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by justin 14y ago
Yeah, I'm the author and I know what billable hours are. My hours here weren't being billed out to the client.
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by justin 14y ago
The hours for this task weren't billed.
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The First Time I Used Programming At Work(justinkan.com)
5 points by justin 14y ago|0 comments
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by justin 14y ago
Holy crap... nanny state? I'm not agreeing in any way with the manager in this situation; public humiliation of employees by managers is both morally cowardly (bullying someone from a position of power) and ineffective over the long run (in
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by justin 14y ago
Sorry, but Andrew really is that good of a guy. The Exec who picked it up happened to be in our office when he did, so we asked him to snap some pictures (with the parties' permission) in case it turned out to be a story with a happy ending
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by justin 14y ago
Every angel investment is "a calculated risk and semi-gamble." Also, title is link bait, considering author doesn't actually provide any reasoning why you shouldn't be funded if you don't have an idea. There are plenty of people I'd rather
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Justin.tv/TwitchTV hosting codesprint this Saturday at Noon PST(twitchtvchallenge.interviewstreet.com)
1 points by justin 14y ago
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by justin 14y ago
Weebly website creator for iPhone is an amazing experience. The hands down easiest way to make a website that I've seen.
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Socialcam #1(justinkan.com)
74 points by justin 14y ago|30 comments
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by justin 14y ago
Generalist programmers get hired all the time at startups; as someone else mentioned, requirements are always changing and it often doesn't make sense to specialize immediately. At Justin.tv, we hired a ton of generalists before we ever hir
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by justin 14y ago
I guess my point was that I'd rather be the guy making the software that directs people around running errands then one of the guys running errands. To that end, I needed to have software engineering and product skills (otherwise I wouldn't
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by justin 15y ago
No. Prettier != better, as one other commentator pointed out. I think there were many things that Kyro did better than the current design, but his design wasn't something I'd be comfortable putting on the site in it's current form. To addre
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by justin 15y ago
Realized I was so busy I didn't get a chance to respond to last week's Exec redesign, but in general I was happy that Kyro took a shot at it and thought he surfaced some interesting ideas, and that it definitely looked much prettier than wh
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by justin 15y ago
Heroku support is surprisingly awesome and helpful. Their support engineers are as competent as other companies' development engineers, in my experience. Also, they get back to you really quickly.
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by justin 15y ago
Yes, this is correct.
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Exec is hiring designers and engineers in SF to revolutionize the job(iamexec.com)
1 points by justin 15y ago
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by justin 15y ago
If you want Tim Cook you're going to have to pay a little more than $100 / hour.
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by justin 15y ago
This is just a promotion to get people to know about and maybe even try Exec. $100 / hour is far, far under the value of the Alexis, Steve, Tikhon and Matt's time -- they are donating it to charity. The point isn't to be sustainable, althou
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by justin 15y ago
Sorry, right now I don't think we have a good way to validate international phone numbers, we should fix that soon. The email refusing "+" was because of a crappy lib that I was using, and it isn't terribly high on the list of things to fix
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Rent time with founders from Parse, Hipmunk, Sincerely and Reddit through Exec(blog.iamexec.com)
108 points by justin 15y ago|43 comments
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Exec is hiring a lead designer and engineer.(iamexec.com)
1 points by justin 15y ago
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by justin 15y ago
How has Word Lens taken over the world? It is an awesome technology, but there are many awesome technologies, and not many of them become amazing businesses. (However, that said, there are awesome technologies like the Word Lens in this cla
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by justin 15y ago
yes
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by justin 15y ago
I definitely understand this given all the acquihiring going on in tech right now -- it makes it hard to rely on something for your business. That being said, for a few reasons I don't think we're likely to go away through an talent acquisi
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by justin 15y ago
Yes, soon. We want to know for a fact that we understand how to consistently provide excellent service before expanding anywhere.
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by justin 15y ago
Just making sure that every single customer has an amazing experience. It is the core of what we do and there is nothing more important.
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by justin 15y ago
Our early customers were probably 50% or more YC and we got a bunch of great initial feedback. So yes, this helps a lot. There is a pay-it-forward mentality -- Justin.tv serves as an early customer for many YC startups.
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by justin 15y ago
Lots of our customers are using Exec as a way to provide their team members with more leisure time. The way I normally pitch it is that if you want to go grocery shopping to get ingredients for a special meal you are going to cook and you w
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Justin Kan’s Exec Starts Running Errands For Companies And Startups Today(techcrunch.com)
92 points by justin 15y ago|37 comments
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by justin 15y ago
The biggest companies in the YC portfolio are independent and getting bigger all the time. It still remains to be seen whether a Facebook or Google will come out of YC.

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