Travis

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by Travis 15y ago
I'm not so sure it's so clear (in research) that some form of public commitment reduces the likelihood of completion. In fact, Robert Cialdini found that commitment was an excellent form of motivation. "If people commit, orally or in writi
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Ask HN: how do I trace routes in a geospatial db?
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by Travis 15y ago
Could you point me to a reference on why you want to record ambient audio to mix in?
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by Travis 15y ago
Aside from the difficulty in uncovering the truth, I think this would be a clear example of criminal fraud. It would take a pretty large effort to cover up something like this, as well (disgruntled ex-employees would be hugely incentivized
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by Travis 15y ago
Gotcha, so it would just depend on what bits in RAM were corrupted (data versus process instructions)? I am curious about a couple of specific use cases that I can think of where this might affect me (and, most likely, would be common point
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by Travis 15y ago
What would be the downside to using non ECC RAM in a heavily loaded server? Would it cause processes to crash?
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by Travis 15y ago
Am I off base to draw a parallel between this and a right to privacy situation? The folks who say, "the only people who worry are the people who have something to hide"? (FTR, totally against that argument...) Off topic, the spirit of the
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by Travis 15y ago
What are the odds the you think any of your files could have a DMCA takedown while on dropbox? I am concerned about the abuses of power under these recent events. However, i still don't see a likely problem for legitimate use (with dropbox
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by Travis 15y ago
With all threat assessments I like to know (appox. to an order of magnitude) the likelihood of any downside. With the M.U. -> dropbox/s3 analogy, I have no guess for an estimate. I'm honestly curious -- what is the likelihood that you
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by Travis 15y ago
Hey I shot you a tweet, I'd be interested in helping migrate the site. Email is in my HN profile, shoot me a message if you're interested.
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by Travis 15y ago
If you haven't yet read it, I also highly recommend, "Nudge". It's similarly eye opening WRT how incentives shape outcomes.
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by Travis 15y ago
The book does address the incongruity between the level of self-control required to rise to a high level of power and the shocking lack of self-control and forethought of a Spitzer type person. It doesn't tackle corruption per se, but does
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by Travis 15y ago
Having just finished reading "Willpower", I wanted to comment here. The primary hypothesis of the book is that humans have a store of "willpower", which is depleted every time we exercise it (including making tough decisions) [see http://
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by Travis 15y ago
I find the comments given as examples of the "blowback" against the post very typical of programmers and fairly revealing. First, does anyone doubt the value of learning Ruby is much greater than $2,800? I imagine the course is targeted at
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by Travis 15y ago
I have 2 pieces of information on which to make a decision regarding godaddy: my experience (including those people that I personally know), and the experiences reported in the "GoDaddy screwing over HN customers" posts. I've never had any
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by Travis 15y ago
Does your contract have a clause for non or late payment? I would begin a paper trail of non-payment. Certified letter notifying that payment is late, and assess late payment fees if not paid by a certain date.
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by Travis 15y ago
Asking for money, rather than equity, strikes me as a large red flag. If he doesn't believe in you enough to sign on for equity, how will he do a good job networking and putting together deals? Investors like to see excitement. His connec
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by Travis 15y ago
I recently installed Piwik (self hosted analytics). In the visitor log, it will show me the ordinal position for that specific visitor. About 50% of my google referrals have this info. I guess sometimes google will send the click positio
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by Travis 15y ago
The XServe line was shut down (although you can still buy the OS X server edition). The Cube was a failure, although I'm not exactly positive it's exactly within 10 years. .Mac (or MobileMe) hasn't been as successful as I think apple believ
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by Travis 15y ago
A hybridized approach may work for you in those higher periods. Depending on your bottlenecks, it may be possible to spin up ec2 instances during your high load periods that will cover your necessary additional capacity. (Esp if you are b
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by Travis 15y ago
What do you use as a replacement for terminal? It was freezing my comp for 2-3 seconds when I'd switch spaces, so I moved to iterm2, and it's not great... I'd like to see something that does a better job allowing me to distinguish sessions
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by Travis 15y ago
Depends on the business plan ;). If the plan is excellent, and actually describes the problem, solution, and route to profit, then it's probably worth a lot. However, if it's like most business plans that I've written or read, then it's pro
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by Travis 15y ago
I'm thinking of this more as a value add for corporate email, actually. I suppose there are already CRM systems out there that do similar features, but it would be interesting to do it in a more open manner. Via POP3 or something, rather
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by Travis 15y ago
In my most recent experience, I had so many different tasks to do that were more important than optimization. By the time I had the bare essential stuff done, I had enough data to start to make decisions on.
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by Travis 15y ago
Is the power of this the Gmail integration, or is the power in the list maintenance? Thinking about the MVP, it would be trivial to write a program that would login to a user's specific POP3/IMAP account, scan for messages from specific sen
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by Travis 15y ago
I think I would prefer to pay off lodsys rather than selling my IP to Apple. Not that I like either option, but I'd rather pay < 1% of my sales rather than let apple own it.
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by Travis 15y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but not everyone has the same ethical sense that you do. I think you would be hard pressed to say that people without those things (art, science, productive work, honesty, etc.) are not surviving. Ma
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by Travis 15y ago
Many web frameworks have these basic building blocks. I'm a PHP guy, so I'd recommend the standard options: Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, etc. They will all do registration, login, profiles, etc., as well as get you security features and a
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by Travis 15y ago
Reminds me of the koan, "Wash the dishes when you are washing the dishes."
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by Travis 15y ago
Broken windows theory has its share of criticism. In Tipping Point (or maybe it was one of his others, or freakonomics), they are able to connect the drop in crime rates with both the legalization of abortion and/or the banishment of leade

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