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Cowchat – Let Claude, Codex, and other agents talk to each other locally(cowchat.cowboy.inc)
6 points by ryanlchan 1mo ago|1 comments
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by ryanlchan 12y ago
A similar application was to use aerogels, which are highly insulating but not reflective, as clothing insulation. I recall a number of companies have explored this in the past [1]. The issue with aeogels appears to be two-fold: firstly, th
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by ryanlchan 12y ago
The arrest rate is also different from the incarceration rate, which is much more heavily skewed. According to Pew, black men are incarcerated at ~6.5 the rate that white men are, per capita[1]. [1] http://www.pewresearch.org&#x2
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by ryanlchan 12y ago
This seems quite similar to the design AOL's Alto [1] used. I actually used Alto for a while, but found that the promotional images were less helpful than the short blurbs Gmail had already for quickly figuring out if I wanted to open
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by ryanlchan 13y ago
This is actually one of the tuition options that the US armed forces offers students: we pay for your schooling, and you serve in the military for an equal number of years. It's also quite common for your company to pay for business sc
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by ryanlchan 13y ago
For anyone looking, there are also a number of sites dedicated to just this, with a similar audience to HN. Betalist[1], Cloudlist[2], and ErliBird[3] are examples that come to mind which I've had good experiences with. [1]: http://betali.
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by ryanlchan 13y ago
I think a major hurdle we have to overcome with big data is separating causation vs correlation. As the data set scales, we gain ever-increasing confidence in the correlation, but an ever more complex set of causations. Take their House of
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by ryanlchan 13y ago
This is a masterpiece of a backhanded compliment. Never have I seen such elegant transitions between briefly masked contempt and half-hearted admiration. It's really stunning. I think analyzing these acquisitions from a raw dollars-to-dolla
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by ryanlchan 13y ago
Yeah, I'm having trouble seeing the advantage of this over the browser's native implementation: Chrome's CMD+SHIFT+I hotkey brings up a mail this page window automatically for me. I would definitely put some effort into copywriting the main
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by ryanlchan 13y ago
People forget about the amount of data LinkedIn has available to them: ConnectedHQ (the predecessor to LinkedIn Contacts) has direct access to thousands of email inboxes, Rapportive can log any time someone hovers over a new address, and mi
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The Surprising Truth About New User Onboarding Tours(blog.musubimail.com)
2 points by ryanlchan 13y ago|0 comments
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by ryanlchan 13y ago
I've been thinking about this as well; the results I could find are from quite a while ago, but in general the answer is to use a reversible encryption like AES [1] along with secure storage of the encryption key [2], preferably on another
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by ryanlchan 13y ago
The project I'm working on ( http://www.musubimail.com ) was originally meant to help keep in touch with professional contacts, but I've been using it for beta-user follow ups to some good success. I made groups based on how soon I need to
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by ryanlchan 13y ago
This is very clearly satire. Unfortunately, satire is usually lost of this crowd. The bit with 'free vs non-free' had me rolling.
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by ryanlchan 13y ago
I'm betting it's about talent acquisition. Like you suggest, the technical part just isn't quite there. I used Summly for almost 3 months, giving it chance and chance again to impress me. It never did. The summaries were mediocre at best an
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by ryanlchan 14y ago
VC shops are like most PE firms - hiring is done on a small scale by the partners themselves, typically through their private network first, then using a recruiter second. If you can't break into the network individually, try breaking in th
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by ryanlchan 14y ago
This reminds me: I'd love to see how many of CodeYear's sign-ups completed a term. I have lots of friends who want to "learn to code" but get frustrated and quit. It's too easy to give up if you don't have "something bigger" continually pus
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by ryanlchan 14y ago
It's small - I launched an MVP into this area recently. Business people who are inundated by email want a heavy, full-service solution like SaneBox, whereas consumers have been conditioned into thinking that everything regarding email shoul
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by ryanlchan 14y ago
This will actually happen for any extension which requires many IMAP calls, or any combination of extensions thereof. As a Gmail extension developer myself, it takes a lot of effort to be efficient about your IMAP usage to avoid these kin
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Show HN: Gmail Timer - Schedule when to receive new email(blog.musubimail.com)
2 points by ryanlchan 14y ago|0 comments
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by ryanlchan 14y ago
I'm curious to see what happens to Amazon FPS if these product based crowd-funding apps take off. We may be in for a bit of a Paypal style crackdown debacle. I actually spoke with the Kickstarter guys back in 2009 when I was considering bra
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by ryanlchan 14y ago
Golden nugget that that Jason just starts to uncover here: the reason customers purchase your software is rarely the same reason as why you started creating the software in the first place. As a consultant, the one-line zinger that was th
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by ryanlchan 14y ago
Another alternative is also just hosting directly off S3, which, combined with cloudfront, should eliminate any possibility of folding.
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by ryanlchan 14y ago
A bit of a false dichotomy here. Don't do the work because it's expected of you, because it's sexy, or because it's "interesting". Don't do it because your friends are impressed, because the pay's good, or because your friends are there. Do
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by ryanlchan 14y ago
Excellent! Two quick clarifications on what I mean by "just go goddamn start it". 1. For a majority of contemporary companies, the primary risk is not technical, but market driven. In other words, your biggest problem isn't figuring out how
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by ryanlchan 14y ago
I never said that these credentials are required (in fact I don't think they are), but that the OP implicitly believes them to be true. If you complain about the "lack of good technical cofounders" when there are 14,000 CS graduates eve
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by ryanlchan 14y ago
Let's clarify the implicit assumption you put in there: Why is it so hard finding a good technical co-founder? It's the same reason it's hard finding a good non-technical co-founder. With a technical co-founder you're looking for proof of
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Non-technical founders: Learn to code, but don't code(ryanlchan.com)
1 points by ryanlchan 14y ago|0 comments
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by ryanlchan 14y ago
This is likely the in-house rebranding of Karma, a gift giving app they purchased back in May [1]. Also seems to be a play for monetization on the mobile platform. From the mashable article, linked: At the time, Linden said that the majori
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by ryanlchan 14y ago
What worries me, more than the accuracy of the story or not, is the overwhelming level of agreement from commentators. There's a pervasive sense of cynicism blanketing the tech start up world, but for some reason we're all still in the game

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