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by rowborg 1y ago
This is really impressive! Great job. One small piece of feedback… There were a couple times where I asked to learn something, and it asked me to repeat a phrase back, which was great. But when I repeated it back, I know I didn’t quite nail
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by rowborg 2y ago
That's just the Leonhart. There are a number of other manufacturers that are approved for various types of tournaments including Tornado, which is most common in US tournaments and has a 3-man goalie bar. https://www.tableso
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by rowborg 2y ago
Official tables can have either style. There are quite a few tables that are considered tournament grade by the various table soccer associations, including ITSF (I think at least six manufacturers at this point?). In the US, Tornado is the
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by rowborg 2y ago
Factoring work into independent modules that are owned by teams does not preclude active and vigorous collaboration. It just means you don't need a giant list of approvals or manual actions from people all over the company in order to
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by rowborg 2y ago
Oh dear, he got me. <script type="98f4b28488f8bdfd1252d4f9-text/javascript"> try { if (document.referrer) { const ref = new URL(document.referrer); if (ref.host === 'news.ycombinator.c
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by rowborg 2y ago
A couple things: * The guidance is to allow teams to do work independently in parallel, not give them no direction or strategy of what to work on. Without small discreet teams that can operate without a bunch of external blocking approvals
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by rowborg 2y ago
Coda Hale's "work is work" is my favorite analysis of this topic, because of its focus on axiomatic mathematical upper bounds on productivity and how you can avoid hitting them: https://codahale.com//work
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by rowborg 3y ago
Met my wife of now 13 years at age 30 via a group dinner put together by a mutual friend. A good friend of mine just met the love of her life at age 39 via online dating. Don't stress about getting older; when you find the right person
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by rowborg 3y ago
That was also my first thought (injection all the way down), but doesn't this reduce the problem to enforcing simple character escaping?
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by rowborg 3y ago
The article indicates that it was 841's mother who was likely fed by humans. 841 was born in captivity and care was taken to prevent human association: The pup was raised by her mother until she was weaned, then moved to the Monterey
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by rowborg 4y ago
I had a major issue with Bank of America that I could not get any support on. I filed a CFPB complaint and was directly contacted by a representative the next day who solved my problem. Complaints are a big deal for these banks and fintechs
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by rowborg 7y ago
When a developer wanted to build a 5 story condo building on an entire block across the street from the SF property I've owned for the last ten years, many of my neighbors opposed it. I wrote to our building's ownership and told t
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by rowborg 7y ago
It's a fair point. What makes Lafayette a good place to build without increasing sprawl or traffic that it is right on a BART line. "More of everything" should probably be caveated with "more of everything near public tr
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Fs2-Blobstore: A Functional Interface for Key/Value Store(lendup.com)
13 points by rowborg 8y ago|0 comments
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Using my Nest thermostat as a combination lock(medium.com)
18 points by rowborg 9y ago|0 comments
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LendUp (YC W12) is hiring people to reinvent financial services for half the US(lendup.com)
1 points by rowborg 9y ago
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LendUp (YC W12) is hiring developers to help create financial inclusion(lendup.com)
1 points by rowborg 9y ago
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LendUp (YC W12) is hiring engineers to build software for financial inclusion(lendup.com)
1 points by rowborg 9y ago
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LendUp (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior PostgreSQL DBA(lendup.com)
1 points by rowborg 9y ago
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LendUp (YC W12) is hiring devs to build financial tools that improve lives(lendup.com)
1 points by rowborg 9y ago
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LendUp: Funding Growth, Fueling Opportunity(lendup.com)
14 points by rowborg 10y ago|0 comments
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How We Improved Report Generation for Compliance Exams(lendup.com)
6 points by rowborg 10y ago|0 comments
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From Haskell to Java: modeling your problem domain with types(lendup.com)
38 points by rowborg 10y ago|4 comments
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Building Composable JavaScript Forms(lendup.com)
16 points by rowborg 10y ago|0 comments
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Welcome to the LendUp (YC W12) Engineering Blog(lendup.com)
8 points by rowborg 10y ago|0 comments
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Google is right to ban short-term loan ads, but I won’t stop offering them(library.gv.com)
2 points by rowborg 10y ago|0 comments
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Heroku Customer Success: LendUp(heroku.com)
3 points by rowborg 11y ago|0 comments
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by rowborg 11y ago
For purposes of discussion, let's take it as a given that a work-hire tests are the best way to screen candidates. The effort required to administer an on-site work-hire test is non-zero, therefore I cannot administer such a test to ev
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by rowborg 11y ago
I posted this as a comment on the original post, but will make the point here... Large organizations are often more dysfunctional than small ones, yes, especially when it comes to building software. But that doesn't mean they aren&#x27
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LendUp (YC W12): build products that improve the lives of millions of people(lendup.com)
1 points by rowborg 11y ago

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