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by tomfakes 14y ago
The CEO doesn't get to decide what is creepy - his audience does. I saw an investment presentation of a new startup doing something with Twitter a few months ago. The first thing I thought was 'creepy'. This is not the first thing you wan
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by tomfakes 14y ago
Can I access the shared DB from outside Heroku?
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by tomfakes 14y ago
I have an app that has a number of test users with a set of data for each of them that shows off the app. Since the users interact in specific ways, I need to have several users otherwise the testing isn't useful. My dev machine has a much
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by tomfakes 14y ago
I need a bit more than the approx 5MB of data - much more, but currently less than 20GB. I'm kind of in a no-mans land of Heroku data plans - until today!
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by tomfakes 14y ago
I really like this! I'm building an app that will eventually use hstore for data. I say 'eventually', because I'm currently using serialized columns on the $15/month shared plan, and hstore is not yet supported. At $50/month, this is cheap
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by tomfakes 14y ago
This was a really good talk, but the slides tell only a very small part of the story. If MicroConf releases the videos to the public, this is a Must Watch one - although I think they're all Must Watch videos.
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by tomfakes 14y ago
I was in Las Vegas last week. Las Vegas is the only place I've seen the 50c piece. On this trip, I also saw a $2 bill. I hadn't seen one of these for a few years. Going to coins for the $1 is an interesting idea that the US hasn't really g
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by tomfakes 14y ago
This was a great conference all around - I hope Rob and Mike have a pre-signup for previous attendees, as next year is sure to sell out.
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by tomfakes 14y ago
This one point has me sitting on the fence with taking my app to production on Heroku, or using Amazon EC2 directly and eating the time to build Chef scripts to provision servers.
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by tomfakes 14y ago
I would guess that 99.999% of programmers have no understanding (right now) of anything to do with computer vision. Combined with your general purpose CS studies, this puts you way ahead of the game in this space. As far as I can tell,
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by tomfakes 15y ago
There's a point on the outside of my 2010 macbook pro that is currently at 120F - and the computer is pretty idle - CPU temp is over 160F. 120F feels hot - I don't want to keep a finger in that spot for very long
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by tomfakes 15y ago
Mockingbirds in the Galapagos are smart. Of all the animals we saw on our recent trip there, the Mockingbirds were the only ones that knew that we had water. They knew about both plastic bottles as well as re-usable bottles in bottle hold
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by tomfakes 15y ago
This is awesome - except that the post deploy hook times out waiting for my app to load after being deployed. Heroku takes over 30 seconds to get my app from 'deployed' to 'running', and it's not even a very large app yet.
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I look at medical diagnostics as though I'm looking at my production servers (a poor analogy in many ways, but lets go with it) Watching charts on a production server, you see patterns over time - e.g you can see a weekend, or holiday quite
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I've had a few relatively minor issues with Heroku over the last few weeks putting apps together. Every time, Heroku support has got back to me with a fix within a business day! They pushed code to fix an issue I had just yesterday The doc
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I read the initial post about this on Friday morning and spend the rest of the day adding this caching scheme to my almost finished Rails app. In addition, I added the pjax system to my app. In less than 1 day of work, my app feels signific
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Tell HN: Amazon to charge Sales Tax in WA State for AWS
3 points by tomfakes 15y ago|2 comments
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by tomfakes 15y ago
A long time ago (10+ years), Microsoft cleaned up all of their sample code for security purposes to avoid people cut and pasting insecure code to stop exactly this type of boneheadedness.
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by tomfakes 15y ago
There are 2 types of stock awards that are typical: Stock Options and Restricted Stock. Restricted Stock is something that 83(b) can help with the tax implications. Stock Options are handled differently and are always taxed at the income t
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Traders vs. Makers: Internet Bubble IPOs vs Facebook IPO(crashdev.com)
2 points by tomfakes 15y ago|0 comments
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by tomfakes 15y ago
You should also add other pre-requisites to your agreements, e.g. 7 day lead time on all work, otherwise rate is 2X standard rate if you are available at all (since you'd need to move existing work to make yourself available for them) Info
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by tomfakes 15y ago
At my last company, we added to our employment contract a place for new employees to list all the outside projects that they had at that time, including open source projects they were involved in. During employment, they could add to this l
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I don't know yet. This flexibility is one thing that Heroku gives me, and I'm happy to pay for (once my product is live) It may be that my product never needs enough resources to push me over the edge for moving to my own servers. I've shi
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by tomfakes 15y ago
Here's my current thinking: I use Heroku to start out. If the app takes off and needs to scale, I can use Heroku until I get in place a cheaper/more custom config to support my specific needs - including pulling in the external services I
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by tomfakes 15y ago
As a founder of a company being acquired, I was ok signing an agreement that had a 1 year non-compete. As an employee of a regular job - hell no (unless they agree to pay me a substantial portion of my salary for that 2 years) Depending on
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by tomfakes 15y ago
From the SEC filing linked to in the Geekwire post, this is classified as a Venture Capital investment. I think this probably simplifies the accounting and reporting a lot compared to a co-op with outside investors. Disclosure: I'm a Limit
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by tomfakes 15y ago
This is a huge red flag. If the other co-founders won't show you this stuff, then you're not a co-founder in their eyes. Without the information you need, all you can guess at is that someone is spending money without wanting to tell you -
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I recently visited the Galapagos Islands. There are 2 things that made it possible for Darwin to work out his theory after visiting here. 1. Remoteness of location - few outside influences 2. Relatively few species! Even though it's on the
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I spent the afternoon at this event. My top 5 and bottom 5 are roughly the same. I really, really want to use Smore, but I have nothing to promote right now! Frankly, the GoChime system feels creepy to me, just based on their current imple
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GeekWire's favorite pitches from the TechStars Seattle Demo Day(geekwire.com)
2 points by tomfakes 15y ago|1 comments

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