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I've been scouring the net looking for this data. For instance it is easy to find a list of cities, zip codes, counties etc. But I am looking for something more local. Any help loc…

Interesting case study that was able to buck the trend is Atlassian software. I have personally seen bottom up influence in 3 large publicly traded companies land Atlassian very ni…

Setting up a challenger to QuickBooks does sound dull. Setting up a challenger to SAP on the other hand does not sound dull. Wanna see a cool B2B company? Check out a tool called C…

Hi Everyone, I would be very appreciative if you would review my weekend project. This is my first release of this project and I have tons of work left to fully realize my vision. …

This is exactly how I got my start in software. I was hired to walk a warehouse at a furniture retailer and take inventory with pencil and paper. At this time I had 0 computer expe…

I see some very interesting comments on this thread. I remember not long ago lots of people where upset that people where scraping stackoverflow and getting a higher ranking in goo…

Estimation seams hard because of two reasons. 1) Very few individual contributors responsible for providing estimates ever invest the time necessary to learn how to perform estimat…

This guy is so off the radar it is a wonder why he is allowed to publish this stuff. I will just add two points. 1) Facebook, Google, and other silicon valley companies are far fro…

This may work for hiring interns but IMO there is a lot more that goes into a quality Sr. Engineer than can be identified through analyzing a candidates code commits. A few example…

WOW! I must say that I am actually surprised how many people have replied that they do little or no testing. Perhaps this is because I am in the enterprise development world as opp…

I don't find an applicable selection for my company. We write and run so many tests that it is a full time job curating the test suites that should be run prior to code delivery. B…

Can you build a business on data that you do not own or have control over? What is your plan if the usage rules change, you get request limited or your dependency disappears altoge…

You need to have a solution to a problem people are willing to pay money for. You are not likely to find that by asking on YC. Your best bet is to pick a long term software develop…

As more processing moves to the client side, would it not helpful to allow site admins to protect the source code in their Javascript? Perhaps by encrypting the Javascript files an…

I have argued JS as an intro language for years. My main argument has been not based on language features which I feel are unimportant in forming a young programmers mind but rathe…

I don't see how this valid commentary on client side templates. In general, most implementations I've worked with store the markup in a script element so it is not rendered by the …

Anything other than UI?

Yes, top secret... lol Here is a link to my prototype: http://www.thesaverssecret.com/ One think I forgot to mention is that this website has very good rankings in google for the f…

This is a secret... but... Here is a very, very rough version of the new UI.

A couple months ago I was approached by a good friend (we will call him Sam) who was taking a job with a large company with strict IP rules. Sam owned a free classifieds website th…