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Atlanta-based entrepreneur. Software Developer. Musician.
Same here in metro Atlanta. My wife has some service (intermittent texts, has internet, but can't receive incoming calls) but I have SOS mode (with same model iPhone 16 pro).
This is the first time we've had a major outage affect our VZW service, and we've been with them for over 10 years.
I shouldn't be, but I was shocked at how painful it is to lose our connection while out running errands.
I have an autoimmune disease mentioned in the article. In looking through a group of which I am member I came across this interesting FDA alert about CAR-T therapy from a few weeks ago...
https://www.drugs.com/fda/fda-investigating-serious-risk-t-c...
Agreed, that section led me to dig into "No Bad Parts" by Richard Schwartz for more information on Internal Family Systems, which I find fascinating.
I've recently read Dr. Peter Attia's book, "Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity" and he talks about the failures of our modern medical system when it comes to preventing (or at least delaying) disease instead of treating disease once it is present.
Cancer is one of what he refers to as the "Four Horsemen" (the chronic diseases of aging - cancer, heart disease, metabolic dysfunction and metabolic syndrome, and neurodegenerative diseases).
His book focuses on a number of changes we can make to reduce our risk of these chronic diseases of aging, one of which is exercise and physical fitness.
I would highly recommend the book to anyone interested in living not only a longer life, but a more enjoyable life in old age.
I just hit MicroCenter with my daughter to build a RetroPie this weekend. They would only sell one per household per day (this was in Georgia). I would've bought a second if it were allowed.
I identify with your comment. I run a SaaS product that has been around since 1998, but it isn't even listed in Crunchbase, which this article uses as a reference for the number of SaaS products out there. Also, "Software as a Service" wasn't even a phrase when we started out... even "Application Service Provider" wasn't really prevalent at first.
I thought a balance would be great, but neither of my kids liked the balance bike we bought. They rode with training wheels for quite a while.
What got them riding without training wheels was learning to ride Razor scooters. One afternoon when I saw them both riding sweeping S curves on their scooters, I took their training wheels off. At 6 and 7 1/2 yrs, they when from total terror on their bikes to riding comfortably in a few hours. It only took a few rides with me running alongside holding on (continually holding on less each time).
It was amazing.
I have a similar domain with a 9 character URL that I have been running (wow - I had to look it up!) for 16 years for my own use and for my clients. I have some ddns clients that use it to update their DNS records when their IP changes.
I won't be advertising it here on HN any time soon, though, since it would probably fall over from the traffic. :)
My Atmos receiver required calibration of the speaker placement from multiple locations within my listening area. I'm running a 7.1.4 setup (7 surrounds, 1 subwoofer, and 4 overhead channels). I've done a lot of reading about Atmos as well; I'm fairly certain it isn't premixed channels. My ears also agree - Atmos feels incredibly immersive.
If you're in the US, I've had good luck buying Aeron chairs used on craigslist (in the $200-$250 range). I would also say check FaceBook marketplace (I've found some good things there - though not chairs). Finally, as someone else also mentioned, I have the ErgoChair 2 ( https://www.autonomous.ai/office-chairs/ergonomic-chair ). I don't care about color, so I bought the green one which was $20 cheaper.
Agreed on the HN demographic. I have lived in the NYC metro area and felt the pain of expensive housing, and I would only do it again if I met your definition of rich.
In the state of Georgia, I'd definitely call someone with a $700k mortgage wealthy. I'm in an affluent suburb north of Atlanta and I'd probably be showing some bias if I didn't consider myself to be wealthy in a $400k house. If I read it correctly, the example given in the article was for a refinance for a lower rate, and while that would be nice, it's not as likely to be a necessity. I've considered a refi, but as a small business owner I'm not sure I'd qualify in the current climate (even though my software company is still making money).
TL/DR: I've been using MIAB (mailinabox) for about 6 months and am happy with it (though I do use an external spam gateway (mxguarddog).
Backstory:
I started managing my own mail servers in 1999. After 5+ years of doing that, I moved my primary business domains to google apps and was happy for many years. Last year, after several years of feeling uneasy about my business email being hosted with google (mainly for privacy concerns, but also because I was on a "legacy" free google apps account), I began looking into paid options for my company's email. After deciding that I didn't want to pay google for the service, I looked at several other options for paid services, but they were all too expensive for my budget. I then investigated rolling my own solution using Postfix (even though I remembered all the maintenance overhead and occasional headaches), as I had done that before moving to Google. While investigating all the pieces I'd need for this, such as open source webmail projects and spam filtering options, I came across Mailinabox.
I spent some time over a few months playing with it and continuing to investigate other options, but ended up going with MIAB. My two biggest concerns in running my own server were A) dealing with spam and B) deliverability.
To deal with spam, I opted to use a third party spam filtering gateway (mxguarddog). I've been pretty happy with it, but I have to say, I've never found anyone as good at filtering spam as google.
My deliverability is very good, but I have had a few cases where messages were delayed or initially bounced right after I set up the server. I have my MIAB deployed on a Digital Ocean droplet that costs me about $40 / month. I am currently running 6 domains and about 50 total accounts (with another 50 aliases). I think I could easily quadruple those numbers without overloading the server.
I hope that's helpful!
I'm basically CF full time as well. I know a lot of languages, but I have enough client work in CF to stay completely booked.
I am working on a new project in Django that is going to be interesting, so we'll see how that pans out.
just talked to a friend in NYC - no issues there, so doesn't appear to be entire East Coast
ISP: Comcast
Location: Roswell, GA
Edit: Up for me now at 10:47 Eastern
I had Radial Keratotomy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_keratotomy) done in 1991. It was done by hand with a SCALPEL. Valium was my friend that day.
I've had 20/20 vision until recently. I wore glasses from the time I was 9 years old until I was 21. I'm now beginning to see my age affect my vision (at 42). The surgery was a life-changing experience and the difference was immediate - I sat up from the surgery, looked out the window, and could see individual leaves on the trees outside.
There are always risks to be considered, though. I found out when going back in for a follow-up that a new test showed that my corneas were too thin. If I had come in as a new patient after that test was implemented, they wouldn't have done the procedure.
I'm not sure if I should feel lucky I went before that test was added, or just lucky I didn't have any issues.
Take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_brake
Yes, the leaf has standard brakes... but it also uses regenerative braking to recapture some of the car's forward momentum without using the brakes.
His libertarian approach on this issue is that the government should be "hands off" and not make any legislation to control technology and the internet, including legislated net neutrality rules. He makes a good point in saying that legislation can't keep up with the speed of technology, but I'm not sure where I come down on his overall ideas.
I understand the "song of the day" concept. I'm a musician (trumpeter), so often classical or jazz distracts me too much. Instrumental rock and/or electronic music seems to work well. I've actually found one specific instrumental track that has been my go to track for years - The Brazilian by the band Genesis. When I'm focused and coding, I can listen to that track for days on end.
I have often wondered why it seems to help so much, but I am not going to complain.
Nivo Slider is one I've found to be very nice - surprised it wasn't on your list. It has versions for wordpress (paid) and jQuery (free):
Does anyone have any thoughts on how this might affect the future of LibreOffice?
I have to say that I'm very happy with LibreOffice at the moment and probably won't be moving any time soon, but I think the OpenOffice name still has more recognition, at least among the less technical crowd.
My account page exists, but I rarely post (4 comments); adding my username to the google search finds zero results, so there are at least 28,701, and likely many more than that.
My intuition is that there are many people that don't post at all or only post infrequently.
precentral is live blogging at: http://www.precentral.net/hp-palm-thinkbeyond-liveblog
I had an independent accountant do the majority of the work for me for a total of $750. This included virtually all the setup, including verifying the name wasn't taken, filing the paperwork (state and local), all the official docs, getting TaxID, etc.
The process only took a few weeks from start to finish, which was a nice surprise.
I'm in the US (Georgia), and the first thing I did to limit liability is to form an LLC (simple overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability_company)
I'm looking into this, and I'm not sure I see an advantage over existing Virtual PBX services like Ring Central, etc., other than the free version being free.
Can anyone give me some insight into other advantages?