felipap

208 karma · joined June 21, 2017

felipap··on Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

You shouldn’t expect EVERY stock to have positive returns. Unless the bad stocks to which you're referring become a considerable part of the market, you should still expect stocks, on average, to earn you real interest.

felipap··on How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still believe?

It is not clear at all from the article that they never had a business model. Most likely they had to scratch their original plan at one point.

felipap··on Launch HN: Lang (YC S19) – Internationalization Built for Devs

Congrats on the launch! I can totally see the need for this. What (if anything) would you say has changed in the recent years to make this technologically feasible for the first time? Have you looked into how the latest advances in NLP eg. GPT-2 has the potential to substitute translators entirely?

felipap··on What every computer science major should know (2011)

Afraid not. :'(

felipap··on What every computer science major should know (2011)

Related: should I also be including my Twitter and Google+ followers in my CV?

felipap··on Show HN: Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Setup Database

I couldn't help but point out the similarity – but I can see where you were coming from as well!

felipap··on Show HN: Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Setup Database

Reminded me of the top comment on the "Show HN" of Dropbox, back in 2007: "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem." ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

felipap··on You can now use YC's Startup School directory to find a cofounder

Aren't successful founders very rare, "period"?