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by paulhart 18y ago
Thanks so much mahipal and silencio for the pointers, greatly appreciated. I've reached the point where my app and its webapp counterpart are both technically complete, so I'm all about the polish now. My app isn't groundbreaking (it's goin
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by paulhart 18y ago
I'm getting close to having my own iPhone app completed. Would you be kind enough to share the list of sites that you sent requests to? Stuff like that would be really helpful. Thanks!
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by paulhart 18y ago
Neat stuff. I'm wrapping up writing a custom rails app that will talk to the iPhone, and because I don't have to support other platforms I've designed my XML to be optimized for parsing on the client side. The simplest optimization is to ha
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by paulhart 18y ago
Anyone can read MeFi, but you need to be a member to post. I'm sure a similar model could apply here if wanted.
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by paulhart 18y ago
My first summer job while at University was with a small company in the west of England, Micross ( http://www.microssautomation.com/index.php ), writing industrial laundry control software, in Forth, targeting Windows NT. We used the MPE Fo
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by paulhart 18y ago
Yes, Jive Software did this. I was working for another company at the time and a colleague and I provided several enhancements to their codebase. However, before they would accept them we needed to get our boss to sign a document assigning
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by paulhart 18y ago
In a city it's hard to be alone (spatially), but it's easy to be lonely (spiritually).
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by paulhart 18y ago
Yes, lots of jurisdictions are implementing "percentage by year" legislation that mandates (for instance) 20% renewables by 2020. The industry is trying to understand what all the impacts of this are, and there's a negative impact on reliab
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by paulhart 18y ago
This isn't FUD as another commenter suggested. There are significant issues with transmission management when you start adding significant percentages of renewables into your electricity mix. The folks that manage real-time demand (i.e. ERC
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by paulhart 18y ago
I used to use one of these. It had two keys more than I needed.
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by paulhart 18y ago
My understanding is that the incumbents (i.e. Monster, Dice, Workopolis [in Canada]) have huge reach, but are expensive to post ads to. The signal to noise ratio can be really bad too. Niche job sites like Startuply and the 37signals job bo
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by paulhart 18y ago
Ah, the YMP-C90 (pic at http://www.geocities.jp/takaomitsuji2000/ymp-c90.jpg )... When I went to secondary (high) school in the UK, we had to do a work placement week when we were 16. My first choice of company was MicroProse, as they had
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by paulhart 18y ago
Canada requires fuel economy figures in liters per 100km.
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by paulhart 18y ago
I submit that, given the team at Twitter is already working hard at resolving their issues, they don't need much 'saving'. There's been an awful lot of heat generated in the last few weeks about Twitter, and not much light. In fact, most of
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by paulhart 18y ago
Quick observation. Your eyes will need to make a dramatic focus change between a monitor on your desk and another on your wall, or it's really close to your face, in which case you'll be scanning all over the place looking for stuff). Eithe
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by paulhart 18y ago
In theory these are default states - if external factors are removed, what would you revert to? I default to INTP but can ramp up the E as needed (and these days I need it more an more). I can mess with the other values too, but I/E is the
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by paulhart 18y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with the above. Gotcha questions are nice if you value having a sense of superiority over your candidates. Seeing how someone approaches a simple coding exercise tells you a lot about their techniques. Two examples st
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by paulhart 18y ago
The majority of society demands to be entertained, not to entertain. Those that entertain are put on pedestals to be worshipped (either with praise or scorn).
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by paulhart 18y ago
I presume you posted this in an attempt to piss him off? :)
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by paulhart 18y ago
I've got something similar to that - http://relovable.com/ - designed to target the parenting niche. Kids grow (zing!) through clothes at an alarming rate. I never bothered to attempt to market it at all - it was more a proof-of-concept t
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by paulhart 19y ago
The logic behind this, "acquire a piece of knowledge, then don't forget it" is similar to the description one of my university professors gave for learning how to fly: "fall over and don't hit the ground." I suspect that physics may remain
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by paulhart 19y ago
It's classy to look out for your direct reports before yourself - shows good vibes, more likely to find yourself another manager-y job.
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by paulhart 19y ago
Privacy is a competitive advantage if implemented well.
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by paulhart 19y ago
It was my daughter's first birthday today. Yes.
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by paulhart 19y ago
We've been through one significant idea change so far. By 'significant,' I mean that we're still pursuing the same core business concept, but we've made big changes to how the concept is executed (and how our customers interact with it). Th
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by paulhart 19y ago
By having an exclusionary policy, eHarmony appears to be attempting to improve their results by keeping people out that are less likely to fit their algorithm. I'm impressed that they've hired so many PhDs, but on the other hand, I don't be
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by paulhart 19y ago
For the startup I'm working on, we're going to put together a small app to take advantage of Facebook for advertising purposes - basically an optional thing to put in your profile to say "hey, I'm using this service, this is what's happenin
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by paulhart 19y ago
Because I believe I've come up with a novel method of handling user participation in a relatively mature market; it's far stickier than many sites currently in the space, and avoids some of the issues that other 'unconventional' sites have.
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by paulhart 19y ago
Thinking about the current development-related issues with my startup - handling the exponential relationships between members of a social network. I'll probably just flake out and store each relationship in a join table ;)