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laceruson We need to reclaim our attention

This 100x! I am in the same boat, ours are 4 and 2. I recently installed rings and a super sturdy pull up bar next to the kids room and hope to do some basic calisthenics there with the kids before putting them to bed. Wish me luck. So far they really like it and I get at least a mini-workout out of it. Nothing like an hour at a real gym, but better than nothing.

laceruson Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t

Using Rails with offline documentation for the gems I use and the rails guides in Dash.app, I can, yes. As long as I don‘t run into any brand new problems after a version upgrade.

As soon as I use JavaScript/TypeScript and Vue, no way.

laceruson Infamous "Hacker" Ankit Fadia revealed

I have done exactly that. Thanks for telling me :-)

laceruson Twitter Hacked – 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compromised

Thanks! I'm 793689, joined 25 February 2007, and got the e-mail.

laceruson Jekyll CMS on Amazon S3 and MaxCDN

After using Jekyll for two years with lots of hacks to have HAML and others, I switched to middleman, which has everything I need out of the box: https://github.com/middleman/middleman

laceruson US free to grab EU data on American clouds

Can you provide examples or links?

laceruson Metasploit Rails 3 Remote Code Execution Hours Away

Downside: You can never change your SuperGenPass password, even if a site requires you to.

laceruson Password Hijacking Security Incident and Response

to_hex does not seem to be in the standard library, but these will work and are rather elegant to get a short random string. Thanks, Patrick!

  rand(16**16).to_s(16)
  rand(16**16).to_s(36)

laceruson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2013)

SEEKING WORK as a German freelancer in Hamburg, Germany or remotely in a nearby timezone.

  - Ruby on Rails
  - JavaScript
  - HTML
  - CSS
  - Some Photoshop skills
  - Scrum Master

German is my native tongue, but my command of the english language is very good (8 out of 9 in the IELTS test).

Please have a look at some more info and my e-mail address at http://www.lorenzkitzmann.de/

laceruson Hacks that improved my life

How does that work?

laceruson Ask HN: What Software Did You Pay For In 2012

    - Crashplan.com backup
    - billomat.com invoicing
    - letsfreckle.com timetracking
    - mite.yo.lk timetracking
    - github
    - "Thomas Was Alone" game on steam
    - tons of iPhone apps

laceruson Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List

From Wikipedia for other curious non-native speakers:

Voir dire /ˈvwɑr ˌdiər/ is a legal phrase that refers to a variety of procedures connected with jury trials. It originally referred to an oath taken by jurors to tell the truth (Latin verum dicere), i.e., to say what is true, what is objectively accurate or subjectively honest, or both.

laceruson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2012)

SEEKING WORK in Hamburg, Germany or remote.

I develop web applications using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

http://lorenzkitzmann.de

laceruson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2012)

SEEKING WORK in Hamburg, Germany or remotely.

Full stack web dev with and a bit a sysadmin with focus on Ruby on Rails and Linux. Also a knack for SEO and agile team organization. I try to be able to know a little about every technical area a typical web start-up needs to cover (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, high availability, scalability, getting things done quickly, organizing remote teams, Scrum, ...), and go deep in server side development.

http://lorenzkitzmann.de

laceruson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2012)

SEEKING WORK in Hamburg, Germany or remotely.

I am also always interested in working for funded startups because I love the atmosphere. CTO/co-founding not out of the question but we would need to work together on a consulting basis for a few months first.

My website is in German, but my english is 8 out of 9 (IELTS) and I've lived in North America for a few years.

http://lorenzkitzmann.de

laceruson Onlive CEO fires staff, then donates $50,000 to health insurance fund

DAE = Does Anybody Else. I had to look it up, too. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dae

laceruson Show HN: SideProjects.com - 37 Bootstrapped Profitable Projects

Please mention the price somewhere. Having to click the "Get the book" button, then waiting 5 seconds, then having Paypal finally tell me the price is a turn off for me.

laceruson A Starter Theme for WordPress by Automattic

normalize.css[1] has become more popular than resetting everything for several reasons[2],

[1] http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6887336/what-is-the-diffe...

laceruson John Resig: Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science at Khan Academy

NIH = Not Invented Here, in case somebody else is wondering also.

laceruson Samwers Clone Stripe

Direct debit and instant wire transfer are very big in Germany. Many places, especially supermarkets, do not even accept any credit cards but only debit cards. Our checking accounts have evolved very differently to the US - nobody has been using cheques here for years, even before the internet is was all debit and wires.

laceruson Wind Map

Yes, absolutely, for many sports that rely on wind, such as wind- or kite-surfing.

laceruson The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 3)

Hi Rob! Would you mind sharing the marketing plan (with secret-sauce details removed perhaps)?

laceruson Puma: A Ruby Web Server Built For Concurrency

http://hipsteripsum.me/?paras=4&type=hipster-latin

laceruson Ex Google PM criticizes new Reader layout

What is the easiest way to load these changes? Do you add them to your custom.css or use an add-on?

laceruson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2011)

SEEKING WORK - Berlin, Germany or remote.

Hi! I'm Lorenz. I develop web applications using Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

I am also a certified Scrum Master and I can cover for your linux system administrator in a pinch.

Check out my website at http://lorenzkitzmann.de

laceruson How I Raised $350k as a Solo Founder using these 4 Email Templates

Oh, you're good.

laceruson How I Raised $350k as a Solo Founder using these 4 Email Templates

He calls 10 minutes after they have read the email as per SpyPig. That we he does indeed have perfect timing.

laceruson Ideas For Beginning Web Developers

In Ruby there is Sinatra: http://sinatrarb.com

laceruson What every programmer should know about time

How can I make Ruby on Rails use unix timestamps instead of MySQL DATETIMEs?

laceruson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (July 2011)

SEEKING WORK

Hi! I'm Lorenz. I work as a freelance software developer in Berlin, Germany. I develop web applications using Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

I am also a certified Scrum Master with two years of project management experience at bild.de and can cover for your linux system administrator in a pinch.

If you have a project, I'd love to talk to you! Also check out my website at http://lorenzkitzmann.de/work.html