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by shazow 16y ago
By pure coincidence, my friend @rtlechow had the exact same idea and wrote a webapp for it: http://monothorpe.com/
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by shazow 16y ago
I tried variations of the documented queries, couldn't get anything working. Specifically I was trying to do "in toronto, not ruby". :P
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by shazow 16y ago
Yea I found huge variation in results depending on location+language combination. Would love to see a visualization of that.
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87 points by shazow 16y ago|31 comments
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by shazow 16y ago
I'll launch http://socialgrapple.com/ Track anyone's Twitter social graph over time.
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by shazow 16y ago
Some. Hard to judge, but I guess hopping around between jobs for the best salary/perks is a sign. Google does a thorough job placing monetary incentives on heroic effort. Not sure if those avenues are ever targeted by these people though.
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by shazow 16y ago
I don't have many friends at Facebook, but my several friends at Google are all plenty concerned with nice cars, nice house, meals @ the French Laundry.
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by shazow 16y ago
Nice, I think I might have played in the same provincial tournament (Ontario). Tied for 2nd in the Intermediate devision when I was in highschool. That particular tournament took place in Trent University. (I'm shazow on Chess With Friends!
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by shazow 16y ago
I've had a very similar experience with Rackspacecloud (makes sense since they're the same company as Slicehost now): Incredibly slow control panel, features sometimes work and sometimes don't, useless tech support (took 5 days to point our
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by shazow 16y ago
There are numerous cases where lack of semicolons create ambiguous code which introduces bugs. Here are some: http://gist.github.com/612814 Edit: Er, tried to paste code in-line but formatting got messed up.
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by shazow 16y ago
Sounds more like "How I built, refined, and publicized a free trial of my product for months, then released the paid version in 3 hours."
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by shazow 16y ago
I'm with you. If I was using Sequel, I'd call it Sequel. Alas, I'm using SQL, so I call it S-Q-L.
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by shazow 16y ago
If you're ready to do your startup, then do it. Start building it today, have something to show in a couple of weeks, measure progress and success. If it doesn't work out and you need some time to regroup, go to school then. Educational ins
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by shazow 16y ago
You're right. I compare the Cabot campaign to a glorified Facebook fan page with the added engagement of people doing things in real life around the Cabot brand. Lots more to move on from there. As I mention in another thread, we're working
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by shazow 16y ago
Is it really that trendy? We're trying to move online behaviour to real life. This is something that hasn't been done much, short of Groupon. But definitely hasn't been done much in the name of healthy actions. Our next step is to build in
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by shazow 16y ago
Should be fixed now, give it a try?
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by shazow 16y ago
Damn, I'm on it. Update: Should be fixed now. Give it a try?
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by shazow 16y ago
I don't necessarily agree with all the points, but this was definitely an amusing post to read. I think your feelings towards NYC are very similar with mine towards Toronto. Both cities are very similar, holding for the density ratio (NYC i
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by shazow 16y ago
Product changes more frequently than the team or culture.
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by shazow 16y ago
The reality of an applicant is that there is extremely little information about a startup and its reputation, and what little there is is almost always identical to every other startup (free food, have an impact, big challenges, blah blah b
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by shazow 16y ago
Not necessarily hundreds of times. My understanding of HireHive's model is that you could film yourself answering a set of questions once and include it in multiple similar job applications (at least some day). I look at video as a substitu
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by shazow 16y ago
+1 Tracy worked with us on http://getupandmove.me/ and handled our really tough design direction and came out with great creative solutions like a champ. More importantly, she delivered reliably and quickly, unlike many who talk and talk
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by shazow 16y ago
If you stick with normalized data (add up to 100%), though a pie chart may be visually appealing, I'd still go with a sorted bar graph. I always look for the most prevalent effect or two, and it takes me a couple of moments to maneuver arou
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by shazow 16y ago
This is the coolest point to me: "GridCentric enables on-demand scale by distributing virtual machine state to hundreds of processors in seconds." Or more specifically, the concept of being able to "fork a VM into hundreds of instances in s
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by shazow 16y ago
Tineye.com, for those who have heard of it, also uses PostgreSQL (I set it up). It is mostly a KV store with a metadata join, but it's +1.5 billion rows returning +10 random uncached rows in <100ms. Originally we used MySQL, which revea
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by shazow 16y ago
Oh man, RhodiumToad on #postgres totally saved my ass a couple of times like 2 years ago. Good times.
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by shazow 16y ago
Completely agree. I totally think this is the right way to do it, and I really hope we can sustain that model. At the very least, it'll be awesome while it lasts. :)
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by shazow 16y ago
No exploitation is necessary if it just so happens you have a common interest. There's a lot of people who want to do a startup but don't know how: How do you make deals? How do you raise money? How do you hire? One way to learn is to go of
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by shazow 16y ago
They do. Many institutional angel investors have their own job boards, especially since they hold dozens of companies in their portfolios: http://www.ventureloop.com/foundersfund/ http://www.felicisvc.com/jobs.aspx Smaller individual an
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88 points by shazow 16y ago|27 comments

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