kapitti

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by kapitti 18y ago
Maybe hackerweek - the 48 hour constraint was a bit too tight for anything with decent scope. I'm happy with what our team cranked out, but looking back, I wish we would have had more time to iterate the views further. Either way - count m
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Anybody else compete in RailsRumble?
6 points by kapitti 18y ago|10 comments
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by kapitti 18y ago
I'm 26, married with a mortgage, car payment, student loans, etc. The economy isn't going to stop me - my wife is willing to sell our house at the drop of a hat if we have to, move to another city if we have to, etc. You sacrifice short t
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by kapitti 18y ago
Not a very good one - the site is slow as hell right now.
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by kapitti 18y ago
I wrote one for AT&T that got deployed to ~1M PCs and lost my luster for client apps when Microsoft released Vista & XP SP2, both of which resulted in months of patch work just to get things working again before we could focus on ne
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by kapitti 18y ago
3rd acquisition for the 2007 cycle - not bad results so far. It may be a small sample size, but 8/10 (I believe) received funding and now 3/10 acquired and the 2008 cycle has fairly good traction already with their funding.
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by kapitti 18y ago
Take some premade pizza dough, put some ricotta cheese on it for the base - saute some baby spinach (10oz or so) and artichoke hearts (1 can will do) throw it on the pizza. Cook a single chicken breast in a skillet, dice it up, throw it on
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by kapitti 18y ago
It's comments like this: "And there’s the Shuffle, which I’m not really sure if anyone ever purchases, but maybe it’s just for people who are too poor to buy the Nano and only own 3 CDs because most of their collection is still on 8-track."
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by kapitti 18y ago
http://within3.com is a local startup in Cleveland that some members hang out on YC
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by kapitti 18y ago
Business: Freshbooks, Github, Vonage Consumer: iTunes, Peepcode
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Date Set for RailsRumble - Who's In?(blog.railsrumble.com)
1 points by kapitti 18y ago|0 comments
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by kapitti 18y ago
We're not planning for 100% coverage, especially during our beta. But we do plan to add more markets (counties) as we roll out more. I have yet to find a good alternative - there are a few places that offer up the data already indexed, but
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by kapitti 18y ago
The API is nice - but Zillow has a lot of cobranding requirements that has resulted in my cofounder and I creating our own crawler to get the data from Public Record rather than Zillow.
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by kapitti 18y ago
> The "how" seemed to be left out of many of his examples. If you purchased the book, the how should be self explanatory.
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by kapitti 18y ago
No mention of the deadly mortgage & spouse disease.
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by kapitti 18y ago
Thanks - we will try to get a hold of them. They don't look like they're using verbatim Public Record datasets - but may come in handy.
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Ask YC: Obtaining Public Record Data
1 points by kapitti 18y ago|2 comments