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by breakerbox 4y ago
Hah, I thought of Kommu when I saw this post! I've used their slack to stay in NYC and had someone stay at my place in Austin. Would (and have) recommend to a friend
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by breakerbox 7y ago
If I were giving a security recommendation to famous people and congresspeople I would recommend using a password like this. You might think it’s incredibly insecure, but imagine this GIF contained that 6 digit number that the congressman u
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by breakerbox 7y ago
Ironically, your pricing page is down. Starting an updown competitor now!
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by breakerbox 7y ago
I think you need 500 karma or so.
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Ask HN: How does your company A/B test, and roll out new features?
2 points by breakerbox 7y ago|0 comments
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by breakerbox 7y ago
Amazon gets all the attention because it's Amazon. Work a retail job anywhere and you will discover that MILLIONS of retail workers must do similar checks.
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Ask HN: Engineers/Founders - what are your reasons to postpone having children?
2 points by breakerbox 7y ago|0 comments
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by breakerbox 7y ago
The additional revenue from this stream is a drop in the bucket to Uber. I could be off here, but this seems like they will likely use these type of things just as advertisements and branding.
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by breakerbox 7y ago
Great experience with Amazon Lightsail. The smallest instance is only $3.50 a month, and you can add a swap file if you need a bit more than 512 MB of RAM. Lightsail is like swimming in the shallow end of the AWS pool. Doesn’t have a drop d
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by breakerbox 7y ago
I still think the US has hope for rail and high speed rail that won’t bankrupt everyone. If, and this is a huge if (bc people love their cars), the US can replace a lane or two of major highways between cities with a rail. This would avoid
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by breakerbox 7y ago
To be honest, I think wind resistance would play a lot bigger factor than people give it credit for since its force scales nonlinearly with velocity. At 1000 or even just 600 km/h, wind resistance would do some damage just by letting o
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by breakerbox 7y ago
Not controversial IMO, but useful. Most companies are stuck in the dark ages, despite what you think after browsing HN. A lot of money to be made in consulting if you can market yourself well.
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by breakerbox 7y ago
This is worth other people chiming in on.
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by breakerbox 7y ago
When I was an intern at an Aerospace org, I had a mentor that was the head of engineering of several smaller companies at once emphasize one point - Always align yourself positively with people 2-3 levels of leadership above you. That is, i
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by breakerbox 7y ago
That's a great start up idea - Cloud based UI elements.
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by breakerbox 7y ago
Not super familiar with the space, but ReWork by Jason Fried and DHH, founders of BaseCamp (DHH made Ruby on Rails), was pretty good. They provide a very different take on business and startups than typical on HN. They are almost anti VC, a
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by breakerbox 7y ago
This post should make many people on HN feel confident that they can run a company that does millions in revenue. As long as you aren’t doing favors for family and buddy’s, you too can run a small tech business and make millions.
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by breakerbox 7y ago
I can confirm Schwab banking is the real deal! No fees ever. Reimburse ALL atm fees (even those pesky international scammy ones that are like $10 a pop). Effectively wherever you are in the world, you are in network with Schwab ATM's.
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by breakerbox 7y ago
The only thing I’ve put together from light searching on GitHub might be to do with the fact that 15 and s15 can be used to describe school years (s for spring 15 semester) and a lot of people post assignments to GitHub. 15 is also a common
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by breakerbox 7y ago
I thought the most common file names had some peculiar results. > the filename “15” & “s15” made the top 50 most popular filenames Anyone know why? https://boyter.org/posts/an-informal-survey-of-10-million-gi...
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by breakerbox 7y ago
My org was constantly behind the “business” deadlines, leaving developers to work nights and weekends often. Bad personal growth (boring C#, tightly coupled, extremely complex enterprise app) due to doing the most lame bug fixes, and copyin
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by breakerbox 7y ago
Awesome! I’m going to give that a try!
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by breakerbox 7y ago
Yeah, I suppose it was a little open ended. I’m using Flask, gunicorn, and looking for tools to keep it simple.
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Ask HN: What are best practices for deploying an app to a VPS?
1 points by breakerbox 7y ago|4 comments
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by breakerbox 7y ago
Someone on HN made a github project called Monolith. It’s a command line thing. Go check it out and see if it will accomplish what you want https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
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by breakerbox 7y ago
This is an interesting answer - one I have never heard of. I can’t say I agree with the premise that the world neither exists or non-exists. Am I missing something, or are you saying the boolean value of existence has a 3rd option?
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by breakerbox 7y ago
Taleb might say this is a sibling to the Lindy Effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by breakerbox 7y ago
First exposure to real coding was in college - 16 bit assembly, then C. Never really clicked it all. Then I moved onto higher level courses in Java. It clicked somewhere along the way, I was able to retroactively understand almost everythin
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by breakerbox 7y ago
I love HN so much for threads like this. It is seriously one of the best places in the world to grab some popcorn, hangout, and watch beginners, students, CEO’s, experts, consultants, etc rant and rave about company X or programming languag
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by breakerbox 7y ago
I was struggling through electrical engineering, not sure if I ever wanted to become an actual engineer. In hindsight, college was extremely challenging because I had no clue if I wanted to go into engineering, or finance, or consulting. I

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