sparkman55

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by sparkman55 12y ago
This is exactly the "developer-centric" mindset that is, frankly, misguided. Sure, I would rather deal with an outage during business hours, but that means that many of my Customers are also dealing with an outage. If the outag
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by sparkman55 12y ago
I'm not sure that Heroku is peaking at 10 AM on Monday, but I'm reasonably sure it's not a traffic nadir for them. For example, 6 PM on Saturday PDT is 1 AM on Sunday GMT and 9 AM on Saturday in Hong Kong. This would almost
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by sparkman55 12y ago
I know it's popular to be a "developer-centric" organization these days, but please, please, don't schedule risky maintenance operations for 10 AM on a Monday, when your tools are in heavy usage. Every SaaS product I&#x2
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by sparkman55 12y ago
I know it's popular to be a "developer-centric" organization these days, but please, please, don't schedule risky maintenance operations for 10 AM on a Monday, when your tools are in heavy usage. Every SaaS product I&#x2
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by sparkman55 12y ago
It's very easy to join or donate to the ACLU ($35), and it's (marginally) better than the "let's see what happens" attitude most of us have on this matter. https://www.aclunc.org/donate/become-a
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by sparkman55 12y ago
Rinse - San Francisco, CA https://www.rinse.com Despite the negative press recently, Laundry and Dry Cleaning really are problems that would benefit from today's technical prowess. Modernizing laundry has real environmenta
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by sparkman55 12y ago
This is clearly an old process - when was the last time you saw a 7-segment display, or those big red round thru-hole LEDs, outside of hobby electronics? I'd be very curious to see how this process differs from the high-power lighting
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by sparkman55 12y ago
You don't merely need engineers to design the thing. You also have to actually build what you design, custom manufactured out of exotic materials in small batches, and then test those components (often to destruction) before building
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by sparkman55 12y ago
When I recently moved, the house was not yet completely finished, and not in a state where we could call our ISP to install broadband (we had to run coaxial inside first). Luckily, my neighbor ran an open wifi hotspot, so we just used that
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by sparkman55 12y ago
I think you're hinting about the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, which is associated with drier weather in California (this makes sense intuitively, since a cooler Pacific ocean near California means less energy to evaporate sea water, wh
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by sparkman55 12y ago
Perhaps you meant to post this here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7760790
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by sparkman55 12y ago
Please go visit some redwoods or beaches or wineries or dim sum or taquerias, too. Our fair city is more than just a tech hub. I think the Maker Faire is that weekend, about 20 minutes south of SF in San Mateo, if that kind of hacking is y
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by sparkman55 12y ago
Rinse - www.rinse.com - San Francisco Rinse is a fast-growing Technology-Enabled Dry Cleaning and Laundry Delivery Service based in the design district in San Francisco. This is a chance to join a 'rocket ship' startup pre-ventur
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by sparkman55 12y ago
Not mentioned in the article is the effect our (U.S.) health care system has in encouraging 'under-employed' entry-level workers. Since the employer doesn't need to offer benefits (the most expensive of which is health insura
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by sparkman55 13y ago
Rinse - www.rinse.com - San Francisco Rinse is a fast-growing Technology-Enabled Dry Cleaning and Laundry Delivery Service based in the design district in San Francisco. This is a chance to join a 'rocket ship' startup pre-ventur
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by sparkman55 13y ago
There are a number of US laws that protect mail / post explicitly, and don't explicitly protect email. See this article on the matter: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/data_mine_1/2013/
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by sparkman55 13y ago
I wonder if the NSA might start promoting this technology to close the 'snail mail loophole' that Jimmy Carter uses? [1] [1] http://news.yahoo.com/former-us-president-carter-uses-snail-...
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by sparkman55 13y ago
It is possible to take the train down to Palo Alto from SF, rent a bike from the bike share system, take a leisurely ride down Palm Drive and around Stanford campus (2-5 miles along bike paths) and then back to Palo Alto for coffee (or some
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by sparkman55 13y ago
Rinse ( http://www.rinse.com ) - San Francisco, CA (REMOTE a possibility if you live in a major US city) Rinse is a very early-stage startup (we are only 6 people currently) looking to bring technology to the dry-cleaning indus
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by sparkman55 13y ago
It seems like one could use the same technique to estimate the initial (lowest-observable) serial number... From the article: If starting with an initial gap between 0 and the lowest sample (sample minimum), the average gap between sa
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by sparkman55 13y ago
There is some practical relevance to software development here. One shouldn't expose sequential IDs (a.k.a. serial numbers) to the public for anything non-public. I see this Hacker News post has a numerical ID in the URL, for example;
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by sparkman55 13y ago
We have Sonic DSL as well (with significantly better customer service and uptime than AT&T or Comcast). That said, I'd definitely be happy to 'cut the cable' with Google Fiber in Palo Alto. There's already a bunch o
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by sparkman55 13y ago
That's an interesting insight! We're currently focused on serving the urban professionals in San Francisco... We're hiring a Marketing person to help with this type of question: http://www.rinse.com/careers&
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by sparkman55 13y ago
If you think technology-enabled laundry service in San Francisco is a good idea, you might give Rinse ( https://www.rinse.com ) a shot. We have a focus on making sure the price and product work in a competitive market, and on usi
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by sparkman55 13y ago
Rinse ( http://www.rinse.com ) - San Francisco, CA Rinse is a very early-stage startup (we are only 4 people currently) looking to bring technology to the dry-cleaning industry. The industry is ripe for innovation! We're bu
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by sparkman55 13y ago
For many colo centers, there are both weight and power limitations on a per-rack (or per-cabinet / per-row) basis. One wouldn't want a ton of disks crashing through the (often raised) floor! For compute clusters, power is often t
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by sparkman55 13y ago
Rinse ( http://www.rinse.com ) - San Francisco, CA Rinse is a very early-stage startup (we are only 3 people currently) looking to bring technology to the dry-cleaning industry. The industry is ripe for innovation! We're bu
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by sparkman55 13y ago
Thank you! For my purposes, Pixelmator is perfect!
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by sparkman55 13y ago
As someone who (very occasionally) needs to manipulate PSDs, are there any alternatives to Adobe? My version of Photoshop is woefully out of date, and I'd prefer not to pirate. I was just looking at shelling out $30 a month to try ou
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by sparkman55 13y ago
In a downhill situation, you could always do some regenerative braking to recharge the battery! No fiddling with extra packs, or futzing with battery electrodes with big gloves on... An electric kicker on a snowboard would be great, since

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