mikeokner

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by mikeokner 9y ago
This is one of the best ideas (and execution) I've seen in a while! Great example of solving a problem w/ technology and turning it into a business.
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by mikeokner 9y ago
You can still set an arbitrary-length passcode. I think they phased out 4 as too weak, so now 6 is the default, but you can go longer and it'll just show you a text box instead of 6 placeholders.
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Starting a business isn't for everybody, but not for the reason you stated. You're making the mistake of believing the VC hype. You don't need and probably shouldn't seek funding until you can articulate a need. So su
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by mikeokner 9y ago
> growing a business from nothing to millions in revenue, with no VC involvement (not for lack of trying). To watch it shot in the head by the bank after sinking my entire worth into it. I'd be interested to hear more of the story
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Depends a lot on the startup, especially outside the Bay. In other parts of the country, you usually don't get substantial stock grants from corporate employers, and you usually do get market salary or close to it from a startup. The
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by mikeokner 9y ago
> And if it isn't you should be a millionaire for your risk What risk? The only risk I've ever had as an engineer at a startup was the risk of losing my job (which everyone has, they just ignore it). And let's be real,
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Why not? No one's stopping you from starting your own venture. What makes you entitled to a larger piece of the pie if you aren't putting in the extra work or shouldering the extra risk of a founder?
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Actually Minneapolis gets so cold that it's usually pretty sunny in the winter because the air has less moisture and higher density.
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Yes, but this individual already has a functioning product or is very close. Too many engineers think "I'm going to put out the most perfect product with all the features I want" when what they need is to put out a usable ba
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by mikeokner 9y ago
3rded. I wish time stopped at 10.6.8.
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by mikeokner 9y ago
> Contabulo is Coming Soon > We’re currently working hard on getting Contabulo ready and hope to launch a beta in the very near future. That's probably killing you. My advice would be to get rid of that immediately. It sound
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by mikeokner 9y ago
> In terms of infrastructure, this meant using Ansible for quickly deploying new servers where needed and adding them to the right load balancer. Currently all I need to do is spin up a new instance with the right tag & run the rele
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by mikeokner 9y ago
The #1 best piece of advice in the article is: > The best way to get things done is to simply sit down and start working on them. So many people worry so much about failure that they don't even bother to start. You can't pos
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Are you running free trials? Giving potential customers an adequate period of time to evaluate your product can be a good way to get them past some of those early hang-ups, especially if you're there to hold their hand. Edit: I see in
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by mikeokner 9y ago
The new Tesla model 3 uses your smartphone over bluetooth as a key. I suspect we'll see that become more prevalent, which should provide ways to mitigate most of these issues by using GPS for location instead of RF strength/timin
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by mikeokner 9y ago
"Market cap as % of GDP" is a pretty strange way to determine whether the stock market is over/undervalued. The usual yardstick is Price/Earnings ratio. In that regard we are a little above average right now, but certa
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by mikeokner 9y ago
> Any rational person (including the Post editor who commented on it) would agree this is a non-issue Guess I'm irrational then. $900M/yr is an insanely substantial chunk of change for even the largest companies in the world
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by mikeokner 9y ago
The comparison with Vault is somewhat misleading. - There are several free UIs available for Vault like https://github.com/djenriquez/vault-ui , they just aren't provided by Hashicorp - I'm not sure what &quot
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by mikeokner 9y ago
EULAs in general are somewhat of a farce. Most companies use them as scare tactics but wouldn't want to risk them being scrutinized in court, especially when the only damages they could point to would be lost revenue in small-claims t
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Yeah this seems like a no-brainer for anyone who has had a laptop in front of them during a meeting or a lecture.
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Morse code of ASCII art I think
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by mikeokner 9y ago
My favorite story about the SR-71 being badass: http://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-107912704...
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by mikeokner 9y ago
> The string "gimme gimme gimme" can be found in RHEL, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Debian and probably more, so it's not really distro specific. You can grep your man binary to verify. Technically the behavior is standard, for som
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by mikeokner 9y ago
You'd think if the ME truly wasn't nefarious that Intel would offer chips without it and capitalize on the extra features in the enterprise market. I've yet to encounter anyone who actually wants it.
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by mikeokner 9y ago
Another key factor is that a lot of baby boomers are reaching retirement age. With every kid being told college is the only path to become "successful," there's going to be a lack of talent in the trades at least in the near
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by mikeokner 10y ago
It's the original Electron[1] app. It's just a JavaScript web application running in a re-branded Chrome window, which is why it uses an absurd amount of computing power compared to a normal text editor (or most other native appli
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by mikeokner 10y ago
It's laughable that Brave is marketed as a new, fast browser when it's just a Node/Electron application. It's barely more than a skin on a Chrome window with no possibility of ever outperforming Chrome.
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by mikeokner 10y ago
Possible, but the maintainer has stated there aren't plans to completely merge it into Django proper. https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/2ijyuq/added_tom_ch...
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by mikeokner 10y ago
https://ricochet.im/ is a good option if you're looking to minimize the amount of metadata that gets leaked. Desktop only at the moment, though, due to the difficulties of running a Tor hidden service from a mobile dev
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by mikeokner 10y ago
BSD 3-clause is GPL-compatible. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD

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