doleson

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   by doleson 10y ago

   Yup. My old company (www.crowdflower.com) has a platform set up to do this.
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   by doleson 11y ago

   This is really cool. BUT, I think most HN readers would be most interested in the founding stories, and the hustle / hurdles overcome / pivots that these founders showcased. For instance, there's no mention that Slack came ou
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   by doleson 11y ago

   I'd be really interested to know (we'll have to wait for AirBnb's S-1) what the difference in gross margins. Marriott has to own / operate its hotels. AirBnb puts that on the host, and pretty much only has insurance and
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   Discovering Drug Side Effects with Crowdsourcing(blog.crowdflower.com)

   8 points by doleson 14y ago|1 comments
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   by doleson 14y ago

   Nice catch! We thought that was quite the color name.
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   by doleson 14y ago

   We should've been more clear on that - the English translation is the shortest string length submission we received for that color, while the color name (for English) is the longest (we figured the longest submission would be the most inter
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   by doleson 14y ago

   That's pretty cool, we definitely had some pretty interesting name submissions in our color study as well.
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   D3 - Languages and Color(blog.crowdflower.com)

   64 points by doleson 14y ago|14 comments
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   by doleson 14y ago

   Are there any plans to add-in any realtime feeds? Like say weather data and the Dow jones close to see any correlations?