AndyJames

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Ask HN: What are some red flags for a CEO in a startup?
7 points by AndyJames 4y ago|6 comments
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by AndyJames 4y ago
I came up with stupid solution but it worked so I don't think it was that stupid. Well over decade ago I was working for tiny digital/advertisement agency. I was website dev/guy dealing with whole IT and next to me was workin
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by AndyJames 4y ago
It's just faster. For many people, including me, clicking trough the DB and figuring out stuff in GUI is faster and easier that doing it from CLI. Usually I still execute final query manually either trough CLI or Adminer but figuring o
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by AndyJames 4y ago
I'm using it for at least last 6 years. I completely ditched PHPMyAdmin in favor of Adminer. An excellent light weight tool that can run wherever there's PHP running. Just one file (two if you like themes like me) and it's wo
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by AndyJames 4y ago
It's more like a man who skied a bit of Mt Everest then tumbled down a bit more and walked the rest
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by AndyJames 4y ago
He's planning euthanasia, he just want to do it before cancer gets him, so yeah if doctors suddenly says "you have couple weeks left" then it's either now or cancer will get him first
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Ask HN: Is JetBrains Russian? Is it safe to use?
42 points by AndyJames 5y ago|22 comments
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Ray Tracing for the TI-84 CE(github.com)
227 points by AndyJames 5y ago|49 comments
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by AndyJames 5y ago
This is fixing that one precise incident he had, nothing else. He said that he came back from the run, turned on screen and the phone shutdown. With this solution the phone would open doors automatically. Cool project but it solves such nar
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by AndyJames 5y ago
If that's any indication of what could be on that system I say it's good it got ransomware
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by AndyJames 5y ago
It's official support document on Nintendo's official website about their newest console. There's not "posted on" date so it's current. Maybe it's not required but it's recommended by Nintendo which i
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by AndyJames 5y ago
Not really. If there's no local law against it then it's legal especially outside the cities.
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by AndyJames 5y ago
Everything goes JS (and derivatives) now. At some point we decided to throw cores and RAM at the problem instead of optimizing for speed with limited resources in mind.
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by AndyJames 5y ago
Yes, the resolution could be higher but for me almost all of the apps (except Zoom) looks great. I would love to have that option today. Old design is much thinner and clearer. Buttons are buttons, they're visible and easy to click, al
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by AndyJames 5y ago
IMHO Windows XP classic view was the best from what Windows offered. To be fair, every design between Windows 95 and XP classic view was good. Icon view was Windows oldschool design that just worked. They could add categories, kind of like
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by AndyJames 5y ago
That's actually skew in another direction. If marketing is not generating sales they're generating job for them self instead.
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by AndyJames 5y ago
Correct answer right here. It's also beneficial do be at least 100 million dollar company
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by AndyJames 5y ago
If you want to sell your product/look for investors you need analytics. The easiest way is to just slap Google snippet in there. If you decide not to do it you're off to self hosted analytics solutions which are just not comparabl
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by AndyJames 5y ago
For me it's the Rails Cast Theme especially version for Sublime Text that is ideal. I wish it would be much widely available https://github.com/jayzelenkov/sublime-railscasts-extended
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by AndyJames 5y ago
Status pages of big companies like Google, Facebook etc. seems to never work. They are all green even when no one can access the service
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by AndyJames 5y ago
It's just a pain in larger organizations that's all. I met developers in my life that have no idea how any of the dev env work, they just code, so if setting up docker dev instance fails because of their machine it require someone
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by AndyJames 5y ago
1-1024 are reserved for root so you can still technically use them. Port 0 is the only one truly reserved/impossible to used
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by AndyJames 5y ago
Is this the talk you're referring to? https://youtu.be/BnSUk0je6oo?t=912
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by AndyJames 5y ago
Find colo with 24/7 access, high up time (good networking, multiple connections to the internet from independent providers and proper setup for working when there's no power) and "remote hands" in case you need to manual