heezo

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   by heezo 10y ago

   I was really hoping for a Planet Rock reference.
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   by heezo 11y ago

   Unfortunately, no. However, we are excited to move into all of the places that can't afford Park Chicago.
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   by heezo 11y ago

   Absolutely. We work with the current infrastructure. This means the coin based meters, or kiosks, etc. Our goal is to keep their costs down, by integrating with whatever they have.
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   by heezo 11y ago

   I forgot to add, PPA lost only $100K in ticket revenue.
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   by heezo 11y ago

   Actually, a counter example of this is when the City of Pittsburgh rolled out kiosks to accept credit cards. In the 2011 fiscal year, the Parking Authority earned $7.1 million from its metered parking spaces. In 2012, that amount climbed to
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   by heezo 11y ago

   Great question. We only store the data the the municipality needs to enforce tickets. All personal data is stored directly on the phone.
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   by heezo 11y ago

   Thanks, Norman. We've recently rolled out to a few more areas around Pittsburgh. Looks like there are another five, in Southwester PA, switching to us over the next few months.
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   by heezo 11y ago

   Hi, I’m Jim the CEO of Meter Feeder. We are excited to announce our product and that we are participating in Y Combinator W16. My co-founder and I are passionate about the pains of parking. We want to create a solution that is easy and ele
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   Meter Feeder (YC W16) lets you ditch coins and codes, pay for parking with GPS(techcrunch.com)

   31 points by heezo 11y ago|16 comments
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    by heezo 11y ago

    I pay $6/sq ft for my office in Braddock, right outside of Pittsburgh, PA. ...that's $6/sq ft for a year. So two months paying for my two bedroom apartment, in Mountain View, can get me more than a year of rent for my office.
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    by heezo 11y ago

    Unfortunately, no. There was no rhyme or reason to the way that they formatted the names. I guess I could implement a fuzzy search, but I'm still at work.
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    by heezo 11y ago

    Hey, I'm Jim. We made the page, to make everyone's life a little easier (SFMTA's PDF process was a little cumbersome). Hopefully, you get some money. If you don't, that's still good news, amirite?
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    SFMTA owe you a refund? Search here(sfmtarefund.com)

    14 points by heezo 11y ago|1 comments
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    by heezo 11y ago

    Thanks for this. I scraped all of the PDF data, and threw it in a DB. Now it's searchable. http://sfmtarefund.com
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    by heezo 11y ago

    At least they're trying...amirite?
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    “The Ethnic List”

    4 points by heezo 11y ago|2 comments
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    by heezo 12y ago

    Thanks.
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    by heezo 12y ago

    Unfortunately, I'm still having an issue with this. ...if I only knew more about computers. :(
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    by heezo 12y ago

    I use this API daily. I agree with some of the others. It works. I don't really care if it's REST or not. Of course, if the API is going to be growing, you may want to organize it in a guessable format...also, if it's goin
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    by heezo 13y ago

    There were 2 women in my class, my first year at CMU. Really helped me to focus on my studies. Anyway, it's hard to do better. I'm just glad that they are.
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    by heezo 13y ago

    So...there's a New Jersey? Sorry, I had to. :/
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    by heezo 13y ago

    As a black American, I wish that I were suprised at some of the comments in the video.
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    Read the fine manual(github.com)

    1 points by heezo 13y ago|0 comments