tommynicholas

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by tommynicholas 10y ago
Love this comment and don't want my more serious commentary to override how good this turn of phrase is. That said: I think we should. Electron is problematic and you can always tell an Electron app when you see it because the performa
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
Such a weird coincidence, but I definitely think you're in a different space. For example, per my previous comment where I needed it to be installed and more customizable, I'm going to use Prophet, but for other projects where it&
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
5% drop after a 30% rally is "tanking"? Tesla stock will always be volatile it's fine. Stock was under $200 a few months ago.
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
I was trying to sort out whether adding this to an existing charting/analytics product makes sense but it looks like you've checked it out and think it does. I couldn't tell only because it seems to be built to do the chartin
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
I will definitely try it out, thanks!
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
Very cool, something I would definitely use in a project I'm working on if it were a package I could install, and something I would probably use "as is" in many other instances.
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
It's not mostly news, it's mostly finance data that only Bloomberg has aggregated. To get the data you have to buy the terminal.
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
I found this extremely interesting but one thing I think is important to remember: it's possible that Republicans will take down Trump in 2020 (or sooner), but it's more likely that non-Republicans will. Mobilizing and organizing
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
Which is amazing but irrelevant - if the lesson is "build something obsessively for years until you have an audience to then, also over the course of 4 years, monetize on another project - assuming you get both of these things exactly
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
I was very excited to read this post, as it's premise appeals very strongly to me. Wandering is crucial, and every bit of wandering I was allowed to do as a kid I treasured then and treasure now. She lost me immediately at "Imagin
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
"Network effects are mostly irrelevant for Uber’s business. Yes, they need a large supply of drivers to make the service viable, but this isn’t an advantage of Uber compared to regular cabs which have sufficient availability in most ci
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
I found that course excellent as well - although these days if you don't have the "pro" tier of Codecademy you miss out on the quizzes and other things. Still, it was good and pretty advanced. Learned a lot.
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
They're exactly as crazy as they seem at first glance
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
I'd read it!
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
A market liquidity crisis would have to hit and have fully felt impacts over night for this to be a problem for Opendoor, since they flip inventory relatively quickly. Even a crisis situation would create only moderate medium term risk for
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
There will be limitless buyers, and because Opendoor isn't competing on price, their ability to price securities to the financial markets will be absurd. I assume they'll have to keep a token % on balance sheet to show good faith
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
One thing not mentioned: Opendoor absolutely does not have to carry the balance sheet risk of owning the homes forever. They can chop up those assets and sell them to anyone (hedge funds, banks, individual investors, etc) at any point. At s
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
They were profitable for a lot of their lifetime and then they weren't.
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
VERY nice
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
Seconded
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
Looker looks great! Not EXACTLY what I'm looking for but also definitely close enough, especially for companies at scale.
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
New Relic was the inspiration for this idea. I shouldn't have to put my data into NR to get value, the data is already either in my app's DB or running through my app. There are actually a lot of reasons why having it be installed
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
BI for developers. Developers run many organizations and teams now, but most Business Intelligence-ish tools are either built for business people (Tableau, Domo) or for marketing (all analytics products, specifically GA). I feel like there&
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
She was briefly "famous for being famous", but not particularly famous at that point. Her empire was built based on her (and her family and her organization's) fantastic execution from then until now.
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
Exactly. I believe it was MEANT to be insulting, but Kim K isn't the joke everyone makes her out to be. I think she's a genius. Whether you agree with the image she puts out and how it may impact culture, she's totally in con
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
Not only is cleaned up data expensive, dirty data is expensive! Clean data pipes are now and will be increasingly really interesting businesses IMO.
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
Our lead investor actively acknowledges this potential conflict with us in spending/funding conversations so we can all make sure we're conscious of whether it is or isn't happening. One of many reasons I enjoy working with t
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
https://blankslate.io - just a blank page you can type on and save your thoughts. I use it every day and love it!
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
Exactly - there are tax code companies you've probably never even heard of like Avalara entering the Unicorn range. The kicker: all they do is calculate sales tax! Actually a cool company, but one that should never exist.
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by tommynicholas 10y ago
If there's one thing that deserves a federal massive budget, it's this. If laws and regulations can be understood easily by software, we would remove so many problems the government creates. Complexity would be easier to manage, b

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