kineticac

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by kineticac 16y ago
It's true, I'm amazed how huge soccer/football is in every other country other than the U.S.
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by kineticac 16y ago
Dogpatch is an awesome space. I've worked out of there for awhile now, even did a code competition there last year for the RailsRumble. The Hackers and Founders meetup is fun. I went to the first one that happened at DPL. The keg is a ni
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by kineticac 16y ago
congratz! i also graduated from AHS, but back in 2001 =X I'm old.
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by kineticac 16y ago
A pretty sweet site our design intern pointed me at was: http://siteinspire.net/ It has some really nice designs that are more trendy now a days than ever before. UX less tried as usual, but looks visually cool and super modern.
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by kineticac 16y ago
I'd also vote for Philz Coffee towards the north end of Berkeley, I've worked out of there whenever I'm not meeting down @ YC in mountain view. The coffee is fuel for me (other than cheesily being motivated by happy tweets from fanvibe use
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by kineticac 16y ago
randall you live in the area too? commute to sf daily?
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by kineticac 16y ago
Ever goto the Pub on Solano? Not sure if that's still Albany though, but I consider it Albany since I can walk to it from my house ;)
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by kineticac 16y ago
Also, wonder if we could talk to the owners about "reserving" that back area where there's couches. Depending on the size of the group, might be doable without reservation.
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by kineticac 16y ago
I've been going to Philz a few times a week when I'm not down in Mountain View =) It's a really cool spot, park on lincoln during the week for 2 hours of free parking. Open till 9pm too, and good amount of space in the back.
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by kineticac 16y ago
There's a good balance of writing it right the first time, and spending too much time with the details and not the actual feature you're implementing. With enough experience, you'll know how to start writing something such that it won't req
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by kineticac 16y ago
I just use one gmail account. Any other email account I just forward. Eventually everyone just emails to that one account since I always reply from it. It's not a problem at all. With filters, using the +blah functionality (email+spam@gm
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by kineticac 16y ago
I've found the Twitter feed useful to get the most highly ranked articles, but every few days I'll take a quick 5 minute break from coding to look through some of the new posts.
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by kineticac 16y ago
From what I've heard, it started as "preposterous" in terms of it's preposterously easy to use.
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by kineticac 16y ago
First job out of college (2005) I was contacted when I posted my resume on Monster.com. Second job was at a startup which I got through a headhunter. Last one I made for myself! It's the best way =)
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by kineticac 16y ago
I've seen a huge designer community using delicious. maybe the artsy guys and gals liked the "clever" name ;)
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by kineticac 16y ago
oooh, that's how it's happening! thanks for reporting this to us!
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by kineticac 16y ago
eek, good catch =) need to do some polishing! gotta count on the HN folk to really get down into it. you guys have awesome feedback.
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by kineticac 16y ago
hugh3: awesome quick feedback! 1. Yup, the "at" is basically for the regular season pro teams in American sports. We'll be fixing this soon for all other situations 2. If the guy was your friend, would that be more useful? Like in real life
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by kineticac 16y ago
Great to hear you want that! Our pro-account users (which is free when you invite 5 friends btw), will be given much more than the basic updates we have now. We're fleshing out all those features (play-by-play) and more very soon. Some oth
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by kineticac 16y ago
You're right on track with what we're working on. People love to share and brag, and a lot love to brag that they're at the game. Working with the leagues and teams are tough, but we're going to try to work with them more on cool stuff lik
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by kineticac 16y ago
d0m, that's a great idea! "Get Started" definitely should show you quickly what you can get. We'll start on that ASAP. Thanks for your feedback.
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by kineticac 16y ago
If you check-in or pick a team, you are given the option to connect to Facebook. It will then give you a preview of the cross post once you're all connected. Let me know if that seems confusing (it definitely might be). Great feedback!
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by kineticac 16y ago
That's true Micah, we're actually actively on our way to getting a .com for our next big launch. Thanks for the feedback!
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by kineticac 16y ago
hah, good catch! we went with copying what works rather than spending too much time trying to re-invent a good homepage. we launched pretty quick, so we tried to focus as much on the core features first as possible.
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by kineticac 16y ago
Hi HN: We just launched FanPulse this morning! It's been an awesome ride so far in the Summer 2010 batch with YC! Please give us any feedback you may have, we hope to build this out so you guys will love it.
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FanPulse (YC S10) Launches Web App In Time For The World Cup(techcrunch.com)
52 points by kineticac 16y ago|31 comments
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by kineticac 16y ago
Volunteer! Volunteering is awesome. You and your company can go out and do something together with a purpose. It's good to get away from work for a bit, but even better if you're all helping the community out with your time and effort. I
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by kineticac 16y ago
As a coder, there's a few things I look for: 1. The business person needs to understand that they can't make all the shots. Because they're business doesn't mean they handle all of it, especially product 2. Passionate about your idea, but
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by kineticac 16y ago
Zipties have been awesome for me. When I'm working on a car, when I'm setting anything up, zip ties are strong and reliable, as well as disposable and cheap. You can get the long ones that just work for everything, and if you need longer,
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by kineticac 16y ago
Hey Dan, We started off hosting on Heroku, which at the time defaulted to using postgres. It now supports mysql as well I believe. We never really needed to worry about the db using a framework like Rails. In my experience, MySQL and Post

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