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caseorganic

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About caseorganic

Bipedal life form.

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    Comment #6345062

    There are also Esri maps: https://developers.arcgis.com/en/features/mapping/

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    Comment #6134950

    Love this! It's very intuitive and fun to draw gears of different sizes and hook them together. I'd love to be able to make more complex gears. I immediately tried to make a compou…

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    Comment #5976101

    While Esri HQ is in Redlands, there are an increasing number of R&D Centers around the world. Portland, OR, DC, Scotland, Zurich and China all hire front end and back end devs, UX …

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    Comment #5975605

    While I follow your logic, there are a lot of companies out there like this. They're called "hidden champions" and modern industry has plenty of hidden stories like these. http://e…

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    Comment #5961556

    Glad to see that Yahoo isn't shutting down Pipes yet. I still run a lot of data through that system.

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    Comment #5788845

    Thank you. Initially I sent this to people I knew, and the responses were to be included in a book to be distributed to people interested in hearing stories from programmers. Some …

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    Comment #5788654

    Thank you for your feedback! Made the full name optional and added an anonymous checkbox. All responses will be made anonymous by default.

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    Comment #5753727

    The problem with categories like 'millennials' is that it generalizes an entire generation of people and makes it easy for people not within that group to say rude and untruthful t…

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    Comment #5640254

    We ran a 4-5 person startup from our apartment (and had the servers running in the closet) for a year before we got free office space. I had a different experience where we worked …

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    Comment #5561689

    I thought the same thing until I watched the video. It looks like she categorizes the business as "consulting", which both justifies the prices and irregular schedule of visits and…

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    Comment #5446453

    There are plenty out there, but the overwhelming majority of them are doing their job instead of talking about it.

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    Comment #5446448

    Thank you. I'm much more interested in 'people' in tech and interesting founders. What about the most interesting founders in the class? The most interesting 'people' in the class?…

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    Comment #5375676

    This is a truly wonderful writeup. I especially appreciated the insight that "Marketplaces need a big disconnect between buyers and sellers". I try to tell this to startups that tr…

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    Comment #5275950

    My co-founder and I were sitting in Coupa cafe two years ago with a couple of VCs who told us that the Youtube co-founders had pitched them right from the same booth we were were s…

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    Comment #5220314

    Excellent! So you mean to say that my schoolyard days of being hated for liking computers are going to come back to me as an adult?

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    Comment #5098901

    I have a problem with phrases like "eat your own dog food" because I worked for a company whose founder formerly founded a very large Pet supply company. He told story about actual…

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    Comment #4987376

    Somewhere Street is awesome and a bit like playing a utopian FPS http://www.bestofnhk.tv/?show=Somewhere%20Street%20-%202012-...

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    Comment #4872755

    I always start in my head with the goal of the speech, then I sit down and make a quick outline. I use the outline as a skeletal structure for my slide deck, otherwise I spend hour…

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    Comment #4769849

    Not sure whether to consider this a mental exercise or if this author is serious in his assumptions. If he is serious, the author seems to have forgotten about all of the jobs that…

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    Comment #4724981

    I'd like to, but only if I can export my data later. I like the interface, but don't want another 3rd party keeping my data and evaporating eventually (and unexpectedly). Email inv…

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    Comment #4723578

    Well deserved, and way overdue!

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    Comment #4704671

    In response to: Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4703943

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    Comment #4628600

    When done well, a skeuomorph helps a user to feel comfortable with an interface. Slight textures in digital interfaces help them to feel tactile. Good skeuomorphs take cues from an…