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* 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 scenarios.
It seems LavaBit had an interesting product, but this seems like a pretty critical design failure.
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I've been with MeYou Health for about 6 months and it's the best job I've ever had. We ship code every day of the week, multiple times per day. We're all users of the products we build so we're all really invested in making the products great. It's a fantastic team and a great environment.
Some highlights from our jobs page:
We have a practically unheard of work/life balance. We are very flexible and family friendly when it comes to work and vacation time. Those crazy hours you find at most start-ups? Practically nonexistent here.
We're friends. We know and like each other, quirks and all.
We care about workplace well-being. Health matters here.
We play games. We have an Xbox and know how to use it.
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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:
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 die puts things in perspective.)
My taste changed within just a couple of weeks. By the third or fourth week if I accidentally drank sweetened iced tea instead of unsweetened I would nearly spit it out due to the awful taste. I also cut out all artificial sweeteners, effectively eliminating any experience of sweetness from my diet. I think previously I had drunk so much Diet Coke and eaten so many sugary things that I had conditioned myself to need that sweet taste on a regular schedule. I think one thing that helped was that I started making tea using high-quality, whole-leaf teas from adagio.com. They have such interesting flavors, I find they don't need sugar.
I'm not sure I can speak to the work-related effects of not eating sugar since I was spending most of the time in the hospital with my friend. I can say that my overall mood became much more stable; there were no more mid-afternoon crashes and I genearlly found I had more energy. Being about 360 pounds at the time, this one dietary change was enough for me to lose 60 pounds over the next 12 months while still leading a mostly sedentary lifestyle.
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.
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:
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.
Not true. I quit my last job and was on COBRA.
Looks like I can't edit any more. All the books have been claimed at this point. I hope you all enjoy them!
> [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. That doesn't mean you should never use merge --squash. You just shouldn't use it to rewrite public history. Do you have a local branch in which you fixed some bugs and which branch has not been pushed out to the world and would you like to use merge --squash to merge it into master? Go for it! But if that branch _has_ been pushed out to the world, just use a regular merge.
The fundamental practice the author is arguing against is rewriting public history. But instead of making that point, he makes these sensationalist, dogmatic assertions that rebase, merge --squash and commit --amend are evil and should never be used. Until the end of the article, where he finally admits that really what he (correctly) has a problem with is rewriting public history.
OK, fine. Just title the article "You shouldn't rewrite public history".
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, Slicehost and EC2 then load balance among them. Of course, then the question is, what do you do when the load balancer goes down?
> 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 primary and the secondary that slows down hard X-rays to soft X-rays, because in the form of hard X-rays they would otherwise just go through the secondary without significantly interacting with it.
Could this component be a fogbank (http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/11/what-fogbanks-co...) just discussed on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1928233)?
> git pull origin master
I think in general, as well as this particular case, it would be better to do
git fetch origin
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.
Yeah, I tried it out after reading the above post. Way too buggy to rely upon for client work.
Because I hadn't heard of it 'til now :-).
Will _definitely try this out. Thanks!
Or use srm.
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 fire up Windows to test in IE or, god forbid, the BlackBerry simulator for email testing.
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 to type in comfortably. I found myself having to write the story in a text editor then pasting it in to PT. With that columnar layout, it just seemed like everything was cramped into spaces that were just way too small. Plus it doesn't track the history of a story. If it was assigned to Joe, then Larry, then Tom, there's no history of that chain of ownership.
> DINNER: Grilled salmon, roasted green beans, side salad
Aren't green beans legumes?
What's the purpose of matching "www.", "www1.", "www2." … "www999."? For purposes of this regex, wouldn't the domain matching that follows be sufficient?
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 local honey instead of Splenda in my tea.
2. After 2 or 3 weeks of no artificial sweeteners I stopped eating sugary foods. No more candy, doughnuts, cakes, or other sweet baked goods. I still allow myself honey in tea and whole fruit, but no fruit juices.
Four months later—and without further dietary changes or the addition of exercise—I've lost more than 30 pounds. I still eat bread, pasta, cheeseburgers, fried chicken, etc. But I eat less because I have less appetite, and I never have a craving for sweet things. A month after quitting sugar I took a bite of crème brûlée to see if my tastes had changed. This dessert, which I had always loved, now seemed so cloying I could barely swallow it. Interestingly, whole fruit now tastes so much better than it ever has, with just the right amount of natural sweetness.
More importantly, this relatively slow rate of weight loss feels sustainable. The dietary changes also feel permanent. I'm not on a weight-loss diet, I've made my diet more healthy.
My untested hypothesis is that I had been so used to the overwhelming sweetness of artificial sweeteners that my tastes were altered such that I always craved sweet. By eliminating the hyper-sweet stuff, my tastes changed enough that I could more easily take the further step of eliminating refined sugar. I imagine this has resulted in more stable blood sugar levels and a corresponding decrease in cravings and overall appetite.
I'd love to hear about others' experiences.
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.
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.
Nope, we were 7 miles apart.
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 they said there would not be. We'll see what happens if/when they send me a billing statement.
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 in a cave. This is with full 3G signal strength on both ends.
It's surprising because the 3GS and 2G always sound great. Never any hint of this hollow, echoey sound.
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?
Syncing with Simplenote (http://scrod.posterous.com/interesting-facts-about-simplenot...) to get the notes on iPhone/iPad is great, so is Syncing with Dropbox (http://wiki.github.com/scrod/nv/synchronizing-with-dropbox).
I believe Patrick was suggesting he negotiate with potential future employers for a fair salary, not with his current employer.