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by sbrother 8y ago
For any other Utah residents in areas that aren't served by cable, check out Utah Broadband. They've been fantastic for us, serving up 60Mbps over line-of-sight fixed wireless. Also their customer service rocks.
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by sbrother 8y ago
Zwift is pretty much the best SaaS service I've ever paid for. My wife and I had a baby recently and it's let me stay in shape while watching him. I think even when I can ride outside more again I'll keep using it -- the way
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by sbrother 9y ago
Absolutely, with the caveat that the service this link describes is different than the one they provide for me. I have an engineering background building machine learning/NLP services (think ad servers, chatbots, search engines etc), i
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by sbrother 9y ago
Another quick testimonial -- I've been working with Michael and Rishon at 10x for about two years ago, and these guys are fantastic. They supplement my own dealflow (which is purely word-of-mouth) with their own PR/marketing opera
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by sbrother 9y ago
This looks absolutely awesome! Very excited to try it out. My biggest question that I couldn't immediately answer from the website is how well this deals with larger than memory datasets. Can it source data from a Postgres DB? A Cassan
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by sbrother 9y ago
<self promotion, but relevant> I just launched a product similar to this but a bit more powerful and aimed at a less technical audience (most of my customers are Excel users). There is a python client that does geocoding, census data
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by sbrother 9y ago
I did something similar for a client about 4 years ago and used simulated annealing to reasonable success. I would be interested to know if there are better options now!
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by sbrother 10y ago
> Today it costs less than $600 a month to rent a 256GB dedicated box w/ 2x450GB NVMe disks and a 10 gbit private connection. Any recommendations on how you'd go about that? I'm currently paying Digital Ocean that much for
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by sbrother 10y ago
I run a small agency (based in SLC) and have done quite a lot of python-based GIS work. If you're interested, I'd love to chat: sam at cairnlabs.com
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Ask HN: Opportunities for pro-bono work democratizing strong encryption
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by sbrother 10y ago
I have a new XPS 13. It's impeccably built, you can use it comfortably on an airplane, and it runs Linux with no issues. But I wouldn't use it for daily development. The 13 inch screen just doesn't have enough real estate, an
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by sbrother 10y ago
I have done both. It's all highly dependent on your situation, but for me freelancing is higher income (~400k vs ~250k at bigcorp), much more autonomy (I can work wherever I like, subcontract out the tedious things, etc), but also much
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by sbrother 10y ago
Hey, I moved to SLC from CA last month and I'm pretty much doing this :) Although for me it's more work in the morning, and then run/climb/bike/hike in the afternoon. Do you mountain bike by any chance?
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by sbrother 10y ago
My bad! I assumed it was based on pygame since the pygame provider was so integral to Kivy before the SDL migration.
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by sbrother 10y ago
I'm using it to develop www.trebel.la, which will hopefully be out on the App Store this fall. But it also has a pretty unconventional (game-like) UI. IMO, if I wanted to build something that was well served by standard Android or iOS
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by sbrother 10y ago
For your first question, I use the toniq library: https://github.com/joakimk/toniq . As biokoda mentioned, there's nothing stopping you from doing this by literally just spawning a ton of processes, but you do get
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by sbrother 10y ago
We have a small React/Elixir/Phoenix webapp in production, and we deploy it using https://github.com/bitwalker/exrm , https://www.go.cd/ , and https://saltstack.com/ . I'm
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by sbrother 11y ago
This can actually be one of the most lucrative and stable sources of revenue for a small software consultancy. At the "end" of a successful project, I usually pitch a retainer agreement to the client. There are lots of variations
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by sbrother 11y ago
This is a fantastic idea! I think I will host one in LA this summer.
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by sbrother 11y ago
> How far are we from a computer being able to determine what is going on in a picture? http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-picture-is-wort...
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by sbrother 12y ago
I just looked at that, and apparently F# is more popular than Ruby! As much as I wish that were the case, it's pretty suspect...
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by sbrother 12y ago
You should go see an optometrist. This was me as well until about a month ago; turns out I am slightly farsighted and my eyes were straining to focus on my computer monitor all day. Now I wear an appropriate pair of computer/reading gl
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by sbrother 12y ago
I'm going through this book right now, and I'm a pretty big fan so far: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Category-Theory-Harold-Si...
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by sbrother 12y ago
The translation quality won't be (anywhere near) as good offline as online, but it works well enough for word lens to be useful without a data connection!
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by sbrother 12y ago
Just signed up! I'd been meaning to for while, and this reminded me -- thanks. If you have a workplace gift matching program, don't forget to take advantage of it!
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by sbrother 12y ago
I used it for an internal app that's getting used by several of the top global pharma companies to solve an optimization problem. I would choose F# again in heartbeat for that sort of project: its expressiveness let me implement the co
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by sbrother 12y ago
I bet you could play League of Legends to a reasonable level with a good mouse with buttons mapped to QWER and voice communication over skype. The only tricky part would be activated items, but maybe you could rig something up with a foot p
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by sbrother 12y ago
Another example that I worked on last week is for the UI framework Kivy. Most of the core libraries are in Cython, and particularly for the graphics stuff I think it's a nice balance of execution speed and ease of development. In parti
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by sbrother 12y ago
Cambridge -> LA transplant here. (Westside) LA seems much worse - the overall number of tickets might be roughly similar, but each one is $65-80 here.
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by sbrother 12y ago
If you need to be in Harvard, you can do the same thing on the Somerville border off Kirkland/Washington St - I used to live in Somerville and do that whenever it was too icy/snowy to safely bike. Also, I believe you can safely ig

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