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by santry 13y ago
> * How do you backup and restore your system? > All critical servers use RAID 5. Unfortunately RAID 5 (or any other flavor) is not a backup solution. It doesn't account for user error, RAID controller failure and numerous other
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by santry 13y ago
Boston, MA (South End, no remote) - MeYou Health I'm Lead Engineer at MeYou Health and we're hiring engineers (and a web designer). We work mostly in Rails and Node.js, building web apps that help people improve their well-being through sma
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by santry 14y ago
Etymotic's in-ear headphones are pretty great, especially if you spring for the extra $100 to go to an audiologist and get custom ear molds made. http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/er6i.aspx or, with an iPhone compatible microphone: http://www
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by santry 14y ago
One day about 3 years ago I quit sugar "cold turkey." At the time I was rather highly motivated by seeing a friend nearly killed by necrotizing fasciitis. (Not that his illness was sugar related. It's just that seeing a close friend nearly
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by santry 14y ago
He's just playing different venues. For example, he'll be playing Symphony Hall in Boston, where they already do all their own ticketing, instead of the TD Bank North Garden, which uses TicketMaster.
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by santry 14y ago
According to Jason Kottke HFJ has their own webfonts service in private beta. He's using their Whitney font with this new service in his redesigned site: http://kottke.org/12/03/kottkeorg-redesign-2012-version
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by santry 15y ago
The article's author seems to be using the term "back end" to refer to an administrative area of the site where you log in to make changes.
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by santry 16y ago
Not true. I quit my last job and was on COBRA.
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by santry 16y ago
Looks like I can't edit any more. All the books have been claimed at this point. I hope you all enjoy them!
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Tell HN: Free Book Giveaway
51 points by santry 16y ago|8 comments
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by santry 16y ago
> [If you use git merge --squash some-branch] [w]hen a QA person or your boss says, "Hey, is some-feature {merged into QA, deployed}" you have to resort to `git log` spelunking. Of course you shouldn't use merge --squash in that context
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by santry 16y ago
Can anyone recommend good documentation on load balancing a LAMP app across multiple independent VPS providers? We've had a high profile site affected by these Fremont outages so I'm thinking the only real solution is to have VPSs at Linode
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by santry 16y ago
> Though usually omitted from public sources about H-bombs, including all of the sources I managed to find this morning with a bit of Googling, I remember hearing somewhere, years ago, that there is an extra component between the primar
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by santry 16y ago
> git pull origin master I think in general, as well as this particular case, it would be better to do git fetch origin One doesn't always want to merge from the remote branch.
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by santry 16y ago
You'd still be able to get the cookie when the client sends it bnack to the server on subsequent, non-SSL requests. It's gotta be SSL all the time.
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by santry 16y ago
Yeah, I tried it out after reading the above post. Way too buggy to rely upon for client work.
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by santry 16y ago
Because I hadn't heard of it 'til now :-). Will _definitely try this out. Thanks!
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by santry 16y ago
Or use srm.
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by santry 16y ago
I've been using a previous generation MacBook Air (1.86GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 128GB SSD) for web dev work for 18 months or so. It's great for everything _except_ browser testing in VMWare. The 2GB of RAM just doesn't cut it when I need to
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by santry 16y ago
Am I the only one who finds Pivotal Tracker's UX horrible to the point of being unusable? I worked with a team that insisted on Pivotal Tracker and aside from its crashing my Fluid SSB every half hour or so, the text areas were way to small
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by santry 16y ago
> DINNER: Grilled salmon, roasted green beans, side salad Aren't green beans legumes?
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iPhone 4 Carrier Unlock Now Available(blog.iphone-dev.org)
2 points by santry 16y ago|0 comments
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by santry 16y ago
What's the purpose of matching "www.", "www1.", "www2." … "www999."? For purposes of this regex, wouldn't the domain matching that follows be sufficient?
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by santry 16y ago
I've been able to eliminate cravings for the bad stuff which, for me, has had the same benefit as making the good stuff crave-inducing. To do this I: 1. Eliminated all artificial sweeteners. This meant quitting Diet Coke and using delicious
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by santry 16y ago
The best way to get someone to continue a behavior is to give intermittent positive reinforcement. I predict shutting down HN for a few hours a day would make us even more addicted.
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by santry 16y ago
A set of video lectures of the corresponding MIT course are available at http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma... I just started watching them for fun the other day. They're really fascinating.
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by santry 16y ago
Nope, we were 7 miles apart.
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by santry 16y ago
I returned 6 opened, activated iPhone 4s to the Apple Store the day after buying them and Apple did not charge a restocking fee. I also called AT&T to ensure the service was cancelled and to find out whether there would be any fees and
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by santry 16y ago
I'm amazed that in none of the reviews I've read is there any complaint about the horrible sound quality. I bought a pair of iPhone 4s for myself and my girlfriend and we returned them the next day. We each sounded to the other like we were
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by santry 16y ago
When you write "generally via my gmail inbox, for all SMS" do you mean it's all email based, or is there a magical Google Voice/Gmail integration I'm not aware of?

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