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by sksksk 10y ago
A local taxi app here in Bogotá has this feature, you can say your ride is a "VIP" ride and choose an pay some extra money to ensure you get your taxi faster.
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by sksksk 10y ago
A few cities have electric bike systems, particularly cities that are quite hilly, for example Madrid's BiciMAD[1] [1] https://www.accessiblemadrid.com/en/blog/bicimad-public-bike...
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by sksksk 11y ago
Chrome has this feature already, with the concept of Persons. I have a "Work" person and a "Home" person, which gives me a different set of cookies, extensions, pinned tabs etc...
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by sksksk 11y ago
Polymath Ventures | Bogotá, Colombia | Multiple Roles | VISA Polymath builds businesses from the ground up that can grow massively across Latin America. We design the venture concepts in-house, find the right founding talent to lead them, w
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by sksksk 11y ago
The theft problem could be mitigated with remote kill switches. iPhone thefts have gone down now that people have learned that they will be useless if stolen[1] [1]: http://www.wsj.com/articles/decline-in-theft-of-apple
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by sksksk 11y ago
You can see the effect on this heatmap: http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#15/116.40337/39.96947/gray/b... There is a "ghost" trail a few meters to the east of the real trail.
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by sksksk 11y ago
I always thought it stood for Transit
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by sksksk 11y ago
Something I find interesting about Venmo, Square cash etc... is how they target shortcomings in the US Banking system. In the UK, pretty much anyone with a bank account can go to their bank's website and transfer money to any other ban
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by sksksk 11y ago
I recently moved from London to Bogotá to work as a software engineer at a startup. I think it's a really great scene, while the tech community isn't as big as it is in London, there is definitely and air of optimism and growth he
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by sksksk 12y ago
My first two jobs used Tcl (OpenBet, and Zipcar)
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by sksksk 12y ago
Different lines have different trains. The shallow level lines got new trains recently, because the lines were built using cut and cover (like in NYC), they were easily able to add air conditioning. These trains are for some of the deeper l
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by sksksk 12y ago
The ancestory visa is only open to Commonwealth Citizens, which the USA isn't part of.
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by sksksk 12y ago
>For example, I like Hong Kong, but you can't stay there more than 2 weeks (if you want stay more, you have to get work permit/get married/have business there etc). Citizens of most Western countries can stay for up to thr
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by sksksk 12y ago
Something interesting that I found was that in different cities, the price proposition changes. For example, in London, Black Cabs are generally considered decent but expensive, so Uber is priced cheaper than black cabs, but slightly more e
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by sksksk 13y ago
I find the Google Dictionary plugin is pretty good for reading wikipedia like this... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-dictionary-...
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by sksksk 13y ago
The banking startup simple has a feature like that called "Safe-To-Spend" https://www.simple.com/goals/
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by sksksk 13y ago
You create a special test build of the app that you send to users using something like TestFlight, at the end of the video, you see the lady turn off recording, so I assume you can turn it on through the same interface
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The Ladder of Abstraction(worrydream.com)
3 points by sksksk 13y ago|0 comments
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by sksksk 13y ago
reddit is owned by Advance Publications, who own a lot of properties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications
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by sksksk 13y ago
London, Citymapper We're reinventing the transport app in the world's most complex transport cities. Building the ultimate transport app requires solving a range of challenging problems. For example we've developed our own ro
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Why does Sweden have so many billionaires?(slate.com)
81 points by sksksk 13y ago|78 comments
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by sksksk 13y ago
I usually use a mac, but on my windows machine (which I use rarely) I run deepfreeze which resets my computer back to a predefined pint every time I restart it.
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by sksksk 13y ago
Something that always bugs me about valuations, wondering if someone could explain. A lot of these investors probably have multiples. So if someone $1m in a company for 10%, and the company sells for $5m, they'll get back at least $1m,
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by sksksk 13y ago
Whilst being the CEO of a FTSE 100 company is very impressive, Angela is going to head up the retail division of the world's largest company. I'd take a guess that if Apple Retail was a separate company from Apple, it'd still
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by sksksk 13y ago
BA still do that flight (under their cityjet brand). The real reason why they stop off in Dublin is because the runway at LCY is too short to take off with the weight of a full fuel tank.
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by sksksk 13y ago
They have tried this, I used to work for a company that makes an app for Android and iPhone. The app isn't great in itself, but it's part of a bigger service, and was even featured in an iPhone ad at one point. Microsoft said that
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by sksksk 13y ago
It seems to be broken, everything is returning male (or null) curl http://api.genderize.io?name=joe {"joe":"male"} curl http://api.genderize.io?name=jo {"jo":"male&qu
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by sksksk 13y ago
The article makes a false assumption that perks are what keeps you at a company. I'd say that they're nice things to have and definitely work as great recruitment tools. However, if the work you're doing is boring, no amount
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Google are using reCaptcha to read door numbers from their Street View data(imgur.com)
8 points by sksksk 13y ago|3 comments
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by sksksk 13y ago
You can have a long, secure password on your backup, and a short pin on your phone

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