mildavw

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by mildavw 14y ago
It's a broad stroke for sure, but, yes, no one on HN shops at Walmart.
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by mildavw 14y ago
Pointing out the fact that the most successful store in history by a huge margin is one that neither you nor anyone you know shops at is a great way to illustrate the importance of market validation for startups.
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"six months in a low security setting." That one word, "setting," puts her squarely in bullshitter territory. The obvious and honest word is "prison". But that's too dark a color for the painting she's holding up for us.
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by mildavw 14y ago
Portland, OR Unix Systems Administrator http://renewfund.com Responsibilities: • Maintain internal and external Linux/Mac/Windows systems in a highly automated/repeatable way. • Improve and maintain service and performance monitoring infr
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by mildavw 14y ago
Maybe it's because my small social network (my extended family) all have iPhones, but we abandoned Facebook about a year ago in favor of iMessage. Group text, photos, and movies fly back and forth almost every day. And when we want it live,
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by mildavw 14y ago
Beer is always available in the fridge. It's consumed at a slow pace though, usually at the end of the day by a few people, and not every day.
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ballots are stuffed into an image scanner (like a high speed fax) as they arrive, the votes are detected, any ambiguous votes are "electronically adjudicated" meaning workers alter the database to correct for voter intent or write ins. Is
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by mildavw 14y ago
Two non-programming product owners feed work to our five-person dev team via cucumber tests. They own the features directory (we make small mods here and there to get them running or to clarify). They're smart, completely capable of masteri
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by mildavw 14y ago
It seems like collectively changing our diet is just rearranging chairs on the Titanic. Our population will continue to grow exponentially as it has for the last several million years no matter what we eat. If somehow we avoid a massive die
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by mildavw 14y ago
Well said. I spent 10 years as a full time pro playing upright bass, mostly jazz. Now, I code for a living. Holding and manipulating musical/data abstractions in your head is indeed a strong commonality.
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by mildavw 15y ago
# bad email_with_name = user.name + ' <' + user.email + '>' # good email_with_name = "#{user.name} <#{user.email}>" # better email_with_name = "%s <%s>" % [user.name, user.email]
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by mildavw 15y ago
dave@mailbolt.com
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by mildavw 15y ago
I built an app that combines freely available AIS data with other relevant inventory data and sell subscriptions to some local oil-spill recovery companies: http://demo.dedicatedmaps.com/
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by mildavw 15y ago
Did the 80% for $1 ever produce a cofounder?
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by mildavw 15y ago
Interesting. I was trying to think of any controversies due to "heretical" thoughts. We really haven't had any. (So maybe you are right!) We have our nerd-fights about say, rspec vs minitest, or estimating techniques, but not much beyond th
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by mildavw 15y ago
Yes, we pretty much try to pair on everything. It doesn't work out when there is an odd number or someone gets pulled elsewhere, so it's not all of the time. When we don't pair, we do code reviews (also by a pair).
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by mildavw 15y ago
Incidentally, our work space was designed by the team. We moved last summer. The management chose the office and we were given $50k to do whatever we wanted with it. We built one conference room, a server room, and two small meeting rooms.
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by mildavw 15y ago
Yes, fleshing out requirements is a big part of it. Our apps are web apps but in financing, so they're not totally trivial. We do both the public facing web-apps and the tool used by loan processors for administration. Our team has a high n
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by mildavw 15y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Would 80% agree with me? Do 20% of the people give 1.6 cents? What is the 80/20 rule in this case?
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by mildavw 15y ago
Your snark actually raises a good point: The optimal office arrangement probably depends on who works there. Last Friday our team presented some of our dev proceses to the local agile group. We had 5 devs and a product person there. Someone
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by mildavw 15y ago
Our team has very good chemistry, lots of respect for opinions all the way around. So I don't think people feel the need to get their two cents in on every issue. If a subset takes off on something, the rest know that they'll be brought up
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by mildavw 15y ago
On re-read, I'm guessing the down votes are for tone. It reads a little rigid and preachy to me now. What I was attempting to describe is the mindset our team currently has, not what yours should have. Our particular team of 8 devs is happy
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by mildavw 15y ago
Our dev culture discourages anyone working in "the zone" because more often than not, it produces crappy code -- crappy mainly in that it's hard for others to understand/maintain. If you're off by yourself thinking about something really ha
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by mildavw 15y ago
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=45.528017,-122.598179... We're protected from the busy road and the grocery store parking lot by elevation; we're 50 ft below either. We can hear the highway, but I only notice it when the din is mis
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by mildavw 15y ago
I have two little kids (I know that's not three) and public transit or biking (I can fit both on my bike) is great for outings. It turns the journey into an experience itself. Driving with the kids strapped into car seats the whole time is
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by mildavw 15y ago
Just last week I watched a demo day for a local incubator (PiePDX). Here's someone trying disrupt distribution, but it doesn't sound like they have theaters in the mix: http://m.youtube.com/?rdm=4pauejn01&reload=3#/profile?us...
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Anyone else using group messaging instead of Facebook?
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"disease or germ..." Yes. I thought of mold growing on a lump of yogurt. Yogurt cultures.
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by mildavw 15y ago
That rate is what our accountant told me to put into the accounting software. I didn't actually see the statement. I can tell your that our average transaction is $205 and it's all card-present. There were 1031 transactions over two days. M
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by mildavw 15y ago
I run an annual used ski equipment sale. We rent credit card machines and have a merchant account set up just for that weekend. We pay $0.22 + 1.79% per transaction. Our average transaction is >$100 so this is cheaper than what Square o

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