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by c3 12y ago
Step 2, make a failed game, pivot, succeed wildly :) It's worked twice already!
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by c3 12y ago
Step 1: Be Stewart Butterfield.
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by c3 12y ago
fyi they don't need to power cycle your machine to remove it from the data center (if there is physical access); there's a battery backup that clips onto the power prongs while it's still 3/4 in the socket.
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by c3 12y ago
there's an app called Habit List (ios) that pretty much does that.
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by c3 13y ago
update: I just tested this; if you're on 1.8.7, you can manually apply the patch I linked in the parent comment and recompile. There is nothing preventing a backport.
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by c3 13y ago
It seems to be a fairly simple patch for 1.8 series, too: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-193/repository/revisions/43776 just a few lines truncating input in util.c. Break your ruby here:
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by c3 14y ago
This article looks fairly accurate (for what I understand of the SF market) Things are a fair bit cheaper/easier in Portland. I do actually own a food truck in Portland (as well as a software company). We made a profit on about three differ
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by c3 14y ago
we just switched 1/3rd of our infrastructure off our existing host (engineyard, which uses AWS) onto raw AWS and saved about $2500/month. You can do it too!
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by c3 14y ago
It's not just a scheduling, there are a bunch of legacy systems you have to integrate with. And of course it's health data, so there are more requirements. Anyone want to burn three months on an unpaid spec? :)
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by c3 14y ago
Elasticsearch is great and magical, but there are a bunch of defaults that you MUST set for it to be useful. I'm surprised github wasn't using these, actually (like allocating the min and max memory to be the same size). Generally it takes
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by c3 14y ago
It's only a security problem if you're using the Model#where form. If you're doing Model#all or #each or whatever, you're fine.
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by c3 15y ago
Basically, it doesn't - because it doesn't need to. Rails/ActiveRecord doesn't use those either. Problem solved :)
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by c3 15y ago
This is old news, but we successfully use https://github.com/freels/table_migrator in production not on heroku. It creates a copy of the table, performs the schema changes, copies the data over, then renames the tables for almost (i.e. 1-
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by c3 15y ago
2. Opentable actually does this - they give you up to 10x more "points" (redeemable for meals, later) for certain restaurants on quiet nights.
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by c3 15y ago
Obsessive metrics are fun. Knowing how long things took vs estimates is useful for determining the accuracy future estimates. Having an absolute sense of numbers for types of projects is useful for estimating future projects of similar scop
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by c3 15y ago
At entp we used a custom-built time tracker that works a bit like twitter; you tell it what you're working on (projects are referenced with @projectname and individual tickets with #1234) and it tracks the time between status updates to tha
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by c3 15y ago
That's actually the Oracle single sign-on server you're seeing there, not the Mix app itself.
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by c3 15y ago
"Launches"? Heh. I'm actually the lead dev on this (entp). It's been around since at least 2007, when my git history starts. Nothing new about it, but it seems to be a good way for Oracle employees and customers to communicate about product
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by c3 16y ago
We use Postmark, (we've sent a few million emails through them) and they indeed do this for us.
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by c3 16y ago
I've done this (both designing and manufacturing from scratch, and making t-shirts). It looks like you mean "I want to design screen prints", rather than design clothes. This is actually pretty easy. Find a local screen-printer, and they'll
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by c3 16y ago
My company is (well be, soon as we get off our asses and send a check) one of the sponsors of this. Why? We already do a bunch of open source; as well as the 'giving back' factor, I'm genuinely intrigued with what will be produced. Last yea
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by c3 16y ago
I think it's more like "a majority of high achieving people have these sorts of issues". You don't make it to interesting places without some form of overactive mental processes; it's those of us who can deal with it and harness it who can
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by c3 17y ago
I actually am in the US on an E2 visa, and I founded and (still) run entp.com. In my mind, the investment requirement of the E2 merely is a way of your providing proof of your ability to achieve success.