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by ooorrr 12y ago
Great for Carbon. The situation for hardware design firms (right now, and often) is brutal - the degree of difficulty to consistently book enough new work to keep your talented team members employed is incredibly high, and more companies ar
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Dealing with bipolar disorder (Mike Shaver)(facebook.com)
4 points by ooorrr 13y ago|0 comments
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by ooorrr 13y ago
I think it's saying that Douglas Rushkoff is an author, not the author of this particular app. Since they're all fabrications anyway, though, it doesn't much matter.
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by ooorrr 14y ago
It's not discharging because it's plugged into 120V. It's discharging faster from the cold than the 120V is charging, so there's a net loss.
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by ooorrr 14y ago
Bug #1 in the Xbox database: Playstation is not dead yet.
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Ask HN: Great examples of developer hiring advertisements?
3 points by ooorrr 14y ago|1 comments
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by ooorrr 15y ago
I can confirm this: you can basically count the number of contract engineers in the US on your fingers and toes.
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by ooorrr 15y ago
Rand, I thought one of the providers (Hitwise or Comscore) started to separate out internal v. external links. Perhaps those were just pure links, like when a link at MSN.com went to a search results page? I also don't get the Facebook refe
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by ooorrr 16y ago
Having gone through acquisitions myself, I've learned that BigCo tax issues are entirely different than YourCo tax issues - i.e. they're going to think about taxes (cap gains, operating taxes, etc.) with different rules than you will. In ot
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by ooorrr 16y ago
Look more closely. He was hired _after_ the Digg 4 launch - likely was agreeing to a contract during the debacle, but certainly arrived afterwards.
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The reason to upgrade to iOS 4.0.1 (scottru.com)
1 points by ooorrr 16y ago|0 comments
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by ooorrr 16y ago
Same story here. I liked Assembla but moved away, which was costly, and I'm not going to move back now.
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by ooorrr 17y ago
You certainly can't run it in conjunction - i.e. gmail in one tab and google apps in the other - it only handles one acct (unlike Rapportive). I didn't try just a google apps account.
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Sometimes the 25th time is the charm: A/B testing over and over again(scottru.com)
2 points by ooorrr 17y ago|0 comments
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by ooorrr 17y ago
+1 - I'm always looking for a better simple solution for multiple domains, but I won't sign up until I know what I'm getting.
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by ooorrr 17y ago
Maybe change the link that says "go back to home" to say "add another monitor" or "manage your monitors" something similar - since that's really the only action you can do anyway.
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by ooorrr 17y ago
I'm with you. I think the simplest solution is best here. I do expect you'll run into scenarios where last-checked-time will be data you'll want anyway...
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by ooorrr 17y ago
great feature and thanks for adding it so fast. One little note: there's nothing in the user experience that tells me if you tie all of the monitors to the email address (i.e. is email address a unique key), so after I add the first one, I
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by ooorrr 17y ago
One other suggestion - One problem with these sorts of services is that when they're working, nothing happens, so if I don't get mails for a week, I don't know if that's because everything's been working or if you've stopped running the ser
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by ooorrr 17y ago
That's totally reasonable. You might offer two emails for an outage, one to their email and one for SMS.
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by ooorrr 17y ago
This looks great - perfect for the site that doesn't need 1-minute monitoring. Montastic has been ok for this purpose but I'm happy to try something else. My feature request - 140-character SMS messages when you're down.
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by ooorrr 17y ago
A much more usable (and accurate) map at http://www.idemc.org/ .
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by ooorrr 18y ago
I'm the guy on the other side of the table: I'm the VP of Engineering who gets brought in. The circumstances are always the same - the CEO/COO/BoD doesn't believe that the CTO is the person they can trust to build great software and great p
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by ooorrr 18y ago
All of those are true. The lack of powerpoint at Amazon is not a myth - docs are the order of the day. This is more good than bad, but has some of both.
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by ooorrr 18y ago
A few things for context: 1) This came up b/c somebody else publicly described the author as the inventor of EC2, which created some unintended blowback; 2) The author is well-known in the ops community and still close to a number of people