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   MySQL InnoDB Clustered Indexes and Rails (or How RescueTime Avoided Buying More Hardware)(joehruska.com)

   48 points by bfioca 19y ago|11 comments
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   How to make your startup successful(dondodge.typepad.com)

   15 points by bfioca 19y ago|5 comments
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   by bfioca 19y ago

   http://www.rescuetime.com :)
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   by bfioca 19y ago

   That is what we call "a good problem to have."
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   by bfioca 19y ago

   awesome new look guys, huge evolutionary step. Love the twisp and catsby annimation, too. :)
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   by bfioca 19y ago

   Only if we end up so successful that we're one day able to build a tool to go back in time. Er, I mean... yes. :) In all seriousness, though - the original RescueTime coming soon page was put up a little less than a year ago. It did land
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   by bfioca 19y ago

   This is exactly why you should rest a day before you push a big release to your app/site. After a marathon coding session there are bound to be bugs that will pop up in your dreams, and you'll catch them in time.
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   by bfioca 19y ago

   Only on Tuesdays and sometimes Thursdays.
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   by bfioca 19y ago

   I still have my ANSI Common Lisp textbook from my K.R.a.P. class at Georgia Tech - http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html (maybe I should get it signed, heh)
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    Half-assed Startup - How to Start your Company and Keep Your Day Job(tonywright.com)

    43 points by bfioca 19y ago|11 comments
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    Since Jan 1st this year: HackerNews: 24 hrs 26 mins Textmate: 75 hrs 44 mins Mail: 30 hrs 43 min Adium: 24 hrs 1 min Facebook: 4 hrs 15 mins
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    1. Make something people want. 2. Don't die until you do #1. 3. There's nothing stopping you except yourself - the people who read this site are already further ahead than they might think. 4. Distribution is key, and is easier to get if
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    I turned 30 last year, and I'm the youngest of our 3 founders, so I'm feeling my age a bit. The RescueTimers skew the average age higher a bit, but not by that much, There are people ten years older than me here, too, for sure.
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    I wouldn't. That would be wrong. (j/k, good idea)
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    I would tell myself to apply earlier! Although I've learned a crazy amount about a lot of things in the last 10 years, I've just relearned a lot of them (better this time) in the past 2 months. The thing about it is, there's this percepti
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    11 Solid Ways to Improve Your Time Management Skills(dumblittleman.com)

    8 points by bfioca 19y ago|5 comments
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    For some reason I'm inspired to take this opportunity to say, to anyone who has any reservations about applying to YC: do it. Right now. Then do your best to nail the interview and get picked. This has been (already!) one of the best exp
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    I think a great way is to befriend the business executives (or better yet, founders) at your current job. Impress them, be their go to guy, put in your time, and then be the one they pick to go with them when they leave to go do their next
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    I posted this because it's awesome, and I'm going to use it at RescueTime. But also because I want someone to change the config format to YAML. :)
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    The Merge Fairy (Open Source): automated merging of revisions between Subversion branches(thebogles.com)

    1 points by bfioca 19y ago|1 comments
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    :)
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    I was just at the YC dinner last week and the same people were there as the week before. Lots of dudes with laptops.
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    When was that, 10 years ago? I was just at lunch 2.0 last weekend and it was very reminiscent of Silicon Valley.
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    My PC crashed while I was reading your comment. :)
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    "If they can send it to you in email it means they are storing it as plain text." That's not necessarily true - you can send it in the same request as the form submit that accepts it.
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    I'm going to lose karma points for this but I think this issue is really mostly just paranoia. Can someone tell me what the likelihood is that someone would sniff my password from the bits traveling in the series of tubes from the server t
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    Speaking of mimicry, joeh and I were just talking about that on the way back from lunch just now. Maybe Hacker News is trying to mimic us.
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    I used to brag about how little sleep I've gotten, but lately I've seen that as much more of a short-coming. I've been able to measure my productivity on weeks where I've had good nights' sleep and weeks where I haven't, and even though I
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    That's because 6% of users generage 50% of ad clicks [ http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/12/2037223&from... ]
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    by bfioca 19y ago

    Saying language X has performance issues makes no sense. Saying implementation X has performance issues does. It's not the language, it's the application/developer/configuration.