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by pardner 14y ago
I'm pretty sure nothing qualifies as "always the best" solution. "The cloud" can be an imperfect solution yet still be the best solution for certain apps.
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by pardner 14y ago
Yep. So I think the more general advice is also simpler: work on problems you find interesting. Sometimes the ones that seem small lead to big things (I got an IPO out of one such). Often - ouch! - the ones that initially seem like they wil
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by pardner 14y ago
You say "pass the buck" I say "tell the truth." Heroku's current message says it's an "application error" even when it is not an application error. It is incorrect. And I suggested one simple way to correct it. They could word the message a
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by pardner 14y ago
IMO for purposes of a demand letter on a small matter like this you could almost pick an attorney at random. Call a couple of solo lawyers who have small ads the yellow pages, explain what you want, ask for a quote for the initial demand le
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by pardner 14y ago
I doubt it requires anywhere near 10 dynos, normally I just run 1, and I suspect 2 or 3 dynos would work fine today... but since 10 dynos only costs 45 cents per hour, and it's presumably just for an hour or two, I simply threw two handfuls
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by pardner 14y ago
Actually I do not disagree.... I make the platform choices, so i live with the results. However, IMO an error message that distinguishes between an "hosting" issue and an "app" issue is not only fair, it is in fact, meaningful data to (at l
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by pardner 14y ago
re your second point: Yeah I pondered that, and they could make the "ooops" more generic. However, we freely talk about being on Heroku since by and large it seems to engender customer confidence. And it's exactly a secret since the dns wil
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by pardner 14y ago
Assuming the check is more than a couple hundred bucks, hire an attorney for $100 to $200 to send a demand letter for the paycheck plus your attorney costs to date. (Don't let the attorney do a lot of 'research' make it clear that initially
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by pardner 14y ago
I agree. There is a very simple way to do this which I just posted (since it apparently hasn't occurred to Heroku). All they need to do is change the default app error message once they have confirmed they have a platform issue. So within a
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Dear Heroku: Quit blaming all of us when you fail. Do this instead…(blog.pardner.com)
271 points by pardner 14y ago|125 comments
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by pardner 14y ago
still getting sporatic errors
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Show HN: touchscreen-friendly popover when using Bootstrap(blog.pardner.com)
1 points by pardner 14y ago|0 comments
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Tip when SMS users need to text a code - use numbers not letters(blog.pardner.com)
1 points by pardner 14y ago|0 comments
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by pardner 14y ago
Didn't see APL - did they include it? Maybe it was just so short I missed it.
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by pardner 14y ago
Around 1980, while still a Stanford student, I used Laboratory Microsystems' PCForth to write a editing/publishing system for SAT math preparation, complete with embedded figures and equations and animated answers. The 'aha' at the time was
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by pardner 14y ago
is there any way to add <blink> to text that's reflected in the lake?
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by pardner 15y ago
We are extremely happy with Zerigo. Great UX, with things like import/export of records, and ready-to-go snippets for email hosted at Godaddy etc and Heroku-hosted domains. They have a free plan (3 domains, 50k queries/mo). IMO their $19/ye
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by pardner 15y ago
We have a rather high threshold for pain if it leads to better customer service and relationships. (Eg, what's feasible depends on the perceived benefit.)
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by pardner 15y ago
Because in our app, if there are bounce-backs or deliverability issues we want them to come to us, not to our user who is trying to send an email blast.
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by pardner 15y ago
That makes sense. If my app was dealing with, say, medical records info, we would assuredly not want to forward mis-replies... in that case it would make more sense to use an auto responder that might say something like "To protect the secu
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Why my company doesn't send automated email from a 'noreply' address(pardner.com)
18 points by pardner 15y ago|24 comments
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New law of physics (Constructal Law)(forbes.com)
1 points by pardner 15y ago|0 comments
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by pardner 15y ago
You also do not, strictly speaking, need a utensil to eat spaghetti. But it works better, if you find the right utensil.
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Ask HN: Is willingness to cold call an essential co-founder trait?
2 points by pardner 15y ago|0 comments
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by pardner 15y ago
While the article is a useful comparison of straight EC2 vs dedicated servers, it doesn't touch on the cloud PaaS options such as Heroku that eliminate so many complications of installing and tuning and maintaining your frameworks. IMO comp
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by pardner 15y ago
Sendgrid supports this and we have used it to allow our users to have our system send emails on their behalf. The caveats are: (1) your email will contain info in the header that indicates it's on behalf of, which probably affects deliverab
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by pardner 15y ago
What a fun idea. Might as well add a Twilio-powered SMS login as well?
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by pardner 15y ago
Game Theory At work by James Miller is a great non-mathematical description of key game theory and how to apply it in real life. I consider it to be a must-read for any entrepreneur.
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by pardner 15y ago
Design in the Land of Sharp Pointy Technologies, at Twiliocon
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by pardner 15y ago
If you decide to move your domains from Godaddy, and if your DNS is hosted there too, and if you have enough DNS records to not want to recreate them, there's an undocumented way to export the nameserver records from Godaddy to another DNS

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