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by hootener 9y ago
Probably has a thing or two to do with today's date...
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by hootener 10y ago
I've used both stripe and braintree to build payment processing services that do hundreds of thousands of dollars in transactions per month. I can't really tell you which is better because it really does depend on a lot of varia
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Ask HN: How are you dealing with VATMOSS?
2 points by hootener 11y ago|1 comments
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by hootener 11y ago
>'Good ole boy' healthcare companies abound Ugh. Tell me about it. The old guard in tech around here has led to some real hair pulling moments for me. I think we're headed for a schism, though. Can't wait.
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by hootener 11y ago
I'm a Nashville-based software developer, so maybe I can lend some color to parent's comment. Parent may be speaking about the Nashville Software School[1]. Very recently it has been turning out some great talent in the 0-2 yrs of
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by hootener 11y ago
- maintain consistent dev/test/prod environments We're pretty heavily invested in Docker. To this point, it's really nice knowing that all the developers are operating in consistent environments. An additional bonus is t
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by hootener 11y ago
> For me the take away is that non-trivial independent replication of results still stands as the gold standard for experimentation. Agreed. Too bad funding agencies rarely if ever give you the money to do it :(. The takeaway here is tha
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by hootener 11y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head, here. WebRTC is really great for a handful of people. Implementation using some third party was never the difficult part, but scale was and is still a total nightmare. I'd love to see WebRT
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by hootener 11y ago
This is what caused me to abandon HHVM for plain ol' PHP around a year ago. I was running it in Docker containers and the memory leaks would regularly crash my containers if left unattended for more than a couple of days. It was quite
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by hootener 12y ago
We do this, but use a sliding scale. The middle of the scale is what's locally considered to be a fair salary and fair equity compensation for whatever role we're hiring for. The equity / salary offered at each end of the sca
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by hootener 12y ago
I'm not sure what you're after with paid HipChat (e.g., video/screen sharing, >5GB file uploads, etc.), but Slack[1] might get it done for you for free. Probably still not ideal depending on what you want, but a potential
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by hootener 12y ago
> It's a marketing play. I hope there's no one in this thread naive enough to think otherwise. Of course it's a marketing play. That doesn't mean it can't benefit you. Your initial point concerned vendor lock in
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by hootener 12y ago
> Some of those perks (maybe even all of them) are not things TechStars paid for.. they're things that other companies chose to give away to startups in an accelerator (of which TechStars is one). Of course they aren't. Many ar
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by hootener 12y ago
> List them. They're linked in the parent to my original reply. > Let's just call this what it is.. cheap way to lock start-ups in your infrastructure Whose infrastructure? Perks come from Amazon, Microsoft, Softlayer, Racks
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by hootener 12y ago
> Not really a reason to pick techstars over another program When was this a debate about picking techstars over any other program? The article relates to picking nothing as opposed to joining TechStars. I think these perks are a little
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by hootener 12y ago
I know it's easy to view perks as window dressing, but some of the things offered by TechStars are game changers for a business's tech teams, particularly in the early stage. Granted, these perks do eventually go away and you have
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by hootener 12y ago
Based on earlier reports of Justin.tv's streaming architecture[1], I'm going to say no. Granted, that article is old, but I think a pretty serious investment in physical infrastructure has been made by Justin.tv/Twitch. So I&
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by hootener 12y ago
This is my general rule of thumb, but bear in mind it's only my approach. I'm not even going to claim that it's good. Just that it works for me... Is it source or configuration? Then its external to the container, either moun
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by hootener 12y ago
> I'm not terribly proud of my ownership of that site, though I did try to run it with something of a conscience: never called for gossip, voluntarily removed 30,000+ posts, etc. I think these facts are commendable, and I'm gla
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by hootener 12y ago
Agree with you XFCE in Xubuntu. I just can't force myself to like Unity, stock Debian is ugly, and LXDE on Lubuntu looks flat out terrible on my 1080p monitors. Just a smeary blue and silver mess. I don't think XFCE is perfect, bu
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by hootener 12y ago
"That's because you aren't a software engineer, and if you are saying so then the feelings of being an impostor are entirely warranted." At face value this assessment feels very unfair. Where do you draw the line? Experi
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by hootener 12y ago
Aside from some statistical reporting quibbles, I think this is a good write up. The authors essentially arrive back to a design that's been leveraged for RSS feeds for ages (e.g., Google Reader, Feedly, etc.) This isn't a bad thi
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by hootener 12y ago
"not people seeking the shelter of Google, McK, Bain, etc." It seems that by leaving such companies to form startups, such individuals would represent the very definition of 'risk-taker'...
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by hootener 13y ago
I'm probably just going to show my ignorance, here...but why doesn't container linking solve this problem? Could you not run multiple docker containers/services behind a single nginx or apache container on a production server
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by hootener 13y ago
I've had to write output save file formats for various projects on several occasions, and it never occurred to me to take this approach. Thanks for sharing this, it's one of those ideas that (to me) seems so brilliant in its simpl
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by hootener 13y ago
The issue really isn't me tracking my own changes. In that case, version control does great. The problem is adoption by collaborators, particularly for PIs that don't want to take the time to sit down and learn something new. The
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by hootener 13y ago
> Word's comment and review tracking system is more intuitive. This. The first person that makes a LaTeX comment and track changes system as intuitive as Word's can have all my money. No, the comment and todo LaTeX packages don
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by hootener 13y ago
It's extremely rare to get a student to fork and make pull requests to this template on github, even more version control savvy CS students. Of all the students I've had email me with problems, a vast majority just grab the repo a
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by hootener 13y ago
Awesome, I'll keep an eye out for it
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by hootener 13y ago
Great work, James. I think I'll fork this code and give it look-see. I manage the dissertation/thesis template for my department on github. The assembly and dissemination of this template is a purely student-run effort. Typically

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