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by apinstein 9y ago
A majority of comments here seem to think that literally millions of units of electronics are being shredded wastefully, instead of more meaningfully re-used. Ok, great! This is HN! Where are the calls to start a company to leverage this ne
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by apinstein 10y ago
Think about the jobs you've quit because the culture / environment made it impossible for you to get the right things done. Even really good employees need an aligned sense of mission. Of all the other early CEO's I've t
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by apinstein 10y ago
Great analysis! Have you heard of the Birkman personality assessment? One of the components it measures is exactly what you describe (they call it Esteem). It doesn't make you an asshole (intent) not to know that, but it does make your
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by apinstein 10y ago
Interestingly he does not have the classic tremor symptom. For those who do, that might make for a good thing to track. He doesn't really have any symptoms that could be quantitatively measured, especially over the short term.
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by apinstein 10y ago
Could be! Vitamin k2 is involved in calcium use throughout body and there's a good study of how k2 supplements significantly reduced osteoporosis over 2-3 years. Bone mineralization takes a while... This is the best link I could find r
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by apinstein 10y ago
My Dad was recently diagnosed. Very early stage. This is very interesting news. My take is that Parkinson's is a little like cancer in that it likely has multiple root causes that can injure the same part of the brain (substantia niagr
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by apinstein 10y ago
1. It's very difficult to make a sane user interface without letting customers try whatever you come up with. Tweaks are always needed. If your app is like most, a small portion is the most used, and you simply focus your energy improv
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by apinstein 10y ago
vim supports scrolling [1] and smooth fonts (in modern terminals)... [1] https://github.com/apinstein/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc#L162...
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by apinstein 10y ago
We just jumped down this rabbit-hole for a few weeks as we go through a hiring sprint. There's a consultant in this space that makes this exact argument -- Lou Adler -- and he's got the entire process spelled out in one of his boo
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by apinstein 10y ago
Tourbuzz | Atlanta, GA | Front-End Devs, Full-Stack Team Lead, Director of Engineering, CX Specialists | REMOTE [US timezones] or ONSITE Tourbuzz is Real Estate Photography & Listing Marketing platform, used by professional photographer
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by apinstein 11y ago
Reviewable does this really, nicely. We switched over our entire code review process to them (sits on top of GitHub) a few months ago and haven't looked back.
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by apinstein 11y ago
We have had this problem, even with commercially-purchased royalty-free music. The idea of getting generated music that will never trip "Content ID" is nice, since having our customers' tracks pulled is an un-solvable problem
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by apinstein 11y ago
Tourbuzz - Atlanta; Full Time; Onsite - Technical Product Manager - Sr Front End Developer - Lead PHP Developer http://about.tourbuzz.net/careers/ Tourbuzz is a leader in the real estate photography and listing marketi
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by apinstein 11y ago
It's not a stretch. If you have a product that "real" people use and phone number for customer support, you will quickly learn the value of a copy-to-clipboard feature. People cannot even successfully select complete URLs at
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by apinstein 11y ago
We hit the edges of GitHub pull request productivity a while back. It's really painful for large complicated code reviews that raise issues. Was impossible to quickly review code and have confidence all raised issues were addressed. Be
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by apinstein 11y ago
This is probably accurate. We had a similar situation occur frequently on our platform and fortunately Mandrill has awesome built-in support for ensuring your support team never does this to anyone. Read the article here: http://
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by apinstein 11y ago
And that's exactly the point of the migrations.json manifest; you'll get a merge conflict whenever this happens, and all you need to do is resolve the order of named migrations in a JSON array. It works really well!
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by apinstein 11y ago
We have a similar migration tool we built a long time ago, and this project has a bug that we had to address. When you have to branches that each have a migration, you end up with 2 copies of N_N+1.sql, or worse yet, things that subtly merg
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by apinstein 11y ago
I agree I am not 100% sure I see the life-changing utility of their abstraction. HOWEVER, if they factored out their VIEWS component so that I can have a more grokkable version of INFORMATION_SCHEMA that's read-only, that sounds useful
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by apinstein 11y ago
I don't understand; what does a graph DB library have to do with an MVC framework? Why not just write a nice graph schema / model library?
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by apinstein 11y ago
Thanks! We haven't really looked into it recently, but I'm not opposed. Reach out to me and we can discuss.
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by apinstein 11y ago
Our original application was build in PHP about 7 years ago, but we have code in a variety of languages including PHP, Flash, Java, Obj-C/Swift, Ruby, Javascript, among others. Today's software landscape is so complex that you&#x2
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by apinstein 11y ago
Thanks! C'mon back to Atlanta and bring like 500+ engineers with you, we really need them -- the ATL tech scene has absolutely blown up over the past few years :)
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by apinstein 11y ago
Tourbuzz - http://www.tourbuzz.net - Atlanta, GA Tourbuzz is a leader in the real estate photography and listing marketing space, now serving 2M+ unique visitors a month. We're bootstrapped, profitable, growing fast, debt-f
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by apinstein 11y ago
We are using Postgres as our queue backing store. I tried switching to Sidekiq but ran into issues (read here https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/pull/624 ). Fortunately our job throughput is small enough to no
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by apinstein 12y ago
I truly didn't; the use of the word "device" and the word "canceling" hints at something active. I've not heard of foam before referred to as a "device".
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by apinstein 12y ago
Noise canceling? Got a link? I am aware of white noise machines but not noise-canceling. Presently building out a new office and would love to see details.
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by apinstein 12y ago
I have found the most reliable measure for a candidate is looking at their public interactions/contributions. Seeing what projects they choose to work on in their spare time, how they speak at user groups, how they interact on an &quot
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by apinstein 12y ago
I try to go to Twin Peaks park every time I go to SF. It's such an awesome view and it's so easy to get to. Such a great way to start a trip!
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by apinstein 12y ago
exactly. side effects were definitely a problem, but it was an experiment and better than losing 20 prior commands! I looked at his source and it's not clear to me how he's also not having the same problem; if the statement is run

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