luckystartup

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by luckystartup 10y ago
I use Linux on my media PC. I actually switched to Windows for a little while, because it was preinstalled. I only switched to Linux because I wanted to SSH into the machine, run OpenVPN, duckdns updater, home automation scripts, etc. I was
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by luckystartup 10y ago
I'm confused. That Mac Mini is still amazing. They didn't say anything about wiping the hard drive and reinstalling everything. Maybe there are some problems with the harddrive, so just replace it with a new SSD. Check the RAM and
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by luckystartup 10y ago
I might have to start an anonymous GitHub account so that I can contribute to this. It would be fantastic if there was a way to start a download directly from the web UI. Many torrent clients can monitor an RSS feed, so that would probably
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by luckystartup 10y ago
The creators of Phoenix didn't want to write their own code to manage Javascript and CSS (e.g. rewriting the Rails "asset pipeline" in Elixir), so they just integrated Brunch [1], which is built on Node.js and NPM. I think th
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by luckystartup 10y ago
> Please try to conform to the rules of the community as they are, not as you wish they were. Ah yes. If there's anything Hacker News readers are known for, it's conforming to the rules. (Sorry, just a joke.) But yes, I will ac
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by luckystartup 10y ago
In all honesty, I watched Arrival last night, and I've been thinking about it all day. It's actually the main reason I posted my comment. I highly recommend watching it.
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by luckystartup 10y ago
That sounds like it could be a reasonable tangent. A less extreme example would be talking about how much longer people can use SHA1 until it is completely insecure: https://sites.google.com/site/itstheshappening/
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by luckystartup 10y ago
I think it's rare to find a software company where all of the employees are software engineers. They are usually outnumbered by designers, marketers, salespeople, support staff, finance, accounting, etc. There is generally a similar nu
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by luckystartup 10y ago
I think it entirely depends on the timescale. I like to imagine a distant future where all food production is automated. Staples, vegetables, and fruits (and fresh water) would be available to everyone for free. People wouldn't eat mea
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Sorry, I spend a lot of time on Reddit, and no-one really complains if you start a new conversation on a related topic. There's plenty of other top-level comments if you want to talk about different handguns. I'm more interested i
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by luckystartup 10y ago
These are still not very cool. Why is there such a big disconnect between Hollywood movies, and these real space suits? I mean, even the shade of blue isn't particularly nice. If this was a toy, I don't think it would sell very we
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by luckystartup 10y ago
I wonder when humans will stop using guns on each other. Maybe 2100?
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by luckystartup 10y ago
There's absolutely no way of knowing who owns the addresses. We have a saying for this: "Hiding in plain sight."
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by luckystartup 10y ago
He's an active member of 4chan, and that's how this email service was started. Similar to Imgur being made for Reddit users. It's basically a culture of trolling people and making lots of overly sexual and racist jokes. The p
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by luckystartup 10y ago
No, I just think the whole situation is very unique. Jobs wasn't really looking for a tech guy from the very beginning. He was introduced to Woz and they ended up building something together. So he stumbled into it, just like any entre
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Woz built the Apple I by himself. Without Woz, I'm not sure what Steve Jobs would have done. Probably nothing important. Steve Jobs was definitely a very talented man, but he was also in the right place at the right time. If Apple didn
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Autoscaling is free to set up on AWS [1]. All web server code should be able to scale, and there's nothing special about autoscaling. The easiest (and default) way is to just spin up servers based on CPU usage. For Heroku, you can use
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by luckystartup 10y ago
The main takeaway for me is that dedicated hardware is a nightmare when you have large traffic spikes. You could save a ton of stress by running this on a cloud platform with autoscaling, such as AWS or Heroku. You can always spin up a rese
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Are you able to pay yourself a salary from donations? Or are you doing all of this work for free?
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by luckystartup 10y ago
The chance that he would accomplish anything is vanishingly small. But I found this story on Google: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/18-year-old-...
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by luckystartup 10y ago
> Then at the end students got a bonus for their participation experiment and they were told that they could donate some or all, any fraction of their bonus, to one of three charities, their pick, just by saying so to the experimenter. W
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by luckystartup 10y ago
Yes, I was very lucky. I was actually one of the first few employees, and I joined about a year before they raised their series A. Now they are a unicorn, and hopefully on their way to an IPO. I don't know if I would say I joined a &qu
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by luckystartup 10y ago
You're right, but there's a better way to think about the $10 million, called the "safe withdrawal rate". If you're 65, a good rate is 4%. This means that if you invest your $10 million in a diversified mix of stock
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by luckystartup 10y ago
I haven't let it affect decisions like buying a new car. I've been looking at some houses, but just for fun. I've been working on some of my own startups since I quit this job. I needed to keep my burn-rate low, so I lived in
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by luckystartup 10y ago
This is all true. I moved to San Francisco to join a startup as an early employee. The biggest surprise was when I had to empty my savings (and borrow a lot of money) to exercise my stock options. I filed an 83b election so that I didn&#x27