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by netaustin 10y ago
I spent a good portion of my early career working with Drupal on large-scale media sites and got to know some folks central to the movement. I liked almost everyone I met, including Dries, but after starting my own agency, left the platform
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by netaustin 11y ago
This reminds me of a patience game I play. I count to 32 on one hand, with each finger representing a bit. If I'm doing it repeatedly, I'll count in my head in binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal. Works wonders when waiting fo
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by netaustin 11y ago
I agree entirely with the premise that WordPress is not the most impressive codebase in the world — but that's not why people select it. The reason that sites opt to use WordPress is that the editorial interface is familiar and the plu
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by netaustin 11y ago
Cringing was my main reaction too, but it was more about the use of the "all the things" meme and the "kitchen sink" advice. Clearly the author is a very smart guy, but he seems to be in early-career discovery mode. What
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ADP fires back at Zenefits
14 points by netaustin 11y ago|2 comments
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by netaustin 11y ago
That's what initially sold us on Zenefits, though — it puts a reasonably polished interface on ADP, which is reliable enough for the commodity money transfer service it provides, I guess. Same goes for Aetna — Zenefits puts a nice UI o
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ADP intentionally broke its Zenefits integration
306 points by netaustin 11y ago|117 comments
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by netaustin 12y ago
High traffic and high volume sites driven by CMSes, like newspapers, tv stations, etc., largely cannot rely on static files to deliver their content. Rather, they use caching layers for speed and security. There are two better ways to impro
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by netaustin 12y ago
I run a medium-sized digital agency that started as side work that my co-founder and I basically fell into. We ran our business on the side for about a year before going full-time. I would advocate stepping back and asking what you're
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by netaustin 12y ago
Really cool. I'm training for my first triathlon now (NYC Tri with Team in Training), and I'm hoping to do many more Olympic-distance Tris thereafter. Honestly, I've been wanting better training apps (and a good online traini
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New York Times closes R&D Ventures(capitalnewyork.com)
19 points by netaustin 13y ago|3 comments
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by netaustin 13y ago
Here are some guiding questions: 1) Do you actively need all 100M records, or is there a period after which you can archive them? 2) Have you partitioned data across multiple servers, or just multiple tables on one server? 3) What are the n
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New York Post now hosted by WordPress VIP(vip.wordpress.com)
1 points by netaustin 13y ago|0 comments
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PDPC, Freenode's Parent Organization, has been dissolved(blog.freenode.net)
3 points by netaustin 14y ago|0 comments
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by netaustin 14y ago
Black car service is hardly commodity labor. Corn is a commodity. Oil is a commodity. The difference between a good driver and a bad one is tremendous--the better ones drive confidently and know where they're going, and the bad ones are tet
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by netaustin 14y ago
As long as it's internally consistent, I'm OK with it; that space is common enough (WordPress core style employs spaces like that).
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by netaustin 14y ago
I'm an infrequent enough Reddit user that their odd argot and mile-long discussions about ponies are really a disincentive for me to read past the intro to an AMA. Using HN for topically relevant AMAs provide a welcome relief from Reddit's
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Ask HN: Best way to hire a CTO in Silicon Valley?
1 points by netaustin 14y ago|1 comments
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Facebook Co-founder Chris Hughes relaunches The New Republic(newrepublic.com)
9 points by netaustin 14y ago|1 comments
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by netaustin 14y ago
I interviewed with them a few years back, and they asked about deletion strategies. The interviewer, one of their lead developers, agreed with my "set a deletion flag and garbage collect to an archive database" response. Maybe things have c
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by netaustin 14y ago
"[Programming] spreads much, much faster than education and formal study spreads." This is why a Computer Science education is not a sufficient condition to a successful career as a software developer.
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by netaustin 14y ago
I think the sponsoring company should've been madder at the event manager than Virool. Also, the event manager was none to pleased either, I'm guessing? No advertiser wants to share space with a competitor, but it's generally the fault of t
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by netaustin 14y ago
The flip side of this marketing proposition (give something, not take something) is exactly what American Express does. At last year's US Open, American Express gave cardholders a special little radio from a booth in the concession area. Ma
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by netaustin 15y ago
If I remember right, the jQuery plugins site was one of the only other open-source repositories powered by the Drupal Project module (drupal.org/project/project) besides drupal.org itself. I think that jQuery might even have been running th
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by netaustin 15y ago
We launched TheFix.com on Pantheon, very early on (eight months ago), and have been really happy with the platform. Pantheon costs them about 20% of the server cluster we would otherwise have recommended. This is an bigger deal, from a tech
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by netaustin 15y ago
As the owner of [what I believe to be] an idealistic consulting firm, I tend to agree with both the rule and the exception. IP ownership isn't really a good business practice for us because it comes with its own liabilities and could put us
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by netaustin 15y ago
Fairly big companies often have surprisingly minimal filters for "visibly awful." Passing due diligence is easy when the process does not include common sense, and individual managers are likely to have misaligned incentives.
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by netaustin 15y ago
So far as I know, the Google Car has not displaced any taxi drivers yet, though the author of the post puts it in the same sentence as EZ Pass.
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by netaustin 15y ago
The New Yorker is owned by Conde Nast, which is most decidedly in favor of making money. Because it's part of a large portfolio of Magazines (Wired, Vogue, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, on and on), there's little data about its individ
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by netaustin 15y ago
The reason that Wordpress and Drupal took off like wildfire is that PHP is basically a lowest-common-denominator language. Many PHP developers couldn't handle Erlang. Perhaps there's a use-case for this, but I'd much rather see a compelling

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