kandalf

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by kandalf 10y ago
Perhaps another way of thinking about it is in terms of being a market maker versus a speculator. I think of Opendoor as more like the former, where traditionally a flipper refers to the latter.
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by kandalf 10y ago
Hadn't seen this before, but looks pretty cool. Thanks!
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by kandalf 10y ago
We have about ~40 people in the engineering org, including the data science team who all frequently write code as well.
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by kandalf 10y ago
The cost structure service is actually what I've been working on recently. We spun up a fairly lightweight flask service (on our kubernetes cluster) that is capable of serving the cost structure to the rails app and for analysis. At it
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by kandalf 10y ago
I think everyone on the team understands that helping unblock other engineers is as valuable as writing some code yourself. It generally hasn't been an issue getting timely review, though we have discussed tracking the average size of
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by kandalf 10y ago
I'm a software engineer at Opendoor- happy to answer any questions!
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by kandalf 10y ago
Very neat. Can BuckleScript compile Core?
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by kandalf 10y ago
To me this seems like the right approach - either you start with some massive amount of data that's not quite adapted to the problem (think Google), you start with full automation and have to basically write the decision tree yourself,
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Sochat lets you text anyone nearby, even strangers(businessinsider.com)
14 points by kandalf 11y ago|2 comments
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Eniac, Allen Zhang, others put $2M behind Bluetooth messaging app Sochat(venturebeat.com)
7 points by kandalf 11y ago|0 comments
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by kandalf 11y ago
Lynk Messenger | Full Time | Interns | Software Engineers Lynk is a fast, powerful, and free messaging app that enhances your interactions with friends and the people you meet. Lynk enables off-line chatting via low-energy Bluetooth (no WiF
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by kandalf 11y ago
Lynk Messenger | Full Time | Interns | Software Engineers Lynk is a fast, powerful, and free messaging app that enhances your interactions with friends and the people you meet. Lynk enables off-line chatting via low-energy Bluetooth (no WiF
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by kandalf 11y ago
Lynk Messenger | Full Time | Interns | Software Engineers Lynk is a fast, powerful, and free messaging solution that enhances your interactions with friends and the people you meet. Lynk enables off-line chatting via low-energy Bluetooth (n
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by kandalf 12y ago
The student hackathon movement has definitely evolved super quickly in the last five years (as Swift says, 5 -> 150, or more than 100% growth year over year). I'd be curious to hear more stats about how hackathons in general have gr
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From web to desktop: Introducing a new way to open Dropbox files(blogs.dropbox.com)
1 points by kandalf 12y ago|0 comments
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by kandalf 12y ago
Given that as far as I know, roads must be extensively mapped in advance of a self-driving car going on them, there is a nice bonus of doing self-driving cars exclusively through Uber at first. Uber can know the exact route the passenger wa
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by kandalf 12y ago
One of my favorites, that didn't make the top 7: http://ychacks.challengepost.com/submissions/25719-jugglr - a pebble + ipad app that tracks your juggling.
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by kandalf 12y ago
Neat concept - I've tried Plated which is similar. As a note for Josh, the banner image is unreadable when the window is maximized on my 30" thunderbolt display.
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by kandalf 12y ago
That makes sense - to get any stellars from the giveaway (either from the initial sign up or from setting up password recovery), you need to confirm your identity. Otherwise, you'd be able to create a bunch of accounts and just get the
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by kandalf 12y ago
@seas.upenn.edu didn't seem to work.
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by kandalf 12y ago
I saw this paper as well. But I suspect for some people the effects of telling others will be net positive, even if that's not the average. Anecdotally, I believe that to be true for myself.
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by kandalf 12y ago
A good question to ponder. But I think a very strong answer is that as a company producing bitcoin hardware you want to reduce exposure to bitcoin. Selling the machines (monetizing their future use value) instead of using them yourself does
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by kandalf 12y ago
I generally agree with the sentiment. I think it's very easy to each year just look at the standard prize amounts and decide that slightly beating the standard can't hurt, but over time that leads to higher and higher prizes. Cert
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First Round Capital Holiday Video 2013(firstround.com)
1 points by kandalf 13y ago|0 comments
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by kandalf 13y ago
I would argue that it doesn't make sense for the average merchant to keep holdings in BitCoin. Most merchants have no desire to take on currency risk ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_risk ). They&#x27
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by kandalf 13y ago
*corporate hackathons. I agree that Salesforce is giving hackathons as a whole a bad name, but there are plenty of hackathons (the college hackathon scene in particular right now) out there without the inherent conflict of interest of a sin
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by kandalf 13y ago
Sure, but it could also go to 0. It sounds like you're saying that you believe bitcoin is undervalued by the market, in which case you should buy bitcoin until it's a significant percentage of your assets (based on your risk toler
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by kandalf 13y ago
April Fools, 2012.
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by kandalf 13y ago
It would be great for debugging purposes if all ships could return an array of color coded vectors (or even just a single vector) to display every step.
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by kandalf 14y ago
Reminds me of SlamWhale (2011) [1], but the added meter rules makes it even better. [1] http://www.slamwhale.com/

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