mkal_tsr

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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
"One way to add special new things is a 'labs' option like Google where you put easy requests in which don't fit with the rest of the program and it's clear to the user they aren't proper stable features."
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This was already posted by you 36 minutes ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605002
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This is great, thanks!
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> In my sales packages and copy, I want to say I am a successful entrepreneur Why? I'm serious about that. You seem to be hung up on the idea of being called successful if only for personal validation ... but I think it's get
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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
Reading the description and reviews on Amazon, I can't quite tell if this book is for my situation - I am post-MVP stage with people paying for it (as a private-beta site) and will need to open it up soon. Am I "too late/far
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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
I'm bootstrapping now and growing organically (as well as keeping the site invite-only to handle scaling slower) and it's been an interesting ride. I know if I could bring on a business/marketing person I could take it to a
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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
I think it's important to step back and ask yourself to objectively look at the bigger picture. Lots of people / companies probably applied as a way to jump-start their funding efforts, grow their networks, and learn from advisor
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CDNs are part of a group that receives advanced notification because of their reach on the web - they're a valuable attack vector.
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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
I deleted my DropBox and moved my stuff over to SpiderOak.
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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
Exercise, meditation, reading, video games, and phone/facetime with non-local friends. As much as I love losing myself in code, I remind myself the main reason I made my business was so that I could do it on my terms, and that means r
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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
The book that really got me going was The Way of Zen by Alan Watts. I felt like that was a good introduction for myself (a Westerner who didn't want the religious component of Buddhism). From there it was pretty much a lot of sitting,
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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
Not really an epiphany, but when I started a consistent meditation practice. I've been significantly better about viewing myself objectively without emotions, I'm not as held back by fears or insecurities, and life has become qui
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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
Oh for sure, redundancy for the load-balancers, app servers, caches, and database servers are a must ... if it can fail, it will at the worst time ;-) My point was more that the frequency at which I and others are having DO issues seems t
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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
With the outages I've had at DigitalOcean and the AWS price cuts, I'm prepping to move over to AWS unless DO can make a good case against it ... I'm tired of seeing timeouts and droplets hanging which affects my business.
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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
As someone in the fitness tech industry, the lack of info on the device should be telling. Indiegogo and Kickstarter are becoming full of new HW devices that promise amazing results with very little proof. I really wish these crowdfunding
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Oh wow, I never knew that had a name, thank you for the link!
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But for the most part, isn't it self-defeating (outside of graveyard hours)? If I see that my gym is low-traffic or nearly empty, I'm going to go there. Surely I can't be the only one with that mindset, so suddenly, low-tra
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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
How can they say they're the fastest growing when Popcorn Time nearly doubled the unique contributors (95-ish to 40ish) in nearly the same time? Seems rather disingenuous to include PopcornTime clearly showing it's much younger t
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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
My high-school physics teacher always said, "be lazily efficient" and it's been a pretty sound guiding principle for me. That means I find shortcuts, optimize menial tasks, and most importantly, look out for early signs of b
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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
It sounds like you are thinking of a database abstraction layout, something you probably have an object relation mapper sitting on top using it, easy way to get structured models in and out of (non)persistent databases/caches.
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TheSquatRack.com - workout tracking, analysis, as well as ( macros, body measurements, workout-journals, data-export options, import options, etc.). Current features being deployed include workout routines that span weeks and months, with
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by mkal_tsr 13y ago
That's exactly where I'm at right now, bootstrapped and solo-founder. It's an interesting beast. I have a tendency to want to do harder sprints because I want to clear out my backlog, clean-up docs, fix some bugs, and then