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by akulbe 10y ago
I'm paying ~$225/mo. for $1M/$1M/$500K coverage on general liability/professional liability/worker's comp. I get it from The Hartford.
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by akulbe 10y ago
Clear and specific requirements for environments you need. Good tests, with good code coverage. Work with us when we suggest to you that we deploy to a non-production environment first. Work with us to automate as much as we possibly can.
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by akulbe 10y ago
RealVNC. They're the ones that invented the protocol in the first place. The team started out at AT&T then left to form their own company.
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by akulbe 10y ago
Someone who speaks LOTS of value, often. You would do very well to read his blog posts (kalzumeus.com) and follow his comments here on HN. He wants others to be successful in their efforts, and gives lots of good info on how to do just that
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by akulbe 10y ago
Another vote for a Chromebook.
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by akulbe 10y ago
A downvote for a legitimate question. NICE.
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by akulbe 10y ago
I wonder how much of this would be mitigated/avoided if folks would just change to something other than the default credentials on IoT devices? Is it that simple? or am I missing something?
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by akulbe 10y ago
Agreed. I think this is an excellent idea.
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by akulbe 10y ago
For me, about a year. I'm doing cloud design & deployment. Nervous because I know these contracts will not last forever. That, and I am the business. If something happens to me, I go from good money to $0 in no time flat. I got t
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by akulbe 10y ago
Another vote for Confluence.
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by akulbe 10y ago
Do you have a link to your website? I'm interested to see what you do.
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by akulbe 10y ago
As another solopreneur, who is doing a fraction of what you are doing... I would love to talk to you about how to get to something even close to the position that you're in now. I want to grow my business, and be even a fraction of t
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by akulbe 10y ago
I second the self-hosting. I have a pretty beefy Dell PowerEdge that I use for work (self-employed) that is a vSphere host. If I need something external, then Digital Ocean.
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by akulbe 10y ago
When I think of companies "doing it right", I think of the ones who choose to stay private and retain control. Slow but methodical growth. Basecamp. Dyson. Cargill. Patagonia. (to name a few)
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by akulbe 10y ago
I understand that publicly traded companies are one cornerstone of our economy. That said, it's depressing to see companies get bought and sold just to move money around, and the people that work in those jobs completely ignored, or ju
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by akulbe 10y ago
Oregon is one of the most expensive states to live in, as well. (If you opt for Portland.) It doesn't compare to California, but it's getting there.
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by akulbe 10y ago
For that matter, there is a lot of great stuff in just reading his comments on the threads here on HN.
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by akulbe 10y ago
It surprises me that no one has suggested Patrick McKenzie's (patio11 here on HN) blog. So much value there. http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/
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by akulbe 10y ago
Unless you're law enforcement, good luck. I hope you find who you're looking for, through other means.
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by akulbe 10y ago
Industrialization didn't end up with a net loss of jobs. It ended up with a change and retooling of jobs. This hasn't changed with the advance of technology. We just have to figure out the how, and where, and what of this chan
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by akulbe 10y ago
If the taxi cab companies can't make it on their own, they should go out of business. As a self-employed person, I shouldn't expect someone else to bail me out by their efforts. If I can't make it on my own steam, I close up
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by akulbe 10y ago
The legal worries about putting stuff in the cloud are much more apparent with companies outside of the US, in my experience. Was formerly part of a US company that was pushing a new product hard towards a cloud-based model. They were exp
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by akulbe 10y ago
After rereading my comment, wrt to the parts about KVM... I realizing I may have been trying to use KVM in a manner other than how it was intended to be used. Initially, my experience with virtualization was just desktop products. Now I run
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by akulbe 10y ago
I can't answer the question as to how dominant VMware is, in the entire market. I can say that ever single company I've worked for has used VMware for their virtualization solution. I also use it for my business. It's pretty
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by akulbe 10y ago
I'm in Portland, and I'm not even in the same type of work as you (I do Systems Engineering work), and I know you're _woefully_ underpaid given the kind of experience you have. Like others have said already, get out of ther
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by akulbe 10y ago
I'm guessing this isn't something that is easily determined, for any platform. Microsoft can guess, at best, what kind of revenues there are for third-party software. They have no idea. Apple, they can only speak authoritatively a
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by akulbe 10y ago
I'd highly recommend reading "What Color Is Your Parachute" by Richard Nelson Bolles. He's covered this there quite well.
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by akulbe 10y ago
"Successful" is so subjective. What metrics are you taking into consideration? Find problems that businesses need solved, and put your skills to work coming up with a solution that will be valuable to customers. Honestly, I think
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by akulbe 10y ago
I started my first college class in 1991, and finished my degree (finally!!) in 2013. It hasn't hurt me, any. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ To be fair, I was already well advanced in my career. Business Management major. I work in Systems Engineering
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by akulbe 10y ago
My former employer acquired their 53rd company, at the end of 2015. They laid off 20% of staff. ~1600 jobs.

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