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by mr_luc 16y ago
Heh, I stopped looking at this thread almost immediately after "getting over" the initial sting. But I have to say, I still feel that this kind of behavior would be a sane policy. No one´s saying you should hold onto data forever. But havin
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by mr_luc 16y ago
Hah! You´re so right. You´re so right. One of the biggest things I taught myself on my last server (teaching myself to be my own sysadmin) was monit. Now, it looks like I need to go the rest of the way and learn Puppet, too. Or something li
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by mr_luc 16y ago
I know, I´m an idiot. :P There´s an easy backup option now. A year ago, when I first signed up, the only things I could see were the options to use some of my storage space to make a backup image -- which you have to think of at the get-go,
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by mr_luc 16y ago
Yeah, I tried that about 5 minutes ago. They answered my questions like they deleted my linode: as fast as possible. :( I had no idea my bank card was going to expire while I was down here; I´m kicking myself. The only thing that bugs me is
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by mr_luc 16y ago
This is a coincidence. I had a funny experience with Linode just today! I´ve been in South America for a few months, and I found out that my bank card (visa) expired a little over a month ago. "Hmm," I thought. "I sure hope that my linode i
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by mr_luc 16y ago
I'd like to point out a contrarian view of conditions at some software shops that employ very wet-behind-the-ears programmers. I have worked in a union carpentry shop, as well as a Swift and Company kill floor. I also worked for 7 years as
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Or any analogue of being paid for piece-work. I guess some salesmen would fall into this category, as it´s easy to measure their productivity.
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Yep -- $170 to the Secretary of State for 'express' service online; get an EIN online with the IRS; get an MN tax id online with MN-Revenue. You can open a bank account with just your articles of incorporation and an EIN, so you can do that
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by mr_luc 17y ago
That's a fantastic review. "Don't know why I purchased this application but it does what it claims to do." /me runs for his check card.
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Okay, we want to start a bank. What's the paperwork that we need? What are the restrictions and requirements? Forget about how you're going to make it awesome -- do you even know what the barriers to entry are , so that you can start think
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Great Teams Can Do Anything versus Great Surfers Need Great Waves. I always felt as though the discussion was missing something -- and I think that this is it. Competition is different from most startups' vision of success . Growing to c
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I agree re: "10k ft" questions. I clicked on this post (hoping) for something slightly different, though: a kind of a "startup lint", a collection of very specific problems that people had, gotchas and things that caught them off guard.
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Do you work for Microsoft? I just have to know. I mean, this is a joke post, right? a system failure that created data loss in the core database and the back-up. We rebuilt the system component by component, recovering data
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by mr_luc 17y ago
First of all -- did I see a post on here saying that the people "launching rumors against MS" need to take responsibility? That seems odd. This press release is a masterpiece. Here's the bit that sounds the best: We now believe that
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by mr_luc 17y ago
pg wrote an essay about it. http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html Subheading "What a Job Is", 5th paragraph down or so: In a company, the work you do is averaged together with a lot of other people's. You may not even be aware
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I love the Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z ... But I get my zombie fix from other places, not HN. What do you think that reddit.com/r/zombies is for?
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Well, I would have preferred to upmod and comment on a better-written post that expressed that sentiment, but this works. I mean, I agree with some of his specific critiques and I certainly agree with the feeling -- that new startups shou
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Huh, that's interesting. I guess I've never worked with really "churny" data like that before. Sure, sometimes I've had cleanup/integrity/whatever tasks that run every few minutes, but the amount of records affected has always been pretty s
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by mr_luc 17y ago
The database operations on the nested data were just taking too much processing power. Given that this is Rails, and given that it's certainly SQL involved here, I just have to ask (and I know the answer is probably "yes") --
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I'm happy for you guys, and I wish you well. If you ever visit Ecuador, you can get to me via superluc at gmail; starting in December, surf gets good. I'm still in the states, but I'll be back in two weeks -- staying for 10 months this time
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Interesting. That's three HNers (including me) that I've heard of who do crossfit.
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Which is, I believe, what searchyc.com shows you when you search on a username. Or, rather more usefully, it shows you the average for comments and submissions separately. ... "Usefully" in only the most abstract sense of the word ... /me s
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by mr_luc 17y ago
The real answer of WSIDWML is that it's a very personal question. I third this from my own experience. From the "Quarter Life Crisis" thread. (what I'm doing http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=680218 ) http://news.ycombinator.com
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I had two thoughts: a) Changing 'schemas' is supported by document, or advanced key-value, stores like Couch or Cassandra. You end up thinking of your objects more as hashes and program accordingly; everything else is just a mapreduce task
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I'm curious about your reactions because I felt a similar sense of unease while reading this article -- feeling that I was being sold something, instead of learning something. I managed to set it aside because I encountered various vestiges
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Agreed! I clicked around the site, and I experienced vast content-frustration. I noticed that many of his projects appear to be "exhibits" -- they have physical frames and are or were (apparently) displayed somewhere for the public. Which i
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by mr_luc 17y ago
He would have to sign a Microsoft NDA. So he does X at Google based on his knowledge of something he can't disclose. MS says "Google did X because their employee broke NDA." Come on -- basically any prudent company would do what Google did.
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I agree with your premise, reasoning, and conclusion. However, I'd disagree about what your biggest fear should be. A horrible, Fundable.com meltdown should be, by far, a bigger fear than getting abused by a shotgun clause. Even in the land
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by mr_luc 17y ago
This article should be plastered with a massive red warning banner that says: CONFLICT OF INTEREST DISCLOSURE We are, ourselves, trying to develop a product inspired by the original Chumby that we hope will be its competitor. It
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I disliked almost everything about the tone and content of that article -- at first. His vitriol at the beginning is juvenile, bombastic, etc. When he starts citing the case of the Belgian Congo is where the article becomes readable. But wh

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