jeffclark

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by jeffclark 4y ago
I’m sad to learn that Mary Chung’s is gone. There was little better than a double order of extra spicy suanla chaoshou with a can of coke on a cold day.
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by jeffclark 4y ago
How common is it for websites to have RSS feeds, anymore?
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by jeffclark 4y ago
> How do I figure out if HR/recruiting would want/need my idea(s)? My best advice is to try to make the sale, even before you have something ready. You'll learn what parts of your pitch are connecting with them, and which
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by jeffclark 9y ago
Regardless of your current, perceived skill level, you're already an expert to someone else. Start writing, be awesome, teach others.
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by jeffclark 9y ago
- clear understanding of the problem I am being asked to solve - major influence (if not outright ownership) of the solution to that problem Good bullet points for anyone who works, not just software developers.
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by jeffclark 10y ago
That's a great idea. Do you have any devices in your house, yet?
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by jeffclark 10y ago
I believe that people want help finding "smart home" devices that will work well with the existing equipment in their home, and that they would pay good money for that because buying the wrong equipment is a frustrating (and expen
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How to keep your team aligned in less than 20 minutes per week(clarkle.com)
2 points by jeffclark 10y ago|0 comments
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by jeffclark 11y ago
It's more likely that they require blue ink so they can distinguish the original from a photocopy.
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by jeffclark 11y ago
Complete guess on possible engineering teams that could make up that 250-350 people: SEO/acquisition, various "admin"/marketplace functionalities (adding, removing, updating products), analytics, financial reporting, mar
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by jeffclark 11y ago
My best and completely uneducated guess would be location to warehouses. Maybe even cross-referenced with typical orders in the area and Amazon's actual ability to get some amount of those typical orders to door-steps same-day.
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by jeffclark 11y ago
We've hired 2 (so far). I was hesitant at first since those boot camps sound like a for-profit college. One of the hires has been on my product team and is a total badass. Better with ~1 year of experience than I ever was.
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by jeffclark 12y ago
This is really impressive. How did you secure the games and scores data?
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by jeffclark 12y ago
Yeah, very much agreed. I have to scrape schedules together to populate games for my ticket site ( http://www.boxrowseat.com ). The popular sites are wising up to scraping of information, so it's really an exercise in futilit
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by jeffclark 12y ago
My favorite part: "The next step involves complex analysis of historical bathroom visit data, to allow for statistical insight into bathroom habits. Oh, and a 💩 icon for when the bathroom has been occupied for more than 5 minutes.&quot
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by jeffclark 12y ago
I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.
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by jeffclark 13y ago
Wow. Imagine the author's blog post when something actually significant happens in his life.
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by jeffclark 13y ago
> Also good to know that there will literally ALWAYS be people willing to minimize the broken promises of corporations At some point, people realize that corporations exist to maximize profit and not necessarily for the good of the custo
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by jeffclark 13y ago
In related news: I am no longer with my college girlfriend, despite the fact that 8 years ago I told her I would never leave her.
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by jeffclark 13y ago
If it's really just a front-end bug, chances are they're getting lots of calls just like yours. You may just be part of a pile of callback tickets once the bug is fixed and all the refunds are processed. Or, they could still be tr
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How New User Acquisition Channels Drive Change(brianbalfour.com)
13 points by jeffclark 13y ago|0 comments
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by jeffclark 13y ago
Relax. The guy writing the article is likely a journalist, not an engineer.
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by jeffclark 13y ago
High fives don't pay the bills.
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by jeffclark 13y ago
I swear that Stripe is monitoring my private repo. It's like they know exactly what kind of hacky workaround I just implemented on my project and wrote something to support it in an elegant way. First ACH, and now this. Nice work, agai
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by jeffclark 13y ago
Connections should eventually lead to money (directly or indirectly). If you want money, ask for advice. If you want advice, ask for money.
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by jeffclark 13y ago
You're not wrong, but continue your thought process and think bigger picture. If you do actual research on older computer users, you'll see that many prefer a desktop environment for the sole reason that they can get a monster mon
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by jeffclark 13y ago
I do this with multiple browser windows.
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by jeffclark 13y ago
Don't worry about the stock photos. If you weren't asking for specific feedback, nobody would have mentioned it.
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by jeffclark 13y ago
I did for tickets: BoxRowSeat.com Sells a few thousand $$ of tickets per month. People seem to like it. Especially hockey fans.
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5 Steps To Choose Your Customer Acquisition Channel(brianbalfour.com)
11 points by jeffclark 13y ago|1 comments

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