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by azarias 14y ago
Thank you very much. That is kind of you. I would love to hear what you think all around.
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by azarias 14y ago
Hello everyone! I would really love to hear any and all feedback. As a bit of context, a few months ago, I made a really difficult decision---turning down a faculty job at an Ivy League CS school after my phd---to work on a startup with a
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Show HN: Please Review My First Startup. Meritful: LinkedIn for High School(meritful.com)
16 points by azarias 14y ago|26 comments
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The African Hacker(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by azarias 14y ago|0 comments
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Manoj Bhargava, richest Indian in US commits 90% earnings to charity(articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com)
96 points by azarias 14y ago|17 comments
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by azarias 14y ago
I have found OneNote to be an excellent tool for this. One of the main apps that make it worth running a VM for me.
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by azarias 14y ago
Paying customer here. I hope they don't do that. If you consider a dyno to be a unit of some set of resources, having a free dyno tells you exactly what to expect. Although most apps do not scale as a linear multiple of the number of dynos
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by azarias 14y ago
Just moved ours to Route 53 in the afternoon. I had been on the fence lately, especially after doing a few of the tests on http://cloudharmony.com/dnstest , but the move so far has been simple, and new relic reports nearly similar results
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by azarias 14y ago
This thread demonstrates that HN needs a comment collapse button a la reddit. The first comment thread, mostly useless, is taking most of the page, and no way to collapse it.
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Ethiopian Multiplication(threesixty360.wordpress.com)
65 points by azarias 14y ago|21 comments
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by azarias 14y ago
Have you had to deal with users with sessions across multiple versions?
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by azarias 14y ago
That's a pretty big fabfile! Do you do anything special with your DB as you switch over?
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Ask HN: how do you stage/push your code?
18 points by azarias 14y ago|15 comments
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Christianity: the original viral startup(blog.azreda.org)
2 points by azarias 14y ago|0 comments
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Beautiful engineering: one of a kind stage(youtube.com)
1 points by azarias 14y ago|0 comments
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by azarias 14y ago
Pff...this command line doesn't even know 'ls' :)
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It always seems impossible until it's done(blog.azreda.org)
3 points by azarias 14y ago|0 comments
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by azarias 14y ago
That is actually pretty cool. I am noticing that many state governments are also sponsoring various forms of incubators, which also offer non-dilutive funds. I think that can be just what some start-ups need.
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Ask HN: Your experience with a 'lesser known' incubator?
7 points by azarias 14y ago|6 comments
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by azarias 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER A start up in Ann Arbor, MI. Looking for a designer. Initially to design our landing page, and then work with us on a continual basis. We care a lot more about your design skills than your coding skills---we are fine with
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by azarias 14y ago
Google, MS, Rackspace etc. ought to give a good look at all the middle layer libraries like boto, and support them to make it a matter of configuration to switch cloud service providers. This already works well for email providers.
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by azarias 14y ago
I agree with trying to understand your options to the fullest...except the casual mention of mental health issues. Most PhDs I know are still sane :)
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by azarias 14y ago
But it helps to be pragmatic and interesting, even in systems. mobisys and mobicom is full of stuff that is more interesting than pragmatic.
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by azarias 14y ago
I urge you to reconsider. What do you want to do when you "grow up"? If you are hanging out on HN, I assume you have some interest in start ups...read my other comment. And I can give you a lot more reasons why you should continue [especial
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by azarias 14y ago
This is great, and thanks for writing it up. I don't think many graduate students would consider doing this right after graduation...I certainly wasn't in a mood to write another detailed document after getting done with my dissertation (al
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by azarias 14y ago
We deploy many research projects in Ethiopia, and the situation has always been murky. For example, it has been long outlawed to provide calling services for others over VOIP. So, if you run an internet café, and provide a calling service c
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Things Buddy Media Did Right(techcrunch.com)
3 points by azarias 14y ago|0 comments
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What Peter Thiel can't teach me(blog.azreda.org)
1 points by azarias 14y ago|0 comments
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Sunny sale: a clever use of QR codes(youtu.be)
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by azarias 14y ago
I always thought the main barrier with international money transfers was the cost. If your backbone is something like WU, how do you reduce costs?...and can't Western Union roll out of bed one day and decide to make it even easier to send m

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