jechen

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by jechen 13y ago
On one hand, you have people earning six figures fighting for the dwindling, ever inflated supply of conventional housing options, and on the other, you have people like Nadia Eghbal who display the utmost resourcefulness and manage to live
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by jechen 13y ago
Well what to you know, mere minutes before I saw this submission on HN I received an email from Kickstarter saying that funding for the project has been suspended. I feel like an idiot for backing the project, but I guess it comes to show t
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by jechen 13y ago
"We are not an entertainment company – we are a productivity tool company. We provide a new additional service you use to get stuff done better." Yes! This is exactly the kind of music service I've been looking for when I&#x2
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by jechen 13y ago
A private BitTorrent tracker for music.
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by jechen 13y ago
Do we really need another music app? How many of us are (or planning to) use Twitter for music discovery? For the average consumer, Spotify has just about everything for anyone. For the avid listener, there are hundreds of quality music blo
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by jechen 13y ago
Can't agree more. All the breakpoints are placed so thoughtfully without sacrificing content for flair, certainly one of the most well-executed responsive sites I've come across. I'll most likely be poring through the reviews for hours to c
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by jechen 13y ago
Its initial concept of beaming money with Palm Pilots certainly was. What it eventually pivoted and grew into was less so, but I do agree that PayPal played an important role in the evolution of web technologies. My point remains that we sh
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by jechen 13y ago
I think it's important to keep in mind that Elon Musk got to where he is today (especially financially) because of a consumer web service he helped found. I'm sure (perhaps on the more optimistic end) that more entrepreneurs would jump on h
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by jechen 13y ago
Reading the article made me smile. Reading your comment made my day. Looking forward to trying your service someday. :)
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by jechen 13y ago
Zapier has become one of my favorites web services. I've always lamented that IFTTT doesn't cater to the productivity/project management crowd by offering a very limited set of channels to work with. Then Zapier came along and blew me away.
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by jechen 13y ago
Well, on second look it seems like the mast is using <video> for me as well- I originally looked too far and thought the id "fbhome-cinemagraph-canary" led to an animated gif. Apologies on making the wrong call! Also, as a previous
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by jechen 13y ago
The source reveals that the video mast is actually an animated gif (or cinemagraph, as these tasteful creations are also known as). The stutter in the beginning kind of gives it away, but still quite impressive they included such a long edi
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by jechen 13y ago
I have my doubts about the launcher and would much rather have Twitter take on the endeavor given I derive much more utility from its network (highlighting stories on my Twitter feed seem a lot more relevant in practice when it comes to thi
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by jechen 13y ago
This marks the first time I've felt genuinely saddened by the shutdown of a game studio. LucasArts made some of the best games I played as a kid, it's a shame they couldn't follow up their legacy in recent years. :(
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by jechen 14y ago
I've always hacked my way around DevTools - it's nice being able to formally acquaint myself with it through an interactive tutorial. CodeSchool also does some of the best tutorials online (totally worth the subscription fee IMO) - great pa
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by jechen 14y ago
I really appreciate "process" posts like this- always love the feeling of picking up new technologies and putting them to good side project use. Best of luck on learning!
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by jechen 14y ago
I've been preaching this for years- it's not a "developers" conference anymore when you have your average tech enthusiast queueing for swag.
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by jechen 14y ago
Interesting. I've never gone to a WWDC, but I've been to the first three I/Os, and while it could be the fact that the conference has become better known since then (and increasingly at larger scales), you can definitely see the effects tha
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by jechen 14y ago
The disgusting amount of free swag they throw at you.
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by jechen 14y ago
Can't say I didn't see this coming. It's been the same absurd registration experience for several years now. What Google really needs to do is stop throwing all this free swag around so the conference can really find its intended purpose an
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by jechen 14y ago
I wouldn't discount IBM so quickly- to my understanding IBM's been partnering with a lot of institutions to beef up Watson. I know Carnegie Mellon was quite involved through the whole Jeopardy showcase (I even got to watch him school contes
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by jechen 14y ago
This was posted in 2010. A little long-winded for sure, but it's good to hear someone would have such positive things to say coming out of a 12-year tenure at Microsoft (I have a few friends headed there after graduation). I remember readin
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by jechen 14y ago
Tried the multiplication quiz: recognition is a bit slow and inaccurate, which results in repeated attempts per problem (and gets in the way of the main objective: answering as many as quickly in a minute). It's an otherwise cool showcase o
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by jechen 14y ago
It's no different at Carnegie Mellon. I spoke to a former SCS dean who revealed that cheating rates in CS courses are as high as 70%, yet most professors turn a blind eye (which as the Crimson article points out, may be attributed to apathy
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by jechen 14y ago
Curious as to why there's no mention of the secret formula, since the author is wrong about kola nut being an ingredient of the syrup: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/pr2001447 (from the Coca-Cola wiki page), which interestingly is a
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by jechen 15y ago
I thought it's quite a fresh breath of air from all the other apps. Conventions be damned!
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by jechen 15y ago
Can definitely see myself using this with jQuery Mobile. Thanks.
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by jechen 15y ago
This has the potential to be big...
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by jechen 15y ago
Mad respect for Pandora, been an avid One user for years, this is great.
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by jechen 15y ago
This is really nifty, though it's a little slow redirecting on my end (in SF). :) Great job!

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