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by raffi 18y ago
Government job isn't all bad. For folks like us there are many opportunities. Do you want graduate school paid for? Scholarship for service is a great program. I know the lab I was at would give civilians the options to spend 2 years in
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by raffi 18y ago
I worked for the Air Force Research Lab once as an intern and later while in a uniform. And now I'm jumping into the startup world. Here are my thoughts: 1. If you're in a hot research area--the feeling of being a part of something bigger
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by raffi 18y ago
I thought this was funny, I'm surprised it was downmoded so much. Granted it isn't as relevant as other high thoughts expressed on news.yc--such as the history of bagels. But... still funny.
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by raffi 18y ago
I switched from Linux to OS X several years ago. I tend to live on the command line so my experience is a bit different. First, I installed Fink which brings dselect and friends to MacOS X. Fink let me install all the packages from Linux
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by raffi 18y ago
PG should also read The Third Wave by Alvin Toeffler. This sounds very much like his thinking.
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Ask YC: Your experience w/ cross domain AJAX and SaaS?
2 points by raffi 18y ago|0 comments
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by raffi 18y ago
I'm learning this very fast (and the hard way unfortunately). I launched two technically deep projects to no response. Then I spent a week putting together a hack and people started buying.
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by raffi 18y ago
The value proposition is ease of use. Feedback Army manages the whole process and makes results available via RSS. For someone who has never used Mechanical Turk, Feedback Army is a low risk way to try things out. I pay the Turkers prett
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by raffi 18y ago
Not yet. You're not the first to ask for this feature. The demographics of the reviewers are slightly more women then men, mostly 20-30 year olds, and over half have college degrees.
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by raffi 18y ago
It is a dupe but you have no idea how much I love you for it.
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by raffi 18y ago
I was worried about this too. I honestly had no idea what to expect when I first built the software. Then I ran it against my own sites and I started seeing very thoughtful feedback. This is when I felt I had something. I also posed ques
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by raffi 18y ago
Hi there, I address this on the site FAQ. I'm delivering value by making the process to post a request simple and making the results easy to get via an RSS feed. I also do this for a low margin. If someone wants to go to Amazon directly
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by raffi 18y ago
Typical tasks may go for $.02-$.05. I pay the workers much more than that. I experimented with different levels of payment prior to launch and had to offer more than I expected but my customers are receiving quality results, very quickly.
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by raffi 18y ago
The initial customers of Feedback Army seem to be folks with niche websites. The kind of stuff HN would probably flag if it were posted here. Also some folks aren't as plugged into an online community and may be uncomfortable posting ther
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by raffi 18y ago
Yes. University of Phoenix. Err... wait, you want someone with PhD level knowledge? Can't help you there.
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by raffi 18y ago
Show some respect during the interview process. Possibly make their point of contact an engineer rather than an HR person. I interviewed with a company that had a technical recruiter who knew technology and I was very impressed by them fo
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by raffi 18y ago
I was doing some work this past summer trying to extract good feature sets from job ads so users could train a neural network to help filter through ads. I see there are a lot of sites that to do something for employers but its good to see
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by raffi 18y ago
Thanks for the encouragement. I've been meaning to play with mechanical turk for awhile and this seemed like a good idea. I'm going to hire a professional and get a snappy design going as quick as possible.
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by raffi 18y ago
We'll see what happens. I'm watching everyones results like a hawk right now too. You may see a few responses at night (someone who just did a request already has 2) but I find its during the day when they come the quickest. If you're int
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by raffi 18y ago
<3 I can't disagree with what you're saying. My design skills are weak but I wanted to validate the concept first. Today I've seen enough interest to validate moving forward with the project. I'm going to invest in a site facelift to
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by raffi 18y ago
Thanks. This is a pretty new project for me (< 2 weeks old) following the release early, release often mentality. I've seen enough interest to validate the idea and so I'm reaching out to a few designers I know to get a proper face li
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by raffi 18y ago
Lets assume you've never posted a job to Mechanical Turk before. Here is what you need to do: 1. Create an Amazon Web Services account 2. Figure out how much you want to spend (and don't forget to calculate Amazon's share) 3. Prepay the exa
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by raffi 18y ago
Actually the idea came from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362459
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by raffi 18y ago
it does (see the questions page)
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FeedbackArmy.com - simple, cheap usability testing for your site(feedbackarmy.com)
37 points by raffi 18y ago|24 comments
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by raffi 18y ago
FYI, I've already done this. I started the project last week and am still testing it (it works though). http://www.feedbackarmy.com/ Visit the site, give it your URL and some specifics to focus on, dump a credit card number into paypal,
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by raffi 18y ago
I had lots of interest with a 2 page resume but found restricting myself to 1 page forced me to hit the high notes and focus on what message I want to send. I found this necessary when an employer put me through a 5 hour interview for a web
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by raffi 18y ago
I'm a fan of lightweight processes. I really recommend reading the following: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.... Threads are a seemingly straightforward adaptation of the dominant sequential model of computat
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by raffi 18y ago
An ISBN doesn't mean much. Anyone can get one for free from createspace.com. I liked getting real and bought a hard copy on a recommendation even with the free PDF available.
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by raffi 18y ago
I got bit by this when writing Sleep. I had to write my own LinkedList class that implemented a sublist as a head/tail pointer sharing the contents of the parent list. Creation of the sublist is O(n) but other operations are O(m) based on

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