eignerchris_

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by eignerchris_ 2mo ago
I'm converting an AI-powered Finance app I built for my wife and I into a more feature-rich product: https://www.heyalistair.com
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by eignerchris_ 3mo ago
I might be an email simpleton, but I don't think I've ever used a native email application on a desktop/laptop machine ever in my 20+ years on the web. I always just used the website, starting with EarthLink, then Hotmail, th
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by eignerchris_ 8mo ago
I know folks are blaming AI but looking back on my 17 years in tech, AI is just the latest hyped-up fever-dream. And whenever there's hype the marketers will do whatever they can to move the metrics, regardless of industry. They hide u
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by eignerchris_ 11y ago
It really depends on your definition of wealth. Most engineers I know clear 100K+ pretty easily after a few years of experience. If you're in a hot market or sector, you can easily earn $180k+ after 5-8 years. If you produce consistent
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by eignerchris_ 12y ago
Lots of people leap before they have a parachute because the plebeian view is that entrepreneurs take risks. The reality is that good entrepreneurs manage their risk neurotically. It doesn't help your situation now, but always start th
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by eignerchris_ 12y ago
You might try instagram as well. Here's an instagram account I follow (I have a corgi) that is doing really great marketing. They usually a few posts per week, occasional shots of various products, link to website. I thought it was bri
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by eignerchris_ 12y ago
I built docklister.com in 4 months during my spare time. I started approximately 24 months ago and have a single customer that covers the hosting costs (~80/mo). I just got back from a 30 day honeymoon; anxious to get back into the flo
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by eignerchris_ 12y ago
Any success marketing on Pinterest? Seems there'd be a gold mine of home/crafty/DIYers who would be interested.
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by eignerchris_ 12y ago
This is so great. Very straightforward explanation of raycasting. Looking forward to playing with!
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by eignerchris_ 13y ago
What you have described sir, is an anecdote.
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by eignerchris_ 13y ago
Good catch. I've fixed this and updated one of the examples. You should be able to do just as you described: http://zipasaur.us/state/ca/city/los+angeles
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by eignerchris_ 13y ago
hey thanks everyone for the feedback. GeoNames includes postal code data for many countries. I'll see if I can add more countries in the next week or so!
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Show HN: zipasaur.us, a simple postal code API(zipasaur.us)
11 points by eignerchris_ 13y ago|9 comments
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by eignerchris_ 14y ago
Thanks for calling this out. As you said, random routing is about as naive as it gets. They need to make upgrades to the routing mesh - expose some internal stats about dyno performance and route accordingly. Even if the stats were rudiment
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by eignerchris_ 14y ago
Gruber lives in a distortion field where Apple is the driver for everything. Did they reset the bar on smart phones? Absolutely. But Google, Microsoft, Kiipt, Skype, Rdio, Spotify, Flipboard, Harvest, and Facebook (just to name a few) are a
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by eignerchris_ 15y ago
Ya I agree; 4 to 40 is more interesting than 100 to 200. I was the fifth employee at my current employer, been through two acquisitions, now sitting at 220+ (not all developers). Scaling has been a difficult but rewarding and fun problem to
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by eignerchris_ 15y ago
Don't get me wrong, I love GitHub and I love the processes they are using - I wish we did more of it at my current employer. But all of this back-patting feels a bit premature. They've really only scaled a single order of magnitude. Growing
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by eignerchris_ 15y ago
His first premise is entirely invalidated by the "No empirical evidence" section on the wikipedia page :/ Begrudgingly setting that aside, I know quite a few developers who do a pretty good job reading design and UX articles. I genuinely tr