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by bsirkia 1y ago
Brynson | Full Stack Developer | NYC Onsite (3-4 days in-office / week) | $120 - $160K brynson.com Brynson is a fast-growing SaaS company building Brynsights™, the leading business intelligence platform for the multifamily real estate
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by bsirkia 6y ago
I think this is generally right. We tend to focus on the one side of the slippery slope which is "descent into an Orwellian dystopia", but the other side of the logical extreme is what, that no matter what private companies aren&#
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by bsirkia 6y ago
Right now an entirely separate platform, but the original idea was an integration with Zoom. Unfortunately their API doesn't support breakout room management yet ( https://devforum.zoom.us/t/breakout-rooms-api/
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by bsirkia 6y ago
Been building https://zoomingle.com over the last few months, it's a group video chat service that automatically creates randomized breakout rooms to facilitate 1:1's and other small group chats within a larger group.
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by bsirkia 6y ago
Very cool! I'd be happy to help with the NYC one (moved here from Canada about 5 years ago) but can't tell exactly where to edit the spreadsheet?
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by bsirkia 6y ago
Hey @econcon, I think my friend and I will give this a try. We're starting to spec everything out, and probably want to start out with laser gauge to have high accuracy. Would love to ask a couple questions if you have time, my email i
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Ask HN: What are your favorite “interactive” websites?
1 points by bsirkia 7y ago|0 comments
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Seeing Red: A Boston Globe Spotlight Team Report on Traffic in Massachusetts(apps.bostonglobe.com)
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by bsirkia 7y ago
This really resonates with me as an engineer/CTO working on a product that went into the jungle with a machete. We never anticipated how difficult it would be educate the market, so eventually pivoted to more of a "toll-road"
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The $200k mistake and what we learned(medium.com)
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A Generation of Americans Is Entering Old Age the Least Prepared in Decades(wsj.com)
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Failure is always an option(reddit.com)
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Data Aggregator (3taps) Seeks Ruling Allowing It to Scrape Public LinkedIn Data(natlawreview.com)
1 points by bsirkia 9y ago|0 comments
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Social Apps Are Now a Commodity(theatlantic.com)
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Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. To Its Core(nytimes.com)
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Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia(bloomberg.com)
294 points by bsirkia 10y ago|212 comments
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In an age of robots, schools are teaching our children to be redundant(theguardian.com)
3 points by bsirkia 10y ago|0 comments
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Study: Millennials really are making less than their parents did(csmonitor.com)
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by bsirkia 10y ago
Definitely worth reading the Naked Capitalism series he mentions in a footnote: Part 1: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver... Part 2: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016&#
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by bsirkia 10y ago
Love original version! Only thing stopping me from making it my regular client is the lack of "best" menu item. I love checking out day's best or week's best if I've been to busy to keep up. Great work though.
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Understanding That Unregulated Monopoly Was Always Uber’s Central Objective(nakedcapitalism.com)
6 points by bsirkia 10y ago|0 comments
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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Understanding False Claims About Uber’s Innovation(nakedcapitalism.com)
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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Two: Understanding Uber’s Uncompetitive Costs(nakedcapitalism.com)
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The Machine: A new kind of computer(labs.hpe.com)
1 points by bsirkia 10y ago|1 comments
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by bsirkia 10y ago
Can you ask your friend to send me an invite? Price is negotiable :-)
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The Greatest NBA Team of All Time – According to the Numbers(thecauldron.si.com)
1 points by bsirkia 10y ago|0 comments
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by bsirkia 10y ago
Yes, you've correctly identified what the article is about, and I've never disagreed or said "this article is about Theranos as an investment". I still think it's interesting to think about the article in the contex
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by bsirkia 10y ago
True, but I'd say that the unreliability of blood testing as a diagnostic technique is extremely pertinent information for investors to have when investing in a company that is built on blood testing as a diagnostic technique. My point
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by bsirkia 10y ago
Right, there seems to be a big problem with pattern matching, i.e. "quirky Harvard dropout" and simply associating that with success.
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by bsirkia 10y ago
I'm consistently surprised at the low bar for due diligence in startup funding. In my personal experience, it goes something like "send us a business plan, pitch deck, three customers (that you handpick) for us to talk to, the leg

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