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by kohanz 8y ago
I think they're saying that they are unable to meet the demand (lack of either equipment or people) for the new business those extra advertising dollars would bring in. So they can't just continually pour $ into that pump. Althoug
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by kohanz 8y ago
I'm being a bit over-dramatic, truth be told (I never had the courage to roll my eyes at any of them). I put "smart engineer" in quotes because that was really just a label (for my MIL, it meant I was the only engineer in t
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by kohanz 8y ago
> Big Bang Theory Oh how I loathed that show, especially at height of its popularity. I got so tired of smiling and nodding (or rolling my eyes, depending on who it was) as non-technical people at work and even my mother-in-law made it
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Hard to see either solution coming into play anytime soon. Option (a) is likely out due to recent-enough-to-be-remembered tragedies pushing regulation in the opposite direction and Option (b) seems antithetical to the recently-elected gover
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In my experience it's not limited to large metro populations with high COL. We live in a mid-sized Canadian city (~400k population) with a relatively low cost of living and the preferred daycares here all have waiting lists. Basically,
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by kohanz 8y ago
I've posted about this before, but years ago I made a blog about completing the application and exams to obtain a professional engineering license in my jurisdiction. It is just a WordPress blog. Over a year or two, it started getting
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by kohanz 8y ago
I'm a developer who does part-time contract work to support bootstrapping (so far) a business. Here's my advice to you. > I am building a B2C website after work and on weekends, however it is very slow going and at this speed I
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by kohanz 8y ago
I've freelanced successfully for a few years and never really had to explicitly network to get clients. They all came from my existing professional network (built up over a 10+ year career in traditional employment). I know that's
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I know this seems flippant, but I mean it with all due respect: Is it possible that you've just grown up? I don't mean to say that those pursuits weren't fun or worth pursuing. My point is a lot of time has passed since &quot
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by kohanz 8y ago
I'm surely missing something, but how this is a bad thing for an average user. Surely the idea behind throttling is to protect users on shared instances from bad actors that are hogging resources beyond a reasonable amount. Running the
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by kohanz 8y ago
Yes. It's called a lead magnet. I have no issue giving my (business) e-mail to get such beautifully designed templates for free. There's at least $100 of value on those sites. If they start sending e-mails not relevant to me, I ca
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by kohanz 8y ago
To add to that: https://remote.co/
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by kohanz 8y ago
Do you mean besides different types of insurance? (health, life, critical illness & disability, etc.)
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My question of how it could go down was firmly tongue-in-cheek. My own serverless web app has gone down a few times during AWS outages, for example.
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by kohanz 8y ago
But it's "serverless", how could it go down? (and I say this as someone that runs a web app built on the Serverless platform that I'm quite happy with - I just think it's a dumb name)
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by kohanz 8y ago
The author does mention she had some pretty "sharp edges", but regardless I don't think one can expect an "objective" assessment in a situation like this nor is it preferred, in my opinion. We're talking about
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by kohanz 8y ago
Hi HN! Creator & founder of VidHug here. It started for me with a request to create a video montage for my mother's 70th birthday. I hacked together a very lousy prototype to make it easier for people to send me recorded videos (ev
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Show HN: VidHug – Group Video Greetings(vidhug.com)
3 points by kohanz 8y ago|1 comments
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by kohanz 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if compliance is nil. I don't live in India, but have a name that is common in that part of the world (moreso Pakistan, to be honest) and a Gmail address that reflects that. My address gets signed up for di
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by kohanz 8y ago
> while others benefit from it? I might have felt a tinge of that until I tried being an entrepreneur myself. Risk is a real thing.
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by kohanz 8y ago
Perhaps not the same, but reminds me of the Waldorf education philosophy [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education
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Did you roll your own recording front-end as well or is it done by file upload?
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What stack are you using to record, trancode (?), and store the videos?
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by kohanz 8y ago
Your post sounded very much like my own story. Flew most of my life, wasn't particularly afraid until a night-time flight with severe turbulence where the plane dropped so fast the only thing that kept people from hitting the ceiling w
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by kohanz 8y ago
I had no idea who Scott Aaronson is, so the context was useful to me.
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by kohanz 8y ago
Lambda is not intended for long running jobs. It would be costly to do so. I'm using Lambda to kick off an EC2 worker running a Docker image with AWS Fargate. The EC2 instance only runs for the duration of the job (which lasts from 5 t
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by kohanz 8y ago
You can pay them for GSuite, but I don't know if the terms are any more favourable.
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by kohanz 8y ago
I'm wondering the same thing. I chose this morning to soft-launch my side-project/startup and sent out the sign-up link to my e-mail list. Of course, it's AWS Cognito-based, was working yesterday, but failed for the new users
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Ask HN: AWS trouble for anyone else?
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Yet despite all of those arguments, there are many budgeting or expense tracking "apps" (of the non-spreadsheet variety) out there that are popular, some of them massively. Analogy: with a little time and some equipment, practical

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