IanMechura

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Does anyone know of local area data similar to how craigslist is laid out?
1 points by IanMechura 14y ago|1 comments
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by IanMechura 14y ago
Interesting case study that was able to buck the trend is Atlassian software. I have personally seen bottom up influence in 3 large publicly traded companies land Atlassian very nice (and well deserved I might add) license and support agre
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by IanMechura 14y ago
Setting up a challenger to QuickBooks does sound dull. Setting up a challenger to SAP on the other hand does not sound dull. Wanna see a cool B2B company? Check out a tool called CyberArk.
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ThereAndBook.com lets you share your bookshelf with your Twitter friends
1 points by IanMechura 14y ago|0 comments
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by IanMechura 14y ago
This is exactly how I got my start in software. I was hired to walk a warehouse at a furniture retailer and take inventory with pencil and paper. At this time I had 0 computer experience. Soon I was voluntarily transferring the paper to spr
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by IanMechura 14y ago
I see some very interesting comments on this thread. I remember not long ago lots of people where upset that people where scraping stackoverflow and getting a higher ranking in google results. This was a threat to S/O's business model model
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by IanMechura 14y ago
Estimation seams hard because of two reasons. 1) Very few individual contributors responsible for providing estimates ever invest the time necessary to learn how to perform estimation. 2) Many stakeholders (managers, PM, etc.) do not know t
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by IanMechura 14y ago
This guy is so off the radar it is a wonder why he is allowed to publish this stuff. I will just add two points. 1) Facebook, Google, and other silicon valley companies are far from the norm of software development jobs. There are far more
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by IanMechura 14y ago
This may work for hiring interns but IMO there is a lot more that goes into a quality Sr. Engineer than can be identified through analyzing a candidates code commits. A few examples of engineering qualities which seem to be either looked ov
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by IanMechura 15y ago
WOW! I must say that I am actually surprised how many people have replied that they do little or no testing. Perhaps this is because I am in the enterprise development world as opposed to the start-up world. The cost and frustration involve
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by IanMechura 15y ago
I don't find an applicable selection for my company. We write and run so many tests that it is a full time job curating the test suites that should be run prior to code delivery. Basically, if you don;t like writing tests you will be misera
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by IanMechura 15y ago
Can you build a business on data that you do not own or have control over? What is your plan if the usage rules change, you get request limited or your dependency disappears altogether?
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by IanMechura 15y ago
You need to have a solution to a problem people are willing to pay money for. You are not likely to find that by asking on YC. Your best bet is to pick a long term software developer contract at a large company. Are you looking for anything
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Why do browsers not allow non-readable javascript?
4 points by IanMechura 15y ago|11 comments
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by IanMechura 15y ago
I have argued JS as an intro language for years. My main argument has been not based on language features which I feel are unimportant in forming a young programmers mind but rather in the complete lack of barriers to getting started. Take
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by IanMechura 15y ago
I don't see how this valid commentary on client side templates. In general, most implementations I've worked with store the markup in a script element so it is not rendered by the browser.
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by IanMechura 16y ago
Anything other than UI?
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by IanMechura 16y ago
Yes, top secret... lol Here is a link to my prototype: http://www.thesaverssecret.com/ One think I forgot to mention is that this website has very good rankings in google for the following terms: online yard sale - #1 online garage sale -
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by IanMechura 16y ago
This is a secret... but... Here is a very, very rough version of the new UI.
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What would you do? Or turning a website into a business.
3 points by IanMechura 16y ago|6 comments