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by einarvollset 18y ago
it sucks and how Uncov was stupid
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by einarvollset 18y ago
Ask them if I can have a job.
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by einarvollset 18y ago
Don't get me wrong, I don't think SMS on a truly large scale is trivial. I do, however, think SMS messaging is fundamentally different to what Twitter is doing. The former is unicast: I send you a message. It needs to be stored somewhere (y
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by einarvollset 18y ago
Such an utter lack of understanding of Twitter's service model I've rarely seen. Message delivery was never Twitter's problem; dealing with persistance (I want my messages when I'm good and ready thanks, not when the system wants to push t
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by einarvollset 18y ago
Not exactly: It forces you to throw away bad code inside a component _that conforms to the unit test_. If the unit test inherently tests something that isn't optimal for the larger problem then you're no further.
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by einarvollset 18y ago
There's a difference between checking that the code works overall, and checking that each individual component works. Anyways, I realize I'm in the minority (in many ways..), but I find that if I have a crapload unit tests, then I'm more in
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by einarvollset 18y ago
Nope. Hate unit testing. Never do it. Makes me more invested in my existing code so I'm less likely to throw out previous versions.
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by einarvollset 18y ago
Hmm.. yeah. Except the site doesn't seem to pick up a lot of postings even though they have addresses. And those it does pickup is quite often outdated. I've also had a problem of Bay Area ads showing up in BC. So sure, but know it's lackin
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by einarvollset 18y ago
Do Vancouver; nice startup scene (see e.g. http://www.launchpartyhq.com/ ), AMAZING scenery, and either way only 2.5hrs from Seattle. The downside is that $1200/month here is a little on the low side unless you don't mind living well out o
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by einarvollset 18y ago
Turns out that "it depends"; a recent paper by Jon Kleinberg, Sid Suri and others suggests that for wikipedia edits, social networks are more important predictors, where as for Live Journal, "similarity networks" are better. For hard data g
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Ask YC: iFund Application Follow-up?
1 points by einarvollset 19y ago|0 comments
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by einarvollset 19y ago
No need: Grab satellite images; Parse the spots for availability; Produce a "Heat Map". Done.
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by einarvollset 19y ago
Nope. What will be successful is RMA: Rich Mobile Applications.
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by einarvollset 19y ago
Po Branson's book. Read.
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by einarvollset 19y ago
visas