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by apinstein 17y ago
Use my php framework, of course ;) http://phocoa.com It is modeled after Cocoa development (Mac/iPhone apps). If you already know Cocoa, that makes it very easy to learn since the architecture and concepts are all the same. OTOH, if you d
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by apinstein 17y ago
It's not totally ad hominem... I know the guy, and I know that he can make a compelling-sounding argument against something that I know (believe/whatever) to be true (ie evolution). Thus I no longer trust anything he says because I don't tr
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by apinstein 17y ago
Ben Stein, really? I am sorry but ever since he decided that evolution was BS I quit listening to the guy. Speaking clearly and having a strong education is a necessary but not sufficient condition for being intelligent.
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by apinstein 17y ago
This article seems kinda troll-y to me. Why? Because even Yelp understands the "The man who drowned in the river whose average depth was 6 inches" problem, which is exactly why they offer both a histogram view of ratings, and an average-ove
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by apinstein 17y ago
I've been using postgres in production situations since 1998, at 4-5 different companies. I've never had a problem with it. OTOH, the many times I've tried to use mysql I've run into gotchas even in development that were unexpected and ob
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by apinstein 17y ago
Very interesting slide deck. I am still digesting!
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by apinstein 18y ago
1. Glad to see improvements in the Cocoa-Ruby bindings. 2. It is not a Good Thing™ to be able to avoid using Interface Builder! IB is awesome and amazing and reduces code. IB gives you leverage. It lets you do GUI setup via a (wait for it)
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by apinstein 18y ago
Companies are smart enough to know that when a potential employee has done a startup and liked it, they unlikely won't be happy in a corporate job. When writing a resume, you need to be careful to tailor it for the reader. If you're applyin
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by apinstein 18y ago
This is great advice. Also, by all means, never sign a big contract up front (no matter which side you're on). Just have him pay you cash for a week or two, that should be all the time you need to make a judgement.
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by apinstein 18y ago
It is very hard to figure out. I am IMHO a savvy business person and even I have a hard time figuring it out. Ultimately it takes time and getting to know the person. The only advice I can give to accelerate this process is to ask lots of q
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by apinstein 18y ago
I was really looking forward to seeing the content of this comprehensive guide having just gone through a GIS 0-60 myself last year. That guide is horrible! It might contain some good content in there, but it is ridiculously wordy. It tak
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by apinstein 18y ago
You say a lot of things... let me take them a few at a time: On arbitrage - I don't consider this financial crisis to have much to do with arbitrage. I am not sure you understand what arbitrage is; it isn't ANY money-making activity. It's w
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by apinstein 18y ago
I read the article and wondered that exact thing the whole time, but this type of rhetoric is quite typical of David Brooks. He tends to paint things in a way where such that in the end he can point to the article as a conservative pundit a
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by apinstein 18y ago
FWIW, Tucows DNS service is free. I pay for the domain reg's and email. They used to charge for it, like $0.25/mo or something, but then it became free. Woot.
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by apinstein 18y ago
I am pretty sure what Micah means by "great sysadmin" is "already skilled enough at managing services X,Y,Z so that you can do them with 0% chance that a 5-min thing turns into a 2-hour or 8-hour thing". I could manage all of that stuff d
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by apinstein 18y ago
Your question is nonsense. I'll assume for a moment that you are presently a "good software developer contractor" and you currently gross "$10k" a month. Given that, $10k a month is your opportunity cost for doing something else, for inst
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by apinstein 18y ago
A few years back I was working on a blue-sky real estate database project. I spent a lot of time trying to decide between building the project with a triple store or an RDBMS. The reason I mention this is that the parent notes that "profess
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by apinstein 18y ago
I wrote my own for php, http://phocoa.com . After I learned to write Cocoa apps for the mac, I realized I needed a similar framework for web development, so I wrote phocoa. PHP as a language is kinda bumming me out since I've learned about
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by apinstein 18y ago
I don't think it matters whether the customer is a geek; rather it matters only if the service is "mission-critical" for the customer. For instance, our apps serve niche business customers (photographers, realtors). We get questions about u
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by apinstein 18y ago
Wow, that's a cool site. I didn't find it in my initial research. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Should You Publicly Post Uptime Stats for a SaaS site?
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by apinstein 18y ago
One more thing... +1 for the people suggesting to read stuff by Warren Buffet and doing index funds. Long-term, buy-and-hold, diversified investing is the best way to go.
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by apinstein 18y ago
Today there are so many ways you can "practice" trading I'd recommend using a stock market game before jumping in. You will make many mistakes in trading; might as well make them on a simulator. http://vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homepage.asp
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by apinstein 18y ago
We use Screenflow. Mac-only, but quite awesome: http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm Has a/b editing, records lots of things as separate tracks and has a special-purpose video editing interface just for screencasts. Editing
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by apinstein 18y ago
Yes, you're missing something. :) Even if they publish all of their stories online, you have to realize that newspapers typically have huge CapEx and/or fixed costs. If they want to keep a single print copy out there, there is a huge fixed
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by apinstein 18y ago
I used to do a lot of AppleScript programming. When I initially learned about the "natural" syntax I though "this is gonna be so easy!" But ultimately it works against you. Computers are very precise beasts, and they need to know exactly wh
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by apinstein 18y ago
We've been running these numbers ourselves lately as well. We find AWS much more expensive. For instance, we bought a Dell 2950 / 2xQuad Core / 12 GB RAMB / 4x500GB RAID 5 w/hot spare for ~$4500. We have it in a colo where it costs about $1
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by apinstein 18y ago
First of all, I would argue that $2000 is not irreversibly devastating . One could pay it back over a couple of years. Secondly, as another poster said, one should be contributing to an HSA, saving in anticipation of such an expense. Thu
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by apinstein 18y ago
If you are healthy, the cheapest thing to do is an HSA + high-deductible health plan. I've been on an individual plan I found at http://www.ehealthinsurance.com for a few years. Remember to price shop your plan every couple of years as yo