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needcaffeine··on Show HN: Automated payroll service for Indian startups
Why? It's gorgeous.
needcaffeine··on I go back to my old macbook air from my new macbook pro – because it was better
Now can I get it with the fancy gpu? :(
needcaffeine··on Webpack 4 Beta released
In your experience, is CRA just for people starting out with a new project or can large apps implement and use it without ejecting and diverging?
needcaffeine··on How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves (2009)
I didn’t know what I was getting into with that click, but now I’ve added bagels to our grocery list so I can do this.
needcaffeine··on How I Find Consulting Clients
You know...I’ve never thought of shipping fast as being applicable to blogging. In some ways my blog posts fall victim to the “waterfall” development model and never end up shipping. Thank you for helping me think of that in this way.
needcaffeine··on Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now Standard
Oh I did.
needcaffeine··on Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now Standard
It's really frightening knowing that this was probably well known to other players for months.

High Sierra went gold on September 25. Beta 1 came out in June, I think.

needcaffeine··on The backstory of Alexa’s Indian makeover
Does Pakistan have a similar number of dialect shifts within the nation? It's at least a far fewer number of languages right?
needcaffeine··on Updated to High Sierra, all Admin accounts now Standard
Wellll, it sure is a good thing that users can just login as root now in order to fix this!
needcaffeine··on AWS Amplify – A declarative library for application development
I feel that worrying about that is itself premature optimization. Most startups never get to a point where vendor lock-in is an issue.
needcaffeine··on Ask HN: Does your Alexa or Google Home make you more productive?
We use our Echo in the following ways:

- “set a timer for X minutes”

- “play the latest planet money podcast”

- “play the album Moana”

- “pause the firetv”

- “what’s the weather tonight?”

- “what’s the news?”

It saves us a ton of time but also is a huge entertainer for our kids.

needcaffeine··on I poured my blood, sweat and life savings into my restaurant. It ruined my life.
Is this really that a factor with 24/7 surveillance and legal repercussions for theft? I mean...you're making it sound like it is, and I believe you but it's just so hard to people employees are that stupid.
needcaffeine··on I poured my blood, sweat and life savings into my restaurant. It ruined my life.
Can you elaborate on why?
needcaffeine··on Cloudflare generating Pseudo-random numbers from 100 lava lamps
Another idea: traffic.
needcaffeine··on Cloudflare generating Pseudo-random numbers from 100 lava lamps
Tenish years ago I wrote a pseudorandom number generator from webcam stills. Since I wrote the code in the middle of a midwestern winter, my first solution was a shot of the outside; falling snow. When the snow started to slow down, I moved to using a lava lamp. So to answer your question...falling snow works really well juxtaposed against clouds.
needcaffeine··on Do you need a VPN?
I’m curious about your DIY solution and what that involves.
needcaffeine··on Do you need a VPN?
This is good advice. I had to deal with crap like this just from running a high traffic message board. Not OP, but I want to do this as a side project just for myself though.
needcaffeine··on Do you need a VPN?
I’m interested in the technology behind the service; any details you can provide?
needcaffeine··on Ask HN: Why do checkout pages still explain CVV numbers?
We used to have lots of failed transactions until we explained to users that the CVV on an Amex is the 4-digit number on the front.
needcaffeine··on Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
Because a calendar reminder was already not helping himmer send out the greeting.

Source: doesn’t work for me.

needcaffeine··on Surviving the New MacBook Pro
The charging light also tells me whether or not my laptop is done charging by means of an orange or green light.
needcaffeine··on Is Slack down?
https://status.slack.com/2017-03/c0923f37c54988ec
needcaffeine··on Amazon S3 and Glacier Price Reductions
It may be for backing up infrequently accessed data (compliance logs, etc) for example.

Hypothetical: you create a logging service for users to send all their log data to you. You promise 365 days of archives, but 30 days of data accessible at any time. You create a lifecycle rule on your S3 bucket to automatically archive data to Glacier 30 days after creation. On the 31st day, your user decides they want to look at an old log. They click the big Download button. You display a message saying they'll get an email from you when that data is ready to download.

needcaffeine··on Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS
As of September 2016, you can buy a convertible reservation that allows you to move a reserved instance to a different AZ within a region. Your greater point still stands but I just wanted to correct one piece of it.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-reserved-instance-updat...

needcaffeine··on Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web apps as of October 2016?
> Use something productive and ship it. This! Can't agree with it more.

Your clients don't care if your backend is written in PHP, Rails, or Go. Use whatever is your best tool in order to ship it quickly. It's "acceptable" to have a reasonable amount of fun, but don't waste time learning a whole new stack at the risk of validated learning.

Unless it's supposed to be a fun project to begin with.

needcaffeine··on 69% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings Accounts
Taken literally, I fall in this 69%, because my emergency funds are in my checking account. I'd guess that most people keep their money spread across different kinds of accounts, assets, and investments.

If we don't take this literally, then perhaps the concern is that most people have no savings anywhere, and live paycheck to paycheck.

needcaffeine··on What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt
Country, or county?
needcaffeine··on What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt
I'd love to know where. Not trying to be snarky.
needcaffeine··on Ask HN: How long did you work on a side project until it was your full time job?
Thanks for this. It really didn't occur to me (as an American) that starting a startup somewhere else could be more difficult, but thinking about it more and trying to think of each of the steps required to even launch an MVP, I realize that these things have been made easy for Americans because of those startups who came before us.
needcaffeine··on Ask HN: How long did you work on a side project until it was your full time job?
Thank you for this. That makes sense.
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