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by parm289 5y ago
Perhaps a bit off topic, but seeing the breadth of general discussion about online CS masters programs in this thread, figured I'd ask the HN crowd: How is a program like the Penn MCIT Online degree[0] viewed by engineering and product
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by parm289 6y ago
Yeah, the disk space issue is what I'm concerned with. I'd prefer not to use local disk space to store a copy of my emails but I haven't been able to find a way to disable local storage in Mail.app.
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by parm289 6y ago
This is great in terms of UI. Does anyone know if you can use Mail.app with Gmail and keep all emails on the server? I'm currently using Mimesteram which has a great UI and doesn't keep a local copy of all emails. But, I would
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by parm289 8y ago
Got it, that makes sense.
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by parm289 8y ago
What about a firm like Knight?
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by parm289 8y ago
Why aren’t these firms insuring against this risk? Seems like any other risk that can be managed - pay premiums and so that a third party would fund any erroneous losses.
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by parm289 9y ago
Was going to post this - have users submit the track data! That also might make it easier to expand to other stations where you aren't as familiar with the track layout.
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by parm289 11y ago
Interesting, thanks. I had in mind a system that would basically regex match a string and add an entry to the ledger (similar, but it would probably be a bit more flexible than the built in system). Separately, I saw you have also worked on
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by parm289 11y ago
Have you ever thought about using a natural language interface with ledger? For example, the Mac/iOS calendar app Fantastical lets you create an event by typing or dictating a sentence like "lunch with mike at 2 on Tuesday at Wend
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by parm289 11y ago
Thanks for the insight. Are there any particular social media sources you like to use? I find that Twitter and reddit are the most real-time, but reddit can often carry its own biases as well. Twitter seems like it could be the best soci
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by parm289 11y ago
Your comment was enlightening and compels me to ask: where can the public get access to live field reports such as the one you mention? If news companies transform these reports into faux-news, I'd like to bypass them directly and rea
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by parm289 11y ago
I posted this comment on another taxi medallion article, but figure it's hopefully more relevant here: Just a little background on medallion finance: A few summers ago, I worked in commercial credit and we did a financing for a "t
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by parm289 11y ago
Just a little background on medallion finance: A few summers ago, I worked in commercial credit and we did a financing for a "taxi mogul." He was replacing several cars in his fleet, and wanted to take out term loans for the full
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by parm289 12y ago
Why don't we launch the nuclear waste into deep space? Seems like that would avoid the burial problem described here, and since space is mostly, well, empty space, wouldn't inflict much harm to other bodies.
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by parm289 12y ago
Great idea. To start, why not have the app find episodes that match the user's commute time? For other episodes, an app like Overcast could first apply SmartSpeed and then speed up the entire episode (ie 1.1x) to match the commute tim
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by parm289 12y ago
Awesome, thanks.
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by parm289 12y ago
For those of you on iOS looking for a polished transit app with support for multiple cities, I highly recommend Transit.[0] It allows you to quickly map trips as well as easily save data for offline access. [0]: http://thetransi
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by parm289 12y ago
Any plans to open source the code?
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by parm289 12y ago
I agree. It seems that Uber could be for transportation what Seamless is for food (at least in midtown Manhattan). Currently, banks etc. either hire company car services to take employees home late at night or reimburse late-night taxi exp
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by parm289 13y ago
Is your system open source? Would love to take a look at how it works.
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by parm289 13y ago
Me too. I think there could be a sizable market for a tablet or app that does notetaking and handwriting really well. The iPad seems limited by its touchscreen tech/software, which seems to be optimized for fingers and not fine-tippe
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by parm289 13y ago
You might be interested in the axlsx ruby gem: https://github.com/randym/axlsx Haven't used it, but it allows the creation of pretty complex spreadsheets from ruby code. Not sure if it is able to read from spread
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by parm289 13y ago
You mention fees and AML/anti-terrorism regulation...it seems that the major impediment to cross-border wire transfers and ACH is regulation, not a lack of infrastructural capability. Assuming most countries have the same goals with r
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by parm289 13y ago
For every discussion about Bitcoin, I wonder if improving the ACH system and/or writing services on top of it would be a logical next step to make the existing banking system more user-friendly. For example, Venmo[0] is simply an app l
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by parm289 13y ago
You raise a good point about mood tracking. I've found that iTunes's genius shuffle does a decent job of shuffling a single genre of music, so you don't generally get harsh interruptions. The holy grail is most definitely a l
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by parm289 13y ago
Spot on. This would be great as a way to learn new frameworks/libraries as well.
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by parm289 13y ago
At the high school level, I think your analysis is generally correct. Most students who aren't already interested in computer science will have the same attitude toward a programming course as they have toward foreign language courses
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by parm289 13y ago
Just curious -- what analytics would you be interested in seeing?
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Ask HN: I have 10,259 Fortune 500 job listings. What should I do?
6 points by parm289 13y ago|5 comments
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by parm289 13y ago
I actually started hacking on this idea a few weeks ago. A personal API could have tons of uses. Many others have commented on the benefits of aggregation, but this could allow users to control and selectively sell/provide information to

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