abbottry

Joined 15 years ago

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Co-founder of @scienceexchange (Science Exchange, YC S11) and @loudpixel, Web Developer, Thinker, Do-er, CrossFitter. Michigan resident.
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Comment · 9 years ago
"The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness" by Todd Rose.
Comment · 9 years ago
Miami tried this, made tolls $7+, it did nothing. And because they put up barriers between the express (toll) lanes and regular lanes, when someone got in an accident in the express lanes, it was FAR slower than the regular lane. The mentality was/is '$7, well its worth it because I can't sit in traffic'
Comment · 10 years ago
Came here to mention this exact thing -- you don't even have to be an attending, my wife and I have this loan through a different company, and she is still a resident. We had banks fighting over our mortgage. No money down, no PMI, and they portfolio the loan instead of selling it right away like a standard mortgage. We live in a Detroit suburb.
Comment · 10 years ago
The largest issue I've run into with respect to issue tracking is making it accessible and easy to use/understand for the entire team. Non-technical team members don't have GH accounts, they don't know if what they are seeing is a bug, they don't know if its already been reported (because they don't understand the root cause), always seem to be afraid of doing it wrong.

Further, a tool that tracks the resolution of issues into a simple to read 'This was just deployed' or some kind of digest would be insanely useful. It's not an easy task, but so often someone is waiting for a fix, or waiting for a feature, and then gets upset or something gets overlooked because they didn't know the feature/bug was deployed.

Something simple, with an app-store style approach to customization could be really handy.

Comment · 11 years ago
Should checkout http://scienceexchange.com/ while not the target, you can get access to super computers through the marketplace.
Comment · 12 years ago
I don't think you understand. There is NOTHING in these houses. Its old, rotten wood, and crumbling brick.

The purchase of homes in Detroit is NOT to sell or repurpose ANYTHING.

I work downtown, and drive through these neighborhoods every single day to avoid traffic (thanks Google!).

Comment · 12 years ago
Property taxes in Detroit are surprisingly expensive.
Comment · 12 years ago
This assumes that each home has not already been stripped of copper, which is not the case. Most of these homes are bricks and wood.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
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Comment · 13 years ago
Can you offer your general location? Might help those of us with connections that might offer employment opportunities you'd be interested in.
Comment · 13 years ago
40 comments, not one trace of "Congrats", who cares what Obamas intentions were, for any founder out there you know this is exciting -- HN is becoming difficult to read.

Congrats guys, it has to feel great having something like this go so well!

Comment · 13 years ago
As Miami as the Miami Dolphins.. are you suggesting that Miami is drastically different than it's surrounding area.. the city limits of Miami are quite large, and have many different types of neighborhoods. I love that everyone that lives in Miami thinks they are different, and never want to be grouped with 'outsiders' (folks that live in neighboring counties), but anyone that doesn't, considers all Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach the same. It's always referred to as SFL, South Florida.. All the startups, investors, etc mentioned in articles like this are not located IN Miami.. they are spread across SFL.

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