wensing

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   by wensing 19y ago

   Thanks for all of your responses! I am leaning towards Job A, but we'll see whether or not the offer officially comes through. I'm hoping that I can teach myself. I'm also thinking that the other programmers at Job B might not really pla
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   How to learn how to program well

   3 points by wensing 19y ago|14 comments
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   by wensing 19y ago

   The strongest accusation I can find in this article is that: "it still isn't fool proof". To what degree do 'real applications' have to be fool proof? @joshwa: Thanks for point out the comments--I'm glad I read them, particularly this por
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   by wensing 19y ago

   Kind of interesting how narrow-minded that seems.
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   by wensing 19y ago

   You're right--that probably would be a better title. And yes, like many things worth saying, it is debatable.
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   by wensing 19y ago

   Thanks, Matt! I was somewhat hesitant to put this up on the news, but since it is our startup and I've been following YC for a while now, I thought some folks might like to see it. Really happy to hear that you were pulled in even though
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   by wensing 19y ago

   By which I assume you mean: 'Make all of it work on the cell phone.' because at least part of it already does. FlashLite is the answer to getting the Flash component to work on something other than the iPhone :), and I haven't had the ti
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   by wensing 19y ago

   Thanks for the encouragement. S3, yes. We're happy so far. Feel free to point out any trouble spots with information density vs. legibility.
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   by wensing 19y ago

   Thanks, Ty! Ideally, anyone interested in this sort of information. That said, there's obviously an advanced tilt to the site right now to support our marketing strategy of going after the most avid enthusiasts first, and the general pub
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    by wensing 19y ago

    Going to check it out. Thanks for the idea. We've been thinking about "Stormpulse as an embedded service" for a while . . .
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    by wensing 19y ago

    Great idea! Have you seen www.surfline.com? Maybe we could advertise there once we get the Pacific going (which wouldn't be a colossal amount of work with the systems we have in place...).
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    by wensing 19y ago

    1. Point taken. 'Is this data in scope?' is something we need to take seriously. 2. Glad you said this. I would like to do the same. It would be nice if it didn't take a lot of work to explain. Maybe footnotes would do for now instead
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    by wensing 19y ago

    Good question, and one that we went over and tried to model based on things like Google trends and Alexa data for other storm sites. In the end we found that what you are saying is true--the traffic is extremely spiky. But what we also l
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    by wensing 19y ago

    Been working on this for a while, and it's time to start telling folks about it. I'm curious to know what you all think of anything and everything you're willing to comment on.
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    Our hurricane-tracking startup(stormpulse.com)

    12 points by wensing 19y ago|23 comments
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    OpenHive: Facebook app for sharing physical media(facebook.com)

    1 points by wensing 19y ago|0 comments
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    by wensing 19y ago

    something = Pylons. http://pylonshq.com "Pylons combines the very best ideas from the worlds of Ruby, Python and Perl, providing a structured but extremely flexible Python web framework. It's also one of the first projects to leverage the
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    (10 unread) Yahoo! Mail Beta, matthew.wensing(us.f398.mail.yahoo.com)

    1 points by wensing 20y ago|0 comments
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    by wensing 20y ago

    Definitely. It also settles the fact that I need to find a day job immediately rather than possibly 3 months from now. :-)
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    by wensing 20y ago

    This is the wrong day for a thread that begins with 'The wait is over!'.
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    by wensing 20y ago

    I read someone recently refer to startups as the NBA of high-tech (luring kids away from college). If that's the case, does that make this draft day? It would appear to have some of the feel.
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    by wensing 20y ago

    The SEO industry is broader than that. When I said SEO strategy I was thinking the white hat variety.[0] [0] http://www.silverdisc.co.uk/articles/seohats/
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    by wensing 20y ago

    My partner and I are trying to learn the right strategy for SEO these days. Does anyone here think about it? If so, what have you done or what are you planning to do?
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    Has anyone thought much about search engine optimization?

    1 points by wensing 20y ago|5 comments
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    by wensing 20y ago

    Python (Pylons, Mygthy), MySQL, ActionScript.
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    by wensing 20y ago

    We worked together (directly) in a corporate IT department.
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    by wensing 20y ago

    Florida and Chicago, 25 and 31, respectively.
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    by wensing 20y ago

    Adding features is not the mistake; the mistake is adding features 'just because you can'. Moreover, I can think of some wonderful products that have a lot of features, but they went through a design process wherein the creators knew how t
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    by wensing 20y ago

    It would be great if I could more easily spot the Y Combinator Startup News tab in my Firefox tabs drop down.
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    Any chance of a favicon?

    1 points by wensing 20y ago|3 comments