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by abyssknight 15y ago
Anything you could do to promote the Greater Orlando Hackerspace, FamiLAB, would be awesome. :) We're building our reputation right now, but really need to expand our membership so we can move to a bigger location (to house our bigger machi
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Architects design systems of systems, developers build systems, programmers write code. While it may be true that the former can do the job of all their successors, it is not true in the reverse. I won't disagree that programming is what we
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Programmer, Developer or Architect? They're very different paradigms. I'd bet your 200k range is mostly Architects. The Developers and Engineers in the middle, with "Programmers" at the bottom.
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I have to agree, and planned to comment just to say the same. SQL Server is incredibly powerful, easy to use, and scales okay . If StackOverflow is any indication, people are seriously underestimating (and mis-representing) the Microsoft o
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by abyssknight 15y ago
But are they happy? A simple question, but one that no doubt should be answered. Pay is just one variable, and perhaps the least important of all.
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by abyssknight 15y ago
This was introduced a few years back, not sure how this is new, as they were doing the same, exact demo.
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I sense disagreement due to the down votes. Care to discuss? I'm actually interested to hear someone else's viewpoint on this. :)
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by abyssknight 15y ago
There's the thing with good developers. We tend to fit into the INTP range of things, but many flop over to the INFJ and INFP realms as well. Meaningful work, as it were, is incredibly important to the latter two. That's not to say the INTP
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by abyssknight 15y ago
You're going to get a lot of varied responses to this inquiry depending on individual biases. There are some political articles that are worth discussing here on HN, and there are others which simply encourage malicious trolling. Personally
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Agreed. I live in the southeast USA, and that kind of money for a developer is crazy talk. Our cost of living is a lot lower, though. All that aside, $5 for an app that truly is amazing, wouldn't be a stretch for me. heck, I bought Deliveri
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Or do what I did, drop a shiny new SSD and more RAM in your 15" MacBook Pro 2007. Yeah, I'm cheap, but I also know there will be shinier things in the next 6-12 months. For ~$300 I get the performance of a brand new MacBook Air (same C2D ch
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Thanks for stopping by to provide this clarification, and additional information. It means a lot that you took the time to post, especially in this venue, about what's happening with Rackspace and startups. Definitely looking forward to the
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Is it just me, or is this not a "program" but a sponsorship of other incubators? I'm sorry, but this looks nothing like Microsoft's BizSpark, or some of the other offerings for start ups. If you want me to use your platform for my entire b
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I stay productive with meaningful deadlines. If it doesn't have a solid deadline, you're not likely to see it 'on time'. Ever had someone tell you, "Oh, just whenever you get a chance..." and then 3 months later you find the frantically scr
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Honestly, I didn't use one. I thought I was going to need a book or two to get started, but all I did was sign up for EC2, launch a Micro Instance with the Amazon Linux 32bit Image (eligible for the free tier), downloaded the keys, and ssh'
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I know the team behind this app. I'm not sold on it, myself, but I think if anyone can do it these guys can. They created MyBlogLog before it was bought, languished, and killed by Yahoo. The platforms they've built are amazing, and the shee
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Not mine. Sorry, just closed my account and moved to the AWS free tier for the next year. I love the SliceHost model, but they just aren't playing the game anymore. Linode provides 512mb of RAM for the same price as the 256mb SliceHost offe
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by abyssknight 15y ago
Founders have to sell. ;) Seriously, the code, methodology, and everything else comes second. Execution, which drives the sale, comes first. If you can convince your salespeople of how great the product is, then you're gold. Its a lot easie
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by abyssknight 15y ago
I like to make money building things, but honestly, that isn't why I do it. Actually, I typically switch jobs when I don't like what I'm building. Billions or hundreds, that shouldn't change who you are. If it does, perhaps you were never t
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by abyssknight 15y ago
This. I was born in the UK, and I still have family there. They all have private insurance for this very reason.
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by abyssknight 15y ago
This is exactly what I came here to say. Thank you for saving me the time, and doing so far more eloquently than I would have. Using the correct tool for the job is the only thing that matters in this situation; dogma is the bane of product
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by abyssknight 16y ago
Thanks. Hit me up off HN if you ever need someone to share your frustration. :)
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by abyssknight 16y ago
Working with FAMiLab on creating a low cost sensor battery for classrooms as part of the Element-14 Great Global Hackerspace Challenge. Otherwise, trying desperately to get out of a recent spout of burnout, loss of motivation, and chronic p
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by abyssknight 16y ago
Sidenote: Linode will do 32bit images, which so far, has been proven to lower the memory needs of some processes. SliceHost/Rackspace Cloud only run 64bit images, AFAIK, unless this has been resolved since I last checked. You also get 512mb
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by abyssknight 16y ago
Capistrano and Deprec can help with this stuff. Should come up in a quick Google search. It does use Ruby, but you can use it with PHP and anything else you want to. Deprec has recipes for setting up the entire LAMP stack.
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by abyssknight 16y ago
A lot of .NET hate these last couple days. I consider myself a polyglot, but most of the work I do these days is in .NET. I agree, there's no limitation on what you can do with the languages -- its the frameworks that limit you. Isn't that
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by abyssknight 16y ago
I'd check out the searchyc.com engine for answers, but off the top of my head: * SliceHost/Rackspace Cloud * Linode * EC2 (carefully) * Web Faction
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by abyssknight 16y ago
It's just your password. I don't get why this is such a huge issue. Your precious username and email are still 100% secure. As easy as it is to set up SSL these days, I refuse to use that phrase: "I don't get why this is such a huge issue."
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by abyssknight 16y ago
I think you're almost hitting a great point home: git solves a different problem than subversion, just one in the same domain.
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by abyssknight 16y ago
Just to play devil's advocate here, and definitely not disagreeing with you, but... Do you know how we communicated changes before git and other team tools? With our voices, markers, and boards. If your team steps on each other's toes, migh

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