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by tfitzgerald 14y ago
Prometric is one of the largest certification testing companies there is. Microsoft is the one giving the test away: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/offers/html5.aspx .
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by tfitzgerald 14y ago
Don't ask, show.
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by tfitzgerald 14y ago
What is so unattractive about it? I actually like it.
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
You should work on helping those without access to clean drinking water instead of wasting your time criticizing what someone else would like to do.
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
I'm curious: What do you need the disk space for? Is it something that can be farmed out to say, Amazon S3?
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
A lot of technology jobs revolve around solving problems. Maybe technical sales? technical writing?
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
Hartl's Ruby On Rails 3 Tutorial book is great, and available for free online: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
Depends on your definition of "tracking users". Netflix tracks your viewing history to recommend new movies and TV shows. Amazon tracks your purchasing and browsing history to recommend items for you to purchase. In my opinion, neither of
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
Having never used myBalsamiq, I'm not sure what they built it in, but some of the tools you could use: Flash, jQuery, ExtJS, HTML5 Isn't their desktop app built in Adobe Air? or have they moved away from that? I haven't used it in a while.
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
I'm on Server Fault everyday. Even if you don't ask or answer questions, it is interesting to read all of the content.
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
This isn't really an itch because my current bug tracker does this already but being able to update issues with svn/mercurial/git commits is a great feature to have.
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
ted.fitzgerald (an invite would be great!)
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
Fatcow: http://www.fatcow.com/free-icons
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
Ahh, I misunderstood the question. It is possible that you gave Google permission when you signed up. I think it is more likely that the URL has all of the information Gilt needs to process the request: http://www.gilt.com/google-
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
Did you sign up to try and receive a CR-48? If so, that is why you got the e-mail.
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
Not all of them may be good, but here is a comprehensive list: http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/degrees.asp . I was considering either Iowa State or Carnegie Mellon. CM is supposed to be really good but is also pretty expensive.
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
Even when I search for LibraOffice the first link is LibreOffice.org...how did you make it to HN?
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
There is nothing wrong with asking myopic questions. The author did not state that startups are the only thing that are important; they asked a specific question about a specific issue.
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
The sparkfun forums might also be a good place to ask: http://forum.sparkfun.com/
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
What happens when they grow beyond a few laptops and monitors?
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Ask HN: What do startups do for internal tech support?
7 points by tfitzgerald 15y ago|7 comments
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by tfitzgerald 15y ago
My favorite for a while has been FatCow: http://www.fatcow.com/free-icons . 2000 16x16 and 32x32 icons.
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by tfitzgerald 16y ago
I have a CentOS box that runs a few headless VBox VM's. I use them for development / testing before pushing changes live. I have one of them setup pretty much exactly like our production server. I do all of that work over ssh. None of the
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by tfitzgerald 16y ago
That baby is pretty creepy. Also, you may want to get a native English speaker to look over your copy. There are some weird grammar / structure things going on there. Who is your customer? Are you targeting non-SaaS startups? I would im
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by tfitzgerald 16y ago
Not go off topic...but that is actually a Wayne Gretzky quote...not Michael Jordan. Also, building reusable code is a good way to get future projects done in a weekend!
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by tfitzgerald 16y ago
What is your day job? If your day job involves any of those things just quote them a comparable hourly rate and don't feel bad. I usually let people know up front how much the service they are requesting is going to cost. A lot of the tim
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by tfitzgerald 16y ago
I work at a Big Ten college. Girls. Everywhere. and it seems that somewhere on campus they are always looking for devs.
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by tfitzgerald 16y ago
Painting, cooking, and photography.
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by tfitzgerald 16y ago
This depends, what grades are we talking about? I worked in a K-8 school where the computer teacher used Scratch ( http://scratch.mit.edu/ ) to teach programming in the lower grades. What are the challenges you feel need to be overcome?