ericwaller

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The Second Derivative: Why No One Understands the AI Boom(groundbrkr.com)
42 points by ericwaller 2mo ago|23 comments
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by ericwaller 4mo ago
I find the idea of IRL multi-user UX really interesting. So much of modern computing is built around a 1-to-1 model of users and devices. And then multi-player, collaboration features are built on top of that. Sometimes they’re quite slick
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Deep Impact(wheresyoured.at)
2 points by ericwaller 2y ago|0 comments
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What motorcycles teach about maintenance(books.worksinprogress.co)
109 points by ericwaller 3y ago|151 comments
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by ericwaller 4y ago
I like it! I've definitely found myself doing this while manually breaking lines in code comments
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by ericwaller 4y ago
I'm guessing you mean music venues? The short answer is yes, eventually. The slightly longer answer is that we'll probably be the strongest option for smaller venues that want to do more complex stuff. To the extent that there&#x2
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by ericwaller 4y ago
Very cool (well, not the getting screwed part). Most of my experience so far is on the sports side, with music exposure being more indirect. It's amazing how many ticketing systems of various forms have been built over the years. It se
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by ericwaller 4y ago
Heh, I may get overly excited to tell people that we're building a Ticketmaster/Live Nation competitor... The sentiment that one is sorely needed is so common, and yet so few people know we're doing it (the StubHub comparison
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by ericwaller 4y ago
Almost as a rule, in the US at least, large multi-purpose venues sign exclusive contracts with their ticketing provider. That means that all events, including any concerts that come through the building, are ticketed by the venue's cho
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by ericwaller 4y ago
For anyone who wants to take a crack at building a competitor on the ticketing side: https://seatgeek.com/jobs
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The Future of Crowdfunding Creative Projects(kickstarter.com)
9 points by ericwaller 5y ago|0 comments
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by ericwaller 5y ago
I can't speak to any of the details, but this is definitely an interesting approach: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/business/running-tide-kelp-ca...
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by ericwaller 5y ago
This is a great insight for full applications. But latency (mostly) aside, there seem to be a lot interesting use cases for what is more or less programmable CDN configuration. Particularly when you have a relatively straightforward applica
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by ericwaller 6y ago
I'm one of SeatGeek's cofounders, good question. It was indeed Apple's "Sign In with Apple" deadline that prompted us to make the change (for those who don't know, apps that offer sign in via a third party auth
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by ericwaller 7y ago
For what it’s worth, Amazon did just have a very public search for an HQ2 location and ended up picking one on the other side of the country: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_HQ2
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by ericwaller 11y ago
That's actually not the case, estimated tax is due quarterly (ex. for income in Q1 of 2016 for which your employer doesn't withhold taxes, you have to pay estimated tax by April 15, 2016). But yeah, definitely talk to a CPA.
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by ericwaller 11y ago
Heh, I always feel a bit bad when people mention this since we're not using it ourselves anymore. Though it's a nice and easy way to get going quickly if you're already running redis (and especially if you've got a rails
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by ericwaller 12y ago
Go's JSON parser ignores fields that aren't present in the destination type, so the addition of new parameters shouldn't be a problem.
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by ericwaller 13y ago
All you kalman filter fans out there will be happy to hear that you can grab a ride from SideCar and some Giants tickets from SeatGeek[1] for a truly algorithmic afternoon. 1. http://chairnerd.seatgeek.com/using-a-kalman-fil
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by ericwaller 13y ago
Eric from SeatGeek here. Do you happen to remember what you searched for? I'd be happy to take a look at why you got that odd result. "uconn women's basketball" seems to work for me (I get http://seatgeek.com&
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Older versions of IE show a much stronger dropoff in usage over the weekend(bl.ocks.org)
84 points by ericwaller 13y ago|76 comments
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by ericwaller 14y ago
For anyone skeptical of the claim "90% of Expedia's business comes through their API," it appears to actually be 90% of the Expedia Affiliate Network's business [1], which is far less interesting. [1] http://www.travolution.co.uk/articles/
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Landsat 8 Launches(mapbox.com)
2 points by ericwaller 14y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Absolute Deal Score(seatgeek.com)
11 points by ericwaller 14y ago|6 comments
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by ericwaller 14y ago
For some context, I work at SeatGeek, Jack's startup, and participate in the later stages of the hiring process referred to in the post. I think something that a lot of the recruiting/hiring discussions on HN miss is that the hiring process
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Interview Heuristics(jackg.org)
16 points by ericwaller 14y ago|24 comments
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by ericwaller 15y ago
I actually like the side discussion about restroom design a lot. The difficult part about these types of problems is that the guy who's picking up the paper towels doesn't have the authority to move the trash can.
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by ericwaller 15y ago
From page 3 ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-xdash-02#page-... ): employ meaningful but currently unused names
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by ericwaller 15y ago
I think what vaksel means to say is that Thiel's 20 under 20 project will prove nothing about the value of a college education because his sample consists of 20 of the most brilliant kids around. It would be like trying to demonstrate the w
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by ericwaller 15y ago
I think that ambiguity is important to the feel of ruby code. It encourages you to think about expressions in terms of their semantic meaning rather than their imperative effect^. I think python's @property decorator is a testament to the

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