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by mcone 11y ago
One of my favorite infographics is this one on the New York Time's website. It shows how much you would have made on investments over time. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business&#x2F
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by mcone 11y ago
How do companies evaluate the severity and impact of the vulnerability? I don't work in security, but it seems like this is worth more than $15,000.
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by mcone 11y ago
Pittsburgh. Housing prices are ~20% below the national average and we have a growing technology sector with CMU and offices for Google, Apple, and Uber employees. Some startups here, like Duolingo. This is technically the rust belt, but you
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by mcone 11y ago
I think wallflower is right: Technical writers generally get paid less than what developers make. But every company is different. At Compose.io, for example, I think it could be more of a blended position, which is to say that you could be
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by mcone 11y ago
Different people will give you different answers, but I always advise people to do three things: study writing samples, find mentors and nurture relationships with them, and practice writing on your own. The first item is really easy. Just
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by mcone 11y ago
I'm a technical writer at Fastly and a published author with No Starch Press. I've worked full time as a technical writer since 2006. It's a great career and I highly recommend it. If you have a technical background and you&#
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Show HN: Statusbot – API for monitoring all status pages(statusbot.io)
13 points by mcone 11y ago|2 comments
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by mcone 11y ago
I'm a former Linode employee, so you don't have to sell me on the advantages of the VPS. :) I think we need to remember that people new to programming don't know about all of the available tools and services. Costs could have
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by mcone 11y ago
That's a good point, but Heroku has a much lower barrier of entry for people who are just starting out. You don't have to worry about configuring and maintaining a Linux box. Some people are willing to pay a premium to avoid those
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by mcone 11y ago
As a former Linode employee, I find all of your comments very interesting. But if it's true that you're being prosecuted, why are you incriminating yourself here?
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by mcone 11y ago
You might consider taking a look at http://www.cloud66.com/
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by mcone 11y ago
This seems to contradict another recent study [1] that found that Vitamin C promoted cancer (melanoma) growth. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/1...
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by mcone 11y ago
This is an example of "procatalepsis" or "prolepsis" [1], a rhetorical device that is often used to try to defuse criticism. Authors often use this to try to slip something controversial by their readers [2]. [1] https:
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by mcone 12y ago
This was launched about 3 months ago. Previous discussion is still available on HN [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8637365
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by mcone 12y ago
You're absolutely right about it being a complex subject. In addition, some energy "costs" simply can't be calculated, such as the environmental damage and the human toll documented in this article. But at the end of the
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by mcone 12y ago
> Utility scale solar on the other hand is far cheaper. I guess it all depends on your definition of "far cheaper." The DOE reported this year [1] that the price of electricity generated by utility scale photovoltaic power plan
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by mcone 12y ago
> Solar is already cheaper than oil This is highly unlikely, based on my research. It's all a question of ROI. If it took one barrel of oil to extract another barrel of oil out of the ground, would we still be extracting oil? The an
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by mcone 12y ago
This is potentially good news. My sister has schizophrenia, and not a day passes when I don't worry about my 3 year-old son being diagnosed with this terrible disease. I'm not a scientist or an engineer, so maybe somebody who has
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by mcone 12y ago
I think this confirms what a lot of us intrinsically felt: Some people are just better at certain things than others. Jeff Bezos came to this realization while he was in college: "Intent on becoming a theoretical physicist and followin
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by mcone 12y ago
Hmm... one problem they have already is their brand name. "11 Main" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
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by mcone 12y ago
It’s the roads themselves that cause traffic. The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. So contrary to popular belief, i
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by mcone 12y ago
I think you're getting caught up in semantics here, but you're also groping towards a critical realization: Drone strikes, by all accounts, seem to fit the definition of terrorist attacks. Noam Chomsky certainly thinks so. He had
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by mcone 12y ago
Another vote for Ramnode. Fast, reliable, and cheap. Nothing has gone wrong with my 3 instances in 14+ months.
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by mcone 12y ago
That's only an issue with exit nodes. No one can see the traffic passing through relays, so if you're concerned about this you could run a relay.
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by mcone 12y ago
"The bad news is that the renewal rate was not high enough for us to have sufficient budget for full-time employees. After carefully considering a few different options, we are making the difficult decision to no longer employ any sala
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by mcone 13y ago
Right, but they provide additional IP addresses only if you can provide evidence that you need them (e.g., SSL certs).
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by mcone 13y ago
One reason Linode doesn't offer "tiny boxes" is that they, like other companies, are worried about running out of IPv4 addresses.
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Jobs recovery killing entrepreneurial spirit(money.cnn.com)
1 points by mcone 13y ago|0 comments
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by mcone 13y ago
Because fingerprints should be used as usernames, not passwords. http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user...
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by mcone 13y ago
What's interesting is that the article suggests that Obama himself did not know extent of the NSA's activities. ("At the same time, aides said Mr. Obama was surprised to learn after leaks by Edward J. Snowden... just how far

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