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charfordon Ask HN: Who here has built a profitable startup while keeping their day job?

Depends where you live, this is illegal in California.

charfordon Ask HN: If you did switch career, what did you do?

A similar thread was already posted today, you might find it interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13337305

charfordon Ask HN: How do I gauge the value of stock options that I have been offered?

An RSU is not the same as a stock option.

charfordon Ask HN: How would I make a shorter power adapter extension cable?

Technically you could cut it to length, and reconnect wires by soldering them together. Then cover up the patch with white shrink wrap tubing. It probably wouldn't look "that" bad.

Heat shrink tubing: https://www.amazon.com/3M-Shrink-Tubing-Length-Width/dp/B000...

Just stick that on the wire before you soldier, then move it over the area you soldiered, and use a heat gun to shrink into place.

Good luck.

charfordon React Server

Getting random 504 timeout errors on this site. Is this hosted using react-server?

charfordon Sikuli: Automate Anything You See on Screen

You might be interested in http://www.sikulix.com/, which was forked from this project and is more up to date.

charfordon Docker meets the IDE

This article is not saying to run your editor inside of a docker container. If you view the link, it is a list of plugins to enable syntax highlighting for Dockerfiles within your favorite editor. I'm going to assume you didn't even click the link before responding to this post.

charfordon Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

Just finished reading Tribal Leadership. Opened my eyes to things I had not realized before about life in general and working with teams. I would highly recommend it if you have not read it yet.

Next up, The Lean Startup.

charfordon Ask HN: How to implement realtime tracking in a webapp

Can't you use google analytics for this?

charfordon Why we built a fertility “Fitbit”: The purpose behind it all

This site is very difficult to read on a mobile phone. The header sticks to the top of screen and never goes away, even after scrolling. It takes up at least half my screen.

charfordon Ask HN: Coworker is logging plaintext passwords

In my opinion, passwords should never be stored in a log file. I can't think of any exceptions to this.

charfordon Killing your startup with software development

Tom Ford != Henry Ford.

There's a quote in the article from 'Tom Ford', but it's actually from Henry Ford.

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Henry_Ford#.22If_I.E2.80.9...

charfordon Ask HN: Google Map vs. Waze

I use to be in the same boat as you. Even though Google technically owns Waze, and some 'waze' reports show up on Google Maps, Waze is still superior. The main things I like about Waze that GMaps does not have:

* Voice notifications when objects are in road ahead

* Voice notifications when red light camera has been reported ahead

* Voice notifications when police have been reported ahead

Those are the 3 main things I like, though there are other features that Waze have and GMaps does not. The 3 things only work if people have actually reported them, so you'd need to be in an area where waze is used heavily (i'm in SF and it works great).

charfordon Get a JRuby + Rails + PostgreSQL Project Running in Minutes with Docker and Fig

Docker is similar to a VM, only without all the excess overhead. That very same docker container, could be deployed to production, assuring that your production and dev environments are identical(same web server, same db version, etc). A docker container can be spun up in a matter of seconds on a linux machine. If you're using OS X, it will require a VM to run docker images(see boot2docker), but even with this, it's very low overhead.

To be honest, i've used Docker much more than Heroku so I may be biased. But a quick google search turned up this article, which I think explains the differences well: http://tuhrig.de/docker-vs-heroku/

charfordon Show HN: Zombie Startup – bring a startup back to life

This may be nit picky, but, when I change pages, it causes the browser to reload and move to top of page. This happens each time I click the next page button. This is very confusing. It'd be nice if the page did not reload, and instead fetched the new results via an ajax call, then updated the view with new results. This should not be difficult.

charfordon Ask HN: Same comment is most upvoted and downvoted post on the same topic

Where's the downvote button? I was unaware hacker news supported down voting.

charfordon Ask HN: Would building GUI's for CLI applications be very helpful?

I'd be interested to see what everyone else has to say. But from my point of view, CLI will always be more efficient. Anything on top of that will only make accomplishing the task slower. Why would I use a GUI when I can automate the task with a script?

It depends on the user, but I find myself with multiple terminal windows open at a time throughout the day. Anytime I get stuck in a GUI app, I feel like I am wasting time.

charfordon Free social media management? Register now folks

Hey this looks like an interesting idea. FWIW, your images for facebook, google, twitter, and yahoo are broken on this page: http://knotlink.com/about

charfordon Ask HN: Would you pay for a geo-link sharing service

charfordon Is this the new iPhone 6?

Heads up, about 20-30 seconds in, NSFW.

charfordon Docker 1.2.0, with restart policies

Any update on when the OS X version will be available? I'm only seeing version 1.1.2 here:

https://github.com/boot2docker/osx-installer/releases