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by rburhum 14y ago
At AmigoCloud, we are building a platform that can also be used to disseminate/crowdsource geodata. We have delta exports and a dashboard to review edits. Users can use our Android/iOS apps or apis (geojson) to edit the geodata. The system
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by rburhum 14y ago
Funny enough, logging in to Evernote was the first thing I did after laying in bed spending 1hr+ watching this amazing video about http/https man-in-the-middle attacks using sslstrip http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/ . Not a
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by rburhum 14y ago
why? For the data migrations?
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by rburhum 14y ago
I am sorry, but I am still failing to see your point. Let me address the specifics issues you brought up: Accessing the request object? In Django, there is a RequestContext that can be accessed all over the place (e.g. middleware, views, te
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by rburhum 14y ago
thanks. Sure, I'd be happy to share my rationale for the components I picked. Sending you an e-mail.
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by rburhum 14y ago
It is very easy to say "Django has large design problems" and go on about how it "imposes ilegitimate requirements". Truth is that Django is a framework and by definition, frameworks give you a way/structure to do things. If you don't wan
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by rburhum 14y ago
I built http://www.modewalk.com/ from scratch using Django. I do have "plenty of exposure", and the default template engine worked just fine. The default ORM is just fine. Most of the defaults are just fine.
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A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (2009)(moserware.com)
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by rburhum 14y ago
That company is dying and it needs drastic changes to get it back to what it once was. Those changes are bound to piss off a lot of people, but the alternative is to continue on the same downhill route. Mayer is trying to change the cultura
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by rburhum 14y ago
Start the proper paperwork and close doors now. No point in waiting two more months. Time to rejuvenate by either starting something new, taking a break or getting a "normal" job for a bit. Dragging on what is inevitable is the worse you ca
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by rburhum 14y ago
Can somebody explain to me what is stopping someone from hitting the power + home button simultaneously and creating a photo of whatever is in the screen effectively working around the "self destruct" nature of Snapchat?
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by rburhum 14y ago
Horrible late move. What an incredible waste of resources. How many Linux users will buy Office? Instead, their resources would be better spent creating a Google docs killer freemium service. But what do I know...
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by rburhum 14y ago
Well, I am hoping you do release the ePub version to people buying the PDF because I am buying the book right now :)
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by rburhum 14y ago
Some friends and I took video and imagery with a globe (at low altitude) this past saturday. We have thousands of images. I spent a day writing an autostitcher that uses Surf, and some affine transforms to merge it correctly. Then I experim
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by rburhum 14y ago
I am just surprised that in 2013 we are still having this discussion. There are several ways "to make money with OS"; Service-based models (like support), Dual-licensing models (think Qt, MySQL, etc), Community vs "Enterprise" packaging, Ex
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Your LGPL license is completely destroying iOS adoption(blog.burhum.com)
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by rburhum 14y ago
The best thing I ever do is shutdown tweetdeck, my e-mail client and any browser tabs to social networks / HNs / reddit. Productivity shoots up the roof.
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Somehow, I thought this was going to be a discussion about SPDY
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And it is comments like yours that make posts like these worth it. Thank you for the kind comment.
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That "offer" just shows that they don't know what they are doing.
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by rburhum 14y ago
When you have a family, I understand why you would be extra conservative. Admittedly, in the Bay Area it is a different environment. Engineers get hired by VC-backed startups at lighting speed. Try this: look at a company that just funding
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by rburhum 14y ago
Hence why I continued the conversation. But I couldn't ignore the other red-flags.
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He was going to be a senior engineer and I was afraid he was not going to respect the other engineer's personal times. One of the many deal-killers he showed.
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by rburhum 14y ago
A founder with a day job + working at $0 for 1% is just dumb.
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by rburhum 14y ago
I believe there is this stigma that says "equity conversation" == "I will pay you crap". Personally, I don't believe this to be true. If you are switching to my startup, it is so you can be in a better situation and I have to acknowledge th
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by rburhum 14y ago
You did not just interviewed the same guy, but you were thinking about it just like we were. By the way, our counter offers matched lol
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by rburhum 14y ago
> At a financed, leveraged startup, you're not going to get that number in cash. But you need to get that number, risk-adjusted, in some fashion. Generally, engineers should not expect to be "worth less" to startups. They're just compen
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by rburhum 14y ago
I 100% agree with you. And by the way, we did ended up getting great engineers.
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by rburhum 14y ago
> Employee private stock outcomes are generally very poor even when the startup "succeeds". No party to the financing of a startup is served less faithfully than the ones who contribute via deferred or diminished salaries. A six-figure
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You are an amazing engineer, but you are a terrible fit for our startup(blog.burhum.com)
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