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by corry 14y ago
Is there a publicly available data source for basketball stats like this? Curious where these datasets come from...
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by corry 14y ago
"Designer - Makes a product look pretty". Ugggghhh... obviously not a big deal (very tongue-in-cheek) but this rankled me even as a non-designer.
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by corry 14y ago
Interesting strategy. Focus on the only advantage local papers have -- the deep local connection -- and build the strategy around that. Might be a leaner newspaper with a smaller readership... but that will happen anyways. Coupling this 'de
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by corry 14y ago
Yes, it speaks to HR's problem - but in a way that jeopardizes their objective (i.e. hiring good people). Quality devs are in short supply already... explicitly saying that you're treating them like cattle is not going to result in better o
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by corry 14y ago
Leaving aside whether or not this is a valid way to attract top people, my suggestion is to rebrand the name - "cull" has too negative a connotation ("cull the herd"). So #1, I'm part of "the herd", and #2 this tool is being used to possibl
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by corry 14y ago
Modular, open-source robotics running on ROS is clearly the way to go vs. the expensive 'black box' proprietary platform / software. From the conversations I've had with people in the industry, it certainly feels like robotics is approachin
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by corry 14y ago
I guess some people's problem is that we "care what [the beggars] do with it" when we give money. i.e. I don't want to give someone money that they'll use to further destroy their life with drugs/alcohol/whatever. I don't want to be complic
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by corry 14y ago
A quick note for anyone thinking that this could help you build that finance app you've been putting off - getting actual real-time stock quotes legitimately is actually fairly expensive/involved. Screen scraping Google / Yahoo finance and
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by corry 14y ago
I think it's a fine balance between the two. Unless I'm already hooked into reading more, wading through paragraphs of oh-so-stylish writing isn't a pleasant task. My $0.02 - the trick is to capture the attention with a blurb at the beginni
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by corry 15y ago
It's not 1% of the overall equity - you're just pledging the cash value of 1% of YOUR SHARE of equity. Investors obviously don't care about how you manage your personal cash post-exit.
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by corry 15y ago
This is a great idea when dealing with small clients. The big challenge, however, is that the majority of the organizations that rely on RFP (e.g. public sector or enterprise buyers) do so because they HAVE TO for policy / political reasons
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by corry 15y ago
I'll start. In a former life, we were bidding on an RFP that had to be hand-delivered to the purchasing office by 12:00pm. For various reasons, we ended up getting there a bit late at 11:50am - so 10 minutes to get to the office. The elevat
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Ask HN: Your worst RFP horror story?
4 points by corry 15y ago|2 comments
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by corry 15y ago
Leaving aside questions about sample size / methodology / etc, here are the big surprises for me: FRAMEWORKS - CodeIgniter at 6%. I use it for some projects, but I'm surprised that 6% of 'top developers' are still using it too given that it
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by corry 15y ago
Might be OT, but does anyone know of a similar service for MOBILE browsers? Obviously Android and iOS are webkit based... but what about the horror that is BlackBerry rendering? <shudder>
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by corry 15y ago
I agree that coding your design into HTML/CSS is a waste of time generally. I've had good luck with PSD-to-HTML services. So instead of Adobe automagically converting my design to HTML/CSS/images, you get humans from India (or wherever) doi
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by corry 15y ago
"The viral sign up form probably quadrupled our signups through sharing the links on Twitter and Facebook." Does 'viral sign up form' = buttons to share it on Twitter and Facebook? Or did you guys do some form of 'refer 2 friends to get hig
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by corry 15y ago
I can't tell if you're joking or not... so I'll just reiterate my main point: men fighting to prevent the suffering and death of their families is not even remotely the same category of thing as startups (and business in general). We can re
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by corry 15y ago
Is anyone else tired of the contrived, amped-up metaphors we use to discuss startup life? Dying in battle != having a failed startup venture I don't get what we gain by pretending that the joy and opportunities of startup life is somehow an
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by corry 15y ago
What's the cost of living like down there? What's the equivalent of ($40k in Chile) in a typical US city? i.e. ($40k in Chile = $x in Atlanta). Seems like a cool program, just trying to understand how far that $40k would go (or even the $5k
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by corry 15y ago
Can someone comment on Symfony vs. CodeIgniter? I've done a few projects in CI - any big compelling reason to switch to Symfony for the next one?
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by corry 15y ago
Adobe's BrowserLab does this ( https://browserlab.adobe.com/ ) for mainstream Mac/Windows browsers. You need an AdobeID (registration is free). I've found it much faster than browsershots.org (though you have fewer options). No mobile suppo
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by corry 15y ago
If the average employee of Color didn't already know this... wow, talk about an upsetting topic. Imagine doing the math on your options, seeing that you could have made a killing, then thinking about how the founders said 'no' to the deal,
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by corry 15y ago
You could think about it as 'real-time' in the sense that you can see the status of the sharing in 'real-time' - i.e. within Kik I can see if the content has been sent/delivered/read (vs sharing via something like email where it's not cle
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by corry 15y ago
(I'm not the OP) It's just for content right now (content = files, arbitrary text data, images, etc). Once the content is shared, the people can chat about it within Kik of course... but that's not the same as in-app chat.