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by sobes 7y ago
Author here. That's a great use case where a quantifiable improvement would lend itself to a business case as an approximate ROI calculation could be made. I will have to think of how to extend the functionality of the model to support
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Show HN: Using Node.js to model lane-changing behaviour in congested traffic(github.com)
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Show HN: Traffic Model in Node JavaScript finds optimal lane changing strategy(github.com)
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Simulating busy traffic with a computer model: Is lane-changing a zero-sum game?(connected.io)
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Computer model simulates lane-changing in busy traffic. Is it a zero-sum game?(connected.io)
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by sobes 10y ago
As someone who's worked as a Software Developer in Toronto for the past 13+ years, I totally disagree with this assessment. First off, very few very early stage startups expect you to work for free until you get funded. Exceptions bein
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by sobes 10y ago
Nulogy.
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Show HN: How We're Using Git Flow(nulogy.com)
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by sobes 12y ago
We also have/use: - TDD - pair programming - git flow - a 2-week release cycle - four dev teams
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by sobes 12y ago
I'm talking about all financial institutions being non-profits. Financial institutions would not have a responsibility to shareholders to show a return on investment. Instead they would only have a responsibility to provide a needed se
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Ask HN: What if all banks had to be nonprofit?
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by sobes 12y ago
"The recovery operations were challenging," Musk told reporters from Washington, D.C.. The seas were heavy, he said, so the recovery team suspects the stage was destroyed. They were, however, able to find pieces that join the firs
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by sobes 12y ago
Find a company that: 1. Isn't a "startup" anymore (by Steven Blank's definition of the term). 2. That's been founded by engineers (you might a better cultural fit). 3. That still has a fairly small workforce (so tha
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Who Killed Canada Post’s Banking Study?(cupw.ca)
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Why Build a HATEOAS API?(blog.programmableweb.com)
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by sobes 13y ago
> The cure seems worse than the disease, in my opinion. Totally agree with you on that. Given that the idea of usernames (originally called handles) predates the internet ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_band_r
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by sobes 13y ago
Just because you find a passion, doesn't mean you have to spend money on it. There are an insane amount of free learning resources online (in tech/dev, which I'm assuming what your pro background is). Similarly, I'm seei
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by sobes 13y ago
Is there ever a reason / use case in JS to NOT use the strict comparison operators (=== and !==)? Browser support? Performance? Logic tricks?
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by sobes 13y ago
Seems to be corroborated in tech by some nice examples: Jimmy Wales: founded Wikipedia at 35 and Wikia at 38; Marc Benioff: started Salesforce at 35; Mark Pincus: started Zynga at 41; Reid Hoffman: founded Linkedin at 36; Robert Noyce:
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by sobes 13y ago
That's a good bit of info to know, thanks for sharing. I daresay it won't be the last bizarre spam rule that gmail implements.
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by sobes 13y ago
#firstworldproblems (I couldn't find the post on reddit, and couldn't resist)
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Ask HN: How do you forecast webapp hosting / maintenance costs?
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by sobes 13y ago
It seems a lot of mid-sized companies like to call themselves "startups" because of the hip factor. Even though they fail to fit into the definition. Incidentally, here's a good Quora discussion on the definition: https:&#x2
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by sobes 13y ago
Congrats! Though I'm curious to know what you mean by "real" startup. What's a fake one? One of the most important questions to ask is how they're funded. Most startups fail, and funding is the most accurate proxy f