brandon272

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Ask HN: Where does Trulia get its listings?
5 points by brandon272 18y ago|3 comments
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by brandon272 18y ago
To boil down some of the advice I've seen, follow this rule of thumb: Make him a co-founder if his skills, motivation and interest in the company merit him being a co-founder, but don't deny him the opportunity out of greed. Having a co-fou
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by brandon272 18y ago
This is probably the wrong community to mention this, but this discussion is an excellent example of why I am largely procedural in my programming and don't focus too much on OO. I need to tackle real world business problems. Likening objec
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Ask HN: Realizing Your Idea Isn't Original
25 points by brandon272 18y ago|50 comments
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by brandon272 18y ago
I thought that was hilarious. The address is oddly fitting.
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by brandon272 18y ago
Yeah. Referring to PayPal as your "secret vault" is probably misleading, too.
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by brandon272 18y ago
Your post in and of itself is why your employee wants to found a startup. Instead of sitting down directly with him and saying, "What will it take to keep you here?" and listening to the nitty gritty of what he wants for himself, which woul
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by brandon272 18y ago
I guess my followup with that would be this: What if the user is submitting content that they would very clearly want re-distributed? I guess my question with that is, if you take the end-user who is submitting the content out of the equati
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Ask HN: Legality of Web Scraping User-Submitted Content?
13 points by brandon272 18y ago|47 comments
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by brandon272 18y ago
Two thoughts: a) If the growing startup I work for had only hired new employees if we had a full year's salary for them already in the bank, we wouldn't be even close to where we are today. b) While this guy clearly didn't know his head fro
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by brandon272 18y ago
That's a great step toward a better user experience. Good job.
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Ask YC: How important is comfort to your productivity?
9 points by brandon272 18y ago|16 comments
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by brandon272 18y ago
I absolutely despise my bank's website, and the slow servers they use to show it to me. The text is tiny, it uses a table based layout and tries to load up other useless information, such as the current weather conditions.
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by brandon272 18y ago
If I were given a piece of paper and a pencil and expected to start writing out code, that, to me, aside from just being annoying, would raise serious questions about how well that employer was planning on treating me. If they can't even su