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by pedoh 16y ago
Yes, you'll get staunch supporters on all sides of every aspect of parenting. For us, we didn't want the kids in the bed with us to ensure their safety and our ability to sleep as much as possible, but still make it convenient to get her an
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by pedoh 16y ago
2. When baby cries, he's hungry, needs a change, or has a bubble that needs to go either up or down. And you won't necessarily know which of the three he is until you've tried to fix all three.
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by pedoh 16y ago
Congratulations on your new startup! My third daughter is now two and a half weeks old. I think that the biggest step for you will be to come to terms with the fact that nothing will ever be the same. And I say that, knowing that you won't
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by pedoh 16y ago
A specific cover letter targeted to the company is much better than a generic one. You can have common paragraphs in all of your cover letters, but I would recommend sections that particularly target the needs of the company you're applying
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by pedoh 16y ago
While I agree with the praises directed towards Patrick, I don't think it's wise to make assumptions about his (or anyone else's) motivations. If Patrick wanted to, he could walk any of the paths mentioned in the OP. We just don't know that
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by pedoh 16y ago
I saw a javascript trick that would show the first letter of the password as you type it but then turn the letter into a dot after you type the next letter, just like a lot of mobile devices do. Seems like this would give some added sense o
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by pedoh 16y ago
Granola with raw milk, but boy does that breakfast burrito speek had sound good!
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by pedoh 16y ago
Oh, this is fun. One aspect that's interesting is that you don't know whether the other people playing are trying to be collaborative (I'll stay out of your way, let's fill up the board together) or not (I'm gonna try to make you crash). I'
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by pedoh 16y ago
As to your "Why do people pay them?" question, companies get to the scale where managing their servers in an automated fashion is necessary, and deploying new boxes within a matter of minutes instead of hours is critical. As a DevOps guy, o
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by pedoh 16y ago
Suppose you rent a server at a hosting facility. This server could be a physical server or a VPS. It could be a piece of "cloud" infrastructure (a good list can be found at https://www.cloudkick.com/providers/ ). Some people who have littl
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by pedoh 16y ago
DTerm. http://www.decimus.net/dterm.php
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by pedoh 16y ago
It's not easy, is it? Imagine being able to spool up a new environment (on one server as opposed to, say, 5 in production) and feed it a copy of production data, run tests, and then tear it down. And imagine knowing that this environment wa
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by pedoh 16y ago
I think tearing down walls between SysOps and Developers is important. I don't like the "this is mine, stay out" attitude. That being said, I'm all in favor of dependable and repeatable environments, and when you give people carte blanche t
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by pedoh 16y ago
I've used them, and yoga balls, and I've discarded them and gone back to a chair. I'd recommend looking into a standing desk; I've heard great things about working while standing.
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by pedoh 16y ago
Agreed on the branding. When I saw your post I knew it had been done before but didn't know how to do it, so I threw the link into a bare HTML page to see what it would look like. What about doing your own form and data store, via Heroku or
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by pedoh 16y ago
If you don't mind the Google branding that shows up, and all you want to do is collect emails and URLs, you can embed a Google Form in your document and have it collect the info for you. After you create the form in Google Docs, go to the F
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by pedoh 16y ago
As a remote employee, this looks amazing. I can't count the number of times I've been involved in company meetings where the presenter has forgotten to pass around his presentation or start a web conference. I can't even count the number of
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by pedoh 16y ago
At a previous job we were using Ganglia ( http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/ ) to collect both system metrics and custom metrics from our servers. At my current job, we still use Ganglia for redundant storage of our metrics, but then we feed t
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by pedoh 16y ago
I made the switch. My first job out of college was teaching at a private high school. I certainly felt that I was making more or less a permanent decision when I decided to go; now, I'm less convinced, but I certainly agree that going back
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by pedoh 16y ago
For new RoR programmers, is it recommended to just start in with Rails 3, or stick with Rails 2 until Rails 3 "stabilizes"? There are a bunch of Rails 3 books out there; do they generally line up well with this release candidate, or are the
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by pedoh 16y ago
I'm not familiar with AMT, but you might check out http://crowdflower.com and see if they might be a good fit for your needs.
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Ask HN: SaaS vs. DIY
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by pedoh 16y ago
From a startup SaaS perspective, is it really that detrimental to have your customers sent to another site (Google Checkout or Amazon FPS, for example) and then brought back after the conclusion of the sale? Do enough customers walk away if
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by pedoh 16y ago
One issue I would caution about VPSes is that because there can be more than one VPS on a physical server, there has to be contention for resources. The vast majority of the time this may not (and hopefully will not) be an issue, but imagin
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by pedoh 16y ago
Suppose you have a website that has completely constant traffic. You can therefore anticipate exactly how much computing power you need, and a dedicated machine or two will suit your needs well. Now suppose that same site (hosted on two ded
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by pedoh 16y ago
If you haven't read any of Richard Feynman's books, I highly recommend them. They're not only fascinating, but with a wonderful sense of humor, as well. I particularly love the chapter in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" about his safec
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by pedoh 16y ago
If you're doing SaaS and discovering your price is too low, do you raise your price grandfather in your current users for a certain period of time? Conversely, if your price is too high, do you lower your price give your current paying user
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by pedoh 16y ago
Can you expand on this, please?
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by pedoh 16y ago
I read the front-page and then new, and I rarely hit the More button on either of those pages to dig any deeper.
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by pedoh 16y ago
I went to an audiologist and paid $100 to have molds of my ears taken. A week later, I had a set of ear plugs with filters in them to block out most frequencies. I bought them for flying, and now that I have them, I would rather miss my fli

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