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by dashr 11y ago
Dont depend on the grant money to run your business, treat it like icing on the cake. the money is more of a reimbursement than upfront cash. Grow from sales.
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by dashr 12y ago
is there anywhere that we can get pix all of the y-combinators founders per batch? something I can crawl with node and run face recognition against?
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by dashr 12y ago
FYI: Its a Drupal7 site hosted on new jersey linode so they can't really be php haters - maybe self-haterz. Using TypeKit. Sophisticated enough to include a custom server header and a California specific Privacy Policy but a UK one (al
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by dashr 13y ago
Lots of startups use PHP (with frameworks like Laravel4, CodeIgniter, Symfony) for their API and sexy new front end JS frameworks that they promote. On our current codebase, started in 2013, we decided to use PHP and have Ruby, JS, Python a
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by dashr 13y ago
> PHP isn’t a great language, but it is a good language. So what is a great language? If it runs the largest active user app on the planet (FB), the most widely used CMSes (WP,Drupal,EE), message boards, MVPs, etc. Why continue the hate,
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by dashr 13y ago
I'm the founder of an edTech where we are using software to _IMPROVE_ teacher training. Teachers, especially new teachers, need a lot of support, not just from in school peers, but outside of school. They also need constructive feedbac
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by dashr 13y ago
Its important to note that some will NOT want to attend a classified briefing because they will then be bound NOT to discuss what they have heard in that classified meeting.
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by dashr 13y ago
Are you in the US? Try looking for a local Legal Clinic or Community Law center that helps employees, via http://www.probono.net
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by dashr 14y ago
+ the $114K to the mayor
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by dashr 14y ago
Cool, just installed it. Can you say anything about the platform it was built on, Cordova?
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by dashr 14y ago
Great work LocalWiki. This is a good way to build hyperlocal mobile/sms apps. I find myself usually scraping data off wikis, massaging it a bit, then building my own api endpoint to feed the mobile app. I hope this one linked here is actual
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by dashr 15y ago
Wonder if he is including the S3 costs in there?
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by dashr 15y ago
The monthly contribution amount is determined by company policy. It can be a $ amount or %. It just needs to be stated in policy and applied consistently to all employees.
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by dashr 15y ago
In CA, pre-Obama, an Insurer cannot deny an employee based on a pre-existing condition. I believe, The Health Care Act made that standard across the U.S. Some people with pre-existing conditions in CA used to form husband-wife companies to
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by dashr 15y ago
We are in California. Over the years of our business we have gone from Blue Cross/Anthem to now being with Kaiser- at one point we had a carve out plan where we had both. However, it always makes sense to go through a Broker who knows all t
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by dashr 15y ago
Congrats on shipping Philip! Gonna set up a test-bed. Oaktown needs a Wiki too.
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by dashr 15y ago
anyone know of a good place to get Movie data (and possibly Cast/Crew) info for free or low cost for a commercial project?
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by dashr 15y ago
This one is more interesting: Can this be called the Facebook bill? It moves the 500 shareholder limit to 1000. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2167
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by dashr 15y ago
H.R.2940 did pass the House today http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR02940 : http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h2940/ -- H.R.2930 (CrowdSourcing one) still making its way http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR029
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by dashr 15y ago
SolarVPS has servers in New Jersey and Los Angeles for $5-40 that I've been using for a years. Like Rackspace (4 cores), these small boxes also have up to 16 cores. Great for mysql replication, code repos, distributed data nodes.
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by dashr 15y ago
Also, look at GroundWire.org. They work with mostly environmental organizations. They have a non-profit (Grants + Private Funders + lower cost Services revenue model. As a US Non-profit, they file an IRS Form 990 and publish a detailed annu
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by dashr 15y ago
I'm the CTO at TUMIS.com, we are one of 2-3 boutique dev shops in the Bay Area, CA, US that work 99% with social justice organization, social enterprises, green businesses, campaigns across the country. We are not a non-profit- more like a
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by dashr 15y ago
PHPCloud isn't built in PHP. Anyone know if Pagoda is built in PHP? I'm more partial to supporting a php PAAS that is intimately familiar (on a day to day operational basis) with my language.
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by dashr 15y ago
Anyone know who tracks the widest deployed version of jquery min on a CDN? I would think its 1.4.2 on google cdn ? Good info to know for a little page speedup as it will be cached in most folks browsers.
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by dashr 16y ago
great to hear all the details so quickly so that others building similar systems aren't in the same situation. as fellow PHP'ers its also great to hear that you are not blaming it on PHP somehow (no fuel for the php haters).
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by dashr 16y ago
Nice work. I still prefer http://domai.nr/ for ease of use and those extra techie tlds.
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by dashr 16y ago
Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum, What might be right for you, may not be right for some.
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by dashr 16y ago
rCDN started offering http compression on text/html ,text/css , and application/x-javascript*. Its enabled by default. Along with last weeks CDN edge purge, this is great. Just need CNAMEs now. and ssl.
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Rackspace CDN finally adds HTTP Compression(rackspace.com)
3 points by dashr 16y ago|1 comments
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by dashr 16y ago
I used one of the approaches, Marker Clusterer, recently for a quickie map of 500+ orgs: http://appealforcommunities.org/networkmap The InfoWindows were particularly tricky. I wish we could have had the time to do custom marker logos, bu

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