physcab

23 ms·

211.
by physcab 14y ago
It took me a while to figure out what this was. At first I thought Codecademy was providing lessons VIA API. I thought, "wow, they've essentially built a framework for education...pretty cool". Then I went to the actual website and saw th
212.
by physcab 14y ago
It makes sense that data points correlate to your growth, but what's interesting is that data points do not necessarily mean higher value for your customers. If there was a metric that only required one data point to measure and that metri
213.
by physcab 14y ago
The truth is that there is no one single metric that rules them all. You have to look at a suite of metrics to fully understand how users are using your product. It might be nice for YouTube to measure numbers of views a video has, but wha
214.
by physcab 14y ago
I may be one of the few and perhaps I've just been desensitized with all the social network invasion, but I don't find this stuff that reprehensible. At worst, its moderately annoying because its one more email that I have to archive but it
215.
by physcab 14y ago
The notion that teaching programming at an early age will somehow degrade the software engineering profession is simply preposterous. The fact that I took Spanish for 4 years certainly doesn't devalue the translation profession. Learning h
216.
by physcab 14y ago
It strikes me that whoever solves the App Store Discovery Problem can apply the same solution to music. Right now all the biggest gaming companies are solving this problem by signing up (paying) companies with high DAU games to join a sort
217.
Nate Silver: Wednesday Night Is All Right for Loving(nytimes.com)
1 points by physcab 14y ago|0 comments
218.
by physcab 14y ago
This show is pure mind-rot television. It's as accurate in portraying startups as The Real Housewives portrays real families, or The Hills portrays real friendships. If you have never worked in a startup before and you're looking to se
219.
by physcab 14y ago
Silicon Valley is not a place. Its a figment of your imagination. San Francisco, San Mateo, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Santa Clara, San Jose are places. But no one wants to read articles and watch crappy TV shows called "The Real San Jose".
220.
by physcab 14y ago
> Is there white resentment about having too few white players in the NBA? This is like saying is there black resentment for lower graduation or employment rates. There's quite a bit of evidence that the stereotype that white men can't
221.
by physcab 14y ago
I'd love to use this opportunity to do a little promotion. My sister and I just launched a site to connect women in industry with girls taking math and science called Girls Love Math ( http://www.glmclub.org ). It would make my day if wome
222.
Show HN: My sister and I built Girls Love Math: E-mentoring for girls(glmclub.org)
4 points by physcab 14y ago|2 comments
223.
by physcab 14y ago
Hi HN, After reading this article http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463875 a couple months ago, my sister and I (both engineers) wanted to do something proactive. We both identified with the people in the article. Me being the older b
224.
by physcab 14y ago
It makes the problem more real though, doesn't it? Unless you live next to an Apple factory, most people are abstracted away from this dilemma. If an Instacarter dropped off a package of light bulbs (sticking with the theme), what type of
225.
by physcab 14y ago
I urge you to think deeper about this. You are saying these people chose to list their time, but why do they consider it in the first place and why don't you? Alternatively, think about the array of choices they have to make money and you
226.
by physcab 14y ago
You presumably pay people for their skillsets. Screwing a light bulb in or doing your grocery shopping doesn't require a special skillset. There are some tasks that just aren't in the same ballpark as building homes, growing food, and cutti
227.
by physcab 14y ago
I think Instacart is a fantastic concept / service but for me it doesn't come without some internal conflict. When I was in grad school and didn't have a car, it was a huge pain to go grocery shopping. I had to bike a mile to the nearest g
228.
by physcab 14y ago
I cringed when reading the HN comments to this article. Seriously folks, this article isn't about how to get to the fountain of youth. It's also not about quick fixes, so unfortunately if you want to get to the good stuff, you're actually
229.
by physcab 14y ago
Startups in the valley seem almost by definition, segregated places to work. I don't think it is intentional (or maybe in the case of Kixeye it was), but the vast majority of companies seem to have straight white males in their 20's as empl
230.
Ask HN: Starting a hacker school for underprivileged kids?
11 points by physcab 14y ago|5 comments
231.
by physcab 14y ago
This isn't exclusive or indicative to startups. I have friends who work at large companies (Apple in particular) who work 90 hour work weeks and are completely miserable.
232.
by physcab 14y ago
Mobile is vital to Uber's business to function, but it isn't dependent on organic traffic through the App Store to succeed. They can exist with a relatively low number of installed users because their users have an absurdly high average re
233.
by physcab 14y ago
This has been brought up before [1]. I believe that currently, the biggest problem in mobile is discovery. I can't remember what problems were prevalent in 1999 but it could have been discovery on the web as well. If you're a startup, lif
234.
by physcab 14y ago
ViaCycle should sell its locking system then anyone with an unused bike can participate in the program!
235.
by physcab 14y ago
I'm impressed with the accuracy of MobileWorks over mechanical Turk (or pure MT- not sure if MW just filters workers heavily). I tried a receipt transcription task where I fed the same instructions and same photo to both services. Out of th
236.
by physcab 14y ago
This could actually be huge. All they need is a few high DAU accounts to help them market this device. I totally agree with their premise that current games are limited by the touch functionality. If they can bring the price down and just
237.
by physcab 14y ago
If any Wattvision customers are here, or if the team is looking at this, I'm curious...what kinds of changes in behavior have you noticed? I ask because my electrical consumption is relatively constant. I come home, turn on the TV, make di
238.
by physcab 14y ago
Safety isn't as much determined by your aspirations, as it is by your record. 37% failure is an acceptable milestone considering all the SpaceX has achieved in its short lifetime, but I doubt would satisfy NASA's safety regulations for huma
239.
by physcab 14y ago
This is a pretty important observation. I will applaud SpaceX for their efforts as well, but there is a massive difference between transporting cargo into space and human beings. SpaceX claims their transport is cheaper but they have not
240.
by physcab 14y ago
I agree. The hackers will only be a small percentage of your user base (guessing <=5%), if you have a problem at all. This issue is more problematic if you track revenue metrics, and so JB users may inflate your numbers considerably, if

More ›