sfard | 5 years ago | on: Toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes
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sfard | 5 years ago | on: The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
I read this article and skimmed the original and I'm still not sure what the exact details of this exchange are. No robo/quant investing? Minimum hold periods? No requirements for quarterly earnings? No penny stocks?
sfard | 5 years ago | on: CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better
I worked for Dara before. Believe it or not, he is a sincere and honest person. Yes, he cares about the bottom line (as any CEO would) but he believes what he's saying here.
sfard | 9 years ago | on: If War Can Have Ethics, Wall Street Can, Too
Wallstreet has rules. They're just not enforced. People would be shocked if they knew, for instance, how many hedge funds simply operate on a model of "black edge" insider trading.
sfard | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
Sokanu.com (Vancouver, Canada)
Looking for a front-end and a back-end developer. Full-stack obviously appreciated.
Our stack is Postgres, Python (django), Redis, React, Backbone.
Our team is super casual, supportive, curious. Email saeid[at]sokanu[dot]com if you have any questions.
sfard | 12 years ago | on: Medium Sucks
throwww.com might be a good alternative. No curation by editors. Recommended articles to come based on algorithms and not circle jerks. Full disclosure: I built it.
sfard | 13 years ago
Hey, I'm the creator of Throwww. Sorry this is totally my bad. It's a result of a known bug, but recently I took my MBP to Applecare and they accidentally wiped my entire drive (long story). So before I can fix it, there's a bunch of dev environment stuff I need to setup. Sorry again.
TLDR: my bad.
sfard | 13 years ago | on: Letterpress — A minimal, Markdown based blogging system written in Python
For those interested in a not-self-hosted option, I built http://throwww.com
Growing user base, very simple, markdown-based (includes video markdown), includes RSS & Comments
<end self promotion>
sfard | 13 years ago | on: Curious why my last post was removed (by mods?)
ah! thanks
sfard | 13 years ago | on: Curious why my last post was removed (by mods?)
From what I can tell, it went from above the fold on the first page to nowhere to be found on the first five pages (haven't checked beyond that) almost instantaneously. How does that happen?
sfard | 13 years ago
For those interested, I built http://throwww.com which is a free (and with an obvious bias) better alternative.
sfard | 13 years ago | on: Stop Sharing Quotes. You're Not Better Than Anyone.
Interesting. That doesn't surprise me at all. The most ironic ones I find are the ones about happiness and humility. Something about sharing them on facebook strikes me as so counter to the point.
sfard | 13 years ago
I also made http://throwww.com a while back. It started as something similar to this but evolved into a simple blogging platform as people wanted more feature...
sfard | 13 years ago
And http://throwww.com
(a project by me)
sfard | 13 years ago
I know it's not the point of the post, but you can also use http://throwww.com
sfard | 13 years ago
Were you inspired by http://throwww.com for the name?
sfard | 13 years ago
When I launched http://throwww.com a while ago, people on HN/Twitter were telling me it's like Branch. I didn't know what Branch exactly was then, and now that I see it, I still don't get what it is. It doesn't seem at all like throwww though. Nice looking interface, anyway.
sfard | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: a blog search engine
Nice. Though, I agree with others that an explanation would kind of be helpful. Also since you're going with the minimalist approach, maybe make everything a bit bigger?
Are you just searching within a subset of domains? If so, may I shamelessly recommend adding http://throwww.com to the list?
sfard | 13 years ago
working on it.
sfard | 13 years ago
As a shameless self promotion, for those who can't make it into svbtle and want a nicely designed (IMO) and simple blog, try http://throwww.com
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On another note, I'm more concerned with the toxic gases coming out of people sitting next to me.