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by akg_67 13y ago
I did it and so can you! At age 33, I switched to technology (not programming) from a totally unrelated field (with three degrees in this unrelated field). Late last year I learnt PHP and SQL on my own and with Twitter Bootstrap, I launched
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by akg_67 13y ago
Thanks for the info. My site also has low traffic. The site sucks up lot of CPU and Memory during processing and large DB tables. It is primarily data analytics driven and does lot of dM/ML work. I will try out DO.
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by akg_67 13y ago
Recently, I have been looking into DO to move my site from shared hosting. I wish they had prepackaged LAMP Droplets to speed up migration. Is anyone using DO with MariaDB, PHP, and Python? Also, are there any restrictions on what can'
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by akg_67 13y ago
Do you care to enlighten or this is the best you could do to make a counter-argument?
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by akg_67 13y ago
It is just a PR piece to get attention of potential funding sources. As I mentioned previously in my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272017 , I don't believe numbers add up. Business is unlikely to be scal
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by akg_67 13y ago
Ironic, people used to seek asylum in US from persecution in other countries. How times have changed? Now people run to other countries for asylum to avoid persecution in US. More and more land of the free is becoming land of tyrants.
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by akg_67 13y ago
I don't believe there is any country in the world, except Russia and China, that will not kowtow to US when pressured. Snowden made a very smart choice by going to HK.
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by akg_67 13y ago
I wonder when Moz was SEOMoz, did they go after SEODoz too? I don't know much about SEO, so I don't know similar they are. But if Moz as SEOMoz didn't pursue similar action against SEODoz, I don't believe they should be doing same as Moz wi
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by akg_67 13y ago
Very interesting. If Moz and (D)oz are close, how about Moz and Moz(illa)? Lets start out as SEOmoz and when we become big enough, we can change our name to Moz so that Mozilla doesn't come after us when we are small. As SEOMoz has changed
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by akg_67 14y ago
For certain hardware prototypes, Raspberry Pi, Beagleboard and Arduino are good platforms to start with. They are the AWS equivalent for hardware from price point perspective.
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by akg_67 14y ago
The full service is very common in non-tech niche segment who value the importance of website. Most of your time will go into acquiring customers in your niche: Convincing why prospects need a website and why should prospects buy from you?
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by akg_67 14y ago
Though likelihood is low, you may succeed with niche market DIY website builder if you can figure out: 1. What your target customers will get that they can't get from mass-market/ plain vanilla website builder? The differentiation and value
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by akg_67 14y ago
"I don't see the same enthusiasm towards tech and startup in Toronto that I see here in The Valley." Having tried establishing my startup in Toronto before, I fully agree with your statement. I know at least 6 more people who got frustrated
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by akg_67 14y ago
Your reply remind me of the situation I was in little over a year ago. Based on my own experiences going through trying to learn to code, a few comments: "In the end, I really want to learn how to code" No, in the end you want to learn how
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by akg_67 14y ago
Three months before the MVP, I started a blog and established myself as 'somebody' for data analytics in the target domain. Started participating in online forums and commenting on other blog posts relevant to the target domain, specificall
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by akg_67 14y ago
Is this model scalable and profitable? I have serious doubts. I see too many similarities to onsite pc repair services of the past like nerd on site, etc. This is at best a lifestyle business opportunity. About 10 years ago, I operated a bu
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by akg_67 14y ago
Reading comments in this thread have been very enlightening. I am wondering if there is a best practices or guidelines for password storage for web service operators. I currently manage a web service that has about 1,000 registered users.
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by akg_67 14y ago
I have traveled on ANA 787 between Narita/Tokyo and Seattle a few times. The planes are very comfortable - humidity and air pressure better than other Boeing planes. Windows are large but okay in blocking light. Windows could use darker sha
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by akg_67 14y ago
I have traveled few times on ANA's 787 between Narita/Tokyo and Seattle. While sitting in emergency exit row at window seat, I could feel that the floor in front of the seat was unusually hot. After seeing location of the fire in pictures o
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by akg_67 14y ago
Whenever someone comes to me with a physical consumer product idea, I tell them to go read MouseDriver Chronicles first. The authors went through similar experience with golf driver head shaped mouse. It is an interesting read. http://www.
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by akg_67 14y ago
The CMU study is most probably flawed as it looked at hardware replacement records and didn't take into consideration the different usage and threshold for replacement between enterprise and consumer drives. Most enterprise drives are used
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by akg_67 14y ago
You don't need to replace old/discontinued RAID card with the used one (assuming you mean same make and model). The new card from same manufacturer will work. The RAID card writes DCBs on disks that are read by the new RAID card upon replac
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by akg_67 14y ago
I get the impression that issue wasn't network hardware but bad high availability design on fileserver side. Why do GitHub has failover network on same network hardware as primary network? But I am not surprised as I see this at lot of cli
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by akg_67 14y ago
Very sad and heart-breaking. While reading the story, I couldn't stop imagining myself in his daughter's shoes and wondering "what would I do if I was in her place?" Would I struggle and suffer in the hopes of living a few months longer or
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by akg_67 14y ago
"People stand up for things they value rather than things they think they should support." This is an awesome reply. Not because the views on Google but how reaching financial independence changes the outlook on work. It something I can clo
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by akg_67 15y ago
Planning my third one, if I count the consulting that I started after failure of first one. The lesson I learnt was to have a partner who watches your blind side and whose blind side you are willing to watch. Such a partner is worth every
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by akg_67 15y ago
Congratulations on becoming the lead. You already got some excellent advise in this thread. I found some good advice about managing and leading teams in books: "The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization" by Jon R. Katz
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by akg_67 15y ago
I have found customer discovery section of Steve Blank's Four Steps book and Business Model canvas from Business Model Generation book to be very invaluable tools for evaluating new ideas whether my own or of other new potential entrepreneu
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by akg_67 15y ago
I believe Steve skipped several steps in team formation and jumped to "capability" aspects of the individual team members in forming the team which I consider to be the last step before forming a core startup team. From my past startup expe
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by akg_67 15y ago
Interesting posts but I think most miss the basic requirements for business or technical co-founders. Based on my prior 'bad' experiences, I look for following qualities, in order, in future partners. 1. Passion (intrinsic motivation) 2. Ch

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