bjpless's comments

Interesting, I'll check that out. It's presumably a javascript error that I can't reproduce but here is the direct link to plan a trip:

https://villagersapp.com/app/trips/new/edit

This is a great and valid question along with a helpful citation. Here are some counterpoints:

1) I would argue that that perspective misses a number of travel consumer apps like AirBnB.

2) I've bootstrapped this business and, while I do think that it could eventually morph into a regularly engaging social network or a tool for professional trip leaders (who would invalidate the limited usage point as power users), a healthy lifestyle business outcome would be reasonably ok (if not desirable) by me personally. I don't believe that I could have bootstrapped this company in 2012 (the date of that article) given the startup ecosystem and, frankly, this is a passion project after having previously worked at and founded SaaS fintech companies.

3) I do expect group travel to grow a ton over the next few years if people continue to work remotely. The evidence of mass social alienation is clear and folks have previously unheard of flexibility to travel.

Any other locations / dates that I could propose that would interest folks?

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Our support and sales teams have been using this email relay tool to nice effect. We send gifts to our prospects and users within Streak and Desk to demo the product or win back customers.

I'm just using (bad) third-party projections for now with the assumption that people who want to use my tool will be bringing their own projections to the table.

I also feel for Danilo...so many surgeries.

Just wanted to release it as quickly as possible. Referral codes coming soon.

Point of this tool is that you plug in your own projection values and it computes the best possible lineup.

Ha, that's awesome to hear. That last sentence is gold.

It's a side project for now. But, in theory, I'd like to continue building cool utilities for daily fantasy sports betting leagues. That market is growing quite quickly and the tech is pretty poor.

Yeah, it's something that can consume a ton of hours manually -- and, at the end of the day, there's no way to be certain that you've actually optimized given your budget constraints.

Thanks porter!

I just finished the class. Hoping to post the recorded video in a little bit.

That's a great question. Developer bootcamps are a huge time (3 months) and financial ($10k) commitment. Lots of risk if you're uncertain about your interest/proficiency in coding.

I played in the World Series of Poker in 2010 (the worst experience ever) and then quit completely. I was sick of the whole thing.

Seconded. Hard to imagine all employees signing off on this release for the sake of a HN article. But I hope that they did. I would be very upset if my salary were published unbeknownst to me.

Very true.

Not the same thing, but I'm the creator of EngineHere. We're a teaching platform for coding that connects groups of students with instructors in for real-time virtual classes.

We'll definitely offer C++ in the near future (plus Haskell, Erlang, and other esoteric languages).

Real-time Office Hours for top Open Source Library Authors/Contributors.

It's Google Hangouts but with a focus on expressing coding concepts.

Looks like this http://www.enginehere.com/stream/312/programmatically-disabl...

I have some friends who could teach Erland and Go. If that sounds interesting, signup for the site or otherwise let me know and I'll try to make it happen!

Hey Karunamon. I was thinking about adding a registration form for rails as well but I decided to keep things simple (maybe a mistake in retrospect...).

If you're interested, sign up and I'll put it together.