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I've waxed and waned about using f.lux (actually http://jonls.dk/redshift/ because f.lux+linux=painful.) I think my biggest problem with it is my office's fluorescent lighting isn't within my control to turn-off/change, so the stark contrast between a screen-gone-red and the screaming white light causes my screen to feel silly.

If I had the luxury of working exclusively in a officespace without fluorescent lighting, I think I could be 100% on f.lux

Several points: * A definitive decision with clearly defined dates. * Acknowledgement towards successors * The HUGE effort and endeavor to snapshot and maintain the archives for posterity.

This should serve as the gold standard for how to implement a decision like this.

The similarities between Fab & Jobster shouldn't be overlooked. And a lot of the lessons from 2007 (http://mashable.com/2007/12/13/jobster-ceo-steps-down/) seem to be forecasted in 2013 (http://www.inc.com/magazine/201303/how-i-got-started/jason-g... / http://thisweekinstartups.com/jason-goldberg-of-fab-twist-31...) and now history has repeat itself again.

Best of luck, Jason, at your next thing!

Why is the remote work limited to people in PST? If a potential candidate is in Iowa, couldn't the requirement just be "Are you ok working 10am-7pm your time?"

As a follow-up, the General Manager of Amazon WorkSpaces reached out to me and asked for my feedback. This is one place where the Ikea-analogy holds true. Just like Home Depot, Amazon has workers that engage with their customers and know how to build; like Ikea, getting a Google employee's attention typically requires a plane ticket and a healthy dose of good luck...

AWS, I still <3 you.

Launched back in 2011: http://mashable.com/2011/02/10/google-wedding/

After trying for 3 weeks to make AWS WorkSpaces work for my company, I can still confidently say that Amazon doesn't get it. Their solutions are more "Go to Home Depot and get the parts to make a desk", whereas Google Apps is "go to Ikea". The two solutions are neighbors, but not everyone is ready to buy the individual boards and cut them down to size.

> We chose to make use of our spare and decommissioned hardware. That included a pair of Juniper EX4200 switches and three HP SL170zG6 (48GB ram, 2Xeon L5640, 21Gbps NIC)

In other words, Mozilla has enough money that a 48GB ram machine is otherwise a paperweight...

The changelog at https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/Changelog gives some nice examples of breaking changes for anyone moving from v2.x

As a side note, if you click that link and see Flickr's homepage, just close the tab and click it again. I think Flickr has launched a new feature...

Auto-updating is possible even without using addons.mozilla.org, sites like Pinterest do it all the time for their plugin.

Mozilla rolls that option into their CFX builder - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tools/cfx#cf... - the update file just needs a consistent place to live. I use CloudFront for it.

Personally, I hope that this doesn't get added to addons.mozilla.org. Their arbitrary human-control editor policy would be the best thing to cause stagnation of innovative plugins such as this. If the author goes the self-hosted route, automatic updates are still achievable (and can even occur faster.)

+1 for not having this in AMO!

Lots of good questions here:

* The "sign-in before you'll let people follow" is just a straight forward result of A/B testing. It was like a 9-to-1 difference for single site returns. And despite the developer in me saying "gross", it was just a stat from our metrics guy that we couldn't refute.

* We're in Minnesota and Amazon's been playing games with our affiliate revenue to encourage some legislative changes... But even if the affiliate revenue was working perfect, it wouldn't be enough to keep the lights on. TrackIf is really just a platform to demonstrate our business solution (like how Home Depot does back-in-stock notifications)

* What's a UK based site you want tracked? I could wire it up for you.

* Amazon does all sorts of price games, geography/time-on-site /Prime-status/etc.

You're right, a Show HN is probably overdue. I'll post one in the next couple days. Thanks for the idea!

Previous fruitful HN conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580465

You're welcome to email me at eric@trackif.com and I'd love to chat about it, but I'm not going to hijack this thread with my marketing schpeels ;-)

You need to comment more on HN. Everytime I see your username I think "Why doesn't he have more karma - he typically responds with gems."

When I started working on https://trackif.com, I thought the premise was thin because prices couldn't fluctuate that much. I assumed everything gradually declined in price, and that it'd primarily be driven by store-A vs store-B price dropping.

Nope. Retailers are just gaming us 24/7. I've become very aware of all the different timeframes retailers offer post-purchase price-matches (published at http://blog.trackif.com/trackif-smart-shopping-guide-store-p... since I felt like I was hoarding knowledge.)

Have retailers always played games like this? Or it just a side-effect of sales moving online?

Does it make me too cynical that my initial reaction to anything on petitions.whitehouse.gov is "Who cares?"

Can someone point me to a petition that actually made a difference?

But its screen is <13". Not really an apt comparison. I'd think the T450s would be a more suitable alternative.

> So, how to do we revive Persona? I mean, it's still around, but it's been kind of back-burnered by Mozilla.

Come up with a way to market it that makes sense to your mother in under 10 seconds. The "why the heck is this better than the Facebook button" is something Mozilla marketing couldn't crack, and until that gets solved you can't get the "who the heck is Bruce Schneier" crowd to switch.

node.js doesn't have v1.0 release yet, but I still use it...

I think we're reaching a more acceptable point in technologies where our proper test coverage ensures that using an unblessed release in production is acceptable.

Better conversation from 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3237478 (which, oddly enough, is about the last time this project was updated)

I really, really, really want to move to using a tiling window manager. Watching YouTube videos of people using them well, you can't help but think "Damn, they're really crazy efficient". But I can't find one that has good enough documentation that I can learn it on my own (and since nobody else at my office uses it, somebody has got to be first.)

I'd love to get into http://i3wm.org/ but can't find anything to push me over the ledge, so I keep resigning myself to checking out projects like the one in OP and thinking "Wouldn't that be nice..."

Probably 10% of our queries are direct key lookups, the rest easy-to-read yet still non-trivial.

Absolutely. We've been using Mongo for all the core functionality at TrackIf.com and are still very happy with it. (Our biggest complaint was our initial MongoDB host provider was hosing our performance, once we switched to a non-shared Mongo environment it was a night-and-day difference.)

It is amazing how many in this community are able to just dismiss this "Oh yeh, boot2docker performance is still awful." If Docker was a product by Google or Microsoft, we'd have pitch forks out by this point. Yet somehow Docker is still able to skate by on having incredibly subpar Mac OS X performance.

"How Docker Got The Apple Community To Love It, Despite Horrible Performance" <- will someone please write that post, since that's what I really want to know.

http://gtk.php.net/ - it was a noble effort but I think they all hit the same realization we expect and everyone walked away 4 years ago.

My biggest takeaway from this article is that Netflix is moving from Express to Restify, and I look forward to watching the massive uptick this has on https://github.com/mcavage/node-restify/graphs/contributors