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Jeeeesus I wasn't ready for that. my wife was diagnosed 11 years ago. we had been trying for kids for 4 years prior and finally had to give up. the drugs they put you on for cancer for 5 years, well, you cannot have kids. and she was already getting up there in age. she finally came off of them in 2020. then a year later, we found out she was pregnant. and because she was pregnant with a girl, my wife got a genetic test and found out she has the BRCA-1 mutation which explained her breast cancer diagnosis from 2014... and also put her on high alert for ovarian cancer. after the preventative surgery, it turns out she had precancerous cells in her fallopian tubes. this little girl of ours had saved her life. just by being born. she's now three. and my wife is healthy, and happier than ever. I'm a lucky, lucky guy.

good on you, Randall. Congratulations.

Battling the cloud that quells my passions.

I've been using Aegis for a number of years, and have found nothing I don't like about it. It's a perfectly functional app, and I'm looking forward to trying out the new update!

Funny you mention this. I've decided just today to begin a full week of no Twitter or YouTube. To keep myself on top of my addictions, rather than fully succumbed to them. Props to you for deleting your account and going all in.

And that's the thing... This page should always be about sharing and encouraging people who build things they're excited about, regardless of whether it meets some technical high bar.

Kudos to you, and I hope you keep that excitement going!

$100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau. Really good at stripping away many of the reasons I had been holding onto to not start something on my own.

The book is agnostic about how you raise capital. It gives you the pros and cons of bootstrapping or raising money, and leaves it to you to decide what's best.

Thanks for taking the time to answer! Much appreciated.

Is there a comprehensive comparison between Hoppscotch and Postman?

"Librarians hate him!"

If that's unusual for you, it actually helps prove his point...

My biggest beef is with the idea of trying to control something that doesn't need to be controlled for it to work, just because it'll increase profit margins. The web does not need to be regulated or controlled by ISPs for it to work. We've known this for decades. It's unfortunate that it's necessary to have a law in place in the form of net neutrality to keep ISPs from finding and using this as an avenue of revenue generation, but capitalism isn't perfect.

Hey, I don't know you and you don't know me, but I'm here if you'd like to chat. Hit me up.

Yeah, I had to try to find it myself as well. I believe this is the one:

http://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2017/09/18/gutjnl-2017-3146...

Wow, that's a terrible thing to have to go through. I'm so glad for you and your wife that things were figured out in time.

To be fair, we don't know that the malware doesn't have a whitelist of devices approved to attack.

> "FBI sources say with 99% accuracy that Hillary Clinton's server has been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, and that information had been taken from it."

Wow, that seems far more than originally reported, and certainly more damaging. Which foreign entities have confidential information now? How will they use that information?

As historically cooler climates warm up, opportunities shift. A huge amount of industries where geography plays a crucial role will be affected. Vineyards, for instance, will be entirely changed.

The trick is to find an industry currently tied to a specific climate, and predicting where the change in climate will take the market.

I haven't thought about it a ton myself yet, but that's the line of thinking I've been on...

Yeah, I once got an email from them. Because I use email aliases (<email+website@provider.com>) I knew exactly where they farmed it from, because they sent it with the + intact.

Definitely didn't provide consent to communication.

That's a great negative viewpoint. Thanks for sharing it.

I think you missed the larger point - that we can be doing a better job as evangelists of the industry, and broadening it's reach.

I love the focus on a particular topic or theme. "Reduce code fat!" for example. I've been to far too many general hackathons where the scope was so broad that the productivity of the hackathon itself was minimal, or even zero.

This is where I really like Google Play Music. I can download the album/songs I want to listen to while I'm on WiFi at home, then when I'm on-the-go it just plays the local version rather than streaming.

I've got a lot of respect for Chamath and his straight forward no bullshit approach. With that said, this seems like a huge challenge, and I couldn't be more excited that he's taking the lead on this.

Best of luck, Chamath.

At least on mobile, it was a delight to use. No scroll hijacking, and a different but nice way of displaying portraits of the people in the article.

Within the past year I began experiencing tinnitus in my right ear, differing between two distinct but nearby high pitch frequencies. Only noticeable in silence, such as going to sleep at night. I've learned to notice it and subsequently ignore, but I know I'm lucky it's not worse. It's only a minor annoyance for me, for others it's much more than that.

I definitely recommend installing El Capitan first, followed by Homebrew. That will lead to less possibility of the upgrade screwing with your Homebrew installation.

Thus began the Day of Unproductive Hackers, as the number of cat photos on the internet grew by a significant 1%.

I tried Modafinil a while back, maybe a few years ago. It kept me awake, but that was it. No improved concentration, no boost in energy. YMMV

In addition, on an example 64-bit installation, 6.6GB are freed by the new compression algorithm and the removal of the recovery image.

As illustrated here: http://az648995.vo.msecnd.net/win/2015/03/1a.png

That's it, I've had it. I'm going to set my router to take all traffic from the MAC address of my TV and route it to 127.0.0.1. I'll disable the redirect when I want to check for firmware updates, but that's it.

A resume is only used for the screening process. Once I've decided this person might have what it takes, I invite them in for an interview, and the resume isn't looked at again.

The interview process equally checks technical viability and culture fit, and the interviewee will not be hired if they don't pass both with flying colors.

To answer your questions: The characteristics I look for depend on the culture I'm building within the team. The core concepts are more or less "Do you know how to solve this problem?" not necessarily "Here, solve this problem in this interview, without any of the resources you would normally have." A portfolio isn't required, but gives us another window into your technical ability. A GitHub profile chalk full of open source contributions, or a StackOverflow profile with high reputation showing very high communication skills are always a plus.

I don't have any experience hiring iOS developers or Ruby developers, so I'll abstain from answering that question.

Hope this helps!