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by cmer 16y ago
I was a customer of Slicehost from day 1, literally. I told everybody about them because Matt and Jason (the co-founders) were the most awesome company founders I had ever dealt with. They were beyond helpful and always went out of their wa
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by cmer 16y ago
I doubt Digg (the company) would bother. They are having more than enough trouble keeping their own ship afloat. EDIT: then again, I wasn't aware of this: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/kevin-rose-yahoo-contacted-...
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by cmer 16y ago
The fact that it's only 0.02% of users affected doesn't mean the situation should be taken lightly. I'm amongst those lucky users and trust me, it freaking sucks. So far, it doesn't seem like Google cares much about us or is doing anything
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by cmer 16y ago
Definitely not. Firewire is MUCH faster than USB2, and it's still slower than having a drive connected directly to SATA for example... This new technology should allow external drives to be as fast as internal ones.
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by cmer 16y ago
This definitely solves the problem of slow, inefficient external hard drives. Especially with Firewire dying. USB2 is extremely slow for today's computing if you think about it...
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by cmer 16y ago
It would be great if Hummingbird offered a way to track API requests we get. Obviously, a transparent gif won't work for that...
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by cmer 16y ago
If you could allow me to receive fax with the same kind of pricing, that'd be awesome. Whenever someone ask me for my fax number, I start sweating. It rarely happens, but when it happens, I'm stuck. Let me buy a "disposable" fax number for
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by cmer 16y ago
This is also what I do. The really annoying thing is that Dropbox doesn't sync permissions. It makes bit mess when a file is 777 in Git, but Dropbox resets it to 644 (I think). This only happens when working on multiple machines. Hopefully
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by cmer 16y ago
He did: https://github.com/jamesgolick/always_verify_ssl_certificate...
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by cmer 16y ago
I ditched my 15" MBP for an Air and couldn't be happier. The SSD actually makes it feel much faster. I do the same kind of work as you do. I think you'll be very happy with your purchase. I already converted 2 people to the Air and they als
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by cmer 16y ago
If it's really the case, it seems like your problem is that you're at a lousy school. College is the best time to meet smart people with whom you'll want to work with later in life. Don't underestimate this. This is something I didn't do an
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by cmer 16y ago
Dropping out of school is the easy way out. Way overrated. College is not perfect, but it certainly has lots of merits. If not only proving the world that you can actually follow through with something...
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by cmer 16y ago
Email me with some details about your project. I might know people who will be able to help. My email is in my HN about.
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by cmer 16y ago
Oh boy. I totally missed that. Thanks. I'm not sure a tagging system is the best option though. It's very flexible indeed but it's at the expense of the simplicity of checkboxes. Especially when many tags mean the same thing. eg: rails and
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by cmer 16y ago
Great idea! It would be great if you could expand the areas of expertise though. For example, I have significant expertise with cloud computing, EC2 deployment, scaling, MongoDB, but there's nowhere to mention this. I also have expertise de
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by cmer 16y ago
The service only works over SMS right now, that's why they ask for a phone number...
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by cmer 16y ago
Send me an email at carl at carl mercier.
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by cmer 16y ago
Real Ventures holds a big bag of money right now... http://realventures.com/ If you're ever in Montreal, let me know, I might be able to help.
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by cmer 16y ago
If it matters, there's currently A LOT of money in Montreal. VC funds are full and they're desperately looking for deals. If you have a decent team with a decent idea, they'll just throw money your way.
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by cmer 16y ago
Thank you for your answer. I'll look into your software, it seems pretty awesome! You should however consider being more strict about host OS standards in my opinion. It would just makes our life a little bit easier.
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by cmer 16y ago
You missed the point. The fact that CMD-P doesn't do what it's supposed to do was a big warning to me. One of the best things on a Mac is that every application uses standard keyboard shortcuts. For example, CMD-, always opens preferences
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by cmer 16y ago
Ok thanks! Nonetheless, I think it should ship with standard defaults...
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by cmer 16y ago
I stopped reading when I saw that CMD+P does "Goto Anything" instead of print. Please use standard keyboard shortcuts... Too bad because it looked awesome!
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by cmer 16y ago
This is a good idea. However, I think applying the same concept to babysitters would have much better potential. It's a much bigger market and problem in my opinion.
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Giving Hope(blog.carlmercier.com)
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by cmer 16y ago
Could you explain this signup process a little bit more? I don't see anything unusual at Torbit...
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by cmer 16y ago
The problem is that this rarely happens. Concur makes software for the enterprise. What I'm saying is that I hope TripIt doesn't turn into an enterprise software. Most enterprise software are pure garbage.
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by cmer 16y ago
This is terrible news for all of us. I am forced to use Concur at work and it is by far the worst web application I have ever used.. Hours of frustration every month because of their terrible UX and buggy and confusing UI. I hope this is no
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by cmer 16y ago
Like this? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchpad/id297623931?mt=8
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by cmer 16y ago
True entrepreneurs can't really put their startup urge on hold. It can be a little bit dangerous. I believe good balance is a better, if not the only option.

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