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Yik Yak Is Close to Closing on Roughly $75M(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jpren 12y ago|0 comments
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Founders List(founders-list.com)
10 points by jpren 12y ago|0 comments
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The Day Niagara Falls Ran Dry(dailymail.co.uk)
4 points by jpren 13y ago|0 comments
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Before the Web, Hearts Grew Silent(nytimes.com)
120 points by jpren 13y ago|43 comments
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The Inner Bezos [2003](wired.com)
5 points by jpren 14y ago|0 comments
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Snapjoy Adds Brilliant "Copy" Feature(techcrunch.com)
33 points by jpren 14y ago|11 comments
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Snapjoy (YC S11) launches one-click importers and Windows uploader(thenextweb.com)
50 points by jpren 14y ago|16 comments
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by jpren 15y ago
You can pull up to 500 photos per flickr API call, so it's possible to fetch up to 180,000 photos per hour while staying under the limit.
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by jpren 15y ago
Thanks for pointing that out! Fixed now.
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Snapjoy (YC S11) unveils Flickraft, one-click migration for Flickr users(flickraft.com)
122 points by jpren 15y ago|66 comments
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by jpren 15y ago
As several others have suggested, the elevator should behave differently at different times throughout day. A smart elevator algorithm would adapt to the arrival behavior of people in a building through some clever stochastic simulation and
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by jpren 15y ago
Ah I believe that issue occurred before when you're on Linux only. It should be fixed now.
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by jpren 15y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. We probably haven't fully processed a single image from your queue yet, so sorry about the confusing circle it's throwing you in during that case... will fix on our end
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by jpren 15y ago
That's cool. We can provide you virtually unlimited storage for your authoritative photo collection on our servers.
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by jpren 15y ago
Absolutely. We're going to be pulling your photos from web services and other devices soon :)
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by jpren 15y ago
There's a lot more than that meets the eye happening beneath the surface. When you have a thousand photos up there, you'll get a better feel of our algorithmic clustering.
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by jpren 15y ago
We have a lot of great ideas brewing around pulling your photos from other services. Stay tuned!
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Snapjoy (YC S11) Will Organize Your Photos For You(techcrunch.com)
185 points by jpren 15y ago|60 comments
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by jpren 15y ago
Agreed. To clarify my previous point: when technologists work in supporting roles to businesses, the business-people-first management hierarchy mostly makes sense. After all, the parent business is the end customer. Where engineers feel mos
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by jpren 15y ago
I once read an article that discussed these tensions in excruciating detail. Below is the general gist of it from memory. A potential cause of the rift between (software) engineers and business people could do with how each group attempts t
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by jpren 15y ago
Can someone at Facebook verify if the answer on Quora is accurate/mostly accurate?
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Web scale: Facebook's architecture(quora.com)
107 points by jpren 15y ago|10 comments
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by jpren 16y ago
The actual product demo begins at the 11:20 mark. Might have to wait a bit for the clip to load as Vimeo doesn't allow you to play from an arbitrary point of the video.
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Live demo of Asana, a new product from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz(asana.com)
22 points by jpren 16y ago|12 comments
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by jpren 16y ago
IMO, the "worse-is-better" approach is especially applicable to startups in the sense that during its first few iterations, you (the founders) don't know exactly what-to-build. Hence, the definition of "completeness" in the scope of your pr
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Worse is Better(jwz.org)
1 points by jpren 16y ago|1 comments
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by jpren 16y ago
Very apt that you brought up Steven Strogatz. I took Prof. Strogatz's calculus for engineers class back in college (Spring 2004). If you like the way he discusses math curiousities in his NYTimes column, you'll surely enjoy his lectures as
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by jpren 16y ago
Back in college a few years ago, we mostly used Simplex and other tableau-pivot based algorithms for solving large linear programming problems. Link to wikipedia article on the Simplex algorithm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_algorit
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by jpren 16y ago
I've only used craigslist (on the consumer side) while apartment hunting... With that said, but if I were to add a listing, it would makes sense (and be in my advantage) to track the effectiveness of my listings and optimize them for traffi