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by rwhitman 12y ago
I've always thought it sounds extremely complicated. I've worked in vision / product / design on peer-to-peer social ecommerce marketplaces and getting the supply / demand right for an organicly viable marketplace l
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You could see the listings sitting around in the marketplace for extended periods of time if you browse a bit. And I never used it because I didn't like that I had to guess how much the job was worth. It was clear that something in the
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by rwhitman 12y ago
Kind of surprising it took so long to figure out and optimize. As an outsider it always kind of smelled to me like their marketplace was flawed, even back several years ago when I first saw it.
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by rwhitman 12y ago
Folks miss out on why major cultural centers attract people. In history it was because of the opportunities from ports and trade, today its still pretty much the same. Pittsburgh is not currently an airline hub for any airline. Meaning if y
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by rwhitman 12y ago
Interesting - thats the most compelling part and it looks like they missed highlighting that completely on the landing page.
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by rwhitman 12y ago
I really wish there was a way to plug my iPhone into my car screen (2007 Prius) in a way that I could leverage Google Maps or Apple Maps on the primary screen instead of the phone screen. The GPS in this car is convoluted and broken, the Ga
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by rwhitman 12y ago
I second having roommates. I'm terrible at meeting new friends but have pretty substantial social networks stemming from random roommates off of Craigslist. The best man at my wedding was a Craigslist roommate, who was very much a soci
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by rwhitman 12y ago
The connections you're going to get out of the comments on this HN thread will probably be a huge gift to your dad. You're a good kid.
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What is a software environment?(ronwhitman.com)
1 points by rwhitman 12y ago|0 comments
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I wrote this. I'm trying to start a blog series communicating the ways of the software engineer to non-tech folks. Not sure where to distribute this other than HN at the moment or how to find an audience for the subject matter, if anyo
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"It Doesn’t Work" and the Art of Reporting Bugs(ronwhitman.com)
3 points by rwhitman 12y ago|1 comments
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I wonder if there are other use cases for a little iPad augmented reality app on a stand beyond kids stuff
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by rwhitman 12y ago
Interesting, I've been working with my teams like this for years, never had a name for it though. But it makes sense for my context of very tiny teams of all remote people, I can see where losing the scrums could cause issues with larg
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by rwhitman 12y ago
I've found a lot of these tend to be blog-centric, which seems odd to me considering the primary use case I've found with static site generators (Punch in my case) has been creating one-off content sites for clients in scenarios w
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by rwhitman 12y ago
What Beats has in its corner, that Spotify doesn't, is a favorable relationship with the music industry, particularly the artists themselves. I've never used Beats streaming service but I was aware of it because of musicians like
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by rwhitman 12y ago
I attended the grand opening of the first Ikea in the USA in Plymouth Meeting PA as a little kid. (The chart says Conshohocken, thats actually a new store they opened recently) Because my mom is British she knew what it was already and was
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by rwhitman 12y ago
I did work for a very security-minded HR outsourcing company on an html site to be used on a public kiosk and we also disabled paste via javascript for the same reason - to prevent a user from being able to paste in a previous user's p
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by rwhitman 12y ago
Deleted my comment but I just realized why we did this - The product I was working on was to be used on a shared public browser / kiosk. The reason was to prevent one user from pasting in the previous user's password.
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by rwhitman 12y ago
This - I just realized the thing I was working on was supposed to be used in a public setting.
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by rwhitman 12y ago
Great book on the cars-first disaster of urban planning that I read years ago if you're interested: http://www.amazon.com/The-Geography-Nowhere-Americas-Landsca...
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by rwhitman 12y ago
Opening in Chrome Incognito mode and stripping all URL params lets you read the article w/o the paywall modal. It used to be if you simply stripped out the URL parameter you could read the article which does not work anymore. Did some
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I've been waiting for this feature to come about. I have to admit I've often taken a spin around street view in urban areas where there was major upheaval (devastation, rapid gentrification) and zoomed up and down streets hoping t
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I've never seen a study correlating the rise and ubiquity of video games with the drop in crime. Before video games, bored young males ran around the neighborhood making mayhem. Today they sit in front of an xbox. I personally think th
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by rwhitman 13y ago
If the idea of all out bidding wars over candidates sight unseen catches on, what would it do to the economics of startups and tech workers? Seems like it could either inflate salaries to levels unattainable by early stage startups or on th
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I've worked with a lot of companies as a consultant (or founder or product manager), and generally have to dip various PM tools and workflows regularly. Every company is different and even using the same tools, can have completely diff
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I'm still dizzy
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A few years back I got frustrated with Quickbooks, and signed up for Outright because it was SAAS and brought in all my accounts automatically, but it languished then got bought by Godaddy who turned it into the equally-stunted Godaddy Book
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by rwhitman 13y ago
I've been suspicious that the "changed at Ellis Island" story may be more of an urban legend. My family was always told that was the case, and then we found records proving my great grandparents changed their name years after
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by rwhitman 13y ago
This is such a necessary service. I had a client where we banged our heads against the wall trying to automate this - we basically had to hire someone specifically to put these together every week.
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I bought it when the Ames department store was having their final liquidation sale, the only friggin thing left in the entire store the day before closing was a pile of the E.T. game on an otherwise empty shelf marked down to a dollar or so

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