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Grouper is hiring senior Rails engineers
1 points by nottombrown 13y ago
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by nottombrown 13y ago
Currently we use coinbase, which automatically sets a reasonable fee on transactions. So far all my transactions have been faster than a few minutes.
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by nottombrown 13y ago
Good call, I'll add some padding
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by nottombrown 13y ago
Grouper founder here. Would love to get feedback on BitBar.
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BitBar by Grouper - Buy drinks with bitcoin at bars in 23 US cities(bitbar.io)
38 points by nottombrown 13y ago|15 comments
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Rubyists - Help Grouper end loneliness
1 points by nottombrown 13y ago
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by nottombrown 13y ago
The headers with asterisks are intentionally mislabeled. Updated this to be more clear in the README.
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by nottombrown 13y ago
Sure, just take a row as your input and return a boolean.
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by nottombrown 13y ago
1. The data is collected from the user's FB profile or comes from our internal ratings 2. The platinum_albums header is just a joke, we anonymized the data 3. Thanks for pointing that out. There was a bug with a few rows that is now fi
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by nottombrown 13y ago
Sorry if this was unclear. You own any code that you write for this competition. The prize is that we'll use your algorithm to validate any matches that you go on. If that doesn't seem worthwhile to you, feel free to pass on thi
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by nottombrown 13y ago
Feel free to work together as a team. Glad that you guys had fun last night :D
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by nottombrown 13y ago
Sorry this was unclear. We meant " correctly predict the most friendships" You get 1 point for each friendship that you correctly predict did or did not occur. In the test data set ~50% of pairs became friends, so predicting &q
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by nottombrown 13y ago
Hey HN, Grouper founder here. Let me know if you have any questions about the contest.
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Social Hacker? Grouper is hiring Rubyists
1 points by nottombrown 13y ago
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Opinionated Rubyist? Grouper is hiring hackers in NYC
1 points by nottombrown 13y ago
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Grouper Social Club seeks Rubyists
1 points by nottombrown 13y ago
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by nottombrown 13y ago
Yeah, tool-specific monitoring is always forgotten. There was a great article I once read on how your second datastore inevitably turns into a ghetto. People overestimate how many things they can keep track of.
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by nottombrown 13y ago
Author here. Added a clarification that services can go down for reasons other than data center issues. Who knew?
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Join Exec as a Product Manager of Growth
1 points by nottombrown 13y ago
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Grouper (YC W12) seeks Senior Engineer
1 points by nottombrown 13y ago
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Grouper (YC W12) seeks Rubyists and Coffeescripters
1 points by nottombrown 13y ago
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by nottombrown 13y ago
This is an excellent example of leadership. Shuttleworth describes their accomplishments and new goals very clearly. Ubuntu has certainly been a pleasure to use on the cloud. Congratulations to all the contributors.
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by nottombrown 13y ago
Great work! I've been looking for something like this to replace my overly complex bootstrap setup. One thing that I'd like to see is a gutter-based grid system. In your grid examples the inner elements take care of the padding so we end up
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Grouper (YC W12) seeks Rubyists and Coffeescripters
1 points by nottombrown 13y ago
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by nottombrown 13y ago
Wow, this is really well executed. Sweet concept and design, Adam!
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Grouper (YC W12) is hiring a full stack engineer
1 points by nottombrown 13y ago
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by nottombrown 14y ago
Heroku Postgres is now a standalone product (You can purchase postgres databases without a heroku app) so they won't change the URI for a database out from under you.
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by nottombrown 14y ago
establish_connection will automatically parse a postgres URI for you, so you can just use: ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(ENV['DATABASE_URL']) This also works for class-specific databases: class Photo < ActiveRec
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Grouper (YC W12) is hiring a Lead Developer
1 points by nottombrown 14y ago
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Grouper (YC W12) is hiring a Growth Engineer
1 points by nottombrown 14y ago

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