Actually, pit bulls are less or equally likely to attack than most other common dogs, including the golden retriever. Advocates against them roll over this fact by saying that the more powerful jaws make it worse when it does happen. Note, I have two pretty awesome "pit bulls" - an American Staffordshire Terrier and an American Pitbull Terrier.
Yes, but penalties do so there is a big incentive to maximize income from penalties. I was hit by this recently, by not filing a no-income return, and not certified mailing another return that was lost, but I wasn't alerted until 2 years later when they levied $4k in late fees. It used to be easy to get out of these penalties, but there are several accounts from uppers at the IRS that they have been sitting in meetings discussing cracking down on fee collection, no longer waiving fees etc.
The reason this is important, to me as a business owner who is looking to hire our first few developers, is I have to learn how to deal with these situations. You may call it drama, but I consider it a lesson in how I should behave when forced to deal with these sorts of difficult decisions.
Is there a right or wrong answer? Probably not. To borrow the title of an absurdly sexual book referenced a thousand times in this argument, it's fifty shades of gray.
I'd like to at least see what the community thinks on these topics, so I can make better informed decisions later on. Not to mention understanding even how to communicate those decisions to the public.
Wow, axe to grind or what? You have three comments on here all belittling something that many people find perfectly acceptable and successful in production. Of all the non-SQL choices, Mongo isn't a terrible one. We've got (along with many other companies) 300gb in Mongo and it's been loads more enjoyable to use in a replica set than MySQL has been in a master/slave architecture, and every bit as reliable. More so if you count the simple live failover that just works.
It's a data model that works very very well for some datasets. We use MySQL for stuff that is obviously relational, but we store a bunch of geo data as JSON for fast serving to javascript etc. It's a perfect fit.
But seriously, if you don't have a backup of any of your data stores, that's a big problem.
Yup! I watched a 50 year old fit guy drop dead in the first 10 miles of a 100 mile ride. He was gone before he even hit the ground. It's pretty common in hard endurance sports to hear about heart failure, though I think the benefits outweigh the risks in the long term. This is assuming you are training a normal/sane amount, getting plenty of rest, listening to your body etc etc. Work hard play hard doesn't last forever.
They are bad regardless. They are just less bad if you train more than 5 weeks :) I hit 3:55 taking it easy and never hit the wall, though my legs felt like wooden poles. The 5 week training plan wasn't optimal, but I went into it as a bike rider who rode 100-150 miles a week and didn't bat an eye at a 100 mile ride. So, cardio was there, leg muscles were partway there etc. Just didn't quite have enough muscle built up to support the knees.
I disagree. I used to run cross country competitively, and had been running off and on until I discovered cycling. It is universally accepted in the running community to be injured at any given point. It's almost like a badge of honor. Yes, 5 weeks is dumb and contributes to it and I should have swapped around my statements, but I stand by the fact that your chance of injury, regardless of how well trained you are, is high.
Whatever you do just realize that marathons are, for most people, bad for your body. I ran my first (and last!) marathon last year and ended up not being able to go on light runs for over 6 months. This isn't an uncommon story.
There are a bunch of training plans you can find online and they all share one thing in common: start out easy and work your distance up, then back off a month before the run. Make it to 16 or even 18 miles as your longest training run, give yourself at least a couple weeks to recover from it before running an actual marathon.
Identify your pace! There's a ton of rules of thumb out there based on half marathon times. I looked at my finishing time in a half marathon 2 weeks before the full, then used that to determine the percentile I was in and how it corresponded to the full marathon results. Saw that it wasn't crazy to do a sub 4 hour, so I set my pace accordingly. I used both a running watch, and in general kept with the pace flagger.
Final word of wisdom: don't do what I do and train in only 5 weeks! It's way harder on your body that way, even if you are in good cradio shape (I bike alot). Your muscles need to build up to stabilize your knees.
This already exists. You can even rent time in them as a civilian, and they are pretty interesting. Not only do you get to work on mechanics, but they put you in situations (there's a live operator determining outcome) where you have to think "should I fire or not", rather than just working on the movements.
I think it might be something more about the fact that New York's interpretation of the 2nd amendment differs so greatly from mine that I am fearful for what they might do in regards to other constitutional amendments.
As a side note, I cannot move to most cities in Colorado because I happen to have two dogs who are banned by their breed. The point is, there is way more to the conversation than just taxes alone.
I read this as I was preparing to head to my brothers memorial service in a couple of hours. He committed suicide last week.
I just wanted to say that I understand why some people do it. My brother suffered from schizophrenia - he was an incredibly nice and giving person who kept on hurting people due to his disease. I understand why he took his own life and I don't fault him for it. Of course I am incredibly sad about it and wish I could have done so much more, but 20 years of intense suffering wears on a person.
We don't know the exact details behind Aaron's decision. A significant percent of the people who knew Stephen, even those who knew him well, didn't know about his diagnosis either. It's impossible to draw any more conclusion than "he was suffering and couldn't bear the burden anymore". My condolences to his family, I truly know what they are going through and it's absolutely shit.
One thing I have started doing when I go on any outdoor treks, even just a day of snowboarding, is carrying a portable amateur radio. I program in the local repeaters if there are some (not always an option depending on area) which greatly extends range if necessary. Not as good as a PLB in some ways, but superior in others. For example, I can call for help without bringing in the whole cavalry.
I spent three years studying whatever at community college, fulltime, while figuring out what I wanted to do. That's one of the best things about community college - you don't pay through the nose, you can learn for 'cheap' while you figure out what you really want to do. Then you can choose a university and go from there.
For what it's worth, I use intuit's payroll (formerly paycycle) and while it's functional, it is neither innovative or progressing. It's very much stagnant, with a UI straight from 2000. I've been with them for two years and nothing has been changed.
I can't speak for the others, but there's very much a "it works, lets not mess with it" vibe from Intuit's offering.
I saw three people on my own facebook feed complaining of their photos being flagged as inappropriate. My take is that this is a new feature or a regression.
But it doesn't take any time. I just plug in my Kindle into Calibre (OK yes, there was time to install Calibre and maybe 10 minutes of reading about what it can do etc), and it does the rest. It's incredibly simple.
Just like maintaining a backup of your computer takes a little time up front, but hardly any marginal time, the same can be said of your Kindle.
All the naysayers out there are neglecting an important viewpoint best explained by a personal anecdote. I have a 4 year old niece that is so into princesses, pink, high heals, the whole 9 yards, that any present that isn't themed pink and girly will just get ignored, yet she's very smart and likes playing with puzzles. Something like this might actually work for her, where gender neutral legos or erector sets would never get played with.
Have you set it up? I have...and I am giving you the amount of time it took to do a world import on data from January. This was on a quad core xeon 5345 with 32gb of ram and a dedicated SSD for swap, with database living on a RAID10 of 8 7200 rpm drives. In other words, the box is decent.
I am not trying to fear monger, I am just trying to say "hey, BTW unless you have a big hardware budget, you might want to just pay a third party".
Note: I have setup a nominatim server. Unless you have 128gb of ram and some SSD's or 15k SAS drives, be prepared to wait over 1 month. The indexes are intense and they take, literally, over a month to create if you end up swapping. To avoid swapping you need at least 128gb of ram....
Hey David, looks good. Have you checked out our site, http://ridewithgps.com ? We've been around for a few years, are bootstrapped and profitable. Interesting to see opinions that there is still plenty of room for disruption in the market. It's always nice to get a new competitor, keeps everyone on their toes ;)
Big thanks for including our site! When I have some time over the weekend I'll be reading all the other interviews, but from the two others I've read so far, this book should be very informative for people getting into bootstrapping a business. Nice work!
My dad is an elevator mechanic and just recently switched from Schindler to Thyssen Krupp. It's always boring to go see him at work now - all the new buildings as well as the modernized old buildings are almost exclusively switched over to digital systems. The old systems are incredibly interesting - huge cabinets full of relays! The smell of ozone and the sound of thousands of relays clicking in consortium is really enjoyable to see. Imagine the relay computer videos that come across here on occasion, but put in ten large cabinets of the relays and you get an idea of the sound.
Of course, touch the relay without a relay pick and you'll get a 120v shock :)
The stuff put together in the 80's is a combo of relay logic and old school processors, where you get to load the program in using paper tape!
Hurricane Electric offers cheap bandwidth. I hear nasty things about their cut-rate data centers in california, but they peer up here in Portland at the local carrier hotel. I rent a rack from the facility itself, then just get a $200/mo 100mbit line from HE directly. This way, I have redundant power, real racks etc, but cheap bandwidth. I'd balk at the non multi-homed line, but they do have two redundant fiber feeds in the building....