tereno
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Posted by
tereno on Sunday March 03, 2013 @12:37PM
from the self-post dept.
Hey fellow hackers,We're fxLabs and we're based out of Toronto, Canada. If you're interested in creating cool graphs and experimenting with all sorts of different technologies, we'd really love to talk to you. A preview of what we do: http://fxtrade.oanda.com/analysis/labs/. If you have an idea, you code it and you make it happen. That's how we roll. On the business side, we make products that...
Days off on all Saturdays would be ideal. Fun and games I think should be random and during the 40 hours of the work week.
Terribly sorry but I have accepted a job offer. I do appreciate the opportunity to talk to you guys though. Good luck finding someone!
I would love to hear how you guys got your gigs? I'm looking to do something on the side but haven't been able to find anything concrete.
I'm based in Toronto but I'll give it a shot nonetheless.
I'll hit up Google and go find some. Are there any specific forums/sites you can recommend?
Posted by
tereno on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @09:53AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hi guys,I'm looking to build a company around education and would love some ideas or thoughts from my fellow HN'ers.I personally think that education is an equalizer and something that can help individuals get out of poverty. That's one of the main reasons why I wanted to get into the education industry. There are too many youths out there today that don't get the help they need.Anyway, my main...
Thanks for setting this up! I am looking to get into the education space and am trying to generate some ideas on how I can build a business around education that is sustainable. If any of you have ideas, I would be happy to hear it.
How did you figure out your pricing scheme and did you suspect people might need and pay for this before actually building it?
I would love to have a chat with you about your experience, if you don't mind that is?
If it works, fantastic but I'm really curious if people would submit their email address for something they have absolutely no idea about.
Congratulations and it sounds extremely inspiring to hear someone is doing something about education. I would love to get into the education space but I can't seem to pinpoint an idea that's sustainable.
If you have a moment, I would love to have a chat about the challenges you faced when you first began and so on. I know you're still facing challenges but I think the fact that you've proven to get the initial traffic is a big win. I think one of the biggest proponents you can do is to get your customers to sell for you - get the parents to spread it to their friends and other parents.
I'd say kudos to the lad for his work. It's a fairly decent idea but I personally wouldn't use it. Never really like any of those "play something random" stuff. Someone out there might love this idea though. With Google Instant, I felt that the speed of change was quite drastic. Every single letter I typed caused the UI to change. Don't really fancy it now but we'll see!
When you're a business who's non-technical, you probably wouldn't know a thing about upgrade. All you cared would be minimal cost for maximum ROI. I would agree they are poorly managed - some people assume IT is easy. Clearly, it's not.
Unfortunately that's what they've been doing for years and years now.. IE 6 is definitely reaching its end of life and companies that depend on it are unfortunate. Probably at the time, they never thought of designing a system that would be independent of the platform. All new PCs come with IE 7 or 8. Applications that only run on IE 6 would mean they would only run on Win XP - companies would have to upgrade as any new computer that they purchase will most likely be incompatible with their application based on IE 6.