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jspaur

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About jspaur

I'm the Founder at TryPaper.com, an API to let you print, stuff/fold, and mail letters and documents.

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    Comment #7807233

    http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/3-615

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    Comment #7520459

    Yes (assuming the fund buys/holds all positions and hasn't taken an optimization strategy) This has some interesting side effects to things such as the S&P 500 ( http://www.forbes.…

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    Comment #6650016

    Considering a lot of them are there during school hours and you'll see the same ones there sleeping with tarps at night - I think its safe to say homeless. Probably better to say '…

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    Comment #6649952

    Not looking for a scapegoat, only a solution. And I lived here before the recession/GFC. I'd completely agree that the "social/medical/mental safety net in this country" is a major…

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    Comment #6649926

    Crime is down nationally since the 80s. So for things to be the same, or only a little better says a lot. I completely agree that SPD is petrified. I've live/worked in downtown Sea…

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    Comment #6649832

    Comcast services only select locations too. A good number of apartments around the city don't even offer Comcast (and instead the aforementioned and other services such as 'Wave').…

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    Comment #6649785

    I'm assuming he means the Pike/Pine alley and Pioneer square, sadly famous for aggressive panhandling, unruly 'youth', and shootings. I live in and work in downtown (haven't driven…

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    Comment #6649761

    Comcast has other serious challengers here in Seattle as well between CascadeLink (terrible website, but top notch service) and CondoInternet, if you can get either of those, you'l…

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    Comment #6105220

    thanks :) we love working with our users!

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    Comment #6073369

    What you're talking is yield and volatility. When you're running a fund, you need to manage to benchmarks, and MSFT is a great position for exposure. IV is on the low end, there is…

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    Comment #6038750

    And even Linus talks about the NSA in that same thread a little lower: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/30/116

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    Comment #5954296

    To be fair, he mentioned Youtube, which even in Chrome uses Flash by default.

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    Comment #5884157

    For credit repair, you'll need to do certified mail for certain requests. This is something we're getting ready to launch :-) Feel free to reach out (info in profile), if we can he…

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    Comment #5884155

    Hi there, Founder of TryPaper.com here, we handle some of the core printing & mailing processes all via API :)

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    Comment #5828583

    I think more coincidence. EasyPost and TryPaper both started around the same time (Q3 2013). Nothing specific on the USPS side has happened. That being said, one thing we've seen, …

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    Comment #5822247

    At the risk of hijacking the thread, we've been doing this for about 7 months now (out of beta for 4+) @ https://www.trypaper.com , we wish you guys the best of luck! edit: the big…

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    Comment #5719930

    worked in IE10 as well (still can't log in to HN using chrome...odd)

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    Comment #5675339

    it does not. it simply looks at the number of uppercase, lowercase, digit, and special characters (no spaces, etc.) fairly naïve.

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    Comment #5675285

    http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/apps/passw... interesting toppasswords string. wasn't there a post a few weeks ago about how someone owns a patent on telling you …

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    Comment #5341992

    Frankly about time. We evaluated Braintree and just couldn't get over the amount of information requested to get started as compared to Stripe. Secondarily, we reached out to a mem…

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    Comment #5328449

    They do in a way, the 'List-Unsubscribe' header: https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ... Appears to work with Outlook.com/Hotmail, and Gmail. Not sure about Yah…

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    Comment #5294219

    If you're from the area I could see that. I'm pretty confident the Hub Seattle is part of a larger network: http://www.the-hub.net/

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    Comment #5294113

    Good to see this sort of thing picking up in Seattle. The Hub is a great space (of which we're members). To anyone going to these, ping me (contact info in profile), and your first…

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    Comment #5282353

    hah, i did the same thing this weekend :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5281794 care to merge these?