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by shimon 18y ago
1. get a shell account somewhere 2. use ssh + screen
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Ask HN: Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site?
45 points by shimon 18y ago|52 comments
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by shimon 18y ago
If you believe his observations about the differences between free and paid sites, it would seem very difficult to reconcile them into one freemium site. You'd essentially have two tiers of users, with separate pools of personals and at le
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by shimon 18y ago
Ironically, it seems you've not read past the headline of the article. I continue to work from home because I think that, for me, it's a net win. This article is intended to point out its downsides, not to suggest it's a bad idea overall f
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Working from Home: Why It Sucks(geeksinboston.com)
156 points by shimon 18y ago|101 comments
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by shimon 18y ago
I'm a freelance developer, but a couple of months ago, one of my customers asked me to make some screencasts of the product we're building. I tried Camtasia and Adobe Captivate on Windows. Camtasia has been best to work with, although it h
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by shimon 18y ago
You might want to check your antialiasing settings (in Preferences -> Fonts I think). You can choose different levels of antialiasing, and if you're using an LCD monitor, you'll want to use sub-pixel rendering, which is equivalent to Mi
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by shimon 18y ago
I'm not interested in "learning how to beat the test". I'm interested in understanding the experience of an interrogation, from both the perspective of the interrogator and the person being questioned. And I'm wondering if a form of role
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by shimon 18y ago
Every time I read one of these accounts, or watch a police interrogation on TV, part of me feels a bit curious. How I would perform in that sort of situation? We (i.e., even hackers) have ways of testing our intelligence and athletic stam
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by shimon 18y ago
Adamo: Japanese for "attempts to look like a Mac in the same way Vista attempts to look like MacOS".
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by shimon 18y ago
First, get a patent lawyer and try to judge how likely you are to be sued. An experienced attorney might be able to see a pattern in their behavior that you don't, and give you a better idea of what your risk is. Note that this risk is no
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by shimon 18y ago
I like your description of starting a business. The length you went in describing it suggests that many people reading it might not quite grasp the extent of its difficulty, and perhaps that's the more essential problem. It's not unlike so
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You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way(geeksinboston.com)
80 points by shimon 18y ago|46 comments
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by shimon 18y ago
Exactly. A lot of the rich people I see have taken big risks and turned out rich. Let's all take big risks!
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by shimon 18y ago
There are some good points here: it certainly seems the growth of derivative financial products, and the whole financial sector, has outpaced what the "concrete" economy can support. But the claim that the Earth is full? Absurd. Clearly,
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by shimon 18y ago
The billable/non-billable distinction isn't the only one, nor always the best. But it is useful: being able to crank out a lot of them is immensely useful at crunch time. On the other hand, an organization entirely filled with people who
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Discovering the Link Between Effort and Reward: What I've Learned Freelancing(geeksinboston.com)
23 points by shimon 18y ago|10 comments
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by shimon 18y ago
Both sides have a point. I think a good teacher would have indeed separated this unusual entry from the main competition, because the other kids would have reasonably felt cheated by competing against something that's more a ball than an
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by shimon 18y ago
Thanks! That's a pretty thorough reply, and I have to agree that it's hard to imagine an easier way to deploy new server instances than copying a VM. I think you can get pretty darn close with a package system like DEB or RPM, but in terms
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by shimon 18y ago
This seems like a very unusual configuration. Can you explain why you chose it? If you control the hardware and software, how does the VM layer help you scale better? Why not just install whatever packages you need on whatever servers yo
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by shimon 18y ago
I'm going to learn about making money via subscription payments. I've launched a few apps, some that I'm very proud of, but nothing that attempts to make money in the most straightforward way: charging for use. Consequently I've never fel
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by shimon 18y ago
See also: http://blog.coworking.info/ These hacker spaces seem to be more hardware-hacker-focused (rather than webgeeks-in-an-office-focused) but it's a similar concept with similar challenges.
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by shimon 18y ago
I have used Emacs on almost every day of my life for about 10 years. I love Emacs and use those functions (as well as describe-key) fairly frequently. What's my favorite way to figure out how to do some random arcane thing in emacs? Googl
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by shimon 18y ago
Yes. The article gives the California Public Employees' Retirement System as an example of extreme losses due to over-leveraging. I didn't see anything in the article to suggest that HMC itself was dangerously leveraged, though. Consider
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by shimon 18y ago
Good points. The decline we should be worried about is not in the currency, but in the competitive advantage of the US relative to other countries. If it gets more affordable to do business elsewhere, you'll find fewer and fewer good comp
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by shimon 18y ago
Low barriers to entry are important, but they're not a reason to use a site. When a site has a great and obvious value, people will jump through all sorts of hideous crap to use it; and conversely, when I can't figure out why I should care
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by shimon 18y ago
The key problem in this sort of site is being evidently and memorably distinct from the numerous other similar options, from email to facebook to flickr. I'd have to register with you to figure out how you're different/better, which isn't
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by shimon 18y ago
The article discusses Harvard's investment shift away from American stocks and bonds, into real assets such as timber forests, real estate, and stockpiles of oil. While these assets may have lost even more than US stocks this year, it's not
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by shimon 18y ago
Bug tracking software, like other tools for programmers, often travels as a virus with team members. You hire some guy, he says "why are you using this horrible crap we used fogbugz at my last job and it wuz not teh suck", and so you try i
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by shimon 18y ago
I'd really love to see an explanation of the structure of the credit card / payments industry in terms of what roles different corporations play, who are the major players in each role, and how they make money. I understand there are netwo

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