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by gpjt 13y ago
Hmm. If this is true, then why do there seem to be more (and more successful) tech start-ups in the US under the pre-Obamacare system than there are in, say, the UK, where almost all healthcare is covered by taxes and is free or nearly fre
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by gpjt 13y ago
Looks like the linked article is a summary of one in the New Scientist, so perhaps there is some amount of substantiation there? The NS original requires registration to read so I've not checked.
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by gpjt 13y ago
I think he means that by "making this argument" (that is, 'hey, join us, we're based in a place with a low cost of living'), they’re never going to get top entrepreneurial talent. Not that they're never going
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by gpjt 13y ago
I was so hoping that this was someone showing off their realtime Hacker News comments firehose page.
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by gpjt 13y ago
Some classics there (there have been versions of this knocking around since at least the mid-90s and probably much earlier) but it's great to see some new ones.
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by gpjt 13y ago
In Sabina, just north-east of Rome. I guess the climate's not too different to Umbria's...?
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by gpjt 13y ago
My parents retired to Italy a number of years ago, to a place with a hundred or so olive trees in the garden, and each November some of us head over to pick the olives (much to the amusement of the locals, who think we're crazy to do a
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by gpjt 13y ago
Maybe. Certainly, if you need precise figures it's not worth much. But if you want an order of magnitude then it might not be too far off. Given that three largely independent measures got to vaguely similar numbers, I'm now pre
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How many Python programmers are there in the world?(blog.pythonanywhere.com)
6 points by gpjt 13y ago|2 comments
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by gpjt 13y ago
In addition to what others have said about 5% being hard to achieve conservatively, you have to factor in inflation if you want your principal to remain intact in a meaningful sense. Let's call inflation 3% (it's lower now but there's no o
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by gpjt 13y ago
To be fair, 2008 was the year the current financial meltdown started, and stocks were doing pretty poorly even in the run-up to that. From a quick check of Yahoo Finance, it looks like the Dow dropped from 14k in July 2007 to 8k in January
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by gpjt 13y ago
Writing a blog post about how to do something is an excellent way of learning it yourself. I'm hoping that that is what the author is doing here... Though if so, it would be good if it was flagged as such. Maybe posting it was for school cr
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by gpjt 13y ago
Thanks! We're keeping an eye on Cloud9, they look like a really interesting company in the same space as us...
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by gpjt 13y ago
Thanks! Yes, we think we need a couple of higher-end plans. The current price points are perfect for learners and low-bandwidth/low-CPU side projects, but something higher-end would probably make it more useful and help our bottom line to
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by gpjt 13y ago
Nice. Works in Chrome on my ICS Android tablet too :-)
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by gpjt 14y ago
Can't say. We used bootstrap for our main product site and it was great. We found foundation better for the pinode marketing site but we've never used it for a webapps, so it might be better for those too.
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by gpjt 14y ago
We probably should have waited but it was one of those silly ideas you get on a Friday evening and we're probably never have got round to it if we'd not done it right away. In terms of traffic to our main site -- not too much, 400 extra vis
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by gpjt 14y ago
BTW I'd like to thank the guys at Zurb for producing Foundation. The whole Pinode site took less than 45 minutes to write, of which we spent about ten minutes on the design and the rest on the jokes. And we'd never done anything with Found
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by gpjt 14y ago
Holy crap, someone's doing this for real?!
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Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud(pinode.pythonanywhere.com)
86 points by gpjt 14y ago|47 comments
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by gpjt 14y ago
Indeed. Though now that I've realised it's unlikely to make me my millions, I think I'll write it using Angular, Node, CoffeeScript, MongoDB, and possibly Haskell.
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by gpjt 14y ago
You may be right -- possibly I'm overcompensating for my earlier worries. Still, if the worst comes to the worst it'll still be an interesting project.
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by gpjt 14y ago
A self-driving trash can is possibly the best idea I've ever heard!
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by gpjt 14y ago
Precisely. I'd thought of building something like this for my own use last autumn, and ironically actually started building it over the weekend[1] (GF away for the week). When I was young and naive, reading that one of the big boys was gett
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by gpjt 14y ago
You can do that, but it might not be fun. I spent 4 years in tech at A Big Financial Company and the one thing I learned was that I didn't want to work at a company where my work wasn't a core part of the business. I've heard that at Ora
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by gpjt 14y ago
No serious issues -- Socket.IO was really good. But SockJS was noticeably faster, and we saw fewer cases where things arrived out-of-order -- blog post here: http://blog.pythonanywhere.com/27/ Also, IIRC the code we had to write to handl
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by gpjt 14y ago
Haven't used SignalR but we've tried Socket.IO and SockJS for that, and have found SockJS to be absolutely awesome in production. We're running an in-browser vt100 terminal, Tornado with a SockJS plugin on the backend, round-tripping every
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Outage report; or, the perils of using 502s to initialize web applications(blog.pythonanywhere.com)
4 points by gpjt 14y ago|0 comments
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by gpjt 14y ago
This is why I love HN. You get an ID not just of the computer but of the goddamn sequencer !
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by gpjt 14y ago
TBH that could work. I remember lots of talk in the late 90s about messaging systems where you'd pay the recipient of an email -- there was a not-great-but-good-ideas sf book, I think Earthweb, which had a great moment where a character, fe

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