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by mattew 16y ago
I love that Dave McClure was able to put together a $30 million dollar fund. I like the idea of investments being made pre product/market fit, with subsequent double down investments once the ideas gain traction.
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by mattew 16y ago
I am glad to see I am not the only one constantly confusing useradd and adduser.
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by mattew 16y ago
I had a sister with a severe mental disability (Rett Syndrome) who died at the age of 17. A very wise, (and very broke) parent of another girl with Rett Syndrome explained to us that if you have a problem that money can solve, you don't re
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by mattew 16y ago
So many developers underestimate the need for good, quality visual design and aesthetics in their work. In my experience most non programmers evaluate something first on how it looks, and if it doesn't look good, they won't be interested i
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by mattew 16y ago
I think PHP suffers from some of the same issues that VB6 suffered from in terms of inexperienced programmers. With VB6, someone who was not as much of a programmer as we all are could write themselves into a massive mess. I have found wh
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by mattew 16y ago
I am not a lawyer, but you should consider incorporation and separating out your personal affairs from your business affairs. Not only is it easier to see what is going on, it can provide you with the other benefits of incorporation.
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by mattew 16y ago
Thanks for the tip.
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by mattew 16y ago
Yeah, I decoded the two final words and came to the same conclusion as you. I will check out my next few boarding passes and see if any patterns emerge.
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Ask HN: Anyone ever scan the barcode on an airline boarding pass?
9 points by mattew 16y ago|5 comments
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by mattew 16y ago
What are you currently using for storing/accessing your spatial data?
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by mattew 16y ago
Congratulations. Although the items here on HN tend to end up on the work side, of the work/life balance equation, its nice to see an article like this and a comment like yours to help remind me and everyone here that there is a great deal
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by mattew 16y ago
Prior to reading this post, I did not know about your book, but found it interesting and bought it because of this post.
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by mattew 16y ago
No remote control (yet). Remote control + group would almost eliminate the need for GotoMeeting or WebEx for me.
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by mattew 16y ago
I am looking forward to the time when Skype has cross-platform group video and screen sharing. I don't use gotomeeting nearly as much for one-on-one screen sharing, but need to bring it out for mutli-party screen share.
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by mattew 16y ago
One of my clients has 2 windows instances. I will need to look at the windows tools to see if there is something equivalent there.
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by mattew 16y ago
Is there any way to set EBS to auto-snapshot on a specified time period through the existing control panel interface? Are snapshots possible through the API?
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Ask HN: What do you use for tracking time and invoicing clients?
6 points by mattew 16y ago|6 comments
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by mattew 16y ago
Pingdom is great. We use if to monitor all our client sites and it is awesome.
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by mattew 16y ago
I suggest you try and find people who would either be prospective partners or clients of your project, write a brief message to them, and ask them to review your work and comment. Also, answering questions relevant to your interest area on
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by mattew 17y ago
We spend a lot of time sitting. I want myself and the people who work for me to be comfortable. $800 isn't much to spend on something you use all day, every day.
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Ask HN: What is the best qualtiy office chair for long stretches of coding?
13 points by mattew 17y ago|26 comments
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by mattew 17y ago
The email to SMS gateways are much slower in my experience than sending an actual SMS message through a quality service like OpenMarket.
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by mattew 17y ago
I love this snippet from the comments, referring to the fact that 37signals is beholden to their customers. "Everyone has a boss. There is no escape."
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by mattew 17y ago
I agree with the parent comment 100%. You can always learn how to sell later when the stakes are not so high. For now, you need someone who knows what they are doing and will land your more business at a higher margin.
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Ask HN: How do you debug your rails applications?
5 points by mattew 17y ago|5 comments
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by mattew 17y ago
we mostly use GoDaddy because it is so cheap, but its a horrible user experience. We use DynDns.com for our DNS hosting and I think they offer certs now, so we may switch to them.
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by mattew 17y ago
Is there anything like Authorize.net CIM in Canada? The CIM piece is awesome because you don't store any credit card information on your server, which takes all the PCI hassle out of the equation.
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by mattew 17y ago
We try and make sure all our clients use SSL for authentication and transfer of secure data. Just because Facebook and Google aren't as conscientious as they should be doesn't let you off the hook. You don't need to pay a few hundred dolla
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by mattew 17y ago
University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
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by mattew 17y ago
This is a really nice addition to HN. Hopefully this will enable more peer-to-peer engagement around issues that are of interest to the HN community. I know I will be checking this page out on a regular basis to see what I might be able t

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