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> This is for the MVP, and shouldn't take a competent developer more than a week working with Google APIs or equivalent. A good developer should be able to crank this out in a day or two. I'm tempted just so I can use the functionality to plan my trip!

I assume you're not a developer?

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Yeah he wants a geographical recommendation system with tons of data that likely don't even exist online like restaurant menus, and have that quickly hacked in a week.

I'm not looking for anything that isn't online already. I would be happy with JUST the results available in Google Maps, in fact.

I'm not asking for restaurant menus; the restaurants ARE categorized in Google Maps already.

I know exactly what data is available, and how I'd code it. I just don't have the time.

http://xkcd.com/1425/

I'm surprised recognizing an animal in a photo is his example. Apparently computers are already almost as accurate as people. https://karpathy.github.io/2014/09/02/what-i-learned-from-co...

Yeah, and it only took like 50 years. Easy. Next problem?

And location data in the photo only required relativity and space travel.

Hey, shorter than it took evolution.

Good point. I'd be curious about the person-hours worked on both the problems in the comic.

My first reaction was "you'd have to explain some things are easy cause there's libraries/tech that does that". I guess the real explanation is " countless hours and dollars spent by others who came before us make this easy...".

No, I'm an awesome developer. But I mostly do games, video streaming, and app development, so I don't know the relevant Web APIs.

Would probably take me 3-4 solid days to get to MVP, maybe even the full first week, given that I'd be slowed down by the learning curve. But I'm also very busy (see: "I'm an awesome developer").

Action speaks louder than words

And your action is to downvote the truth because I haven't spent 40-60 hours proving that I am an awesome developer? Sorry, I don't feel the need to prove anything to you or anyone I'm not currently interviewing with. My resume speaks for itself.

It's also about five hours of work to just do it the boring way by hand. An 8-12 year amortization of a project that people have argued eloquently is a total waste of time as a start-up? Why wouldn't I work on something I cared more about, instead?

Hey Tim,

So what did you end up doing for your roadtrip? Did you find a tool or did you just do it on your own? I'd be curious to see what you ended up using.

Thanks

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