joe_fro

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by joe_fro 9y ago
The Democrats passed the bill in the senate 60-39, with 2 independents voting for, and all Republicans voting against. Then that bill was passed in the house with a vote of 219–212 with 34 Democrats and all 178 Republicans voting against it
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by joe_fro 9y ago
I was curious about who did vote for the bill so I took a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda... The bill passed in the Senate by 60-39 with all republicans voting against except for Jim
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by joe_fro 9y ago
not familiar with tachyons and just did a cursory look at it, what about tachyons really solved your problem?
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by joe_fro 10y ago
after answering this I also found this article in the new section of HN: https://medium.com/excitingrole/how-to-pick-good-startups-e0... I haven't read the article but the title makes it seem very relevant.
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by joe_fro 10y ago
Joining a startup is a high risk/high reward decision, and the biggest question you should have for them is where is the money coming from, and how long does the startup have until it needs more money given the current plan. In additio
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by joe_fro 10y ago
This is a very informative article. If you're interested in getting started with search relevancy I would also suggest the book: https://www.manning.com/books/relevant-search Which was very helpful to me.
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by joe_fro 10y ago
Are you planning on having a feature to pick a range of days, so that I can seen what expired over the last week?
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by joe_fro 10y ago
Great work with this, I can see it providing me hours of entertainment. Obligatory what's the stack?
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by joe_fro 10y ago
I agree with this. What will be interesting though is to see if the wages of those jobs will increase because people won't want to do them, or if wages will decrease because there will be so many more people that aren't employed,
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by joe_fro 10y ago
I like building things, not just code. I think it's a sense of personal satisfaction from creating something where there was nothing and sharing it with others. Most of the time nobody cares, so it's always nice when somebody el
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by joe_fro 10y ago
What bothers me is that all the data collection is on by default. If I purchase something I expect it to have my best interests at heart, if I get something for free I expect it to have the providers best interests at heart. Since you buy
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by joe_fro 10y ago
I was curious about this and took a look at the repositories. If you look at the Java repository and the Scala repository there seem to be a lot of additional folders as compared to the Haskell problem set. I'm sure Haskell would sti
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by joe_fro 12y ago
We went through a similar migration process and it sounds like we had different experiences. We started with the devs taking some time just to study and learn Scala basics then added the frameworks on top of that. I think if you go that w
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by joe_fro 12y ago
Arazoo ( https://www.arazoo.com/ ) We're a pre-series A company (4th engineer just hired) based out of NYC building a B2B product for the Architecture and Construction industry. Our co-founders identified an interesting