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dreadpirateryan

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dreadpirateryan··on How to get kids to pay attention
Treating your child with adult-like respect is one of the principles of RIE parenting. Worth reading more about, if you want to learn more about different parenting styles.
dreadpirateryan··on Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It
I'm so glad you asked this question. I rarely see people question assertions like this with regards to parenting or children's behavior.

Alfie Kohn's book, "The myth of the spoiled child", spends a lot of time pointing out that evidence behind claims like this are not only deficient of data, but are claims that seem to be made continuously throughout history of the latest generation of children.

dreadpirateryan··on Show HN: Composed – A tollbooth for your inbox
That may be the case. Pricing for this service is still something I'm figuring out.
dreadpirateryan··on Show HN: Composed – A tollbooth for your inbox
If you'd like to read a little more about why I built this, I wrote a small post on the subject: https://medium.com/@dreadpirateryan/time-money-and-email-b1b...
dreadpirateryan··on Show HN: AngelExcel - A place to organize your fundraising efforts
Very proud, indeed. Let me know if you have any thoughts / questions. I'd love this to be a useful tool for people trying to raise money.
dreadpirateryan··on Cue's hookshot: hacking the iOS runtime for fun and profiles
Thanks Kevin!
dreadpirateryan··on Cue's hookshot: hacking the iOS runtime for fun and profiles
I've run into that iOS push re-send bug a few times, but I've had trouble finding any information about the bug online. It seems to only happen to me for scheduled push notifications, but not immediate push notifications. Do you have any online resources that talk about this bug?
dreadpirateryan··on Show HN: Pickmoto - an iOS app to track your football predictions
Some friends and I have been working on this app for a few months. We wanted a way to track our football predictions throughout the entire season, and compete against each other on who makes better predictions. Let me know if you have any feedback: ryan@pickmoto.com. Thanks HN!
dreadpirateryan··on Ask HN: Summer reading
If you're interested in fitness and exercise, read "The First 20 Minutes" by Gretchen Reynolds (http://www.amazon.com/The-First-20-Minutes-Surprising/dp/159...). It's somewhat a review of the current state of scientific thought in exercise (tons of studies are cited throughout the book)
dreadpirateryan··on Goodbye, MongoDB
Agreed. I found the mapreduce criticisms to be a little off:

> Now instead of fixing a bad implementation or fixing the underlaying architectural issues, MongoDB is moving to Hadoop.

I don't think that's accurate. They have a new "aggregation framework" coming that is meant to replace mapreduce. It could be a wrapper around hadoop, but I couldn't find anything documented about that. I completely agree that a blocking mapreduce is annoying, however, does any framework have a non-blocking mapreduce? I haven't tried many mapreduce implementations out, so this is a genuine question.

dreadpirateryan··on Write logic, not mechanics
For any node.js devs out there, here is the promises library I've been using with great success: https://github.com/coolaj86/futures/tree/v2.0/future
dreadpirateryan··on Groupon Kidz Club
Don't miss out on the theme song: https://groupon.s3.amazonaws.com/sponsorship-imgs/chicago/Ki...
dreadpirateryan··on I don't want to work on just anything
At work, it's not always clear what matters. I'm talking about the big things, not the little day-to-day stuff. I can always find things to do.
dreadpirateryan··on Ask HN: Who's Hiring?
Xobni is hiring developers - send resumes to jobs@xobni.com!
dreadpirateryan··on Adam Smith (Xobni) in Technology Review's 35 under 35
congrats adam! maybe I'll just walk over to your desk and tell you that.
dreadpirateryan··on New York Times: Xobni launches public beta
who's cuter? well I think this is settled then.
dreadpirateryan··on Xobni Corporation Selected to Join Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program
Agreed. However, Outlook is released so infrequently (~3-4 years) that by the time they could replicate and release the same features that Xobni is offering now, we'll be way ahead of them.
dreadpirateryan··on Xobni: The super plugin for Outlook
The product is absolutely more stable and reliable now. I'd recommend giving it another go.