joshcrews

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by joshcrews 2y ago
A great collection of Latin texts you can use to find your next books: https://thelatinlibrary.com/
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by joshcrews 5y ago
Postico is my favorite desktop software of any kind
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by joshcrews 5y ago
Another endorsement of Windy. In 2017 Windy knew that Hurricane Harvey was going to stall out over SE Texas days in advance.
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by joshcrews 5y ago
St. Domingue (now Haiti) was France's wealthiest overseas possession in 1790. It was a human meat-grinder as slave life expectancy was low from being worked and whipped to death on the plantations. The slaves rebelled, fought the Frenc
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by joshcrews 7y ago
Some of this increase is attributable to lowering taxes brings more income out of the shadows and on to the tax return. If we lowered the marginal rate to 1% I think we’d see a lot more income appear on tax returns that is either unreported
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by joshcrews 8y ago
+ 5,000 for Postico. Such excellent software.
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by joshcrews 10y ago
https://pgexercises.com/
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by joshcrews 10y ago
Many of those un-updated Erlang projects on github are reliable, don't overlook them.
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by joshcrews 10y ago
the advance of minifies and transpilers and modules doesnt seem to increase page performance. one of the effect of it being so efficient to minify and transpile is that large imports and frameworks are easier to use, and that boosts the to
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by joshcrews 10y ago
One reason for them to scale to 10x F-Large on Heroku is that their app gets super-slammed (150x more than average traffic) around college application deadlines. So they can spend most their time on cheap Heroku and just temporarily scale
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by joshcrews 10y ago
There now is a robot that can knock you out safely https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/new-machine-...
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Facebook's team of trending news curators(gizmodo.com)
2 points by joshcrews 10y ago|0 comments
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by joshcrews 11y ago
#2 on BBC's list of 100 Greatest Britons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons The only one in the top 10 I had never heard of before.
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by joshcrews 11y ago
I second "raise your rates". I'm 90% sure you are significantly undercharging because a) you live in NYC b) you are getting work for SF companies, and one that's YC c) you care a lot about a $8,000 debt. Double your exis
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by joshcrews 11y ago
Did you just merge "Connect" and "Marketplaces" so that there is no "Marketplaces" anymore? I saw that stripe.com/marketplaces is a redirect to stripe.com/connect
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by joshcrews 12y ago
In my context, Ruby in Nashville, full-stack has meant you can do front-end html/css/js, backend application code AND the hosting/deployment/linux systems administration stuff too.
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Southern California Edison IT workers 'beyond furious' over H-1B replacements(computerworld.com)
10 points by joshcrews 12y ago|2 comments
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by joshcrews 12y ago
I was just re-reading about the Drupal super-vulnerability of Oct 2014. This could be some of the fruit. That was an enormous vulnerability that might have compromised 100,000's if not millions of servers
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by joshcrews 12y ago
I think someone could have a hit building a flappy-bird clone off this concept.
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Ask HN: Did Instacart founder(s) personally fulfill orders?
1 points by joshcrews 12y ago|0 comments
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by joshcrews 12y ago
Thought 1: I love hearing that good plumbers are getting paid well. There is such a need for reliable, professional just-solve-my-problem-with-service tradesmen in America. In a just economy, the makers and doers (like plumbers) are well
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by joshcrews 12y ago
You can get the best of both by using a dynamic site CMS, and then hooking it up to Amazon Cloudfront to cache your html. The only challenge then is page cache expiration. You can set that by either using the http headers for Cache-Contro
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TrueCrypt must not die(truecrypt.ch)
207 points by joshcrews 12y ago|98 comments
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by joshcrews 12y ago
I'm a Ruby developer and interested in creating a business in this space. Specifically a online-CMS that generates static html uploaded to a CDN. The target market is businesses who need to know their content is "uncrashable&quot
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by joshcrews 12y ago
You can tell a senior engineer what needs to happen, and the engineer can manage the rest. A jr. engineer, not yet.
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by joshcrews 13y ago
I've been running the sticker, "Hi, I build software. Come talk to me!" at a high end coffee shop in my town (Nashville) for 2 weeks and it's generated 3 good conversations. I would say I'm very satisfied with how it's gone so far.
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Fund Open-Source Search Engine for 3D Printing(defcad.com)
2 points by joshcrews 14y ago|0 comments
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by joshcrews 14y ago
@CambridgePolice is reporting Scene is clear. Call unfounded. No threat to public safety in #CambMA #MIT
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by joshcrews 14y ago
I have everyone prepay me for Rails development. I think the reason it's not an issue is that they've worked with bad freelancers, and people that drop the ball, flake out, stop answering emails. They don't want that so bad that they will
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by joshcrews 14y ago
Freelancers and agencies: consider having all work prepaid. Your fears may say that clients won't go for it, but they are going for it with other agencies/consultants, and in other professions this is a mainstream way of doing business. Go

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