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by conorh 12y ago
6-7pm seems very late to me, but I guess it depends what time you start at, and what time your kids go to sleep at. That wouldn't leave me much time with my kids. I usually stop work around 4:30 in order to have enough time with the ki
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by conorh 12y ago
I hope that more and more data becomes available around healthcare and outcomes! Medicare recently produced this data http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/09/health/medicar... and the center t
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by conorh 12y ago
Benchmarking using wrk the smallest linode (1024 now 2048) serving a page from an untuned Rails application using nginx/passenger getting almost no other traffic. Hard to compare of course given the various other factors, but produced
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by conorh 13y ago
We've also built and upgraded a few projects on Rails 4.1 recently and it has been very smooth. On a side note: we avoid ActiveAdmin like the plague for the very reason that you specify here; our experience upgrading it between Rails v
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by conorh 13y ago
There is plenty of room for competition. Everyone has their own needs and wants for a code editor and I would disagree with your definition. In general I want my code editor to be simple rather than try to be smart; be fast, do basic syntax
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by conorh 13y ago
Our pediatrician asked us not to bring in our infant on a day when she was treating a lot of flu patients a few years ago, her office has sick and well areas, but it is hard for her to manage. Also please, no stooping to name calling (intel
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by conorh 13y ago
I think it is a combination of transmission risk and consequences of acquiring the disease. HIV/AIDS, the risk of transmission is extremely low. Flu the risk is higher, but for (most) strains the consequences are not bad. For some of
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by conorh 13y ago
I'm not sure what version of the Hippocratic Oath you are referring to (there are many of them and they can be very very long), but I think even this could be construed as legitimate in the framework of some of them. As is explained in
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by conorh 13y ago
Looks like day 2 happened already and had some pretty good exploits: http://www.pwn2own.com/2014/03/pwn2own-results-thursday-day-...
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by conorh 13y ago
I think you need to describe more what you are expecting, because it very much depends what you are looking for them to advise you on. If you are looking for someone to advise you on: hiring, code, scaling etc. then I'd imagine that HN
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by conorh 13y ago
This is a great idea! I traveled on Amtrak a few years ago from NYC to New Orleans (30 hours) with my wife and young daughter and had a great time - it just a pleasant way spend some time, talking, reading, thinking. During the day we set u
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by conorh 13y ago
Yes, I'm no longer at the company, this was 3.5 years ago and the company has since sold. I have my own little consulting company now (and a second child :).
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by conorh 13y ago
Will she be able to get any help (a babysitter even for a few hours every few days to start with), or do you have family close by that can help that way? In my experience those sorts of breaks are very important to keeping your sanity. Ther
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by conorh 13y ago
My first child arrived around the time the original founder of boxcar.io invited me on to be CTO. In my case my wife also had to go back to work (surgery resident at the time) less than three weeks after the kid was born. We made it work, b
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by conorh 13y ago
Orrick has a very useful set of documents to help you do things the right way - http://www.orrick.com/practices/emerging-companies/startup-f... I know I've seen other versions of this out there too. Does Y Co
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by conorh 13y ago
Awesome, love NewEgg and this is handy. I had already moved my electronics ordering over to them from Amazon.
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by conorh 13y ago
Have you thought about perhaps open sourcing the server setup scripts for HN? I'd love (and I'm sure many others here) to help with the configuration. Perhaps a github repo for some chef recipies that people could work on given th
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by conorh 13y ago
I love these tools, can't wait until my next chance to build another one. I've seen several of these at various startups that have been built internally with similar features (although not with this much polish!) I built the first
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by conorh 13y ago
You should contact me (see my profile). We're always looking for remote devs and we have a pretty good reputation at this point for how we work with remote developers.
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by conorh 13y ago
We do something similar if we are hiring a remote freelancer. Although first thing we look for is github code, then we do a short call, and then if that all looks good we do a 10 hour paid task. We then scale the work up from there with lar
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Show HN: Staticizer - ruby library/tool to create static backup of website on S3(github.com)
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by conorh 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - NYC / Chicago / Remote - http://squaremill.com We're a small group of extremely experienced designers and developers specializing in Ruby on Rails and Go with extensive experience with JS in various
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by conorh 13y ago
I wrote a very simple DOM diff'er a while ago in Ruby for a somewhat similar usage (diff'ing the same pages over and over with probably a small number of changes each time) https://github.com/conorh/rdomdiff .
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by conorh 13y ago
I was one of the people that did not watch the video. It came as a recommendation from a good friend and I loved the idea. I didn't need to watch the video to convince me that a board game to gently introduce programming and logic conc
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by conorh 13y ago
Yes, it is common in my experience.
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by conorh 13y ago
I worked at StreetEasy for 3 years (helping lead the dev team and writing lots of code) when it was a fast growing startup and we didn't work a 4 day week, but we worked normal business hours (9-5,10-6'ish) and never ever worked w
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by conorh 13y ago
You make good points. A few years ago I was converted to the idea of ethical spending - not sure if that is a term? As much as I can I do not buy items that I believe contribute to these issues. It is not always possible but for every purch
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by conorh 13y ago
I'm a strong believer in the idea that a society can be judged by how it treats those weakest and least able to defend themselves. I do agree that encouraging alternative employment is necessary, but if you read the article you will se
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by conorh 13y ago
If you have not read it already I recommend reading The Guardian article - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazo... . One quote from it that stands out for me: "At the Neath wo
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by conorh 13y ago
Sure, however in the US there are already huge number of terrible low paid jobs. The balance of jobs is not right as it stands. I believe that Amazon has the resources to provide better jobs and should do so.

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