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Another tip, be cognizant of the difference between sustained drawing amperage, and spikes; when a server starts up, it can spike to 1.5+ amps. I've seen many circuits trip because, while the draw should have been in an acceptable range, spinning up a number of servers at the same time was too much.

There is a big difference though, and it revolves around choice. A casino owner can not claim, that a roulette player can choose to get better. At some point, the "house" gets to a theoretically optimal edge (either by fixing the broken roulette wheel, or kicking out card counters). They will always have that mathematical edge.

In a poker game, any player can choose to get better, so much so you get to a a point where both players are playing game theory optimal. At that point, there is NO edge.

PS- support the PPA if you can!

Odd; doesn't seem to be for me or http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ what error are you getting?

I just launched https://www.lawncheer.com, I'll be honest, I am modeling everything I do after homejoy. All of Adora's articles/interviews etc, have been super beneficial and insightful, along with bookmarked.

As someone that started their career installing, maintaining, selling, and writing software for PoS systems, this was immensely entertaining.

Stolen from another comment http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/8/5694720/lyft-goes-after-ube...

Looks like they are selling the cars to the drivers. It's like NYC's medallion program, but weirder.

I am from St. Louis where there is currently a restraining order due to conflicts with the local taxi union. My understanding was that Lyft had the argument of "we arent a real taxi service since the amount paid is optional, and its peer to peer", which is why they felt they could launch in markets that let taxi commissions monopolize a market. Doesn't this just turn that gray area into black and white?

What kind of collateral (I assume printed?); there are templates on graphicriver for this type of stuff ie:

http://graphicriver.net/item/lawn-care-trifold/5357957?WT.ac...

I am not a Steven King fan really, have only seen 1 or 2 of his movies, and never read anything by him; but I randomly picked up 11/22/63: A Novel, and read through it in 2 days, it was awesome.

Interesting; for the time being, my goal is actually the opposite. My goal (at least until data starts coming in more reliably), is to provide you the user w/ repeatable, affordable, and reliable lawn care. If I am doing my job right, the contractors from my customers perspective should be interchangeable; you build a trust relationship with lawncheer, my job is to shield you from any potential disasters. Plan is to do a flat percentage fee, for each mowing, and I will be setting the prices.

As a customer, do you want to take the time to dig through reviews, or would you rather the service "just work". I am in the finishing stages of developing lawncheer, which is a service for lawn and garden work; one of the areas I struggled with, was the trade-off on transparency and the contractor development cycle; ie, lawncheer, handles everything, and there is little interaction between the contractor/customer and we have a big stake in making sure the contractors perform perfectly, or the site just facilitates a transaction, where contractors go through a basic vetting process, but the reviews are what will count. One is obviously much more easily scaled (review functionality is easy to program, onboarding and training is hard).

DevOps, at least imo, is not about technology. It is about culture, and applying practices to speed up the various loops across organizational groups (marketing, sales, developers, ops). Of course there will always be trade-offs, if you don't have the budget to hire both an expert in the technologies that, say for example, speed up configuration management, and prevent snowflake servers AND someone to develop the code for the product, the person you do hire, will have to either pull double duty, or the org will have to plan for the fact that it is probably going to be doing "stuff" slower.

The "bizarre" thing, he was referring to is holding your hands out the window. Not everyone does that typically; and one of the most important things you can do is to keep your hands where the officer can see them as they approach. It's like a "social cue" that tells them you are clued in. They might be a little more willing to let you go.

A police officer friend once told me, to put your hands out the window when you get pulled over, and leave them there, until the office tells you to stop. Then you casually say sorry and mention that an cop-friend told you to do it, to put their (the cops) minds at ease while they walk up. Anecdotal evidence on my end, suggests it works.

Same here, this is a great idea. An ideal setup, would be an agent, that could find me 15-20 hours/wk consistently, at my current rate (125$/hr), so that I can split time between the company, and the contract. I'd give away 25$/hr of that hourly.

git git/ nounBRIT.informal 1. an unpleasant or contemptible person.

haha...i had no idea.

Hey, I am putting the finishing touches on lawncheer.com, will be launching in a couple weeks, hope to meet the mowing/landscaping need.

Dumb fact: CarMax was developed by the old Circuit City.

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I do not understand the negative reactions.

What about reframing the marketing/messaging changes the underlying tech involved?

How is creating a complimentary B2B site, going to make the G2G one any less valid?

I'm not understanding why there is a recurring theme in this thread that having awesome underlying tech is somehow mutually exclusive from running a great business as well.

It's not even an exact ripoff. The part of the original logo is generic enough that it's probably up for debate whether this is just happenstance.

I am not an expert; and could be way off base, but I would assume, that knowingly following a corporate policy that is against the law, would be illegal, even if you aren't the one who implemented it. I am also making the assumption from what I read that everyone knew what this policy really was, from the way the emails between the two companies framed things. Again, this could be off base as well.

A known "rule", that was illegal to follow in the first place.

np, are you into mustangs, what's your favorite?

DDOS firms (prolexic etc) are really expensive, I would imagine they do it on an as-needed basis. From my experience working at a datacenter, the first line of defense are the techs in the datacenter, for most attacks, they can blackhole offending IPs etc, and mitigate it. When it gets to the point of being something huge though, like the meetup.com attack, I would imagine they call in an outside firm.

1966 coupe, with the 200 sprint, because that was the car I bought when I was 16 (although I didn't get to drive it until I was 17, because I had to fix it up).

I wonder how their clients feel about them linking like that, to what are probably some of their biggest campaign contributors. It is funny/unique though.

NP! it's not really a big deal, I'm just a mustang nerd. Great article.

"During one 1961 performance on ABC’s Make That Spare, pro bowler Don Carter won $19,000 ($149,000 in 2014 dollars), and a brand new Ford Mustang."

Ford mustang wasn't introduced until 1964.

One of the first things that went through my head when I heard this update.