russjhammond

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by russjhammond 12y ago
Agreed. As a few individuals have really make some big impacts I have been sure to thank them personally for working hard and helping us hit our date. I intend to thank the team publicly as well once we are live but I guess I was looking
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Ask HN: Good way to recognize and reward team members?
6 points by russjhammond 12y ago|15 comments
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by russjhammond 13y ago
At ( http://myheatmap.com ) we were sweating whether we were violating Google Maps API terms. So we decided to implement Mapbox and haven't looked back.
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by russjhammond 13y ago
I use mine to research all the conferences & trade shows for the upcoming year that I might want to go to. They find out the price to sponsor as well as the price to attend. They even go as far to look for flight and hotel costs.
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by russjhammond 13y ago
I do use the 1.5x feature but save that for the podcasts I actually listen to. By reading the transcripts I can "monitor" 3-5 weekly, hour long podcasts in 15 minutes. As for the card, yes I use an AMEX Platinum but believe Visa
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by russjhammond 13y ago
The best advantage I have found with our VA is having them listen to all the podcasts I want to listen to, summarize the articles and send me the transcript. Then I can skim in 30 seconds what use to take me 45-60 minutes to listen to. Als
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Ask HN: Your favorite quarterly analyst calls?
3 points by russjhammond 14y ago|0 comments
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by russjhammond 14y ago
No, but looking for something accessible to anyone.
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Ask HN: Where do you get your non-mass media news from?
4 points by russjhammond 14y ago|2 comments
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by russjhammond 14y ago
One trick they used which I know well is booking one leg of the flight to a ghost or hidden city. For example my outbound flight was CLT>PHL>LGA. Not always the case but there are certain routes where it is cheaper to add a 2nd le
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by russjhammond 14y ago
I used them for a trip this past weekend just to get from CLT-PHL, a route I thought I knew every trick to flying. They saved me between $75-$100 for that simple flight.
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by russjhammond 15y ago
The Lean Startup is good but I found Running Lean to be much more tactical. Plus the guy who wrote it, Ash seems to be very active in providing content beyond the book in his newsletters, blog posts, and his Lean Canvas.
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by russjhammond 15y ago
I just started reading Code and think as a fellow non-technical person this is a great lace to start.
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by russjhammond 15y ago
Get a 2nd job. For two years while I had a 100% telecommute job I worked as a white water raft guide and a ski instructor. They started as just on the weekend but before long I was working my 2nd job 4 days a week. Incidentally, I did my be
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by russjhammond 15y ago
How many users/customers we talk to each week. The higher that number gets, the more momentum we feel and the less we feel like we are lost in the woods.
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by russjhammond 15y ago
Healthy food in an airport.
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by russjhammond 15y ago
From your experience are there any new types of tasks you see on the horizon other than just the standard photo tagging, text recognition, etc?
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by russjhammond 15y ago
Bills - Make sure every bill you have is sent to you paperless. Some banks and other firms have to send you paper statements until you ask for it to be paperless. Mail - Checkout Earth Class Mail which receives and scans your mail and even
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by russjhammond 15y ago
Not quite pure coding but I have certainly started dabbling with automator on my Mac. My favorite one so far is the special folder I setup on my desktop that automatically prints anything that gets dragged into it. This becomes very usefu
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by russjhammond 15y ago
A non-technical trick I learned was to try to send emails 10am local time of the recipient, Tuesday thru Thursday. I found this was the time I was most likely to get a response because most people don't like responding on the weekends to n
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by russjhammond 15y ago
Batch delivery, except for urgent messages. I like to get my email like my snail mail, all at once.
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by russjhammond 15y ago
Interactive map showing the locations of those using #ThankYouSteveJobsFor http://www.myheatmap.com/maps/iN5Nuwh2H3g=
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by russjhammond 15y ago
http://www.myheatmap.com/ Charlotte, NC (but the internship could be done virtually) Unpaid 3-6 month internship We need research to find data sets that show off the capability of our service. Ideally we would like you to write blog posts
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by russjhammond 15y ago
Here is a heat map of the location of @ mentions for @jonathanscard, which for the most part is the location of those that have added funds to the card. http://www.myheatmap.com/maps/b2Pqu0EGSgs=
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by russjhammond 15y ago
Side project while I finish up my MBA but hope to build enough momentum by the time I am done to jump full time into it.
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by russjhammond 15y ago
What companies came to mind when you saw the site?
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by russjhammond 15y ago
You should be able to use the normal Google Map zoom in/out slider on the left side of the map. It should work just like a normal map.
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by russjhammond 15y ago
Clickable link: http://www.myheatmap.com
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by russjhammond 15y ago
Thats partially how the site came about, we were looking for an easier way to make heatmaps that could: 1. Be made without some large enterprise software solution 2. Could easily be shared on Facebook or a blog with embedding 3. Loaded fast
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Ask HN: Rate our startup - myHeatmap
10 points by russjhammond 15y ago|12 comments

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