jwarzech

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by jwarzech 10y ago
Wow - this is actually sort of cringey. Reminds me a lot of what aol tried to do several years ago; manufactured coolness. http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/aol_gene...
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by jwarzech 10y ago
I'm always on the lookout for better summarization tools but this one seems to give similar results to some of the popular ones out there (like smmry). We've recently started working with the Stride.ai API ( http://strid
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by jwarzech 10y ago
In the U.S. lane splitting is only legal in certain states.
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5 big enterprise application development trends of 2016(mrc-productivity.com)
2 points by jwarzech 11y ago|1 comments
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Backstitch Flips Switch on Service Aiming to Cut Through Web’s Noise(xconomy.com)
1 points by jwarzech 11y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: API for crawling and filtering content(docs.backstit.ch)
5 points by jwarzech 11y ago|0 comments
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Car and Mobility Tech Announced at This Year's CES(backstit.ch)
5 points by jwarzech 12y ago|0 comments
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CES Announcements by Category(backstit.ch)
1 points by jwarzech 12y ago|0 comments
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Techstars Mobility Lands in Detroit(techcrunch.com)
2 points by jwarzech 12y ago|0 comments
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YC-backed One Month opening early access to 'Growth Hacking' course(lnc.hr)
3 points by jwarzech 12y ago|2 comments
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by jwarzech 12y ago
These are really cool! However I wish some of them animated a little slower or let me select a section to animate at a time.
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Infobesity: The Overabundance of Information on the Internet(imgur.com)
4 points by jwarzech 12y ago|0 comments
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The World Cup: The American Exception(blog.backstit.ch)
2 points by jwarzech 12y ago|0 comments
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by jwarzech 12y ago
Appreciate all your've done with Font Awesome...just not sure about black tie (while I get that it loads fast cutting points such as the star example IMHO makes the icons look odd like an images missing anti-aliasing).
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by jwarzech 12y ago
I love Font Awesome and use it all the time....but this campaign is to help fund development of a "somewhat faster" commercial licensable version of existing icons? I would be a lot more apt to donate if this was just to help fund
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by jwarzech 12y ago
We have actually been using elasticsearch as our main data storage at backstitch for almost a year now. How I usually explain its awesome power is (1) take the schemaless nature of MongoDB, (2) add the indexing power of Lucene, (3) and give
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8 Smart Product Launch Tips(yfsmagazine.com)
2 points by jwarzech 12y ago|0 comments
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Is Wearable Technology REALLY the Future?(blog.backstit.ch)
1 points by jwarzech 12y ago|0 comments
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Detroit’s Backstitch Offers Users a Way to Sift Through the Web’s Noise(xconomy.com)
1 points by jwarzech 13y ago|0 comments
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by jwarzech 13y ago
The best thing we found is making sure to try take an hour a day, usually before going to sleep to do something by ourselves in a separate room - we call it our sanity check. Might be as simple as she will go watch an episode of something o
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by jwarzech 13y ago
Great way to visualize skillset match for co-founders, I however feel that this isn't isolated to doing a startup with a spouse but with any co-founder choice; making sure you have the right skill balance. Since starting backstitch ( h
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Block by Block, Detroit’s Startup Scene Revives a Great City(mashable.com)
7 points by jwarzech 13y ago|0 comments
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by jwarzech 13y ago
Full disclosure I'm the founder of this product (hey its hacker news) but a lot of people have been using http://backstit.ch as an alternative rather than a direct replacement for iGoogle (and google reader). Rather than ju
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by jwarzech 13y ago
This. I think of any of the comments so far you express what I'm seeing as well (I know 'use case of 1'). Distributed & modularized apps where each component uses the language/framework best suited for the job.
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Show HN: Automatically filter and organize content(backstit.ch)
5 points by jwarzech 13y ago|0 comments
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by jwarzech 13y ago
We got bit by the DNSimple outage so we switched to Zerigo. Glad I left DNSimple running as a backup!
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ET game excavation confirmed by studio(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by jwarzech 13y ago|0 comments
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by jwarzech 13y ago
Our site (and others) seem to still be working through the 'www' domain. We have had nothing but great experiences with DNSimple up to this point and will probably stay customers, just sort of frustrating as we wait for our domain to resolv
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by jwarzech 13y ago
"...former train station" It hasn't been operational since the late-80s
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by jwarzech 13y ago
Will be interesting to see if anything starts moving with this. I drive by it everyday (our office is downtown Detroit) and it never ceases to amaze me how you can practically 'see-through' the building with all the windows missing.

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