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by azirbel 3y ago
This looks great. I found the docs helpful for getting a clear idea of what it does: https://docs.gradient.ai/docs/introduction
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by azirbel 5y ago
Playbook ( https://www.playbook.com ) | Software Engineer | San Francisco or Remote (US timezones +/- 1 hour) The tools for keeping track of creative work haven't gotten an update since Dropbox launched. You wouldn'
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by azirbel 5y ago
Playbook ( https://www.playbook.com ) | Software Engineer | San Francisco or Remote (US timezones +/- 1 hour) The tools for keeping track of creative work haven't gotten an update since Dropbox launched. You wouldn'
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by azirbel 5y ago
What I found most interesting: > His latest Twitch deal includes a performance quota; he streams 200 hours a month. 50 hours a week of on-stream time! And any other business/branding/merchandizing must happen on top of those 50
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by azirbel 5y ago
Playbook ( https://playbook.com ) | Software and Infrastructure Engineer | San Francisco or Remote (US timezones +/- 1 hour) The tools for keeping track of creative work haven't gotten an update since Dropbox launched. Y
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by azirbel 5y ago
Playbook ( https://playbook.com ) | Software and Infrastructure Engineer | San Francisco or Remote (US timezones +/- 1 hour) The tools for keeping track of creative work haven't gotten an update since Dropbox launched. Y
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by azirbel 5y ago
What I got from the article was that system as a whole is consistently throwing roadblocks in the way of experimental/small-time science. The author focuses on YouTube, but also cites a government investigation as well as deplatforming
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by azirbel 5y ago
Playbook | Backend Engineer | Remote or SF Bay Area | https://www.playbook.com Playbook is a media management tool that acts as a beautiful, organized home base for creative work. We're looking for a senior backend engineer
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by azirbel 6y ago
I really like hooks. I previously spent a lot of time in HOCs, and I find hooks much simpler. But I also have problems with #5 (control flow): The main issue I have with hooks is that I can't easily trace why updates are being triggere
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by azirbel 6y ago
I for one preferred the diplomacy. The 'magic' involved in hooks is a tradeoff; there are real benefits in the way you can consolidate logic, or mix in behaviors. Personally, I strongly prefer hooks to HOCs. Many technologies have
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by azirbel 7y ago
The comments here seem very negative compared to e.g. the Google employee protests over Project Dragonfly. [1] There are two questions here: whether GitHub should allow ICE to buy its software, and whether employees should influence the dir
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by azirbel 8y ago
I made this for a really minimal version of daily time tracking. The touch bar turned out to be a great place for a stopwatch: tapping is easy, and you can easily check if it's running or not - even in fullscreen mode. More info in a l
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Show HN: A little stopwatch for your Mac's touch bar(touch-bar-timer.alexzirbel.com)
6 points by azirbel 8y ago|1 comments
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by azirbel 8y ago
Sounds like the homepage copy could use some work. Thanks for the list of questions you had, that's very useful. jsonbin definitely does a good job of explaining it.
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by azirbel 8y ago
Made it myself in Sketch! It took me forever, I'll probably find a real illustrator next time.
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by azirbel 8y ago
That's a good point. Since I don't have that feature, I'll be happy to remove data manually if it ever comes up.
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by azirbel 8y ago
That sounds like a perfect way to use it. Here's an example of charting data, using npoint.io as the data storage "backend": https://beta.observablehq.com/@azirbel/npoint-io-charting-de... If you made a
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by azirbel 8y ago
Ouch, that would suck. Thanks for the heads-up.
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by azirbel 8y ago
Easy - I'll just inject text-based ads into the saved data! (Kidding, of course...) I think it's unlikely that this site can be monetized, so I don't have my hopes up. The clearest direction would be to move up the "back
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by azirbel 8y ago
Hi HN! This is a side project I've been working on for a while now. It's similar to https://jsonbin.io (which was an inspiration!), but focuses on the second step of prototyping with data - once you're editing JSO
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Show HN: JSON storage bins with schema validation(npoint.io)
74 points by azirbel 8y ago|19 comments
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by azirbel 10y ago
Ah, they're just tools that can be learned. I had to run around the company quite a bit to make sure I got all the information right. We don't require experience in any of these tools to get a job at Opendoor. Most programming exp
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by azirbel 10y ago
Thanks for the comment -- and it's very accurate in terms of where we'd like to go. On a tangential note: empowering untrained individuals is important, but we often do the opposite too. Many of our internal tools are designed to
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by azirbel 10y ago
Longer comment on "flipping": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13835150 . > Also, I guess I don't understand where they actually make money. Sorry for not being more clear on that. When we make an offer
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by azirbel 10y ago
That's fair - the customer experience is a layer on top of the business model. The second part of my comment is more relevant: > We typically don't spend very long renovating our homes. We'd rather reinvent the buying and
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by azirbel 10y ago
Sure! My email is alex@opendoor.com.
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by azirbel 10y ago
I'd say the main direct effects were (1) we were able to iterate very fast on our internal tools, which are used by internal operators to manage each transaction; and (2) our data science setup has allowed us to price homes incredibly
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by azirbel 10y ago
It looks similar, but we're actually very different than flippers. House flipping is about finding underpriced houses (either by having a sharp eye, or by buying distressed houses), and then optimizing the amount of money invested vs.
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by azirbel 10y ago
Very true on the financing, and how it connects to our business. There have been plenty of companies in the past whose business model is to buy distressed houses and flip them; Opendoor is coming from a very different angle. We'd like
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by azirbel 10y ago
Sad to hear this news, but also excited to hear that Sandstorm is continuing as an open source project. I'm mainly excited because Sandstorm makes indie web apps viable. I've been amazed to see how quickly members of the Sandstorm

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