jonaphin | 1 year ago
I appreciate the honesty and foresight.
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jonaphin | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Jz.io – Exchange physical bullion coins and hedge inflation (maybe)
I feel this is spot-on. From previous experience trying to get into it, trading gold or silver today feels like buying from car dealerships. If your platform delivers on its premise you may well have built the Tesla of precious metals.
2K seems like a fairly high price of entry. Are there plans for fractional trades? (I'm not even sure that's a thing).
jonaphin | 6 years ago | on: Kolonya: Turkey's unique hand-sanitizing method
French guy living in the US now. I miss "Eau de Cologne" deeply.
We've used it with fevers, headaches, indigestion... and my 95 y/o grandpa still uses it daily.
My understanding is the custom is probably more widespread than it being endemic to Turkey.
jonaphin | 6 years ago | on: Hydroxychloroquine causes viral load reduction in Covid-19 patients
The immunology department of Marseille, France reported 3 days ago that taking hydroxy-chloroquine and azithromycin together led to 90% of pilot program patients testing negative after 6 days.
There are also several publications under review at the NIH. Glad to see the US Gov. stepping up to the plate so fast on the subject.
jonaphin | 6 years ago | on: Nebula: A paid alternative to YouTube, curated by the creators
This business positioning reminds me of what "App.net" did to Twitter a few years back.
jonaphin | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Blupee – Ethereum, OmiseGo and ERC20 API/SDK
are you building a payment gateway for crypto currency?
jonaphin | 8 years ago | on: New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary
Employers still get the data via background checks.
jonaphin | 8 years ago | on: Uber Driver scam, need your help asap
Contact Uber via Twitter directly, also contact their customer support.
As for the driver's accusation it should be verifiable since they have cameras running.
On another note, this looks like old stains.
jonaphin | 11 years ago | on: How we’ve made Raptor fast
Congratulations on Raptor, I'll definitely give it a whirl.
Regarding static asset serving, I'm fairly certain serving them through the application server is often not the way to go anyway.
jonaphin | 11 years ago | on: Amazon Echo
I personally just marvel at the implications of opening up an API for it.
Imagine playing Youtube workout playlists, or powering up other devices through it, it could certainly be the voice hub of the house.
It's one giant step towards the enablement of the "internet of things" for the household.
jonaphin | 11 years ago | on: How do I delete my HN profile and all submissions permanently?
Unrelated to your question, why are you leaving?
jonaphin | 12 years ago | on: Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL
Unity has an Asset Store as well as a yearly subscription to their software's Pro version.
More users = more sales + more conversions to Pro
jonaphin | 12 years ago | on: Right now Facebook is having issues with messaging and Authenticating
Just received an email from FB stating there is increased latency on the API and to expect some 500-503s when querying.
ETA for fix: shortly.
jonaphin | 12 years ago | on: Right now Facebook is having issues with messaging and Authenticating
Just noticed!
API Response time is growing fast! https://developers.facebook.com/status/
Not good to have customers call in on a Friday afternoon!
jonaphin | 12 years ago | on: Go, or Ruby or ExpressJS for an API?
As I said, I've used Sails.js. Their ORM is subpar, doesn't even support associations yet.
By wrong I meant that where Node.js shines most is in its unified approach to client/server relationships. Since you're building an API (as in server-side logic with world-facing endpoints) you may want to stick to Rails, since it's great at that out-of-the-box, for tried-and-true.
jonaphin | 12 years ago | on: Go, or Ruby or ExpressJS for an API?
It seems that Go is fast, so if you expect a very high volume and want to keep the server bill low (I don't know about the developer cost comparison) it might be the way to go.
I've used Sails.js (built on top of Express.js) and can't say it's anywhere near Rails yet.
Also, Node maybe be the "wrong" tool for building APIs. By wrong I mean it's not its particular strength.
jonaphin | 12 years ago | on: One easy step to increase your iOS/Android app downloads
Absolutely, screenshots & icon are the first hook to an app. In my opinion screenshots greatly influence my decision if I'm presented with two unknown apps of potentially same value/ratings.
jonaphin | 12 years ago | on: So what is it like working at a big technology company?
I'll only make one point (out of the many) regarding my own experience from having worked at both large corp and startups:
- Big Tech Companies have way more money to fund new projects. If they do back a project up, they give it proper resources. Big companies are however more stringent about which projects they back, and the risk has to be as minimum as can be. Business sense most often trumps vision.
- Startups are very free-form. There might not be money floating around but organic (as in self-thought-out, grown, and nurtured) projects are encouraged and rewarded.
jonaphin | 12 years ago | on: Finding your Unfair Advantage
The unfair advantage is often one of the hardest (if not the hardest) column to fill out on the lean canvas. I know I had problems.
The way you explain it makes sense, though it edges the "Unique Value Proposition" rather closely. Would this even be an issue?
jonaphin | 12 years ago | on: How do you fail to make money passively? (Passive Income)
Instimage.com here.
We haven't "failed" yet. But we're dying slowly. No one cares for Instimage, and there's no money backing it up.
No Investors, no angels, just a bootstrap and no boot.
Reminds me of companies that call themselves "startups" for 10 years...
Shouldn't one start-up then get moving?
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