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earle

560 karma · joined March 2, 2008

co-founder hotjobs.com, endgame.com, bastille.io phosphorus.io
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earle··on Hiring a designer is a premature optimization
This makes no sense. A proper product lifecycle begins with design!

This is the fundamental reason why companies like Apple are so successful.

earle··on Ask HN: How much did you earn as an employee from an exit?
This about sums up HN these days -- not a single answer in these 166 responses! Just a bunch of unrelated (and for the most part), uneducated opinions!
earle··on Ask HN: junior hedge fund programmer - what is fair compensation?
You have basically no practical experience, and you're worried about getting "fair compensation" for this job? You should be taking this job to absorb as much practical experience and knowledge you can get -- thats the opportunity for you; not some mediocre paycheck.
earle··on Django Best Practices
http://blog.zacharyvoase.com/2010/02/03/django-project-conve...

Is much more complete IMHO

earle··on Show HN: A Bitcoin casino with 23 games.
You're also probably in violation of some rather serious laws. Talk to an attorney.
earle··on TSA introduces 'known traveller' program to let people skip the airport check
Interesting logic here.. so now an aspiring young terrorist with no real prior history can simply skip all of our security measures for a $150 donation to the TSA?
earle··on Netflix for baby clothes
This is great. I seem to remember something in a slightly different niche back in the mid-late nineties that ran into issues shipping worn clothing.. have you looked into any potential regulations with this?
earle··on Ask HN: What's your most-used function that you wrote yourself?
you do realize half of this is already included in builtins, right?
earle··on Google+ Demo
Flash instead of HTML5.......
earle··on BankSimple: A Bank That Doesn't Suck
I agree -- I've been a USAA customer for twenty years, and they by far have one of the best mobile banking products around. From what I've seen on BankSimple, USAA has already been there for years.
earle··on BankSimple: A Bank That Doesn't Suck
And have been waiting,.. and waiting,... and waiting.... shocked nobody has come around and beat them at their own game it's been so long...
earle··on New Algorithm Impressively Depixelates Pixel Art
DECKARD: Enhance 224 to 176. Enhance, stop. Move in, stop. Pull out, track right, stop. Center in, pull back. Stop. Track 45 right. Stop. Center and stop. Enhance 34 to 36. Pan right and pull back. Stop. Enhance 34 to 46. Pull back. Wait a minute, go right, stop. Enhance 57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop. Enhance 15 to 23. Give me a hard copy right there.
earle··on HTML preview for doc, docx, pdf & rtf
That's been done across online job boards since 1996 when we launched hotjobs. Resumes, although varying aesthetically contain a pretty ridged structure that presents itself well to localized extraction. This allows easy term extraction for searching across a very large data set quickly.

A simple 30 line flex/yacc combo will work effectively at a high ninety percentile

earle··on FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery
This appears to share the same ciphertext characteristics as traditional prison kites.
earle··on Color CEO: The Tech Justifies the $41 Million
Favorite Quote: "Lots of people are trying to create location-based services and using GPS," said Nguyen. "The problem with GPS is that it doesn't work."
earle··on Show HN: Stock Bubbles app, advices?
Here's something similiar I did a couple years back in Raphael:

http://80concepts.com/graph

earle··on Did Vikings navigate by polarized light?
The jet stream was by far a bigger factor in the successful crossing of the Atlantic during those times.
earle··on Ask HN: Review RentPost.com
sorry, but these are just excuses. disrupting process is the entire goal, so start thinking outside the box and figure it out, not avoiding it because its "hard"
earle··on Ask HN: Review RentPost.com
Additionally, since the aforementioned demographics on property owners and management companies is accurate, you should consider alternative tactics.

What about modifying the initial workflow from the Tenants perspective and allow Tenants to make rent payments to Landloards who are not yet even on this site?

Seems like the easiest way to address your potential market (landlords) since there is certainly a huge demographic of renters who would like to use this service from the payment perspective. Changing the focus on the landing page to be directed at the Tenant -- as in PAY YOUR RENT NOW, and focusing on the benefits to the tenant as part of your conversion process.

earle··on Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it
HN only supports 20 req per second???
earle··on A VC: RSS: Not Dead Yet
A more interesting statistic here would be to compare these metrics with those of a more neutral demographic more representative of mainstream internet traffic since readers of AVC are going to be significantly more adept at something like RSS than say, a tmz.com reader.
earle··on Ask HN: Interesting (offline) iPad apps for hackers?
Pro-tip: Forget about an iphone app -- get out and enjoy your life while you're traveling!
earle··on Weekend project TimeToRank.com-How fast can you rank for given keyword?
Well, he did say "weekend project" ;)
earle··on Face Detection jQuery Plugin
Detection is the easy part -- recognition has always been the stumper!
earle··on How fast can you code this?
His example doesnt even find the sum of all the multiples, it just counts them.

s/sum += 1/sum += i/

earle··on A VC: The Treadpad
Except now you cant access the buttons underneath it easily! Bad interface!

Why not just make a nice mounting bracket so you get a better angle for a visual, and don't disrupt the hardware interface to your treadmill?

earle··on Swarmsourcing: Radar Detection
The bigger problem with this strategy is that almost everyone is moving to Laser based detection systems. Detecting at this point simply becomes a notification post-mortem.

Additionally as mentioned in previous comments, a solid radar based detector (X, K, Ka, and Lidar) is very difficult to make a good one. Valentine1 being one of the best available on the market.

For the laser problem, definitely look at laser interceptor USA. These guys showed up to Radar Roy's competition with a winnebago they couldnt get a reading on.

earle··on ClearDB is a database in the cloud
Yeah not much reason to look at this with the much larger proven and inexpensive (even free) solutions out there.

For slick packaging around this type of stuff I'd check out database.com's screenshots

earle··on Wikijerks
and who is the judge to differentiate good and bad secrets?
earle··on Top Startups of 2010
I'd like to see what the total revenue for all ten of these are, because for the most part, almost none of these should be on the list of Top Startups of 2010...
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