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heezo

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About heezo

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    Comment #12144194

    I was really hoping for a Planet Rock reference.

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    Comment #11316659

    Unfortunately, no. However, we are excited to move into all of the places that can't afford Park Chicago.

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    Comment #11316581

    Absolutely. We work with the current infrastructure. This means the coin based meters, or kiosks, etc. Our goal is to keep their costs down, by integrating with whatever they have.…

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    Comment #11316541

    I forgot to add, PPA lost only $100K in ticket revenue.

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    Comment #11316536

    Actually, a counter example of this is when the City of Pittsburgh rolled out kiosks to accept credit cards. In the 2011 fiscal year, the Parking Authority earned $7.1 million from…

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    Comment #11316520

    Great question. We only store the data the the municipality needs to enforce tickets. All personal data is stored directly on the phone.

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    Comment #11315940

    Thanks, Norman. We've recently rolled out to a few more areas around Pittsburgh. Looks like there are another five, in Southwester PA, switching to us over the next few months.

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    Comment #11315281

    Hi, I’m Jim the CEO of Meter Feeder. We are excited to announce our product and that we are participating in Y Combinator W16. My co-founder and I are passionate about the pains of…

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    Comment #11197835

    I pay $6/sq ft for my office in Braddock, right outside of Pittsburgh, PA. ...that's $6/sq ft for a year. So two months paying for my two bedroom apartment, in Mountain View, can g…

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    Comment #11155396

    Unfortunately, no. There was no rhyme or reason to the way that they formatted the names. I guess I could implement a fuzzy search, but I'm still at work.

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    Comment #11155132

    Hey, I'm Jim. We made the page, to make everyone's life a little easier (SFMTA's PDF process was a little cumbersome). Hopefully, you get some money. If you don't, that's still goo…

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    Comment #11154978

    Thanks for this. I scraped all of the PDF data, and threw it in a DB. Now it's searchable. http://sfmtarefund.com

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    Comment #10308531

    At least they're trying...amirite?

  16. story
    “The Ethnic List”

    So, here's an interesting tid-bit. I just got an email from Google. I began the interview process with them last year, but stopped in order to pursue other opportunities. Well, the…

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    Comment #8096941

    Unfortunately, I'm still having an issue with this. ...if I only knew more about computers. :(

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    Comment #7963716

    I use this API daily. I agree with some of the others. It works. I don't really care if it's REST or not. Of course, if the API is going to be growing, you may want to organize it …

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    Comment #7401091

    There were 2 women in my class, my first year at CMU. Really helped me to focus on my studies. Anyway, it's hard to do better. I'm just glad that they are.

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    Comment #7277422

    So...there's a New Jersey? Sorry, I had to. :/

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    Comment #6876971

    As a black American, I wish that I were suprised at some of the comments in the video.

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    Read the fine manual

    Many times, people never look at the documentation that I write. So I made a grunt task, that slurps in the properly formatted documentation. The task then creates a js file. When …