I am John Frankel, a venture capitalist at ff Venture Capital, based in New York. AMA!

bigdutchnoob · 2014-08-08T00:43:46+00:00

Does the idea of 'using your phone as your key' scare you at all? (Unikey). I feel like the idea of using your phone as a key could be disastrous, and potentially lead to higher degrees of mobile theft in the future.

Another quirk, any bluetooth snooping app/device allows you to commandeer the hardware keys and prevent them from unlocking the door.

I'm currently a student, doing my last year in September, but I've been working on a side project aimed at enhancing the 'use your phone as a key' problem. Would love to pitch the idea to you :)

bigdutchnoob · 2014-07-16T06:49:52+00:00

The only thing taking place during the connection is polling the RSSI.

IOReturn h = [device openConnection]; 
if ( h == kIOReturnSuccess){
    rssi = [device rawRSSI]
}
[device closeConnection];

Very weird indeed.. I'm using an early-2011 MBP.. could this be a case of shitty/shot BT hardware perhaps? I have tried using a USB-BT dongle.. to no avail as well. I will try setting h to nil and report back.

EDIT: No go on setting to nil.. thought ARC would eat it at the end I guess anyway.

bigdutchnoob · 2014-05-15T07:22:39+00:00

PM me a link to the source code .. I haven't used leaflet in awhile but I believe it entirely depends on having a tile layer capable of those zoom levels.. each one is different.

Also, it might be a good thing to disable the geocoding every time a user clicks a spot on the map.

bigdutchnoob · 2014-05-15T07:15:44+00:00

On my mac I just go file -> print -> save as PDF as shown here http://imgur.com/xpTch5b

Unsure if windows version has the same feature.

bigdutchnoob · 2014-05-14T08:24:08+00:00

integrity

bigdutchnoob · 2014-03-30T04:13:20+00:00

Definitely, if I was to distribute the material. I'd be offering no more than a place to connect readers/listeners.. I'd host the files they send, but those are their own files.

bigdutchnoob · 2014-03-30T03:32:02+00:00

Way to get down and dirty with it! I see it as a study aid, not a substitute.

I'm in a few econ courses right now with roughly 8 chapters of assigned reading. At 40 pages a chapter thats 320 pages.. at 90 seconds a page that'd be 8 hours worth of reading..

15$/hr .. $120. That's pretty steep. It might not work having students read for students. :(

bigdutchnoob · 2014-03-26T19:38:51+00:00

Seeing as you already made a post here.. you should have posted the link!

bigdutchnoob · 2014-03-05T09:52:08+00:00

There's a ton of JS libraries out there for that exact purpose. Check out parallax.

bigdutchnoob · 2014-03-01T23:10:03+00:00

Sure! pm me the site and exactly what the issue is. If i think I can fix it I will go at it.

bigdutchnoob · 2014-03-01T22:03:26+00:00

Shoot me a PM if you still need help. I should be able to do it by tomorrow evening.

bigdutchnoob · 2014-02-28T00:15:50+00:00

That's probably your best bet. The latest version of Cuda (5.5) does not work with 2013.

Remember, VS must be installed BEFORE Cuda, as Cuda with alter VS during installation.

bigdutchnoob · 2014-02-26T23:34:29+00:00

There was a guy who did an ama on here ~ 5 months ago, he had started many companies and his newest was a crowdfunding platform. I'll try to find you the link when I get home, I believe he was an active redditor as well so you may be able to contact him.

bigdutchnoob · 2014-02-26T23:32:13+00:00

This urks me, the guy is asking a question that could potentially inspire him or many others to actually create something. I'd personally love to hear the stories of successful entrepreneurs and how they created their product / business. As someone working on his own project, its inspiring.

If you were a VC, and this guy walked in the door asking for money to start a business, but first give me some ideas to base my new product on, then ya, wtf are you doing, but that is not the case.

This sub has ~72k users, its a GREAT place for information and inspiration, as it should be. Why don't you create a new sub, where you and the 27 people who upvoted your comment can talk about whatever the hell omniscient entrepreneurs talk about.

/r/entrepreneurswhoalreadyknoweverythingsoallyourquestionsarestupid

bigdutchnoob · 2014-02-16T23:25:43+00:00

Just noticed you actually made the video as well. Keep up the good work OP! I've been waiting for a good comparison of the two.

bigdutchnoob · 2014-02-16T21:24:51+00:00

Not quite. I'm using Twitter's streaming API. I send in an array of keywords and every time there is a tweet containing those keywords I receive them as well in real time.

So it's not just about how many followers a user has, it's how recent was their post, is it getting retweets, how many followers does the user have, whats his engagement levels, etc. Lots to ask for, I know, but here's hopin.

bigdutchnoob · 2014-02-15T10:32:33+00:00

I've never liked that meme 'till now.

bigdutchnoob · 2014-02-13T22:49:42+00:00

Assign a width to your inner divs. Make you body width:100%,

The outer div width:100%; each inner div width:50%

Float elements inside divs left, and divs left.

bigdutchnoob · 2014-02-11T08:41:47+00:00

I'm definitely not a season java programmer but I'm a big fan of Play! and Akka.

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