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by tansey 16y ago
I mean the barrier to entry has been lowered drastically. I used to do my projects in Rails because I didn't want to go through the hell of renting and setting up a server for ASP.NET. Also, MVC 3 has really flattened the learning curve and
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by tansey 16y ago
> was invited to Redmond to meet the dev teams as part of an early adopter program. I think that's the problem I see with Azure. AppHarbor needs no early adopter program. It's great for the same reason that Heroku and Rails were great f
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by tansey 16y ago
Fair enough. I changed the link to the "don't hire .NET programmers" article. I stand by the rest of the references, though. All the guys I mention in my last point are as much hackers as anyone I've ever met or worked with.
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by tansey 16y ago
> Actual coding-wise, ASP.NET MVC is closer to WebForms than Rails. How so? I've never worked with WebForms, but I have done a few Rails projects. I don't see any real differences except for ActiveRecord, which does have a .NET port: h
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Building a Startup - Defending .NET(nashcoding.com)
84 points by tansey 16y ago|87 comments
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by tansey 16y ago
If coding is not for everyone, then maybe technology-based startups aren't for everyone. If all you are bringing to the table is an idea and a business degree, then I will absolutely tell you that you need to learn coding. The video is 4 co
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On the folly of asking the same question once(etilevich.wordpress.com)
7 points by tansey 16y ago|2 comments
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by tansey 16y ago
There's hardly any configuration with AppHarbor. I've launched several projects on it already and it is as easy as Heroku. On the other hand, Azure requires a lot of application customization and configuration. So you can think of AppHarbor
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by tansey 16y ago
I have some trading models and financial tools that I license. They're currently generating about $200/month, but I'm expecting that to increase within a year. I'm also working on an iPhone game with two of my roommates right now that I'm h
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by tansey 16y ago
They can probably charge a premium to the short term guests.
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by tansey 16y ago
I could see how someone in June 1989 could think this. At that point, the Nikkei was around 33,000-- nearly its all-time peak. Japan was a huge bubble and people believed it was going to be the biggest economy in the world soon. Within 18 m
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by tansey 16y ago
No it's not... it's not even at a 2 year low.[1] [1] http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^N225+Interactive#chart2:...
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by tansey 16y ago
He graduated in 2008, so he's only ~23, and it's his first conference. I think he did a good job for his inexperience. It takes time to learn to calm down on stage and stay composed.
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by tansey 16y ago
Awesome... can I have a beta invite? :)
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by tansey 16y ago
Exactly. For instance, if a user is typing in a blog post, right now the flow would be: 1) User submits post 2) I create a page for their post 3) I call your API to analyze the page 4) I update the page with the auto-tags 5) I redirect the
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by tansey 16y ago
I really like this. You guys should really open up a tagging API. As a developer working on a social site, I'd love to be able to auto-tag content that users upload.
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by tansey 16y ago
There were only a handful of Paypal founders and virtually all were extremely successful. There were 3,021 pre-IPO Google employees [1]. Seems like an unfair comparison. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
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by tansey 16y ago
I appreciate the practical aspects of the author's post. Too often on mailing lists for various machine learning groups, a novice will ask if they can "just apply [technique] to [big problem]"; usually something like stock trading or DNA an
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by tansey 16y ago
It wasn't quite that simple. Yes I'd heard of it, but I didn't know how to randomly sample from a Gaussian distribution, nor why it was necessary to use it in the algorithm I was working on ("why can't I just sample from a uniform distribut
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by tansey 16y ago
When I first graduated from college, I took an R&D position doing financial modeling. Multiple times a day, I would walk into my boss's office to tell him I had no idea how to implement the next part. He would start to explain and then
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by tansey 16y ago
$50/hr is VERY cheap. A decent developer in the Bay Area really should be charging at least $100/hr-- otherwise, they can just get a job and make more with less risk. Seriously good developers can charge upwards of $300.
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by tansey 16y ago
I can't help but feel like HN is getting trolled here. There is simply no way someone who has done a startup and has experience in all the listed technologies cannot find any job in the Bay Area. Spend a couple days at the Hacker Dojo in Mo
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by tansey 16y ago
Why does it always have to be "bubble or correct valuations"? Can't it just be a somewhat overbought market?
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Don’t you dare compare surgeons and programmers(etilevich.wordpress.com)
3 points by tansey 16y ago|1 comments
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by tansey 16y ago
Absolutely Rob. Happy to collaborate also, if you're interested. Out of curiosity, what is lettur implemented in?
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by tansey 16y ago
Thanks for the tip. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the name personally. My co-founder picked it and had the initial code already started when I met him, so we just went with it.
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by tansey 16y ago
I wasn't trying to say he should have heard of it. Sorry if it came off that way. I was actually honestly asking if he had any different features, since I was on my iPhone at the time and didn't have time to check out the site.
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by tansey 16y ago
Steve Blank gave a great presentation at WealthFront the other day. One poignant quote: "There are about 50 or 60 people in this room right now. About 4 to 5 of you will make 10 million dollars; one of you will probably make 100 million. Th
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by tansey 16y ago
So... it's just like thrsti? (www.thrsti.com) Full disclosure - I am helping with thrsti, we are deploying a ton of new features over the coming weeks, but lettur seems very similar to our initial release. It's very interesting what people
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by tansey 16y ago
I think I may be the only person on HN (besides Dave himself) who actually enjoys his writing style. Then again, I grew up on the East coast playing poker and basketball everyday, so smack talk is second nature to me. Most people in the Bay

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