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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
What makes Hacker News cool is that the link is to the actual ruling, which is far more interesting than the articles about this I've seen so far. If you just glanced at the headline, I suggest you dig in...
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
As one of the founders involved (from Reducify), it would be great to get some feedback from the HN community on our startups!
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
This seems like a good first step, and I've been looking for a way to get into C. I'll check it out...
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
I would be tempted to agree; I've wanted at times to go and learn C, so I can know what my Ruby is really written in; but there's always more complexity underneath; I could and should learn how computers themselves work, but there will come
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
It's funny to read this, 'cause in many ways I started programming (flailingly) with Ruby/Rails, and then worked backwards from there. I read Peter Cooper's Ruby for Beginners book, which ended with a little Rails, and then I read some HTML
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
Go to a meetup for your language/area of expertise. I've found that having a network of other people with similar skills can often lead to people passing on job offers they don't have time for, which is a job for you! Also, set up an RSS fe
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
Are you on Mac? I LOVE OmniPlan.
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
Wow, thanks for the thoughts, everyone! This might totally change how our company goes about its business – rather than three coders who try to think about market on the side, we'll be two coders being driven by someone actively interacting
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
It sounds like all these jobs are things we can and should be doing ourselves. It sounds like a full time person once the product is "done" AND there's an opportunity for much larger growth if we were more widely known, THEN it might make s
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
I think we really have two options: find someone like this, or have one of our team become that person. This sounds like a good starting recipe if one of us wants to become that person themselves – Sean Ellis seems pretty awesome!
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
We've already got the front-end guy on our team getting a little SEO obsessed, so hurray! I think the big question was if it was worthwhile to have someone not completely mired in the coding who was working full time on customer acquisition
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
This sounds like awesome advice. We should be able to cover all these roles – in particular, the CEO should be doing the PM role as his main gig. Some of the engineers are already starting to get into the science behind the SEO/AdWords stuf
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
It appears that the survey button at the bottom is broken...like our hearts will be? jk
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Ask HN: How early did you bring in a full-time marketer?
26 points by jblochjohnson 16y ago|17 comments
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Tracking the National Mood Through Twitter(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by jblochjohnson 16y ago|0 comments
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
Man, taucloud is at least two times cooler than this.
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High Frequency Trading changing the math underlying the markets(zerohedge.com)
2 points by jblochjohnson 16y ago|0 comments
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
(also the creator of most music you remember from Warner Bros. cartoons, and inventor of the electronium, a totally analog machine that composed its own tunes, customizable by the "performer")
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by jblochjohnson 16y ago
Somewhere Raymond Scott is smiling
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by jblochjohnson 17y ago
Thank you; this is quite useful, and it confirms some of the same feedback we've been getting from other sources. We will definitely start a new iteration of this page using these ideas. At the very least, we can figure out a way of setting
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by jblochjohnson 17y ago
We're open to suggestions for a better sixth question. Right you are, the beef one was suggested to us by a vegan, who pointed to some articles suggesting that red meat was a major cause of global warming. Our research hasn't confirmed thi
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by jblochjohnson 17y ago
I'm optimistic about our ability to develop technology that addresses climate change, and perhaps some sort of function based on increased efficiency (or the development of new technologies altogether) should be introduced – some sort of co
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by jblochjohnson 17y ago
Just wanted to add that we've updated three figures for average consumption of Americans based on errors you guys pointed out: - average electricity and natural gas use were mistakenly per capita rather than per household - beef consumption
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by jblochjohnson 17y ago
You're right – this is an error. We divided the average monthly bill by the number of people in the average household, which we needed to do; really the average is a little more than $100/month. Thank you for catching it!
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by jblochjohnson 17y ago
1) That's a good point about beef – we hadn't realized that! 2) I can't find anything wrong with the airline methodology either (barring the fact that like everything else, there are assumptions that introduce a lot of uncertainty, like ave
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by jblochjohnson 17y ago
Got to love the US Consumer Expenditure Survey...
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by jblochjohnson 17y ago
Yeah, I don't think the current framework we use for helping people think about their impact is very good. It is not very motivating to show people a bad consequence even when they are obviously doing nothing to cause it. Even when it does
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by jblochjohnson 17y ago
This is because of two things; the first is what Aditya pointed out (emissions from the past continuing to have an impact) and the second is that because we were only working with 6 questions, we didn't have room to address some areas of co
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by jblochjohnson 17y ago
EDIT: tl; dr: the people who made this want you know it isn't ready for prime time. Hey folks, Jonah here from the Almanac. Although Aditya very kindly published our survey, it's still rough as everyone here has pointed out. We assumed it w
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Mint.com should be a platform(jonah.org)
29 points by jblochjohnson 17y ago|17 comments

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