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Unicode, in Friendly Terms(youtube.com)
2 points by imalex 5y ago|0 comments
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Tiers of Password Storage(youtube.com)
3 points by imalex 5y ago|0 comments
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Non-blocking I/O and how Node uses it, in friendly terms(youtube.com)
2 points by imalex 5y ago|0 comments
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How to understand taxes on RSUs, options, and startup equity(youtube.com)
1 points by imalex 5y ago|0 comments
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by imalex 5y ago
OK, I got what you're saying now, thanks! I got my wires crossed; I thought Newton's method was something else, but I was actually already implementing that. I think it's a clever idea to use the native square root to seed th
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by imalex 5y ago
That would've been fun too as a different challenge (I wrote the blog post). My main hesitation was that doing so might prevent me from using the built-in VM/hardware emulators they provide, so I wouldn't be able to easily ru
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by imalex 5y ago
Wow, that is indeed way cooler than what I knew! Thanks a lot for sharing (I wrote the blog post). As for square roots, the reason why you can't use the underlying architecture is that it only works on the native i16 type. That's
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From NAND to Raytracer: Raytracing on the Hack Computer (Feat. Rust)(blog.alexqua.ch)
2 points by imalex 5y ago|0 comments
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Understand How Equity Compensation and Taxes Work(youtube.com)
3 points by imalex 5y ago|0 comments
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Non-blocking I/O and how Node uses it, in friendly terms(youtube.com)
2 points by imalex 6y ago|0 comments
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by imalex 10y ago
We built everything by hand. Cordova is our glue to the native side, but React is what really makes the chat stuff tick. As for the Ruby/JSON stuff, that was also built by hand (actually the very first thing we built before we even had
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by imalex 10y ago
100% agreed. Yet another benefit of a single endpoint is that we rarely have to worry about backwards compatibility. It's a huge tax on engineering time to support those few users who're using a client that's six months old.
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by imalex 10y ago
Yup, Penny tries to focus on your discretionary spending since that's where you have the most agency. She tells you both your non-bills spending (assuming bills are mandatory) and your total spending, so you can get a sense of your spe
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by imalex 10y ago
Yup, though our emphasis is more on making finances as relatable and friendly as possible. The chat interface isn't just a skin on top of existing data (which some other chat interfaces can feel like), but completely dictates the entir
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by imalex 10y ago
Privacy and security are really big priorities for us, so we do our best to address those concerns whenever we can. As far as personal info is concerned, we store the minimum possible info (first name and email, no address, DOB, etc). And w
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by imalex 10y ago
Hey, co-founder here: I'll be the first to say that the chat interface isn't for everyone. If you'd prefer to get the facts with minimal extra stuff, Penny might not be for you. What we've found from working on this from
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by imalex 10y ago
Great point about two-way vs one-way. We find that it's still valuable for one-way communication because our main goal is to make finances relatable and easy to understand, and a chat interface literally forces us to be simple and clea
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by imalex 10y ago
By the way, this is US only. We only link to US banks, so it wouldn't be very useful to download the app in a different region. Our team is pretty small, so international expansion probably won't be in the radar for awhile.
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by imalex 10y ago
Sorry about that! Since we only link to US banks, we're only available in the US. Hopefully international expansion will be a thing, but we're a little too small for that at this point.
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by imalex 10y ago
Other co-founder here: Since we use Cordova, the entire app is a website. So when you open up the app, it launches a webview pointed to a website that we deploy to like any other website. That means we can change any client logic and it&#x2
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by imalex 10y ago
Hey, I'm a co-founder of Penny: Our biggest differentiators: more focus on automation and friendliness. The major pain point we discovered is that average people find finances intimidating and difficult to track. We wanted to take as m
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by imalex 10y ago
I was just thinking about this yesterday! I went with https://app.simplenote.com instead. Your app probably won't be compelling until you add more specific features that beat a generic note-taking app.
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by imalex 10y ago
I originally built this for personal use while bored at a previous company, but ended up reviving it for external use over the past couple days. Hope you like it!
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Show HN: Visualize your vesting equity with a client side calculator(firstworldproblem.io)
11 points by imalex 10y ago|2 comments
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by imalex 10y ago
Does it follow the Three Laws?
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by imalex 10y ago
How many cards do you have in your list? I have a list of 75 cards and I'm not observing the lazy loading you describe.
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by imalex 10y ago
Hmm, that's surprising to me, since all the cards are loaded into the DOM regardless of whether or not the extension is active. The only memory footprint should be from the extension itself, which should be minimal since the code is so
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Show HN: Trello Compact Mode(github.com)
4 points by imalex 10y ago|4 comments
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by imalex 11y ago
Hey, Alex (cofounder) here. You're totally right that people who have trouble managing money in general don't use these kind of apps. Before starting work on Penny, we asked a hundred or so people "how do you manage your mone