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   by sheraz 11y ago

   I think it is purely cultural. However, I do not believe that political leanings have much to do with it. Take Texas for example. Houston is the energy capital of the world -- and it is quite conservative in comparison to California. Though
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   by sheraz 11y ago

   Title is misleading. Please add "per capita" !!! Stockholm is so over-hyped. Yes, there is a lot of engineering culture, but there is so little risk capital available at the bottom is it truly laughable. Furthermore, I don't
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   by sheraz 11y ago

   Just because your search results show that you are first does not mean they are first for everyone else. You can limit your ads shown by geography, time of time, and some other factors...
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   by sheraz 11y ago

   Even when we were spending 50K USD/month on Adwords it was difficult to get Google to answer emails in a timely manner. That said, we were able to get results -- it takes time and a ton of persistence.
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   by sheraz 11y ago

   Not true. Brands can prevent others from marketing on their trademarked terms such as brand name and product names [1]. Unfortunately this is not automatic from Google. Whether or not brands choose to chase this down is on their own time. [
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   by sheraz 11y ago

   It depends on what you are building. I try to start every project as a mvp. Minimum features minimum screens minimum and short delivery dates. For mvps we usually take it from whiteboards to google presentations. We literally paste in a pho
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   by sheraz 11y ago

   SEEKING WORK - REMOTE or Stockholm, Sweden - US Citizen / SE Perm resident Portfolio: http://www.m3b.net/?ref=hn-freelancer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fullstackentrepreneur Entrepreneur
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   by sheraz 11y ago

   Reminds me of that TV show called Black mirror [1]. Such and odd sentence that I think this is life imitating art. [1] - http://m.imdb.com/title/tt2085059/
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   by sheraz 11y ago

   Interesting problem. I would start looking at things like natural language processing, machine learning, and maybe even solr / elastic search. also, I would look into various saas offerings out there (monkeylearn, and others)
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    Doubtful. More likely just part of the running joke the oil's source could not be verified -- they did not want to be tied a potential purchase of ISIS-controlled oil.
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    Pat, I've been itching to get started on the Android version for delivery before the end of year. I should also mention that we are constantly adding locations. Where in Canada would be most helpful for you?
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    SEEKING WORK - REMOTE or Stockholm, Sweden - US Citizen / SE Perm resident Portfolio: http://www.m3b.net/?ref=hn-freelancer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fullstackentrepreneur Entrepreneur
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    Thanks! Just two of us. I'm the only technical one. We do a lot of scraping and automation where possible which is how we scale the data side of things. However we are still doing things that don't scale. One of those things is st
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    1. HelloAviva ( http://helloaviva.com/?ref=hn ) - Niche app for new parents that helps them feel less isolated in their new context. Shows them the places they can go in town with stroller / small baby. 2. Had a kid and
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    Wow - it looks like very Steampunk with all those valves and ports.
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    This Ask HN just kicked me to write up something that I've been wanting to test for a while [1]. Basically, I write back a canned response[2] and forget about it. If they write back then we move forward. [1] - https://medium
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    Show HN: Feedback on my freelance dev portfolio?

    2 points by sheraz 11y ago|1 comments
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    CTO by day (apps and search) http://helloaviva.com - By night I work on a niche app for city-parents to find changing tables, nursing rooms, and play areas http://www.3cosystem.com - where I map out all the tech and
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    Those refugees are crossing over land into Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and anywhere they can find. Don't assume that all Swedes are just happily opening their doors and pocketbooks to this influx. And as for Swedish student debt, also pl
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    Yes. A good CI will blow up any malicious pull requests provided you are using a compiled language. Or if interpreted, you need sufficient code coverage that your tests will blow up
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    Life has lasting consequences. Bikes, skateboarding, and all the dumb shit kids do. A little blood never hurt. And I would not be the person I know and love today without some scars (both emotional and physical), head injuries , kitchen mi
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    wouldn't you end up with the 'xn--' ascii expansion in the url window?
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    There is a special place in hell for anyone doing this. I'm going to watch this repo and blacklist pull requests from anyone who forks it :-)
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    This. This. This. Even if you lose a fight, bullies will think twice about going a second round with someone who actually fights back. It was a jungle when I was growing up. And it is a jungle today. It is unfortunate that zero-tolerance po
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    I'm on a project at the moment where google spreadsheets is the starting point for all content that goes into our database. Steps go something like this: 1. Scrape data from various places into CSV 2. Import CSV to google sheets 3. M
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    This is a side project the GF and I have been working on the last few months. We started testing an early web-only prototype this summer and have since put an app in the app store. If this app is relevant to you we would love your feedback.
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    Show HN: An app for urbanite parents with small children(helloaviva.com)

    4 points by sheraz 11y ago|1 comments
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    I don't have anything public, but I have been exploring strategies for gluing together different tech in order to accomplish our goals. Latest stack has been: - wget / wpull / heretrix to produce .warcs across a single domain
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    I don't know that I would go head-to-head with Google in crawling the entire web. However, I do see a lot of opportunities for "vertical search." That is -- search engines focused on specific, niche verticals (travel, healthc
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    by sheraz 11y ago

    I've also been playing with Scaleway's ARM servers for a scraping project and to learn more about distributed computing. (details here in other HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10371316 ) I've b