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by ashrust 15y ago
Stealth Fulltime, Mountain View Frontend Developer - JQuery, Javascript, HTML, CSS Nice to have: Photoshop/Illustrator, for slicing and dicing designs Python, or a desire to learn quickly (we use Django) We were just accepted in the YC W201
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by ashrust 15y ago
I agree with this. We've used a couple of contractors outside of california but in the US. To avoid the majority of issues raised here, we got a potential devs to complete a coding task on metered time. While there was a higher initial cost
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by ashrust 15y ago
I've been a beta tester for a few months and I like it a lot. Definitely a long way to go but it's at the intersection of a text file (for ease of use) and a full fledged project mgmt system, which certainly helped as we added new people to
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by ashrust 15y ago
Agreed. Working on multiple machines and files not friendly to g docs, makes dropbox indispensable. When I upgraded to Lion and iOS5, I didn't even think about using iCloud. iTunes integration w/ iCloud may change that but I doubt it.
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by ashrust 15y ago
No, users can send tweets about their score but a lot of businesses use our api to track and organize their incoming requests from social media.
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by ashrust 15y ago
Any idea what the throttling rate is on this api?
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by ashrust 15y ago
Agreed, however I've run in to compatibility issues with 3 a few times and so resolved to stick w/ 2, deal with the text parsing issues myself, keep the libraries I like and leave the ops team alone.
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by ashrust 15y ago
Here at Klout, we're seeing a lot of companies respond to mentioners based on their Klout score.
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by ashrust 15y ago
I agree, I love Python but I've spent untold hours dealing with its unicode issues.
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by ashrust 15y ago
I hope this gives rise to a web based platform for open office. I don't see it having a bright future as desktop only.
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by ashrust 15y ago
I understand why rails continues its ascent but the LAMP framework is still very popular - you can get to hello world on your home computer or free hosting account extremely quickly, that's pretty powerful when your're starting out. Service
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by ashrust 15y ago
While I agree this is a big deal, imo it's the tags and graph that make it a daily habit.
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by ashrust 15y ago
I'd love to see one of these python MR approaches get some traction, until then I expect most companies will be following Facebook's approach of putting data into HDFS/Hive and then using Python, or whatever, to parse the output of HiveQL.
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by ashrust 15y ago
This is the next logical step. Most people are already performing social and stream worthy actions all over google properties, it makes sense for them to provide users with a public forum for their display. Although I'm still not sure googl
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by ashrust 15y ago
Yep. We have one of the largest, and fastest growing, datasets on the planet - feel free to ping us if you wanna drop by the office for lunch. ash at klout dot com.
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by ashrust 15y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but given you write the app in HTML/JS it must be difficult to unit test your wrappers for the phonegap functions, as I assume you can't simply pull up your dev site from the phone's browser. I'm thinking particu
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by ashrust 15y ago
Gotta wonder what the defn of 'knowledge' is here - just mentions of the keyword? Does that indicate knowledge?
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by ashrust 15y ago
Taking the initial steps to algorithmically quantify this kind of thing is what's important, imo. If you could attach this as a widget to documents like ToS, it could significantly impact their readability. I like it.
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by ashrust 15y ago
Would be interesting to see this compared to the number of hours you've put in over the course of the development, so you have an increasing per hour rate.
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by ashrust 15y ago
I imagine this just killed erly.com's collections.
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by ashrust 15y ago
This kind of stuff happens pretty frequently to momentum stocks when they have what is perceived as bad news. Baidu is another stock with similar volatility sometimes caused by news.
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by ashrust 15y ago
This is the stuff that brings me back to hacker news everyday. So helpful.
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by ashrust 15y ago
I agree, free at first worked for PayPal.
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by ashrust 15y ago
I like this a lot but it does seem more like a feature for Instapaper and (my fave) Read it Later. I would expect them to get acquired or copied.
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by ashrust 15y ago
I think this has lots of potential, great work. You might wanna stop or warn when the script takes a while to run, I tried running lesson 2 with range(30) and it crashed the page (Mac/Chrome). Putting a save button on the header might avoid
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by ashrust 15y ago
The PageRank paper directly references customer concerns and their approach: "Some argue that on the web, users should specify more accurately what they want and add more words to their query. We disagree vehemently with this position." Sec
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by ashrust 15y ago
A better one might have been: "Ideas aren't (successful) companies"... couldn't agree more on the continuous deployment.
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by ashrust 15y ago
I'm inclined to agree here. I left the UK primarily because I felt the appetite for risk, and thus the potential for innovation, was significantly lower in the UK than SV. It's working out so far.
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by ashrust 15y ago
I don't think this purchase is the primary 'Yelp-killer'. Yelp's product just isn't good enough, the iOS app for Google Places vs Yelp is a great example. Places gives me search and a set of location categories (like restaurants and gas sta
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by ashrust 15y ago
I don't see how the api key requirement will push devs away. If you have a simple ways to demo the api, like Facebook, Foursquare and YouTube all do, then it's easy to see the output you'll get. Assuming that happens, a key for tracking and

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