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by phereford 12y ago
Agreed. The company I work for pays on the order of $4k/mth for this particular provider and it's inexcusable when this downtime happens and we hear nothing other than "Our DC Node went down". Why did it go down? What ar
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Ask HN: At what company size do downtime postmortems wane?
3 points by phereford 12y ago|2 comments
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Postgres Storage for Rollout Gem(americastestkitchen.github.io)
5 points by phereford 12y ago|0 comments
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by phereford 12y ago
As an MBA type, I take extreme offense to your statement. As a full-time programmer, I totally agree with you!
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by phereford 13y ago
You are correct that attr_accessible is gone in favor of strong parameters. Google fu yields http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17371334/how-is-attr-acce... Depending on how your test suite is set up (if you have
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by phereford 13y ago
I haven't been to SXSW in 2 years. Three years ago the technology portion of SXSW definitely felt exactly as you described this year's music. Massively unorganized. Massively chaotic. Couldn't really find anything you were lo
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by phereford 13y ago
Hehehe. Someone doesn't like the `Homebrew` setting on Terminal ;).
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by phereford 13y ago
If I could upvote this 100x I would. I know that stories like these should be covered because of it's importance, but the websites/news channels that publish or cover this story reap the rewards (just as much as Penny Arcade). It&
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by phereford 14y ago
Thank you for your reply! I had written one vaguely similar to yours but ended up not posting it because i was seething with anger. I just don't understand how so much vitriol continues to bubble up on HN posts like these.
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by phereford 14y ago
Oh Kozmo. My friend told me tales of ordering a Snickers bar at 3am while some dude on a bike would come and deliver it by 3:45am. It would be nice if startups could learn lessons that don't directly affect their company, but the lesson pro
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by phereford 14y ago
Ending in .ly was really popular 2 years back (bit.ly, embed.ly, etc etc). It's still popular, but it has waned since .ly was publicly available. I think the fad has since passed and a lot of people have been jumping on the .io bandwagon re
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by phereford 14y ago
I don't at all understand why people are berating this proposition. This proposition makes a helluva lot of sense. I have done the hustling/marketing side of a startup. I got my failed (sigh) startup lots of good press and lots of users. I
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by phereford 14y ago
Do consumers really win here? If your only indicator is that they save a couple of bucks, then sure. But there is more behind consumers winning. Imagine a scenario where a company is able to cut costs, never over take the market leader and
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by phereford 14y ago
Totally. It's their new monetization strategy. Didn't anyone get the memo on their last earnings call?
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by phereford 14y ago
Their UI is AWFUL. But you know what...it's intentional. All of the upselling. The current hiding exactly where the "My Account" stuff resides. It all feels very intentional as to mislead people into buying unwanted services. Their UI is th
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by phereford 14y ago
'On the other hand, MIT did somewhat cultivate an exclusive attitude among its students-- particularly the undergrads. During my time there, I felt there was a pervasive strain of "We're the best in the world..." getting shaded into "...the
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by phereford 14y ago
IMO, it probably wouldn't be best to put this on a page with content is the main factor. This is sort of cool for branding/marketing and can have a big impact in that arena.
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by phereford 14y ago
While I hate to blindly agree and lump all these successful companies into API traps , you are pretty much right. From a business standpoint, if Facebook (or any other API company) sees massive growth/activity in an application on its plat
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by phereford 14y ago
I don't think there can be neutral coverage of this. Everybody is on one side or the other. Dotcom, before MegaUpload's shut down, was already a polarizing figure. Now, he is even more polarizing because of the way everything went down. W
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by phereford 14y ago
It's more than just contracts and APIs. It's ensuring that your practices follow that specific country's rules and regulations. Every country has a different set of regulations for handling money. The US has something called PCI compliant a
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by phereford 14y ago
I feel the exact same way. What's funny/weird about this sentiment is that if Envy Labs/Code School got $2mil+ in funding from an investor I would be totally cool with it and happy for them. The fact that they are crowdfunding while I am a
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by phereford 14y ago
I applied. I am not getting my hopes up for this, but the design makes it feel promising ;)
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by phereford 14y ago
There should be non hackfest events that you should be going to if you are interested in startups (i.e. networking events, tweetups, etc). I don't have much free time on my hands either, but I am still actively going to these events because
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by phereford 14y ago
Yep. In most areas, there are Hackfests where developers of a particular language get together and just code. In Boston, there are tons of hackfests, and various other entrepreneurial events that can help anyone find a co-founder, I just ha
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by phereford 14y ago
Thats honestly what I figured. I have been going to hackfests (every 1st tuesday) for the past 2 months. No luck yet, but I guess I'll keep at it. Thanks!
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Ask HN: What is the Best Method of finding a Co-Founder?
4 points by phereford 14y ago|12 comments
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by phereford 15y ago
Agreed. If I were a user, I'd feel pretty burned getting attached to an application then have the company "shut down" to work on something better. Maybe oink just wasn't driving the engagement they wanted (or something).
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by phereford 15y ago
There is no way they didn't understand the bill. They fully understood the bill and probably were vying for a way to benefit from the bill. Everyone understands how bad this bill is for the Internet, unless someone has something to gain fro
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by phereford 15y ago
Haha! Money! I am developing an iPhone app for them and helping start GoLocal in Boston :). The GoLocal Austin people are awesome and a half :)
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by phereford 15y ago
Let's remove the emotional out of the equation (jealousy, envy, etc). Groupon has had success (I won't say massive b/c I can't quantify massive). The reason people are poking holes in their business viability is strictly due to their recent

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