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Weekend project: Vamoose - Gillian MorrisGillian Morris
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November 18, 2014. One of my favorite things to do over the weekends is to take a sidestep from full time development of Hitlist. My startup, and poke at other ideas that we’d love to eventually address within the travel space. In 48 hours I get to meet new people, learn about the latest technologies, and build and hopefully validate a feature that we might eventually incorporate into Hitlist. This weekend I teamed up with Matt Duran. A student at University of Maryland Baltimore County; Dan Zhang. An op...
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drewdez.com: My First Hackathon
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015 Comments. Since I started teaching myself to program, I’ve been intrigued by hackathons. I love the idea of a short intense team competition but I had stayed away, concerned my programming chops might not be up to par. Last November, I decided to bite the bullet and enter the travel-themed HACK@1050. Before I go into details, let me set the scene. Enter Vamoose a context-aware Chrome extension that helps you bridge the gap between dreaming and booking travel. With a single cl...
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Dan Zhang - Quora
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This page may be out of date. Save your draft. Before refreshing this page. Submit any pending changes before refreshing this page. Computer Engineering PhD student at UT Austin; interned at Microsoft and Apple. Computer Engineering PhD student at UT Austin. Apparently annoying enough to be blocked by Jimmy Wales. Personal website: danzhang.net. 3,082 Answers Most Recent. Should I buy the Surface Book (i7, 16GB, 256) or the MacBook Pro (i7, 16GB, 256)? Previously #1 Most Viewed Writer in Bitcoin. Compute...
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Amadeus Hack@1050 Vamoose | Matt Duran
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Matt Duran: The Da Vinci Coder. HackUMBC 2014: Agile Assault. Pearson Student Coding Contest: Clique. WordPress: Custom Post Type Creator. Vamoose was our submission to the the Amadeus Hack@1050 Hackathon. The event took place in Weltham, Boston and lasted two days. My team consisted of Gillian Morris. The second way was created by Brian Shaler. Using natural language processing (two javascript libraries called Readability and Node Natural) the extension was able to extract a location from an article...
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Gillian - Gillian MorrisGillian Morris
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Forming an Advisory Board that’s not horrible. March 26, 2015. In my last monthly company update. I asked for advice on how to form an advisory board. Here’s a distillation of the feedback I got. WHEN TO FORM AN ADVISORY BOARD. Not too early. “Advisory boards are super helpful (and cheap) if done right, and an expensive (in equity) waste of time if done wrong. – Josh Elwell. A partner at ValueStream Labs. Principal, Financial Services Office at Ernst and Young (h/t to Betsy Mikel. Of Women 2.0. Advisory ...
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Hackathon Archives - Gillian MorrisGillian Morris
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November 18, 2014. One of my favorite things to do over the weekends is to take a sidestep from full time development of Hitlist. My startup, and poke at other ideas that we’d love to eventually address within the travel space. In 48 hours I get to meet new people, learn about the latest technologies, and build and hopefully validate a feature that we might eventually incorporate into Hitlist. This weekend I teamed up with Matt Duran. A student at University of Maryland Baltimore County; Dan Zhang. An op...
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