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by jsiarto 15y ago
Completely off-topic here, but the coffee house mentioned in this Engine Yard article (Intelligentsia) is really the best coffee in Chicago--if not the US. Also, there is no way that Groupon needs a data center--how can they be spending mil
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by jsiarto 15y ago
Exactly! Building GPS-guided RC drones is actually WAY simpler than most people realize (relatively). See: http://www.openpilot.org/ , http://www.kkmulticopter.kr/
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by jsiarto 15y ago
Marketing, marketing, marketing--best advice in this thread. Why do people care about what you're doing? Why do you care about what you're doing? You need to have story to tell and you need to connect with people at an emotional level.
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by jsiarto 15y ago
Another great resource for this is Chris Anderson's http://diydrones.com/ Great resource for UAVs, FPV flying and aerial photography.
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by jsiarto 15y ago
Yeah, I feel like this questions answers itself. Why would you change a hugely profitable and popular piece of software? 37signals set the bar for web-based project management, period.
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by jsiarto 15y ago
In the words of Barney Stinson: "To score a ten would be just fine, but I’d rather be dressed to the nines. It’s a truth you can’t refute, nothing suits me like a suit." Suit up, Men!
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by jsiarto 15y ago
These are strictly quantitative numbers as we haven't done deep research into the overall sentiment of the announcement. But it does give you an idea of just how much reach Netflix has and how their announcements drive conversation.
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Infographic: Social Media Reactions to the Netflix-Qwikster Split(loudpixel.com)
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by jsiarto 15y ago
Couldn't agree more. I had a non-malignant "tumor"--essentially a jaw cyst that got me denied individual coverage. Once that happens, you are blacklisted in the MIB (insurance database) and will never be able to obtain individual coverage.
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by jsiarto 15y ago
The best advice in this article is having a cash runway. So many people (people who live in 500K houses and drive fancy cars) are literally 1 paycheck from bankruptcy. If you need a constant influx of 6K paychecks every month and you don't
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by jsiarto 15y ago
We pay proportional taxes on the % of income that comes from other states. For example, if 80% of our revenue comes from Illinois and 20% from Michigan--we only pay taxes on the 20% from Michigan. "Doing business" (as far as our accountant
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by jsiarto 16y ago
The Personal MBA is a great program and his book is just as good ( http://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-Master-Art-Business/dp/15... ). My wife and I are part-way through both and he covers just about everything you could care to know about r
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by jsiarto 16y ago
Rapleaf doesn't scare me -- their data is only what's publicly available on the web. If you don't want RapLeaf to have it, don't post it on the web. I actually know their Chicago account manager and have meet one of the co-founders. They ar
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by jsiarto 16y ago
The one thing I really appreciated about the movie was the accuracy of the computer monitor shots and dialogue about servers/hacking. While pretty basic Apache config stuff, It's nice to see a respect for the technology.
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by jsiarto 16y ago
I've had the same issues--it's not perfect yet but they've done some great things in terms of software and service UI. Card reader is a little janky though...
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by jsiarto 16y ago
Agreed--these guys have been around for quite some time. I do think they are really just starting to take off though. I just got my reader about 3 weeks ago (It had been on order for almost 3 months).
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by jsiarto 16y ago
I agree, I didn't even think you could open that many tabs. I don't know how anyone expects a browser to run optimally with that many resources open.
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by jsiarto 16y ago
Ok... Not really the same argument--but I still hold that this is an edge case. I can't even wrap my head around the UI FUBAR of what a window with 100 tabs open looks like. Someone please explain to me how you work within that system?
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by jsiarto 16y ago
50 - 100 tabs open at one time!? Why would anyone need that many windows open? I'm not saying that these issues aren't prevalent--but I have to imagine that this is an edge case. Just thinking about ever having more than 5 or 6 tabs open at
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by jsiarto 16y ago
Sorry for the shameless self-promotion, but I'm just about done with Head First Wordpress ( http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-WordPress-Brain-Friendly-Cr... ). It covers Wordpress 3.0 (although not the MU integration) and I've tried to make
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by jsiarto 16y ago
By most corporations, I think you mean most large, public corporations incorporate in Deleware. I just didn't want to hassle with being a foreign entity in my own state and the taxes and fees in Illinois are reasonable.
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by jsiarto 16y ago
The handling of sprites is really cool. Allowing Rails to generate the sprite from a directory and then calling the sprite image with sprite_tag(folder/sprite) makes sprites much less painful. As a designer, I appreciate the attention to th
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by jsiarto 16y ago
This is slightly off-topic, but It's nice to see that Phusion updated their branding and website. It's been a while since I've visited that site, but that stupid graffiti tag logo they had before was awful. The new look helps me take them m
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by jsiarto 16y ago
All good points--I don't completely agree on the LegalZoom issue. Our company incorporated in Illinois through LegalZoom and it worked out great. I've done LLC/partnerships on my own and the paperwork is easy. It's good to think of LegalZoo
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by jsiarto 16y ago
I'm waiting for Google to open up an API or dashboard on top of Caffeine to compete with some of the monitoring tools like Radian6 and Jive. They could own that space and it's growing like crazy right now. Plus, we don't need any more compa
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by jsiarto 16y ago
Not to nitpik this, but I don't consider eating off the dollar menu at McDonalds anyway to save money. In the long haul--that's probably what will end up killing you or at least racking up some medical bills. I'd rather spend 10x the dollar
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by jsiarto 16y ago
Yeah, I agree. Anytime you start saying that your software can "do-it-all" you're bound to run into problems. I still can't see how this has mass public appeal--anyone outside the HN/tech scene isn't even going to understand 1% of what any
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by jsiarto 16y ago
I also don't think Diaspora gets that money tax-free. How do they report that at the end of the year? Were people donating to a company? Do they even have a legal structure?
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by jsiarto 16y ago
Mac OS X has the best "community norm" for installing software: 1. Download compressed .dmg from Awesome Software Inc. 2. OS X unpacks it automatically and mounts the drive on your desktop (with a new Finder window open) 3. Drag your app to
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by jsiarto 16y ago
Apple Killer, iPhone Killer, iPad Killer. Enough talk, let's see it. Until someone else comes along and delivers the user experience and hardware quality Apple is putting out-I don't want to hear it. No doubt the Android-based tablet will b

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