mrduncan

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by mrduncan 16y ago
I'd suggest something like the way that http://bit.ly handles their urls. Auto-generate a short string or let users (maybe after a registration or something) enter their own. It'd be nice to be able to say "Keep track of my progress at
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Please don't use sequential IDs for this. I went to the "Track Me" link and got a tracking id of 54. I was then able to look through plenty of other peoples locations for IDs less than 54. I'd suggest switching to something that's much ha
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Forgot to mention that railscasts.com has awesome screencasts on all kinds of topics. - Also, if you prefer to read them instead of watching, most are available on http://asciicasts.com/ . Also, a word of caution - http://guides.rubyonr
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Our datacenter is experiencing heavy packet loss. We're on the line with Rackspace now. I don't see where they stated it was a DDOS attack. Packet loss can occur due to a large number of different issues. EDIT: They just clarified with t
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My life in the start up arc(mzsanford.wordpress.com)
1 points by mrduncan 16y ago|0 comments
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Pushing Our (Tweet) Button(blog.twitter.com)
58 points by mrduncan 16y ago|31 comments
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by mrduncan 16y ago
He's being sponsored by Red Bull ( http://www.redbullstratos.com/ ). Their marketing video is actually really cool, it includes plenty of footage of Kittinger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyGmTV0q2kY (make sure you switch to HD)
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Don't forget: - Installing the OS - Securing the server - Setting up backups - Monitoring None of these are particularly hard, it just depends on how much you value your time to set them up.
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Lowercase Capital - Wanted: Cowpoke/Intern(lowercasellc.com)
32 points by mrduncan 16y ago|3 comments
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Here's the official formatting info - http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc The indented quote blocks you've seen are simply code blocks - just indent with 2 spaces.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
http://ask.searchyc.com/ is also a good resource - posts are displayed with font sizes relative to their points.
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Twitter Hires Sales Force From Yelp, Facebook(adage.com)
1 points by mrduncan 16y ago|0 comments
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The Gateway Drug to Type Programming(blog.ezyang.com)
7 points by mrduncan 16y ago|0 comments
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Tour of a distributed Erlang application(blog.ezyang.com)
3 points by mrduncan 16y ago|0 comments
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by mrduncan 16y ago
disable password logins I can't emphasize this one enough. Unless you need to login from a lot of different machines, there really isn't any excuse not to do this. It also has the bonus of making logins really easy since you don't have
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Mike Rowe's TED talk from 2008 hits on some of the same points, as well as how much he thinks we under-value hard work. Agree with him or not, it's definitely worth taking a look at. http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_job
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by mrduncan 16y ago
The best advice I've ever heard regarding scaling is to only worry about one level of magnitude. If you have 20 users, make sure you can scale to 200 - any farther than that and you're likely wasting your time.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
The same is not true of a series of images on a screen in an isolated room. Images on screens are not people. There is no social conditioning that normal human beings have that will cause people to automatically respect images on a screen.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
http://support.github.com/discussion/new Don't forget to make it a private discussion.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
A score of -4 is actually -5 karma points (since everything starts at 1 point). Here's a tip though - you can't cash it in for prizes, don't worry about it.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
fleaficker was a typo for fleaflicker.
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Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story(alexisohanian.com)
776 points by mrduncan 16y ago|83 comments
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Branson has actually owned this island for decades: http://www.neckerisland.virgin.com/
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by mrduncan 16y ago
As a fighter, definitely. When you compare it to other larger military aircraft, it doesn't seem very long at all. The B52 has been in active service since 1955. The A-10 was introduced in 1977 and isn't expected to be replaced until near
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Some interesting conversions to put it into perspective: (25 U.S. cents) / (140 bytes) = 0.18 U.S. cents / byte (25 U.S. cents) / (140 bytes) = 1,872 U.S. dollars / megabyte
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Managing email programatically in particular for me is a nightmare, sendgrid is an awesome service, but processing incoming email should be much easier. (I have yet to try lampson) Is there an available solution for the reverse of SendGri
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Email - Not a lot has changed in the past 20 years, I think we can do better. Yes, Gmail was pretty innovative but I still think there are plenty of things to improve.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Airlines - They are nearly all just a pain in the ass to deal with. When was the last time you heard someone tell you how they had a great experience with an airline?
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by mrduncan 16y ago
I believe most (all?) BlackBerries default to Google also.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Make it easy for employers by indicating where you're located, whether you'd be willing to move, if you'd prefer to telecommute, etc.

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