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by tt 16y ago
I've been on HN for years, but hardly comment due to a busy day job. Three weeks ago, I decided to quit the day job and focus on Munchery full time. It's super exciting to say the least!
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Review my startup Munchery, solving "What's for dinner?"
48 points by tt 16y ago|26 comments
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by tt 16y ago
This is likely to be a political battle between the progressive members of the Board of Sup and what former Mayor Newsom had apparently set up with Twitter. Newsom had always focused on developing and growing high tech companies in SF to in
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by tt 16y ago
There's a saying in Vietnamese culture that goes along the line of "Compatible husband and wife can empty the Pacific." I live by that.
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by tt 16y ago
We are working on a startup that directly solves this problem of needing to eat healthy food, yet too busy to cook, and too tired to order or eat out. See http://gomunchery.com
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by tt 16y ago
Back when I was an intern at IBM in upstate NY, I often drove between Boston and NY late at night. There was no cars in sight in the early hours of the night for certain parts of hwy 84 and 684. No cell phones back then either. I periodical
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by tt 16y ago
I would pay $10 to $15 a meal.
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by tt 17y ago
A couple other things to consider: 1. Create a multi-column index that satisfies the query entirely on its own without the need to go to the table to read additional data. This technique solves a large percentage of slow query problems. 2.
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by tt 17y ago
Also: not allowed to use Oracle's native date data type, and no foreign key constraints allowed!
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by tt 18y ago
> The idea of putting any logic in the database never did make much sense to me for these exact reasons. I'm a big proponent of enforcing business rules right into the data model. Constraints such as not null, reference constraints, or
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by tt 18y ago
Thanks! We'll definitely keep these in mind.
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by tt 18y ago
Indeed, no need to specify the radius. It would not consider a match if you have to go too far out of your way to pick up someone else.
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by tt 18y ago
Indeed this would be a challenge. If you have no predictability with time or even dates of travel, then http://www.ride4all.com wouldn't be very useful for you. Also, if you have a short commute, say 5 miles or less, then you probably wou
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by tt 18y ago
Regarding the response time, it's really out of our hands (and in Google AppEngine's hands really). Hopefully that will improve if indeed Google AE had issues at the time you clicked. Regarding disclaimer, yeah, we thought about that. Indee
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by tt 18y ago
We are planning to introduce a "group code" feature, which allows people within your known social circle to use and find rides among each other. Would that work? We are currently shying away from another facebook app, but maybe that's the w
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Ask YC: Would you commute with strangers to save gas/time?
17 points by tt 18y ago|33 comments
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Save $ on gas, reduce traffic jam: share rides (hosted on google app engine)(ride4all.com)
3 points by tt 18y ago|2 comments
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by tt 18y ago
Depending on exactly what your non-profit does, but another thing you most likely would run into: most funders/donors, especially the up-and-coming, really want to know your non-profit's effectiveness before sending you any money. Most non-
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by tt 18y ago
Here's something potentially controversial: I believe the most common mistake parents make with raising their kids is attempting to treat them like adults all of the time. This trend seems to be most common with educated parents. I would be
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by tt 19y ago
Data got corrupted because of server restarts? That doesn't sound like a robust design. I can see how some sessions can get kicked out but data corruption should not occur. It didn't seem to happen to me but I feel bad for others who didn't
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by tt 19y ago
http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/
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by tt 19y ago
Another pointer is to have insatiable curiosity in everything that you do instead of thinking of work as just a job. Be your own judge of your quality of work instead of relying on others and you will be pleasantly surprised. Being able to
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by tt 19y ago
Couple ideas came to mind. I'm sure there are others. 1. Would you be working on a product with a potentially huge market? Or is it simply a "cool" product? 2. How do you like the founders and other people? Ask them: what are the 3 best thi
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by tt 19y ago
The real hat trick is to combine the two approaches. You can "ask" the users for explicit feedback, but use metadata to decipher their real interest and intention.