points by shifte 12y ago|38 comments