tedroden

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by tedroden 10y ago
Fancy Hands | https://www.fancyhands.com | New York City - Full Time (onsite) Fancy Hands is a personal assistant service. We've had a lot of good press, we're growing and we need some help. We're looking to hire
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Fancy Hands unveils Orri, an on-demand assistant you can pay as you go(theverge.com)
5 points by tedroden 12y ago|0 comments
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by tedroden 13y ago
Yeah. I like MTurk, but it's pretty impenetrable.
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Programming with people: Fancy Hands lets developers add human workers to apps(theverge.com)
2 points by tedroden 13y ago|2 comments
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by tedroden 13y ago
It's back: https://twitter.com/recurlystatus/status/368411341947547648
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by tedroden 13y ago
I sure hope this isn't the same type of hardware failure as the last one: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/09/05/recurly-suffers-hardwa... We've actually started using redundant billing provider
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Recurly: All systems unavailable.(status.recurly.com)
2 points by tedroden 13y ago|2 comments
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by tedroden 13y ago
Found out from one of our users via twitter. We switched to EasyDNS after (one of the) the godaddy fiascos. Hopefully they get it sorted soon.
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by tedroden 13y ago
It doesn't have a great way to upload from the desktop to G+, does it? I've been trying to figure this out for pics that don't originate on an android/iOS device. I guess picasa can do it, but picasa leaves a lot to be desired.
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Show HN: Our iphone app landing page has playable demo in HTML/CSS(fancyhands.com)
1 points by tedroden 13y ago|0 comments
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I’m Ted Roden, Founder of Fancy Hands, and This Is How I Work(lifehacker.com)
2 points by tedroden 14y ago|0 comments
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How we deal with billing provider downtime: redundancy(fancyhands.com)
8 points by tedroden 14y ago|0 comments
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by tedroden 14y ago
It's one of the first times the whole service has been down, but parts of the service go down at least once a week. memcache, task queues are "elevated" with regularity and urlfetch is frequently down totally. ("elevated" generally means un
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by tedroden 14y ago
It's fine, because they're at 100% availability. Just totally down: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/64201bd8-5392-49fc-a47c-...
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by tedroden 14y ago
We plan a lot of people's dentists appointments (mine included). Even though I need to go to the dentist, I've got some mental block to actually schedule it myself. (PS: Sounds like you were an enjoysthin.gs user, thanks for that!)
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by tedroden 14y ago
(Sorry, we were at lunch). Nope, at this point, we don't take any percentage or fee. We even pass along any discounts we receive (we get up to 15% off flower some purchases for example and we pass that along to you).
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by tedroden 14y ago
Nope, at this point, we don't take any percentage or fee. We even pass along any discounts we receive (we get up to 15% off flower some purchases for example and we pass that along to you).
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by tedroden 14y ago
Pretty close. We charge you right away (you would have received an email asking to approve the charge) and then use our own card.
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by tedroden 14y ago
Hi! This is Ted Roden, Founder of Fancy Hands. So this can be confusing. We can definitely purchase things for you. Want us to order flowers? Have someone come install your air conditioner? No problem, we can even handle the payment for mos
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by tedroden 15y ago
I keep hearing this... that people send in other peoples code. I smell a startup idea: is-this-code-stolen.com
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by tedroden 15y ago
I totally agree. Some people don't have time to code outside of work. I have two kids, a full time job, I haven't had time outside of work to write code in ages... and I've only been a startup founder for a short time. However, my point is
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by tedroden 15y ago
Very interesting. Would you really be more interested in leaving your job for a one week trial than writing a code sample? I have no problem with trials. Also, you mention my "loss," I've NEVER turned anybody down because of a lack of code
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by tedroden 15y ago
To be clear, I'm not suggesting they need to have an online presence at all. I'm just talking sample code. They can email a zip file even. Seems like good practice to specify UI/non-ui. I'll keep that in mind. At this point, I'm just asking
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by tedroden 15y ago
Interesting idea with the tutorial walk-through... hadn't thought of that.
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by tedroden 15y ago
Had part of this discussion on forrst, too: http://forrst.com/posts/Code_samples_from_Programmers-6pi
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Ask HN: Candidates with no sample code?
14 points by tedroden 15y ago|17 comments
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by tedroden 15y ago
New York City - Full Time (onsite) Fancy Hands is a personal assistant service. We've had a lot of good press, we're growing and we need some help. Specific details: http://www.fancyhands.com/jobs We're looking for: - Python developers (w
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by tedroden 15y ago
You REALLY need to be able to limit your "browse" results to location.
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by tedroden 15y ago
I keep hearing asana... I like the keyboard shortcuts, so I'll probably go that way. Thanks!
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by tedroden 15y ago
Do you guys use a project management package? Basecamp, asana, pivotal etc? (We don't use them either (yet), just wondering what you do instead?)

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