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by uams 13y ago
Biotech is going to be eaten by software, that's not in question. It's clear that Kleiner lost their first bet on health startups, which means that I'm looking forward to seeing the next batch of startups give it a go.
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Ask HN: Interesting ideas for a weekend project?
7 points by uams 13y ago|9 comments
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by uams 13y ago
This is a really interesting idea. iOS and submitting to the app store has always seemed high friction task. This takes reduces both of them by having a fully baked app that I can just modify. The promise of shipping code to the app store i
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by uams 13y ago
IIRC, this has always been on stripes job page. Always thought it was a clever idea.
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by uams 13y ago
The key to this one will be figuring out what features of git (and in particular github) will make it successful in other verticals. I wonder if some key CS concepts are so fundamentally ingrained, but that writers think about their work fl
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by uams 13y ago
iOS7 is already doing that. It's switching from skeuomorphic buttons to just typography. This doesn't address your larger point, given that the switch to lines doesn't mean that they're bringing advanced functionality ye
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by uams 14y ago
https://www.filepicker.io ?
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by uams 14y ago
Haha. Super cool. Cloudy just fixing all of gmail attachment problems. First saw Cloudy a bit ago; it let you attach a file using filepicker.io which means attachments straight from Facebook, Gmail, other cloud sources. Nice job.
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by uams 14y ago
"Security breaks when humans are involved" Pretty much sums up life. It's gotten to the point that zero-day exploits scare me less then users writing passwords down on sticky notes, clicking on random links, or letting random people in the
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by uams 14y ago
whoa. you can read and write on their urls? pretty slick as it actually looks like a js file system. It's super interesting; javascript is okay, but any shortcomings seem to be solved by other people. Inconsistencies and ease of use- Jquery
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by uams 14y ago
Hmm. So the argument that web will eventually over take native mobile apps has been made over and over. Sure an O(n lgn) algorithm is better, but if the constants are bad enough, I'm going with the O(n^2). Even the author admits that native
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by uams 14y ago
What protocol do you guys use to talk to Sharepoint?
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by uams 14y ago
Submitted to brew. Not sure if I did everything right (first time) https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/15229
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by uams 14y ago
Haha. I'll fix that when I get a chance; pull requests are encouraged :D
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by uams 14y ago
Something I threw together over the weekend. I've been using filepicker on a website of mine. Realized that I could hack it to upload and share files in a simple tool. Inspired by cloudApp, when I found myself wanting a command line version
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ShowHN: GetURL - A CLI tool to get a public link for any file(github.com)
119 points by uams 14y ago|49 comments
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by uams 14y ago
what are the differences between hiring a sales person verus a VP of sales?
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by uams 14y ago
http://snapsite.me/ is pretty cool. It takes a Facebook Page and makes a professional looking webpage out of it. e.g. https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist to http://www.snapsite.me/home.php?id=804 It helps less tech savvy businesses
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by uams 14y ago
It would be great if all academic papers had a 140 word tl;dr version. Would save grad students a bunch of time. (Crack joke about how my phd is taking 2 years longer then expected)
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by uams 14y ago
I recognize the optimizely part. Good guys so I'm glad they've got LinkedIn using them to AB test. I was able to duplicate it on the Profile Completion section as well. I didn't have as many '_*1's. Maybe my profile was more complete then y
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by uams 14y ago
If you can do a lot with a little, imagine what you can do when given a lot.
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by uams 14y ago
This is super cool. While I can't imagine myself using it anytime soon, it's clear that web applications are improving at a far faster rate then native applications and, with t large enough, the first derivative means that web will eclipse