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Hipmunk is Hiring a Web Engineer.(hipmunk.com)
10 points by spez 16y ago
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by spez 16y ago
What?!? I challenge you to cheat something up successfully on reddit.
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by spez 16y ago
A ton of people request this. We're working on it.
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by spez 16y ago
Favorite feedback of the day! Something that both makes sense AND is easy to do.
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by spez 16y ago
The good news is most of our work is done client-side, which scales quite nicely.
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by spez 16y ago
Similar visualization, but totally different products. I think the most important feature we have is that we remove about 80% of results from listings because they're totally redundant. We also have draggable time sliders, instant sorting,
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by spez 16y ago
It's built entirely of secret sauce, incidentally. And Python.
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by spez 16y ago
CNN contacted us, but we launched with a fair amount of press from people we had relationships with (e.g. techcrunch, reddit), which is probably what led them to us.
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by spez 16y ago
It's just a custom Server header.
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by spez 16y ago
The visualization, yes, but there's a lot more to what we're doing than that. Better sorting, pruning out dominated flights (80% of results), trains, and time sliders, for example.
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by spez 16y ago
ITA is awesome, but their value isn't their interface so much as they supply the fare/availability data to practically everyone (Kayak, Orbitz, fly.com, and us, through via Orbitz).
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by spez 16y ago
If Dropbox doesn't want their questions answered, they shouldn't harangue people for up-votes.
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by spez 16y ago
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by spez 18y ago
A "top" link is a link that has been the hottest link on all of reddit at some point. There isn't really an analogous concept on Digg since there is no notion of hottness and links don't rise and fall. Links just appear at the top of the fr
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by spez 18y ago
Over the last week, 6% of the top stories were submitted by top-10 users on reddit.
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by spez 18y ago
Did you just make that up? We give data away all the time.
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by spez 19y ago
-- "almost everything" is a bit of an overstatement, I think. Well the rest of the Internet disagrees with you. --would be more accurate. Yet you continue to claim reddit doesn't "validate input in any text boxes on the site." --creator of
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by spez 19y ago
As I've mentioned on reddit, almost everything this fellow wrote is false. news.YC isn't based on reddit Any text that comes from users and gets redisplayed is checked. The actual bug was that we allowed javascript: links to be generated by
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by spez 20y ago
Welcome back, Randall
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by spez 20y ago
perhaps if i hadn't told you it was coming http://lipstick.com/static/onlyforamoment.png
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by spez 20y ago
winnar winnar chicken dinnar!
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by spez 20y ago
Stay tuned...
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Google Acquires YouTube For $1.6B(google.com)
12 points by spez 20y ago|0 comments