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jherrick

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@bleedpurpleguy | die-hard #vikings fan | supporter of #ncbeer and #homebrewing | native of #minnesota | living in #raleigh | veteran #sysadmin
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jherrick··on One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN report
So, catch and release is included in this number. That makes the number very believable to me.
jherrick··on Why do you use Firefox?
Need something other than Chrome and IE that has decent plugin support.
jherrick··on Apache Drill announces v1.0
Better communication related to software releases is "a good thing".
jherrick··on Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]
Agreed. If they are re-investing money to grow the product, that might be why they aren't currently profitable. That doesn't indicate a lack of success in my book.
jherrick··on How to use a Reddit-clone to boost company culture
Interested in hearing more about this. Taking care of this would help with the adoption (and priority) of this project. If you have any tips, please feel free to drop a line at jherrick at gmail. Thanks!
jherrick··on Amazon was Down
They also constant kill machines (and replace them with fresh instances of the image) that participate in key load-balanced activities.
jherrick··on Foursquare raises $41 million Series D round
I love my http://untappd.com and the integration with FourSquare makes me think there's a lot of potential using their API (or location data in general) to add location-awareness to an "social" application. I'm sure it's difficult to monetize that, but it's a ton of value.
jherrick··on Show HN: I made a site that calculates the market price of items on ebay
Good list. I would also suggested eliminating outlying items based on prices. It seems like when there are dozens of items named XXX, there will be several with "hard drive for XXX" or something.

I must believe there's any easy way to eliminate some "outliers" using mathematics, but I can't recall the function(s) to do so.