magicarp

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31.
by magicarp 13y ago
"so simple X can do it" always comes off as condescending to me
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by magicarp 13y ago
Not sure if this falls in the "news" part of Hacker News...
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by magicarp 13y ago
Does this need the overhead of being a fully-fledged Rails application? What about making it a Sinatra app?
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by magicarp 13y ago
> I'm brand new to the software industry and while I know nothing about software... Then why are you giving advice on how to run software companies?
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by magicarp 14y ago
You can set up New Relic, whose monitoring will ping the site frequently enough that it won't idle, or if that's not an option you can set up a cron job yourself to do the same thing.
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by magicarp 14y ago
Never seen gore on Facebook, was it by your friends or shared?
37.
by magicarp 14y ago
April fools!
38.
by magicarp 14y ago
Hilarious. As a bay area quarter-lifer I can say pretty much all of these are spot-on.
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by magicarp 14y ago
Who in their right mind would want a cosmetic skull replacement?
40.
by magicarp 14y ago
Hasn't this been on the HN frontpage recently?
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by magicarp 14y ago
No
42.
by magicarp 14y ago
Try looking up anything for R
43.
by magicarp 14y ago
In the third paragraph: "Google calls its HR department People Operations"
44.
by magicarp 14y ago
I'm taking this right now. Can somebody provide some perspective on how thoroughly the course prepares you for using R? Does it give you a good enough grounding in statistics so that you won't shoot yourself in the foot with R?
45.
by magicarp 14y ago
Psyched to meet some HNers in SF!
46.
by magicarp 14y ago
So with this, is Heroku going after Parse?
47.
by magicarp 14y ago
Have always stuck with Monaco.
48.
by magicarp 14y ago
I'm sure there are ways you could improve upon this.
49.
by magicarp 14y ago
It would be interesting to see a greater breakdown of Amazon between straight-up AWS, Heroku, AppFog, and other PaaS providers.
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by magicarp 14y ago
> "Dear App.net: go free-for-most with a paid tier, and you just might take over the world." I don't think App.net offering a paid tier would protect them from making the same mistakes as Twitter, Facebook, and Google down the road. If
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by magicarp 15y ago
A lot of conveyor-belt sushi restaurants in Japan have this. If you go to one chain (kappazushi), your sushi gets delivered to you on a bullet train.
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by magicarp 15y ago
I went to high school with Austin. He usually hung out with the stoner crowd. And while his accident was certainly a lesson in irresponsible teenage drinking/drug use, I'm really glad to see he's found the right people and turned his life a