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by ttruett 14y ago
No worries, and definitely a good question. What we have now is largely a proof-of-concept as to how accurately we can tag articles. The thought is that it could be cool to keep track of everything you read and see insights into your knowle
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by ttruett 14y ago
Yea, one of our guys got a little excited and decided to post to HN a little prematurely. Right now we are just testing out our prototype and thus the .zip file. We will probably upload to the Chrome store next week. Definitely not trying t
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Kobe Bryant on Tearing his Achilles. My Thoughts as an Entrepreneur.(getfireplug.com)
3 points by ttruett 14y ago|0 comments
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by ttruett 14y ago
The tipping point is getting closer but I would still recommend Python 2.X for the time being, primarily for third party support.
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Tired of being a sysadmin for some high-paying, high-profile company?
1 points by ttruett 15y ago|0 comments
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by ttruett 15y ago
We have built out infrastructure to support about 50,000 users. Premature? Sure, but fairly reasonable for the price. Most of the server capacity consists of our Cassandra cluster which we are using to personalize user content...
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by ttruett 15y ago
Part-time work at a grocery store for years, and years, and years... Some retail work is thrown into that time span as well. $8/hr is high-living! I was making $6.50/hr at The Fresh Market.
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by ttruett 15y ago
Haha yea I would agree and I am a Windows user myself. One thing that we were told very early on by our investors is to focus on one platform and one platform only in the beginning. Our current client has changed so much over the last six
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by ttruett 15y ago
We are hoping to be the next evolutionary step. Pointcast did news. Chirpscreen did social. We will (hopefully in a couple months) do real-time personalized content, which would include news and social..
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by ttruett 15y ago
We live extremely cheaply, even for Tennessee standards. We all share a house and play limbo with the poverty line... A couple of our developers are part-time guys that have helped when needed, we currently have a full-time staff of fiv
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by ttruett 15y ago
Appreciate the product feedback graupel. We all feel like we are on the right track and the product has come a long way in the last six months let alone the last several weeks. We feel like we have a better understanding of what our users
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Slipping out of the Honeymoon Phase. Waking up Scared. (about.retickr.com)
74 points by ttruett 15y ago|47 comments
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by ttruett 15y ago
My friends and I are currently working on our first product retickr right now. Our Mac client will launch this summer and we are hoping to bring a Windows client to market this fall. Initially retickr will be "another" news aggregator but