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by Woost 15y ago
Just as a warning: If you/anyone decides to self host a chef server, you have to get the chef-server cookbook (or your couchdb will never get compacted) and you can't be running ruby 1.9.1 (or the server will have ~1 week uptime before cr
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by Woost 15y ago
Ideas don't have a dollar value. I'm guessing that not one company who signs a licensing agreement with the patent troll does so because they want access to a library of ideas. They do it because they're working to build a real product, and
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by Woost 15y ago
The more interesting question here isn't "what % take in the most money" but what kind of money can you expect to see? As in, if you write an iphone/ipad app, what are the maximum returns you could see? It'd also be interesting to find out
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by Woost 15y ago
To join the rest of the people: We create separate accounts on all of our production and staging servers for every developer. We switched to this after I had to stay about 5 hours late one night to switch all of our passwords on all our ser
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by Woost 15y ago
I admit that's the way I phrased it, but I meant to say "Why iOS when you have other avenues if you want to work on your own thing?" In other words, iOS seems to be a very bad choice for someone who wants to make money, when you could do a,
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by Woost 15y ago
Am I reading that right? 100k lifetime value seems to be near the top end of what you can expect from one app. A reasonable salary at a normal job for a senior-level developer is near or a little better than that. If you want to succeed bet
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by Woost 15y ago
That article was a little lite on details, does anyone have any idea how groupon will get the details about when you spend money at the merchant? Obviously it's not from the banks, so they must have a deal with merchants. But that deal woul
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by Woost 15y ago
Can you expand on why you think that is? (not arguing, just curious as to your reasoning)
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by Woost 15y ago
I read it as the first form. I was trying to offer at least one example of why I do not think TDD is the OTM. I read the criminal part of the OP as hyperbole. The article does say there are uses for TDD, (not sure how to do quotes on HN) "W
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by Woost 15y ago
So it's worse than I thought. How does California justify collecting sales tax from Amazon if Amazon has no affiliate network there, no advertising there, and no real presence?
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by Woost 15y ago
Straw man? Where I work about half the developers believe that TDD is the One True Way. Unfortunately, this includes the CTO, who wants to force every developer to practice TDD. (along with other 'agile' methods) When I've worked on somethi
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by Woost 15y ago
I can't seem to find a non-fluff writeup of this story, though I've found a bunch of similar versions. From my understanding of the issue, California passed a law redefining "presence" in a state so as to include companies which have affili
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by Woost 15y ago
I did not mean you, literally. People who live in states with specific protections regarding side projects are obviously not going to have contracts which contradict the law. But that's by far the minority of workers in the US. The only sta
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by Woost 15y ago
For development work, contracts stating ALL work belongs to the company is very common. Actually, it's almost universal. A few states have laws that says that clause is void (cali being one of them), but most states don't. If you decline
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by Woost 15y ago
Yes, that was my point. A decent car will put you at least 10k in the hole, unless you have the cash to buy used from someone who isn't a dealer.
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by Woost 15y ago
A big part of it (I think) is the student loan debt. 80,000 is huge, and can lead to just giving up and spiraling(I already owe 80k, what's another 2?) The car loan is really low, 10k is just about as cheap as you can get a new car for, and
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by Woost 15y ago
Percona always seems to have good articles. I think, as he said, everyone shouldn't run out and replace a mysql job queue for their wordpress blog. In a great many cases it doesn't matter. I also like how he never said "Don't use mysql as a
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by Woost 15y ago
How does the US unemployment office look at someone declining a job offer due to a refusal to sign non-compete (or other part of the employment contract)? Is it the same as if the person got a valid job offer and refused (so they lose unemp
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by Woost 15y ago
From an employee's or an employer's point of view? A non-compete makes complete sense from an employer's point of view for an employee filling a critical function. If you're running a business and hire a CTO, having them sign a non-compete
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by Woost 15y ago
What about Groupon paying 10k/month for data on what other deal sites are doing? How much interest there is in, say, food+bar deals would seem to be fairly valuable to their sales force...
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by Woost 15y ago
This still doesn't deal with the problem of "what you work on isn't your choice" If I get assigned to, maybe, improve the front page by implementing a design from the graphic designer who gets paid more if the front page drives more signups
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by Woost 15y ago
Yeah, he has really good descriptions of the various algorithms, with examples.
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by Woost 15y ago
This article is a bit late. Anyone who has been keeping up with the Diginotar etc stuff knows that: 1, Diginotar is dead in the water now (they've been effectively killed off by browser vendors) 2. The exact problem here is very well known.
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by Woost 15y ago
Aww, I missed the deadline to register :(
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by Woost 15y ago
I don't have the details, but a modified SSH client could be modified to leak the private key. A modified ssh server can't, since the server never gets the key. Additionally, from this article: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Kerne
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by Woost 15y ago
I'd like to see a study/some evidence that shows that Pandora has low ROI. For the business I'm at now, it has just about the best ROI of any ad source. (obviously I can't go into too much detail here) As for DJs, did the author completely
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by Woost 15y ago
I recently (past couple of months) had to look at chef vs puppet. I went with Chef, since it seemed easier to setup, and I liked the methodology behind it better. That said, there are a few issues around its choice of dependencies (solr, ho
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by Woost 15y ago
Is there an actual presentation version of it? I've tried reading through those slides, but I lose concentration after about the 3rd one because it's too disjointed.