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Gaussian

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About Gaussian

Co-founder of Aisle50, YCS11.

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    Sam is a leader. Let there be no doubt. Does he have foibles? I’m sure. I do. Everybody has people out there who will proffer criticism of them, especially those at the top of the …

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    Comment #31332584

    So you're saying I was less wrong! I knew it. ;)

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    Comment #31332497

    I always thought of the iPod as THE inflection point for Apple. Not the 1998 iMac, not the iPhone, even though it was the latter that made Apple the company it is today. But I thin…

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    So is the extension hitting the Google Matrix API (excuse naming errors if I make them), or is it scraping results from sites such as Kayak asynchronously? Or is it something else …

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    We're down

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    Comment #28612372

    Just terrible. There are thousands of similar, less sensational stories generated by the U.S. health system every month. All parties in the system are to blame, as all parties have…

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    Agree. I am on a 2013 15" MB Pro that has been my horse for a long time. I hated that last generation of keyboards, which held me back. Then the promise of the M1 chip has delayed …

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    Put in some time and get out. It will help your resume, but not your soul. I have been working with a FAANG recently, one that builds EVERYTHING in house. Almost comical. There are…

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    Comment #28234073

    Curious as to why? Don't want to wait it out?

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    Comment #22978905

    A-ha! Another consequential web outcome decided in Urbana-Champaign. As an engineer and a writer, I have monitored this debate for some time. Editors of mine have usually lobbied f…

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    I don't know if they're all rich. Ralph Lauren certainly is. But I tend to agree. There simply aren't that many ranchers. But there are millions of Coloradans—and visitors to Color…

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    Appreciate your input. As somebody with a house near a Colorado National Forest, I can corroborate that it is over-choked with fuel and a fire catastrophe waiting to happen. Not bu…

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    Comment #20936519

    One magical thing happened: your site broke. Good problems, etc.

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    Comment #19975390

    Being 'against' Tesla isn't being against the environment and innovation. The vector of personal transportation is pointed in the right direction here with or without Tesla. They h…

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    Comment #17293969

    Even if these were all full-fledged businesses/ventures/operations -- most of them don't answer what is, to me, the real question of the day: in what applications are the benefits …

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    Comment #16810977

    Good to see that the Economist is totally on top of the trends sweeping through commerce in 2014.

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    Comment #16769202

    Thanks for this - looks promising.

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    Ask HN: Google QPX Express API is done next week – anybody found a replacement?

    I used QPX to build a popular feature on our ski travel site: https://www.zrankings.com/powderfares The ski season is drawing to a close, obviously, so we'll basically make it thro…

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    Bombastic headline, but no meat here. Y Combinator is a fantastic place for founders/startups, especially for those that work hard at leveraging the available mentorship during tha…