KevinEldon

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   by KevinEldon 15y ago

   I've read a few of the very technical responses and they are great, but, for me, the take away was the audience response. It's exactly what I look for when I write software. I want that gasp, that moment where someone realizes they can do
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   by KevinEldon 15y ago

   I can vouch for the engages women... Pinterest has the secret sauce. My wife and her friends absolutely love it and get a lot of value and inspiration from the photos and links. At first glance my thought was that it would be an amazing ad
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   by KevinEldon 15y ago

   I agree. Other users have different perspectives and problems. Isn't this what hacking is? Taking something someone else worked on, making it work for you, and sharing what you accomplished.
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   by KevinEldon 15y ago

   This is a marketing piece targeted at decision making managers or architects who have to justify their decision to activist decision making managers. Which is ok, Oracle knows who pays the bills.
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   by KevinEldon 15y ago

   MapReduce wasn't my first thought, but that has more to do w/ my inexperience than anything else. The cost though... that was shocking! It comes out to about $42/month to host the data and a $2 per analysis run. That's very affordable if
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   by KevinEldon 15y ago

   HP says they're getting ready to spin off or sell their PC division. According to this article that would be mean the new company or the acquiring company would: - Be the #1 PC manufacturer - Be the #2 tablet manufacturer - Have a 1
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   by KevinEldon 15y ago

   This base class (all your methods are belong to us?) is amusing, but the screencasts on Destroy All Software are pretty helpful. The $9/month was worth it for the continuous performance testing w/ RSpec explanation: https://www.destroyall
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   by KevinEldon 15y ago

   If JRuby deploys then I'd suspect that Jython would too.
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   by KevinEldon 15y ago

   HP is not developing hardware for WebOS. They will probably try and license the software. Spinning off the PC division might actually allow their consumer products to get the right focus and agility to compete against Apple on something o
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    by KevinEldon 15y ago

    I understand how this might work technically, but don't see why an ISP or heavily trafficked web-business would be motivated to deploy and maintain one of these Telex stations over the long term. You'd be adding an extra point of failure,
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    by KevinEldon 15y ago

    Although the article says ISP, what they mean is any intermediate hop between the requester and the destination. So any network outside of the control of the censoring government could provide this service.
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    by KevinEldon 15y ago

    Curating a large photo library is easy. Just don't worry about it until you actually want to worry about it. I take a few hundred photos every month, rarely delete any of them. Every once in a while I'll group the photos together by the
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    by KevinEldon 15y ago

    I don't think this strategy is unethical; it is really risky... probably so risky that it's naive for the long term. It's not unethical because the buyer in this case can't really buy up all of the supply and therefore is just looking for
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    by KevinEldon 15y ago

    Congratulations! Way to not only capitalize on your talent, but to make sure you're not encumbered by debt in the future. Best of luck to you and your soon-to-be-wife.
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    by KevinEldon 16y ago

    Awesome! Man, the idea of leaving a paying gig for freelance is both terrifying and exhilarating. Glad to see you're making it work. Best of luck to you.
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    Ask HN: Any mid-life career change hackers out there?

    2 points by KevinEldon 16y ago|4 comments
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    by KevinEldon 16y ago

    "Las Vegas, Phoenix, Los Angeles, even Atlanta, they're all unsustainable." What? Where did you get this information? I live it Atlanta and although we did have a drought a couple years ago, we've also had record rainfalls since then. Water
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    by KevinEldon 16y ago

    I think you're exactly right and I'd add the enterprise cloud is about giving large customers faster provisioning and more control over their costs. Enterprises will have a mix of cloud apps and apps on fixed assets. HP will just offer bo
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    by KevinEldon 16y ago

    "Get 37signals style customer support for $3k/month" is a pretty compelling pitch. This type of service seems like the perfect fit for a growing startup. The founders and early hires can focus on building product value and don't need to g