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by jconley 13y ago
This McConnell book[1] is a must read on the subject. Generally developers just fail at estimating at a fine grained enough level and forget about all the ancillary tasks that take up a majority of a project's time. [1] http:/&#x
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RealCrowd (YC S13) is hiring a full stack engineer, a designer, and sales(angel.co)
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by jconley 13y ago
This is why pg says you must have a .com.
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The big winner of Obamacare rollout: The guy with HealthCare.com(venturebeat.com)
2 points by jconley 13y ago|1 comments
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Using Mailgun’s email address validation service with AngularJS(code.realcrowd.com)
2 points by jconley 13y ago|0 comments
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What is in a name?(lthbl.com)
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Worry Less. Do More. Be Fearless(blog.jdconley.com)
18 points by jconley 13y ago|4 comments
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by jconley 13y ago
We are building close relationships with our investors until we prove ourselves and earn trust, such that they will feel comfortable investing in the future with a click. There is also a significant amount of information available on each p
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by jconley 13y ago
That's correct. Accredited only for now. Sign up to stay informed about future offerings. :)
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RealCrowd (YC S13) Rides The Crowdfunding Wave For Real Estate Investments(techcrunch.com)
59 points by jconley 13y ago|24 comments
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by jconley 13y ago
news:yc
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by jconley 13y ago
I love the PBR China story. $44/bottle. Hustle! "There’s almost no ale in China: I had to smuggle the yeast into the country." http://www.danwei.org/advertising_and_marketing/pabst_goes_u...
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by jconley 13y ago
Reminds me of a great Steve McConnell book, Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0735605351/ref=redir_mdp_mobil...
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by jconley 13y ago
Up until recently I worked at a large mobile publisher and we spent out-of-this-world sums of money to advertise games once the LTV was modeled and we had a high confidence level they would be profitable. Ironically, App Store distribution
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by jconley 13y ago
Yup that's normal. The key to get through is priority. What is the most important single thing for each person to be doing? Do that. Repeat. Focus. If its any comfort this isn't even unique to startups. Every software project I've ever done
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by jconley 13y ago
Based on the OP's story, I'm going to assume this was an early stage startup. It is foolish to join an early stage startup as an employee if it's all about the Benjamins from an exit. Hopefully this is common knowledge. However, being an em
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by jconley 13y ago
I'm curious if the OP has seen http://founderdating.com/about/ . It seems to be what he was looking for. Not sure how big the presence is in AUS though.
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by jconley 14y ago
"This is also why I bristle when many in the Valley - PG included - keep disparaging non-technical people when they want to start a tech company." I realize this is probably just semantics but I want to chime in on one little tidbit here. T
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by jconley 14y ago
I'm glad you built this Justin. I have wanted this functionality many, many times in the social gaming world and never had the time/budget to build it and instead hacked something together. I love seeing how XMPP has influenced the design o
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by jconley 14y ago
I have had similar experiences with the Disney IP teams. They mean serious business in all directions, from protecting IP to ensuring they are not infringing. They make sure everyone in the company or affiliated is very aware of IP issues.
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by jconley 14y ago
I think that would be great! Personally I use the news:yc [1] app on iPhone (no affiliation). It works well and the author updates it when there is a parsing problem. [1] http://newsyc.me/
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by jconley 14y ago
Amateur hour. Serious Business this is not. Where are the tests? The Inversion of Control? The logging? The analytics system? Documentation? Architecture diagrams? Someone should either fire or promote this engineer immediately.
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by jconley 14y ago
Nice! A simple 2PC [1] for deals! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase_commit_protocol
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by jconley 14y ago
When we wrote this software, we tried hard to get a follow on contract to fix this 180 day problem using more automation. But, there was no budget, and the claims processors did not want to lose their jobs. We toured the location where they
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by jconley 14y ago
I see there are plenty of posts down below that are complaining about the lack of fuzzy search. By all means, crawl the site and create a better search engine. IIRC it is setup in such a way that new records are always appended at the end o
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by jconley 14y ago
I wrote most of this app on a contract nearly 10 years ago. We used it as a mentorship exercise to train state worker programmers in the SCO department on the (then new) ASP.NET Framework and SQL Server 2000. The DBA was familiar with Oracl
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by jconley 14y ago
This is great to see! IMO it's something that should be configurable and built into http in node.js. IIS [1] and other mature web servers like nginx [2] or apache [3] do this kind of thing for you and provide simple configuration on it. [1]
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by jconley 14y ago
If the project requires a team it works best when the whole team is remote and/or extremely conscious of using written communication. That is, if you want the remote person to feel like they are a part of the team. If you have outsource con
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by jconley 14y ago
I've worked remotely off and on for the last 10 years. I'd say at least half the time I have been out of the office. I have managed remote teams in Mexico, Ukraine, India, Arizona, Switzerland and even randomly dispersed developers/artists
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by jconley 14y ago
I'm not so sure it's as much gloom and doom as the author portrays. If Microsoft doesn't try to maintain it's business division software dominance on the most popular platforms, that line of business is doomed. And it's not a small business

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