jonthepirate

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by jonthepirate 10y ago
Hopefully us former employees see some liquidity before driverless wipes these companies out. The value of ride dispatching aggregators is in the driver network. Apps and cars are easy to make.
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Selling employee vested stock privately to current investors
6 points by jonthepirate 10y ago|3 comments
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“Ridesharing” as we know is it going to crash
3 points by jonthepirate 10y ago|3 comments
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by jonthepirate 10y ago
As an investor in Lyft, I'm sorry to say that I hope Uber doesn't change anything they're doing. The Uber management is the best thing that's happened to my personal finances in a while.
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by jonthepirate 10y ago
I get so many obnoxious unsolicited recruiter emails that I have set an email autoresponder that triggers when the word "opportunity" comes in from someone I don't know. Here's the template: ----- Hi, I get a lot of mess
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by jonthepirate 10y ago
It is written in Javascript.
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by jonthepirate 10y ago
He will publicly cast doubt on things that are contrary to his own opinions. As an example, he was the leader of the birther movement claiming Obama was not born in the USA. Tip of the iceberg.
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by jonthepirate 10y ago
I also have done 3 years of MongoDB before I (unwillingly) wrote an app with it... worst development experience I've ever had. I wouldn't have used it were it not for my corporate overlords at the time. My new rule of thumb: Use p
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by jonthepirate 10y ago
More power to anybody who's willing to put their children in a car and not pay attention to the road or have control the outcomes of relentless traffic threats all around them. In my view, all of this technology is much better suited t
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by jonthepirate 10y ago
I have never used C# but I'd rather learn it than write code in Javascript.
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Life after Lyft – An African ride share I helped launch in 10 days(medium.com)
1 points by jonthepirate 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonthepirate 10y ago
PHP engineer of 10 years here - all things being equal, I cannot, in good faith, recommend a person use PHP for anything. General rule of thumb is, if you can, use Python. We still see folks actively choosing it though.. mostly because it&#
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by jonthepirate 10y ago
Iceberg ahead, captain! I wish there was some way to short this.
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by jonthepirate 10y ago
I would love the ability to leave a video playing on my phone when I turn the screen off. I often will listen to a song but as soon as the app minimizes or the phone goes to sleep mode, it stops.
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10k people went to ghostroommate.com in the last week
2 points by jonthepirate 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A chatbot to help you buy and sell cars privately(cars.soldbyowner.net)
3 points by jonthepirate 10y ago|0 comments
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PokemonGo in HTML, JavaScript and CSS – Part 2: Orientation and Directionality(blog.geofenceapi.org)
1 points by jonthepirate 10y ago|0 comments
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Put an end to apartment rent for the time during the day when you aren't home(ghostroommate.com)
25 points by jonthepirate 10y ago|11 comments
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Building PokemonGo in Pure HTML, JavaScript and CSS(blog.geofenceapi.org)
80 points by jonthepirate 10y ago|8 comments
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Musings from making a Golang-powered Geofence API server in 10 days from scratch(blog.geofenceapi.org)
3 points by jonthepirate 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonthepirate 10y ago
Shoot.. I'll take a look in about 10 or so hrs. I just stayed up all night coding. ;) Sounds like the map javascript file I'm using may be borking in some way I have not seen before. Thanks for reporting it!
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Show HN: 37.773, -122.43755(api.geofenceapi.org)
6 points by jonthepirate 10y ago|2 comments
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REST API for geographically oriented config data(geofenceapi.org)
1 points by jonthepirate 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonthepirate 11y ago
+1 for "do not use joins"
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How I jumpstarted a tech industry dating app from scratch(coderwall.com)
2 points by jonthepirate 11y ago|0 comments
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What I learned about astrophysics by watching YouTube(docs.google.com)
1 points by jonthepirate 11y ago|0 comments
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by jonthepirate 11y ago
php > var_dump("hello" == 0); bool(true) php >
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by jonthepirate 12y ago
You can see the tech office tours on techcrunch videos... the bigger ones are giant lavish offices filled with desks and laptops. Boring. Tour the city.
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Secrets to finding an incredible engineering job in SF for newbies(coderwall.com)
2 points by jonthepirate 12y ago|0 comments
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An engineer's guide to finding work in San Francisco(jonathanblock.svbtle.com)
3 points by jonthepirate 13y ago|0 comments

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