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   by mck- 13y ago

   May I also suggest an update to the flamewar trigger algorithm? Or at least this is what led me to believe it is a flamewar trigger [1] Oftentimes a post is doing really well [2], accumulating a dozen up votes within 30 minutes, jumping up
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   by mck- 13y ago

   I'd prefer to hire dev bootcamp grads over fresh CS grads. We've interviewed a ton of the latter, but hired 2 of the former. Why? A lot (not all) of CS programs are out of date when it comes to the ever-changing state-of-the-art.
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   by mck- 13y ago

   Apologies. Didn't know that.. I felt that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7578670 was doing well, but triggered flamewar trigger (false-positive), because of 2 innocent comments :( I'll take it off now.. don&
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   What 61 points on HN did for my startup(medium.com)

   19 points by mck- 13y ago|2 comments
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   by mck- 13y ago

   Exactly right. I borrowed that term from Chapter 2 on Collective Intelligence [1] [1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529321.do
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   by mck- 13y ago

   Kuler [1] is a great tool by Adobe that I love to use [1] https://kuler.adobe.com
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   by mck- 13y ago

   Fwiw, here are two light-weight feature-based recommendation engines I built for Node.js (for situations where you have the cold-start problem and therefore can't rely on user/item based collaborative filtering): Alike [1] and Loo
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   by mck- 13y ago

   If you haven't read SICP yet, I can highly recommend it. It is taught in Scheme (dialect of Lisp); you'll be reading one of the greatest programming books of all time while you're at it -- it certainly opened up a whole new p
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   by mck- 13y ago

   wat
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    Her First, and Last, Book(nytimes.com)

    5 points by mck- 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mck- 13y ago

    If you're running a business, and would like to apply route optimization to manage your fleet, have a look at Routific [1] Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Routific [1] https://www.routific.com/developers
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    by mck- 13y ago

    Yes, it works globally. How are you liking OptimoRoute? Looks neat :) We have a web application and mobile app on our roadmap
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    by mck- 13y ago

    There is one for Javascript that I use pretty often: http://scriptular.com/ (based on the Ruby one: http://www.rubular.com/ )
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    by mck- 13y ago

    I think that's a great idea :) thanks!
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    by mck- 13y ago

    Yep :)
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    by mck- 13y ago

    Great feedback - will do!
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    by mck- 13y ago

    No we do not account for traffic. We're not in the business of getting from A to B. We're about optimizing entire fleets (think 1000 orders, 100 vehicles). Traffic delays are but a small factor, when we can cut 20 obsolete vehicle
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    by mck- 13y ago

    You're right: FedEx and UPS are spending billions on route optimization. Must mean they see an ROI. What about the rest who cannot afford that? Routific makes route optimization accessible for SMEs, as well as large enterprises who are
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    by mck- 13y ago

    These pitfalls can be easily avoided by following a styleguide [1] [1] https://github.com/polarmobile/coffeescript-style-guide
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    by mck- 13y ago

    See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/336859/var-functionname-f...
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    by mck- 13y ago

    OpenStreetMaps
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    by mck- 13y ago

    Fixed, thanks. Will be deployed in 3 min :)
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    by mck- 13y ago

    1. Global support 2. The orders that cannot be reached will be returned in an array: unserved 3. No cap. $29/vehicle/month. 4. Hard question; since we're talking about an NP-hard problem: - For ~20 orders, it takes ~1s.
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    by mck- 13y ago

    Maritime transport, specifically Tramp Ship Scheduling, is very similar to a taxi operation. Taxi logistics are known in literature as Pickup and Delivery Problems with Time Windows (PDPTW) -- which is an advanced type of VRPTW -- which, in
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    by mck- 13y ago

    Currently free beta, plan to charge $29/vehicle/month
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    by mck- 13y ago

    Limitless. Go watch it if you haven't
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    by mck- 13y ago

    Sounds awesome! Would love to talk about doing this pro-bono -- shoot me an email marc@routific.com
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    by mck- 13y ago

    Here's my thesis paper for reference [1] [1] http://thesis.eur.nl/pub/6427/6427-Kuo.pdf
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    Show HN: Route Optimization API(routific.com)

    70 points by mck- 13y ago|36 comments
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    by mck- 13y ago

    Thanks for the feedback; do you mind sharing what questions you are left with?