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by modoc 12y ago
It depends on the person. I can't comment on Ivys, however I attended a very prestigious East coast prep school. At the time I was a terrible "networker" and I left there with zero long term friends and useful connections.
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by modoc 12y ago
Not my epinephrine levels no, but RescueTime does let you know when you're working more productively than others I guess. The horror stories here seem to be giant rooms full of inconsiderate loud frat boys. My current office is 8-10 pe
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by modoc 12y ago
Your open office experiences and mine are massively different. I guess that's why two reasonable people can have different opinions on the subject. I would go nuts if people were gossiping and being as chaotic as a daycare... Lucki
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by modoc 12y ago
The open/closed office thing seems like chocolate vs. vanilla. Some people love one and hate the other. Some are okay with both. I've worked in both, at several companies. I generally prefer open office plans. Clearly other pe
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by modoc 12y ago
I was working remotely effectively starting in '98-'99. DSL + VPN + Thinkpad + cell phone + etc...
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by modoc 12y ago
Keep an eye on New Relic. Not only are they emerging as a really dominant player in the APM space, but their heading into a very interesting space with the evolution of their Insights platform. My $20 is they will push hard into the BI an
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by modoc 12y ago
It is significantly more expensive, especially for teams in the ~100+ range. We've been using Stash (and Jira, Confluence, etc..) pretty happily. GitHub is great, but the $$$ is just too much, and the Atlasssian ecosystem integrates n
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by modoc 12y ago
CloudFlare sees 0.65% of HTTPS traffic using SSL v3 so it's a pretty small impact.
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by modoc 12y ago
Thanks! FWIW PostalMethod's seems more business focused, and to use a PDF I have to setup the addresses on the PDF itself, since they use a clear windowed envelope. Great for an invoice, less great for a letter to my grandmother:( I
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Ask HN: Individual print/mail as a service offerings?
2 points by modoc 12y ago|2 comments
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by modoc 12y ago
Because the author prefers to code in something else?
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by modoc 12y ago
Everyone is a bit different. If it's over 76 degrees in my house, I am mentally more sluggish, and have a very hard time sleeping. I don't mind sweating and being hot during the day, but at night I just can't sleep well. A
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by modoc 12y ago
FWIW my suburban town has almost no chain anythings. I can walk to local coffee shops (have to drive to a Starbucks). We have an amazing collection of local restaurants covering almost every possible cuisine. We have a great library, rai
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by modoc 12y ago
Sure. Yes, I need a car. I love cars/motorcycles. I love driving. I always owned at least one vehicle even when I lived in the city and didn't have to. So this isn't a bad thing for me at all. Having a garage to safely p
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by modoc 12y ago
Your vision of a suburb has very little to do with the reality of my suburban existence. It's like someone from the country talking about the horribly dangerous ugly city with its filthy air, roving gangs shooting strangers, and huge
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by modoc 12y ago
Not an actual expat, but travel a lot. Lived in a small beach town in Mexico for a month. There were a lot of expats there, super cheap, safe, friendly town. Everyone there spoke enough English that I could get along easily without any Sp
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by modoc 12y ago
Hard to blame the airframe if it really was a SAM....
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by modoc 12y ago
Absolutely agree. This looks really useful, but I would rather give it my Amazon credentials than access to my email (plus I don't use gmail for much). Or let me forward Amazon receipts to an address ala TripIt? Some options would b
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by modoc 12y ago
Schlage Century Touchscreen Deadbolt hooked into a SmartThings system: https://shop.smartthings.com/#!/products/schlage-century-tou...
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by modoc 12y ago
I'm JUST getting into a little home automation, and here are some great use cases that aren't just a novelty: When my wife and I both leave the house, the front door locks itself. We never have to worry about if we locked the doo
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by modoc 12y ago
I was really impressed by The Lost Fleet's detailed exploration of space combat - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Fleet
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by modoc 12y ago
You'd need some place that allows for VIPs I think... I've never used Digital Ocean. Sorry.
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by modoc 12y ago
As much as I dislike lots about Oracle, the Oracle DB RAC cluster sets the bar pretty high, imho. Multi-master with automated failover that just works.
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by modoc 12y ago
Your first option. A VIP with a heartbeat failover setup. DNS is useful when you have multiple end points and need to push more BW than a single LB/box can handle. But for anything under ~5 Gbit/sec, the Active-Hot Standby setu
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by modoc 12y ago
At the time of writing this 262 responses and 0 "life style" business. That seems pretty nutty to me. Maybe "high growth" captures more than how I read the poll author's intent, but 91 of you are chasing funding&#
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by modoc 12y ago
I dropped out of college, so I have first hand experience both ways. For me personally, I don't regret dropping out at all. For some career paths though, college would be very valuable.
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by modoc 12y ago
Replying to minikites here: your link says: "For many kinds of equipment (with automotive engines being the prime example), the time it takes to complete break-in procedures has decreased significantly from a number of days to a few ho
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by modoc 13y ago
It depends. The Global Entry program for instance cares about arrests, not convictions. Work background checks will turn up arrests as well.
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by modoc 13y ago
FWIW the framerate has a big impact on the battery life for me (Hero3 Black). 30 fps = longer batter life. That said the battery life on the Hero3's isn't great, especially in the cold. I have the battery backpack thing, and a
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by modoc 13y ago
Eh, we could have easily left for another company, individually or as a group.

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