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by randy 13y ago
I'm one of the engineers working on fixing healthcare.gov with a whole bunch of other Silicon Valley engineers. See relevant Time article and Hacker News discussion a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by randy 13y ago
Healthcare.gov I'm part of a small team that's been working on healthcare.gov for the last few months alongside a bunch of other Google, Facebook, and Y Combinator alums. We'll always remember what Mikey told us in December,
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by randy 14y ago
Ridejoy (YC S11). San Francisco, CA. Full time. Full stack engineer to help lay the foundation of our engineering team. Interested in getting in on the ground floor of fundamentally changing the way people travel or, as one of our users sai
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by randy 14y ago
Ridejoy (YC S11). San Francisco, CA. Full time. Engineer number one. Interested in getting in on the ground floor of fundamentally changing the way people travel or, as one of our users said, "restoring people's faith in humanity"? http://
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by randy 15y ago
Ridejoy (YC S11). San Francisco, CA. Full time. Lead designer and engineer number one. Interested in fundamentally changing the way people travel or, as one of our users said, "restoring people's faith in humanity"? http://ridejoy.com/jobs
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by randy 15y ago
Thanks! The site was built with Ruby 1.9.2 + Rails 3.1 (+ SASS and Coffeescript), jQuery (+ UI), and PostgreSQL on top of Heroku (Cedar Stack + Unicorn + Memcached) using Facebook Connect and the Google Maps API. We've just been hacking on
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by randy 15y ago
We're also always looking for suggestions on how we can make the experience safer and better for our users. Let us know what else we should do!
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by randy 15y ago
Loved the quote from Evan Beard: "Remember that your mind is a fortress of impenetrable happiness." Common words of wisdom that never seem to be taken to heart nearly enough. Reminded me of another gem from Daniel Gross of Greplin: "It’s ve
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by randy 16y ago
Indeed: "The third reason we took Sequoia’s money, specifically Sequoia and not another VC, was we deal with a lot of these different API providers. It’s very important to us to maintain very good relationships with a lot of these companies
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by randy 16y ago
Very, very cool. The fact I'm instantly down my CC info and $60 on three purchases is some incredibly convincing concept validation for myself, but the potential here, both in terms of impact and unique experiences, is unimaginably cool. On
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by randy 17y ago
For most people, there is a lot more than just a degree to seek out in college. I'm no big fan of Facebook whoring myself, but while it obviously doesn't replace stimulating conversation or actual time spent together with good friends, it d
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by randy 17y ago
Although I think everyone should keep a healthy sense of skepticism toward Tim Ferris since he is above all a brilliant self promoter, I must say I was impressed by his command of Mandarin as seen here http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/
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by randy 17y ago
Warning: The game is potentially seizure inducing.
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by randy 17y ago
I for one would like to see some proof on that matter, not that I neccesarily disbelieve that statement, but it is an interesting dynamic. Obviously more educated people may stray away from clicking on ads for free iPods or hot local single
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by randy 17y ago
I don't understand what everyone's so surprised about. Myspace makes nearly $1 billion in revenue, and Facebook is larger, has better technology, has a more affluent audience, of which they have more information about, has multiple revenue
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by randy 17y ago
An oldie but a great speech (old HN discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=211832 ). For anyone who's interested, here are some other extraordinary commencement speeches: Steve Jobs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KL
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by randy 17y ago
> I only wish that you hadn’t implied inethical motives with words like “extortion,” “mafia shakedown,” etc. The fact is, many people hear those words and nothing else, and it compromises years of work by our small but committed team.
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by randy 18y ago
What I don't understand is why your interest in the company isn't mentioned at all on this "advice" page.
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by randy 18y ago
> Highly doubt I’ll ever do something like this but if I do… Well, you saw it here first. Um, no sir. http://juicycampus.com/ has been around for awhile, and I'm sure other incarnations of the like existed beforehand. It also doesn't
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by randy 18y ago
There's no one 'proper' way to conduct meetings, it depends on your team and situation. You'd probably be good to ask your (conveniently small) team about the issue, they'll be able to give you a better answer than any HN user. That being s
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by randy 18y ago
Fun game, but it's missing the huge boss battles that made Smash TV so awesome (Seriously, if you want to up your conversion rates on purchases, make that last room in Episode 4 an onslaught to remember instead of four easily disposable dor
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by randy 18y ago
If for some reason it isn't immediately obvious to you yet, the answer to your question is "Post this question on Hacker News."
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by randy 18y ago
Adventure time! > Do you actually want to work in a large dev team? -- Yes >> Why ? --- Want to gain knowledge about 'working in a large dev team' >>> Why? ---- Because... it mi
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by randy 18y ago
Cool idea, very questionable business model. College kids excel in many areas; unfortunately for you, being cheap is one of them. Don't get me wrong, I would love to hang out at a place like this, but I would crunch the numbers first and fi
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by randy 18y ago
It seems like it's really just a matter of personal semantic interpretation to me. Did Hacker News not drive some traffic to TechCrunch as a result of this post? How much bigger must Hacker News be relative to TechCrunch for it to begin "dr
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by randy 18y ago
I wasn't particularly impressed by her screencasts, but I'm pretty sure you're looking for something like http://demogirl.com/ . You could also do it yourself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screencasting_software . If you're looking
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by randy 18y ago
So, I don't think I'm really the most qualified person to answer this question, as I don't use Twitter at all (I do understand the potential value of it, but I think the fanaticism surrounding it is beyond silly) and have only recently star
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by randy 18y ago
I don't know, maybe by perhaps driving traffic back towards the original site? Yeah, I think that's how it worked for Google (and all other services that have APIs). You might even have heard of the little known market known as SEO these da
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by randy 18y ago
Translation (as I read it): Twitter was down due to a bug in their Jabber APIs. Although FriendFeed does not use this API, I obviously don't know that, so I'll pretend to act smart and smugly blame them for Twitter's downtime. Also, FriendF
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by randy 18y ago
I don't think the issue is about lowering their standards, but rather re-evaluating them. Throwing more interviews at applicants doesn't give you much more info beyond a certain point (which is presumably somewhere before 14).

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