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by willu 10y ago
I guess there are a lot of weirdos in Chicago by your estimation. Virtually every decent north-side neighborhood in Chicago (including Jefferson Park) has a median sales price above your $250k point and that includes all types and sizes of
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by willu 10y ago
I guess I should have specified that I'm thinking of 3+ bedroom homes. Here's what Zillow looks like for a wide drawing of north-side Chicago SFHs under $250k. http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/house_
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by willu 10y ago
>>I paid nothing close to 500k in Oak Park... Congratulations! I'm aware Oak Park has some affordable homes (but higher taxes) since much of my family lives there. But Oak Park is not Chicago and I was talking about Chicago. I
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by willu 10y ago
Less lawn care. :-) That said, there are large pockets on the northwest side that have lot sizes comparable with some near suburbs.
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by willu 10y ago
That might be realistic for a condo, but a single family home at that price would have to be a serious fixer-upper or have some other significant flaw (near gang areas, etc.). The types of homes most urban professionals would consider suit
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by willu 10y ago
You mean the Jack Kerouac who ended up drinking himself to death? Perhaps the road trips did not cure all ails.
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by willu 10y ago
There are probably ways he could have conveyed that better. Judging by the outcome, smarter people than me came to that same conclusion.
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by willu 10y ago
Right about what exactly? The deal was not "we'll give $20k to whoever gets the most upvotes." It was about participating in a YC program, which this person doesn't seem to have any interest in, or at least wants to fe
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by willu 10y ago
I'm actually impressed by the level of detail provided in the rejections. There's nothing worse than getting a rejection that does not clearly state the reason for the rejection and a path to resolution. Apple and especially Goo
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by willu 10y ago
"The only way to alert a guard was to bang on the door and hope the sound could be heard above the din." Do cells not have cameras? I would think it'd be feasible to detect fights with basic motion detection.
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by willu 11y ago
I have no love for Twitter, Gnip, or the way they've treated API devs over the years but this particular use case (ranking emojis by frequency of use) seems like it could be just as well served by the free sampled stream. I can't
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by willu 11y ago
VS Code is free and open source, so I'd say yes.
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by willu 11y ago
AddStructure - Chicago, NYC - REMOTE - Full Stack Developer Founded in 2014, AddStructure is an angel-backed startup focused on providing state of the art natural language processing applications to large enterprises. Have you ever visited
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by willu 11y ago
AddStructure - Chicago, NYC - REMOTE - Full Stack Developer Founded in 2014, AddStructure is an angel-backed startup focused on providing state of the art natural language processing applications to large enterprises. Have you ever visited
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by willu 11y ago
I don't get it. Because truly innovative companies don't write SQL? Is this some kind of ORM or NoSQL snobbery?
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by willu 11y ago
I know of at least one other Chicago startup (no affiliation) that's been doing this exact thing for a year or two. I'll refrain from name dropping them in OP's announcement thread, but I did notice that any mentions of Yelp
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by willu 11y ago
They almost certainly do not use the API given its limitations, and unfortunately the Yelp folks do have a history of suing crawlers: https://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/califo...
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by willu 11y ago
VBScript is the language of Classic ASP. Many, many sites were written with that technology ~15 years ago and some are still around. An unpleasant language, yes, but certainly not an incompetent decision at the time.
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by willu 11y ago
One of my major hang-ups about transitioning away from SQL Server to Postgres is the productivity that comes from tools like Profiler and Database Engine Tuning Advisor (which uses hypothetical indexes to find performance improvements). Ca
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by willu 11y ago
Given their size and stage at the time it was likely south of 7 figures or very low 7 figures. Considering their acquirer IPO'd soon after, though, the stock portion probably grew in value significantly. (No inside knowledge of course
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by willu 11y ago
One more I'll add to the mix that has come in handy several times: CsQuery jQuery port. https://github.com/jamietre/CsQuery
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by willu 11y ago
Mono support is important for us and I prefer the syntax. It's also handy to be able to serve up ancillary pages like documentation alongside the API.
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by willu 11y ago
Surprised no one has mentioned Nancy: https://github.com/NancyFx/Nancy I can't imagine building APIs without it now.
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by willu 12y ago
What accuracy rate have you seen in the sentiment analysis from AYLIEN? Did you evaluate any others?
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by willu 12y ago
Unfortunately this only reinforces the mystical nature of SEO. 1. Why does Webmaster Tools tell you duplicate titles are a problem but changing them has no impact? 2. Why does repeating pin descriptions improve traffic drastically when
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by willu 12y ago
If you are able to crawl that volume as cheaply as you say, you should definitely be offering it as a service.
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by willu 12y ago
My recommendation would be to make your video more instructional in nature rather than "edgy". Go through some real examples. I watched the video and ran a couple of searches and had no idea what the value was or what I was supp
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by willu 12y ago
You can't register an arbitrary account because it's tied to your employer's payroll system. They'd need to use the account we gave them and never have.
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by willu 12y ago
Our app requires you to log in to do anything. We've supplied a test account to the review team and they have never once bothered to log in but have approved dozens of updates. I guess our splash screen meets their quality guidelines?
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by willu 12y ago
Are EV certs going to remain Business/Enterprise-only?

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