danielamitay

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by danielamitay 4y ago
The main issue is the conflating of usage and value. The persona/user group that consumes the Trending pages are likely users who themselves contribute to open source, and thus are part of a flywheel that drives more code contribution
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by danielamitay 5y ago
One of my favorites! Source: "How to Be Polite", https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-be-polite-9bf1e69e888c
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by danielamitay 6y ago
Dilbert comic strip: https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25 "Over here we have our random number generator." "Nine nine nine nine nine nine" "Are you sure that's random?" &quo
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Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14(facebook.com)
259 points by danielamitay 6y ago|301 comments
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by danielamitay 8y ago
A letter from an associate director of science at NASA in 1970 answering this question: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html
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by danielamitay 9y ago
I haven't started a company that needs to provide employee healthcare--does this have a short-term improvement to insurance rates? What incentivizes a company to employ HealthWiz--are there insurance providers that reduce rates as a re
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Introducing Snap Map(snap.com)
7 points by danielamitay 9y ago|0 comments
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by danielamitay 9y ago
The site and data normalization are great. The problem is that applying the phrase "best case scenario" is simply false, and it is just a distraction that was not necessary on the site. Amortizing my entire data usage over my enti
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by danielamitay 9y ago
In a simplistic sense, the "esteem" and "self-actualization" levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
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by danielamitay 10y ago
Hey nxzero, I saw PG say this once in a short interview I saw on Youtube. I'm looking for it now. Will update when I can [Edit] Found it: https://youtu.be/JK3sVFs6_rs?t=175
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by danielamitay 10y ago
> "Make sure everyone speaks" From personal experience in a YC interview: My cofounders and I decided we would speak and answer in turns. The problem we ultimately ran into after a few minutes was that one of our interviewers a
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by danielamitay 11y ago
Airtime | New York City, NY | Mobile Engineer (iOS) We are building really cool things in the real-time video space, and have been quietly experimenting and iterating on a number of projects and technology. We all know that video chat is po
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Shutting Down a Service with 500M Requests per Month(danielamitay.com)
104 points by danielamitay 11y ago|57 comments
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FIVE MINUTES – Interactive Short(fiveminutes.gs)
3 points by danielamitay 12y ago|2 comments
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by danielamitay 13y ago
Let us suppose that there is an organized group of Bitcoin enthusiasts with a combined amount of Bitcoin holdings of around 100,000BTC. Would an article "App.net begins accepting Bitcoin" increase the BTC/USD exchange rate by
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by danielamitay 13y ago
Those are examples of predicting demand changes on a macro scale. Amazon wants to do this on a more micro, person-by-person level. For example, you visit a product page for some specialty shampoo. Amazon might decide to ship that product be
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by danielamitay 13y ago
Without addressing the issue of tax loopholes in general, there is a logical rationale for lower taxes on capital gains (for Schwarzman, Buffett & co): - It's a double tax, as money that was invested had already been previously tax
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by danielamitay 13y ago
As far as I know, they incorporated information from a similar dataset I created back in mid-2011 [1]. [1] http://danielamitay.com/blog/2011/6/13/most-common-iphone-pa...
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by danielamitay 13y ago
The software simply attempts to read the device's root folder. Success == Jailbroken. Piracy detection involves checking the app executable's compile time, permissions and similar. The methods change from time to time, but that is
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by danielamitay 13y ago
I've found two apps using it so far. That's the thing: I wish more people would notify you when they use your open source stuff. Attribution means less to me than simply knowing that it's being used.
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by danielamitay 13y ago
Here's my implementation from June 2012: https://github.com/danielamitay/DAAnisotropicImage I like how you're only re-drawing if the motion change passes a threshold.
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by danielamitay 13y ago
Basically, I derive a significant amount of esteem and happiness from making things that people use. It was this that lead myself and those around me to believe I should pursue Engineering. Unfortunately, I derived very little to no esteem
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by danielamitay 13y ago
I understand the financial mistakes (underperforming investments). I understand the building mistakes (extravagance, over-spending). What I don't understand is this policy that will (in my opinion) destroy The Cooper Union's core asset: the
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by danielamitay 13y ago
Instead of ranking by net points, or points over time, the comments could be ranked by points per view. This essentially gives a close approximation to "What percentage of people who viewed this comment found it worthwhile?"
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Free App Strategy Advice(lcrnd.com)
1 points by danielamitay 14y ago|0 comments
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by danielamitay 14y ago
Aside from the "Some important lessons" section (which seemed very patronizing, although OXO seems to be in the right here considering the expired patent aspect), it seems that OXO handled themselves pretty well. It pointed out Quirky's sid
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by danielamitay 14y ago
Interestingly enough, my participation on Twitter was spurred and continually maintained via OSS and GitHub. So this is really welcome on my end (although I wouldn't mind extra info such as watchers and forks). It is a bit weird though: the
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In Defense Of The Humble App Walkthrough(techcrunch.com)
1 points by danielamitay 14y ago|0 comments
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by danielamitay 14y ago
Probably minor to most visitors, but stuck out to me: The screenshot is being taken of a localhost instance. Easy fix. EDIT: Also, BrianPetro's example broke heavily for me on Mobile Safari when zooming in.
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Stack Exchange's Winter Bash 2012(winterba.sh)
3 points by danielamitay 14y ago|0 comments

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