jharper

Re:Any Hackers in Charlotte, NC? on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @12:56PM (#145842)

What's everybody's background?

I'm currently coding in Ruby on Rails. Studied CS and Math at Appalachian State (graduated in 2004). Working at Enventys in Charlotte (http://www.enventys.com).

We could definitely meet up at the Enventys facilities ... cool place to hang out.

Any Hackers in Charlotte, NC?

Posted by jharper on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @09:27AM
from the self-post dept.

I have an excellent location if you guys would like to meet up for beers, gaming, and coding.

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Re:Hacker News "Submit" functionality needs a Digg-like duplicate alert on Monday March 24, 2008 @02:07PM (#144795)

Human dupe-detection would be an excellent extension to this process.

Hacker News "Submit" functionality needs a Digg-like duplicate alert

Posted by jharper on Monday March 24, 2008 @01:43PM
from the self-post dept.

Do you guys agree? I hate posting dupes ... but this site doesn't exactly discourage it.

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Re:Hacker Music on Monday March 24, 2008 @01:34PM (#144754)

I just purchased "TRANCE" on itunes ... pretty good so far.

Re:Hacker Music on Monday March 24, 2008 @12:23PM (#144672)

Vultures (John Mayer)

Lose Yourself (Eminem)

Hacker Music

Posted by jharper on Monday March 24, 2008 @12:13PM
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What songs/artists really get you pumped up for programming? What genres are generally the best? Thanks!

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Is $20K worth of development worth 1% of company?

Posted by jharper on Tuesday March 11, 2008 @06:39PM
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A friend of mine, who is a mechanical engineer, has secured funding for his startup.The investor is getting 5% of his company for $100K.Should I offer $20K worth of development for 1% of his startup? I would come up with an approximate time commitment by converting $20K to hours using a $50/hour contract rate (which is what I can easily get in the market right now).The product is a medical...

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Re:Ask YC: Why do you recommend a Macbook? on Friday March 07, 2008 @03:57PM (#131491)

Synergy of ...

- An apple interface (streamlined and beautiful).

- Awesome performance/security/organization of unix.

Re:Ask YC: What is your preferable development environment? on Thursday March 06, 2008 @08:16PM (#130968)

Same + Cocoa Mysql + Unfuddle

Re:Heroku (YC Startup) Launches API and External Git Access on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @12:48PM (#128978)

That's pretty fucking slick guys

Re:Ask YC: How many people here have a degree and are programmers? on Thursday February 07, 2008 @01:26PM (#111158)

BS Applied Math

BS Comp Science (both at Appstate)

Former Java programmer; current language is Ruby, professionally.

Re:How old are you and what is your education level? on Friday October 05, 2007 @11:07AM (#63607)

25 (B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Comp Sci)

Re:Has the modern university become just another corporation? on Saturday September 29, 2007 @07:51PM (#61159)

That would be awesome. I wish our schools were run like businesses.

There would probably be less porn stars coming to speak for "diversity" week ...

Re:If you care about your rights, don't buy an iPhone on Saturday September 29, 2007 @07:11PM (#61141)

I agree. But why would you post that using an iPhone? :)

Re:IDEAS WANTED : How to create Buzz for new Start-up? on Friday September 28, 2007 @11:57AM (#60648)

Good stuff sharpshoot!