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Just integrate with Google+ and then don't use Google+? I don't use Google+, but at some point I integrated with it. It doesn't affect me at all.

Agreed, but creating an awesome community could be worth it if you can do it, those last for years and lead to amazing things.

I don't know what you mean by classifiers. This is a good video to watch on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s9IjkMAmns

I agree mailing list software is terrible and neglected and this is an improvement, and mailing lists are useful so Threadable is definitely creating value. I can see the vision in the product and you can imagine how it will just get better. What I wonder though is what path this kind of a product could take to achieve success on the scale of Stripe or even Mixpanel. I could see it achieving small team/business profitability, but I don't see how a mailing list manager can become an Atlassian or Fog Creek. Also this product kind of competes with Streak, another YC company.

As an engineer what bugs me most in this space is the terrible email related protocols. They are broken and burdensome to deal with. I wish someone would attack that problem.

As a user what bugs me are the terrible native apps for email. I think this stems from the previous problem, few people innovate in email because SMTP and IMAP etc are terrible protocols. It explains why there aren't a thousand mail clients in the way there once were a thousand Twitter clients.

I don't know if Threadable has any plans of going beyond managing lists but those problems ^^^ really need solutions.

> the fact that Hashes have O(1) lookup time is often a great way to speed up an algorithm.

In practice I have learned that being CPU bound will turn things around faster than paging and thus for things that involve a sufficiently high number for n I prefer to avoid hashes and O(1) "speed ups." The less I store in memory the better, especially on servers that handle lots of requests simultaneously, at least for servers that aren't meant to be a memory store like memcache or redis.

What gets me is that the agent who inspected the packaging knew about this trademark. There must be a very large number of such trademarks and I doubt all the agents know all of them so for the agent who knew about this trademark to be the one who inspected the shipment seems like really bad luck.

Honest question, how well do you do in programming interviews? Do you blow data structures and algorithm, etc CS questions out of the water?

> and how that may effect the "Are we living in a simulation?" question.

Not at all.

> The finding is direct proof of the theory of inflation, the idea that the universe expanded extremely quickly in the first fraction of a second after it was born.

Small nitpick, but wouldn't the use of the words "evidence for" instead of "proof of" have been better? Not that I am in any way trying to take anything away from the discovery. Just from a science perspective, the word "proof" has always bugged me.

I wonder if that's how 42floors got their idea.

I use several Google products, daily. I also eat food Kraft's foods daily. I also use Comcast every hour of every day of the week. I'm not pining over a job at any of these companies.

But why go through that? Google is just another place to work. If I got rejected from a job at HoneyWell or G&E I wouldn't be thinking to myself well in one more year I can try again. I'd be thinking about the next place to apply and never go back.

The guy was obviously qualified for the job and they still rejected him because he got nervous. He had done well except for one and they said no. I guess if you have so many people interviewing where you have some that did better it makes sense, but it's silly and personally I don't plan at working at companies that interview this way.

Google isn't special. They're just a well known consumer brand, and all that marketing is what's got into people's brains. Coke is just sugar water, it doesn't make you cool. It just puts fructose corn syrup into your stomach. You wanna be the person that has to obey Larry Page's whims and integrate Google+ into more places users don't want it?

> because Amazon bundled in a video service nobody wants since 2011

I like Amazon video quite a bit actually.

I am not sure the WSJ cares much about click throughs. They are a subscription based-service. There are no ads on that page, at least not when I open up a browser with no adblocker.

> df$date_put_on_list <- as.POSIXct(df$date_put_on_list, format = "%m/%d/%Y", tz = "EST")

It's a cool blog post but that code isn't near readable to me. Long lines in a tiny rectangle hidden behind horizontal scroll don't make it any easier. It looks like a box of arbitrary characters stuffed into as little space as possible.

Although the raw link is a little easier on the eyes:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/statwonk/9448932/raw/84b9...

Whoever named that method POSIXct needs to like leave the job of naming things to other people maybe.

On a mac Activity Monitor will show you that, also there are also things like top, ps aux and pgrep. These would work:

pgrep -lf -U root | grep processname

or:

ps aux | grep root | grep processname

1password makes this never be an issue for me. ⌘+/ to log into anything with one stroke, unless I have multiple accounts for the site, in which case it's a couple of extra clicks.

If this fisher price thing is loaded, pointed at someone, and you pull the trigger will it hurt or possibly even kill that someone?

Another question: if a bunch of well trained delta force operatives went up against an equally numbered random thugs where delta force had the fisher price thing and the thugs had whatever you said was better, who would win you think?

I don't get some people's attitudes when it comes to guns.

I made this thing:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dripmarks/oeibaijn...

Dropbox is profitable yeah? Why wouldn't they be around in 5 years? Google's prices are so much cheaper than Dropbox, but the ease of use with Dropbox, and the fact that I have my families devices and computers already set up probably means I wont ever switch.

I take a picture with my phone? It's on dropbox. My wife takes a picture? It's on dropbox. I take a screenshot on my PC? It's on dropbox.

I even wrote a little silly bookmark tool to use the dropbox API.

Dropbox is amazing. It's more than just about the price.

Thank you, I wasn't able to reply earlier.

The tweets must have been specific replies. They probably weren't just sending a random popular hash tag or something.

Did you really contribute to the discussion with this reply? It seems more like valueless and arrogant sarcasm which happened to be more upvoted than any of the sane replies I got. Wonderful stuff. I tried to have a decent discussion but it turned into an angry hatefest. Notice I never attacked anyone, and all my replies were intended only to further the discussion or to address specific points in replies or raise issues I had with what others were saying. But you go, you go on the attack, your community is right there behind you.

How does Amazon use the military? I don't understand.

> but I don't see why we need to interpret a long-ish, otherwise non-theological piece uncharitably over the use of a single word once.

Because the words are in the general sense and I'd like someone to show me why "man", as it was originally phrased, needs any kind of redemption.

Maybe we don't need a tailbone or some troublesome cancer causing genes, but fixing bad genes isn't redemption. It's a judgement-free mechanical fix for a machine, a biological equivalent to the flipping of bits in programming code. I'm not redeeming my code by making it more optimal when I fix a bug. So why would changing our genes be redemption?

> He thought you needed redeemed from an evil, oppressive economic system.

And now I take issue with your use of pronouns. Marx never knew me, and neither do you.

Due to the bit about redemption and that it was the Pope's words I considerably doubt he was speaking about anything other than original sin. If you find your genetics equatable to sin from which you need redemption, you should consider aiding gene therapy research or something then, because you cannot change your genes by reading the writings of religious leaders.

We build shit. We like make snapchats, twitters and flappy birds.

I was with this until this part:

> His real error is materialism: man, in fact, is not merely the product of economic conditions, and it is not possible to redeem him purely from the outside by creating a favourable economic environment."

That's going to segue (thanks for the spelling check davidw) obviously into some religions thing about the soul or something. And I take issue with having to be redeemed. I do not need to be redeemed.

I would have thought that if you read my entire post that I meant that Chrome blocking it is a good thing. I will edit the comment to make that more clear.