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by ecaroth 14y ago
I use it every day, including tracking separate workouts so it should be loaded w/ data. Now it's telling me 'something is wrong with my username' when trying to login. Where can I find your email? FYI - on a side note, I'm the creator of f
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by ecaroth 14y ago
Cool idea. Unfortunately I signed up and linked my fitbit, and it didn't load any of my data. Though I did enjoy the "creating suspense.." loading animation.
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by ecaroth 14y ago
Didn't know this resource existed - Great article!
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by ecaroth 15y ago
FF/Chorme/Safari also give the Line 0 "script errors" when an error occurs in any JS file that isn't on your domain (IE jquery from a CDN, 3-rd party scripts, etc). This is a cross-origin security feature.
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Not sure where in the midwest you are, but I live in the Minneapolis MN area and there is a blossoming tech scene, and many new startups eager to hire ambitions developers that are willing to learn. I have heard similar things about Madison
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Find something outside the internet that motivates you, where if you start slacking or become lazy at it you see the results immediately. For me that was martial arts, learning how to eat/live healthy, and working out.
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Dealt with this myself. The side projects only go so far to help you deal with this. I also found myself so into the side projects that I would often find myself distracted from my actual job. I'm sure you plan on sticking with your career
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by ecaroth 15y ago
I had good experiences with nodejitsu & joyent - both are free for node.js still I think.
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Looks cool - would love to hear more, I have a product that may be a good fit for this (www.fitbolt.com) - shoot me an email at evan@fitbolt.com if you are interested!
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Ha - funny, this is the first thing I noticed when watching the video of this presentation, and it drove me so crazy I only made it through the first 3 minutes before I had to stop watching. Wish it wasn't the case, would have loved to watc
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Ditto - this comment mirrored my thoughts/experience exactly
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by ecaroth 15y ago
GREAT poll topic, was considering doing something similar to get some data for my startup FitBolt (fitbolt.com), which helps to address this sedentary computer lifestyle. Me personally, 8-10 hrs a day for my fulltime job, usually take ~4 hr
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Looks cool... technically, do you mind telling us how you handle parsing/processing the documents w/ your web viewer? Google docs, etc?
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Definitely a good idea! The only thing that would make me hesitant to use this service is that you are at the mercy of any kind of network outages between your servers and mine. If I have a DNS outage, a main network node down on the route
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Looks easy and awesome, almost exactly what I was looking for - Thanks!
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by ecaroth 15y ago
As fingerprinter pointed out this isn't universally true, however research (and my own experience) has shown that the main reason people don't feel well after working out is almost entirely due to nutrient depletion and poor nutritional t
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Ask HN: any good sites for running sweepstakes, and general advice?
2 points by ecaroth 15y ago|2 comments
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Obviously don't know much about your situation, but this might have a lot to do with your diet & pre/post/peri workout nutrition. You should never feel exhausted and drained after a workout, but should feel invigorated and alert. Maybe
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Great article, I have been meaning to write something similar to this myself! I became a health & fitness nut about 5 years ago, and though developing and designing is my biggest passion in life, working out and bettering myself physica
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by ecaroth 15y ago
this website has some GREAT content: http://highscalability.com/ Many articles focus on bigger, high-profile companies with unique challenges but there are tons of great articles and tips on scaling normal web apps. Check the archives.
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I definitely am going to take a hard look at modifying the design on the main page, including making the main point more prominent, visible, and easy to read!
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Been working on FitBolt (fitbolt.com) for about a year, spent ~$200 setting up credit card processing & recurring payments, $50 on business cards, and about $150 on legal fees. LOTS of optimization has kept my appengine costs well withi
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Definitely funny as hell though! I like the part about looking at me through my webcam. I am more prone to try this product now than I would be after reading a normal privacy policy. This may be a jab at mozilla also as they REQUIRE a priva
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I would love to hear more about your app!
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by ecaroth 15y ago
agreed - I'm hoping to solve a problem that most people don't even realize they have, but sure is real!
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Show HN: Stay healthy & fit at your desk job
4 points by ecaroth 15y ago|4 comments
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by ecaroth 15y ago
For sure! I just just wondering if I could sneak in there w/ a bunch of my friends and play the world's most intense paintball game!
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by ecaroth 15y ago
This comic seemed super low-budget and cheesy from the website, but after reading the preview and laughing out loud I am forced to part with ~$1 to continue reading. Touche comic book writer genius, touche.
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by ecaroth 15y ago
Still a work in progress, and none outside of my fulltime job: FitBolt (fitbolt.com) - workday health & wellness platform. Gives you alerts/actions/notifications with posture corrections, exercises, stretching, health & nutrition ti
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by ecaroth 15y ago
my vote is database concepts. With the rise of PaaS options out there the need to be able to build distributed systems yourself is lessening (unless it's referring to decoupled systems, such as standalone API endpoints) and falls more into

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