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by bjpless 10y ago
Our support and sales teams have been using this email relay tool to nice effect. We send gifts to our prospects and users within Streak and Desk to demo the product or win back customers.
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Show HN: Send digital gift cards within email clients(giftrocket.com)
7 points by bjpless 10y ago|1 comments
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by bjpless 13y ago
I'm just using (bad) third-party projections for now with the assumption that people who want to use my tool will be bringing their own projections to the table. I also feel for Danilo...so many surgeries.
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by bjpless 13y ago
Just wanted to release it as quickly as possible. Referral codes coming soon.
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by bjpless 13y ago
Point of this tool is that you plug in your own projection values and it computes the best possible lineup.
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by bjpless 13y ago
Ha, that's awesome to hear. That last sentence is gold.
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by bjpless 13y ago
It's a side project for now. But, in theory, I'd like to continue building cool utilities for daily fantasy sports betting leagues. That market is growing quite quickly and the tech is pretty poor.
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by bjpless 13y ago
Yeah, it's something that can consume a ton of hours manually -- and, at the end of the day, there's no way to be certain that you've actually optimized given your budget constraints.
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Show HN: Fantasy Sports Solved through Dynamic Programming(rotoraider.com)
19 points by bjpless 13y ago|14 comments
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by bjpless 13y ago
Thanks porter! I just finished the class. Hoping to post the recorded video in a little bit.
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by bjpless 13y ago
That's a great question. Developer bootcamps are a huge time (3 months) and financial ($10k) commitment. Lots of risk if you're uncertain about your interest/proficiency in coding.
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by bjpless 13y ago
I played in the World Series of Poker in 2010 (the worst experience ever) and then quit completely. I was sick of the whole thing.
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by bjpless 13y ago
Seconded. Hard to imagine all employees signing off on this release for the sake of a HN article. But I hope that they did. I would be very upset if my salary were published unbeknownst to me.
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Show HN: Low Cost Online Dev Bootcamp (Mentored Learning)(enginehere.com)
14 points by bjpless 13y ago|1 comments
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by bjpless 13y ago
Very true.
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According to YC the online coding education market is too crowded(benplesser.wordpress.com)
16 points by bjpless 13y ago|4 comments
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Level up your TDD & BDD Game. Live Video Q&A (Starts Now) (enginehere.com)
12 points by bjpless 13y ago|0 comments
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by bjpless 13y ago
Not the same thing, but I'm the creator of EngineHere. We're a teaching platform for coding that connects groups of students with instructors in for real-time virtual classes. We'll definitely offer C++ in the near future (p
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Deploy like a Pro -- Chef Virtual Office Hours (live now)(enginehere.com)
10 points by bjpless 13y ago|1 comments
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by bjpless 13y ago
Real-time Office Hours for top Open Source Library Authors/Contributors. It's Google Hangouts but with a focus on expressing coding concepts. Looks like this http://www.enginehere.com/stream/312/programma
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by bjpless 13y ago
I have some friends who could teach Erland and Go. If that sounds interesting, signup for the site or otherwise let me know and I'll try to make it happen!
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by bjpless 13y ago
Hey Karunamon. I was thinking about adding a registration form for rails as well but I decided to keep things simple (maybe a mistake in retrospect...). If you're interested, sign up and I'll put it together.
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by bjpless 13y ago
Right now newbies. But the same principle applies. I want to broaden a bunch of programming skills (especially algorithms) largely on my own time but I'd like a human voice to guide and motivate me from time to time. If this works out,
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by bjpless 13y ago
All fair points. I would say that this is a great way to get your feet wet with coding before you decide to take the HUGE life leap of a bootcamp. They're expensive in not only $ terms but also your time. This way, you can see if you
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by bjpless 13y ago
That's awesome to hear!
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by bjpless 13y ago
Those two goals aren't incompatible, right? The title may be a joke but the blog post is very sincere.
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by bjpless 13y ago
If it makes you feel better csharp, I can tell you that there are very few C# topics thus far!
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The Upside to Building Products for Developers(benplesser.wordpress.com)
29 points by bjpless 13y ago|8 comments
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by bjpless 13y ago
That was the goal. As I've built it, I've been actually posting the bitly links to my issue pages on Stack Overflow, IRC, and elsewhere. I set desktop notifications for myself and go about my work until someone hits one of my page
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by bjpless 13y ago
Thanks for that. I'll get on that

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