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by rsbrown 15y ago
We are actively seeking additional investors to help us open our first location. We have commitments from local investors that have us 25% towards our fundraising goal. I have yet to seriously pitch any investors outside the mid-south, whic
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Show HN: Ernie's, Click & Collect Groceries(erniesgrocery.com)
71 points by rsbrown 15y ago|60 comments
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by rsbrown 15y ago
Absolutely. A much more compelling story of customer service. An extemporaneous act done without extravagant giveaways or lavish incentives. And the outcome? Pure magic.
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by rsbrown 15y ago
Very light reading, but all the same an excellent overview of MongoDB, Redis and Cassandra. Well done.
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by rsbrown 15y ago
It's been clear for some time now that, among top developers, Github has started replacing the resume. Work for Pie seems like a convenient way of getting -- at a glance -- an idea of the quality of a developer's Github profile.
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Work for Pie: A Github/HN/SO Metascore for Developers(workforpie.com)
11 points by rsbrown 15y ago|9 comments
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by rsbrown 15y ago
Implementing a 24-hour customer service phone line for their host partners immediately puts Airbnb head-and-shoulders above eBay and PayPal in the trust and reliability department.
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by rsbrown 15y ago
I was very surprised to read your comment. Mainly because I also received a very negative first impression from his profile photo, but I thought it was just me. The post itself was great. Since Airbnb is mostly waging a battle of perception
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by rsbrown 15y ago
Buffett wasn't suggesting we mandate a balanced budget, simply a cap on deficit spending proportional to the nation's GDP.
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by rsbrown 15y ago
... no experience in the current system, that is. This proposal would change that system dramatically. Upending congress might be tumultuous, but compared to bankrupting the nation it still counts as the lesser of two evils.
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by rsbrown 15y ago
Yep, the full stack is all javascript running on node.js and websockets. We used SoundManager 2 for the audio: http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2
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by rsbrown 15y ago
You're welcome. Great work so far, by the way. I really like the interface. A group of friends and I built a small HTML5 game prototype as part of a weekend hackathon a few months ago: http://diluvia.com We haven't worked on it since the
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by rsbrown 15y ago
To the author: you mention determination as one of the keys to success. Strongly agreed. If you want Flax to be successful, then stick with it and continue providing timely updates and support. Don't waste time worrying about whether each r
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by rsbrown 15y ago
Very interesting to see the detailed stats on the impact this had. I'm hopeful we get to see the follow-up post soon: "Being frontpaged on Hacker News"
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by rsbrown 15y ago
This article brings to mind what I dislike about the modern game industry. First off, what is a game? Let's consider two broad types of games: competitive games and puzzle games. Competitive games (like chess) feature more than one player a
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by rsbrown 15y ago
Feature request: show the current playlist entry in the page title. I have your site running in a background tab and I want to quickly glance up and see the song name without switching tabs.
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by rsbrown 15y ago
Huh. That was one of the quickest "how fuckin' stupid" => "how fuckin' brilliant" turnarounds my brain has experienced. Nice work.
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by rsbrown 15y ago
"American society doesn't need any city" I agree that American society doesn't need any one particular city, but we do need a healthy ecosystem of urban areas. My question is: are the smaller, lower-tier cities necessary in order to have th
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by rsbrown 15y ago
I live in Memphis, TN (a couple of hours northwest of Tupelo, MS). I moved back to Memphis in 2008 after a couple of years in San Jose working for the Paypal and Microplace divisions of eBay. One of the reasons for moving back was to have a
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by rsbrown 15y ago
I went an octave up: http://goo.gl/doodle/4Bq1
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by rsbrown 15y ago
The road to hellish user experience is paved with good intentions. While I appreciate the senator's intent, this is a ham fisted approach to solving the problem.
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by rsbrown 15y ago
Rails has been using prototype/scriptaculous up to now.
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by rsbrown 15y ago
Finally. As "opinionated software", the success of Rails depends on neatly slotting into the well-worn groove of best practices adopted by its user base. Like it or not, jQuery has filled that role nicely for client-side javascript for quit
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by rsbrown 15y ago
Wow, I see the Mac, Amiga and other next gen UIs that came soon afterwards in these. I'm also struck by how much more appealing these screenshots appear than the early versions of Microsoft Windows.
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by rsbrown 15y ago
I understand the sentiment behind this grousing, but I do not understand the practical value of voicing this cynicism. Surely you don't think reports like this should never be produced and disseminated? Don't get me wrong, I strongly want t
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by rsbrown 15y ago
Beware the results of polls such as this. Any time change is introduced, we know that some people will naturally react negatively. When asked what they prefer, people will often give an explicit response even though their "espoused theory"
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by rsbrown 15y ago
Jut DL'ed and played for a few minutes. I really like it, but there were issues with lag and general UI responsiveness. Though very rough, I'm excited about the potential for this one.
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by rsbrown 15y ago
To be fair, the author does not claim that the XOR patent was to blame for Commodore's demise. Rather, the claim is that: 1) Management "bet the farm" on CD32. 2) XOR patent infringement claims killed CD32. 3) The failure of the CD32 produc
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by rsbrown 16y ago
There's a lot of armchair speculating going on about this. What I love about this guy's mission (and why I'm rooting for him) is because he is simply and intensely applying a theory. Succeed or fail, he won't prove (or disprove) the theory,
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by rsbrown 16y ago
This article is about someone committing to practicing "six hours a day, six days a week, for six years". Are you sure your "guy in UK" story is analogous? He actually committed 10,000 hours to the mission not once but twice?

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