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by jakejake 11y ago
Thanks a bunch - that looks interesting! my Doc wasn't in there but i'll keep an eye out.
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by jakejake 11y ago
Well the biggest problem seems to be that the billing from the health provider doesn't sync up with insurance. So you'll get a bill like "you owe $1,295" but there's absolutely no way to reconcile this with the ser
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by jakejake 11y ago
Anybody who does a hit and run is a scum-bag, bike or car. Unfortunately there are some thoughtless and selfish people in this world.
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by jakejake 11y ago
I ride a bike to work sometimes and I'll slow down, then go through stop signs on a small street if there's nobody nearby. Stop lights, I'll only go through them after coming to a stop and checking for traffic. It's nu
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by jakejake 11y ago
At least around here in Chicago gears are totally uncool - fixed gear bike with no brakes is where it's at.
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by jakejake 11y ago
Having dealt with health problems this past year, I would love to see somebody write something that simplifies the voodoo going on between health care providers and insurance companies. Even though they both have online portals these days,
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by jakejake 11y ago
This quote struck me "I'm pretty sure his response was that what tools others chose to use or not use was not his concern" On the one hand I feel a conflict of wanting to use every new, shiny tool. But a dose of this attitude
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by jakejake 11y ago
If anybody wanted to bother they probably could hold them to it. They didn't really mention whether the existing accounts were grandfathered in. If not then it was rather dishonest of them to promote "free forever." They coul
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by jakejake 11y ago
> Is there some methodical way to uncover needed software? I think this is a common thread here - software developers looking for a problem to solve. A lot of people invent a solution without really knowing whether it is a problem - or i
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by jakejake 11y ago
I would guess because Github was not being used as a code repo, but was essentially being used as free CDN for the data file. I've seen direct linking to Github raw files like that before and wondered if it was something they condone.
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by jakejake 11y ago
I have had a few open source projects with around 250k installs (web apps and Wordpress plugins). One of them I was able to monetize for about $1k per month. I was getting inundated with support requests so finally I created a "produ
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by jakejake 11y ago
Forgive me but why go after LaunchRock? It seems like the point of LaunchRock is to serve people who wouldn't have the tech skills (or desire) to deploy a Ruby app, or possibly even a static HTML app by themselves?
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by jakejake 11y ago
I think when developers see a simple, successful product they say to themselves "hey, I could do that!" So we wind up with a thousand to-do apps. Slack is a step or two in complexity beyond a to-do app. Simply copying a product li
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by jakejake 11y ago
One thing that I like with a JS framework is when I can actually play around with a demo or two without cloning the repo. Call me lazy, but I don't see why a framework that is entirely client-side can't just put the demos up?
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by jakejake 11y ago
It might be considered spam for one thing. The emails are unsolicited and it might be seen as a subtle promotion of the urhack project. I'm not sure that collecting and sending the passwords is illegal but I'm sure that wouldn&#x2
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by jakejake 11y ago
I feel like I need to get with the times. I have an aversion to talking to computers. Though when I try using it once in a while to dictate a text, I'm always surprised and amazed at how well it works.
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by jakejake 11y ago
Thanks. I guess I personally haven't really made much money on property, I've managed to break even probably if I figured it out. Although our upcoming sale will leave me with mid 6 figures in our bank account, it's not real
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by jakejake 11y ago
Serious question. We have a master DB and a slave, two memcache servers and 3 webservers behind a load balancer. We're not a public-facing company and so have no reason to be building for "web scale" or whatever, we're
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by jakejake 11y ago
It would be interesting to see your breakdown. I figure your purchase closing costs to have been around $2k. Your agents selling commission around $3.5k. Then you must have had condo association fee of some kind. Property tax as well.
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by jakejake 11y ago
When I do interviews I always have the candidate show me some of their own projects and walk me through the interesting parts. Sometimes I'm curious about a certain feature and will have them explain the code to me. I feel like this
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by jakejake 11y ago
Not that the U.S. Is necessarily better than any other place, but avoiding it out of fear is certainly not necessary.
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by jakejake 11y ago
Maybe a less drastic idea is to wait at least until they have no classes together. Surely true love can last longer than one semester. The same thing happens at the workplace all the time and often ends badly. It's ill advised for an
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by jakejake 11y ago
Why would you say that? Have you ever been to the US?
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by jakejake 11y ago
It makes me a little sad to hear an honest question like this because it means that people have a horribly slanted impression of the US, which is a fantastic place to visit and is generally very welcoming of visitors from other countries. A
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by jakejake 11y ago
I should have added *sarcasm regarding the funny part. I have to disagree though, most users have no clue what that means other than it costs them nothing. And many developers simply ignore and violate the terms because they don't und
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by jakejake 11y ago
Maybe golden shackles would be appropriate?! I actually do release some code under GPL, but it's when I want those restrictions in order to prevent certain types of commercial usage (and of course when my code uses or is based on GPL c
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by jakejake 11y ago
I think the cause would be better served if RMS would stop calling it "free" software and stop with the speech/beer analogy. As hilarious as the wordplay may be, most people simply don't get it. The other irony is that
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by jakejake 11y ago
I like the fact that I know about a lot of these things, so that if a need arises I'm aware of what's out there and current. I figure when/if the time comes then I'll actually learn how to use them. I think it's
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by jakejake 11y ago
Seems to be the problem with a lot of technologies. If you're a HN reader, you can start to get the feeling that you're falling behind if you're not doing these things. Even though they are totally inappropriate for the maj
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And when he creates his 9th account and proceeds to use the n-word to insult people he feels are intellectually inferior to him - that one will be hellbanned as well, and rightly so in my opinion. The guy learned how to write compilers and

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