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I have a couple of smaller personal projects that need transactional emails (mostly just notifications of things that have happened or weekly summaries, etc). Currently using Postmark but now they're going away from credits to monthly subscriptions. I don't send nearly enough emails to justify doing the monthly subscription, but I send more than the free tier allows (this is the case for most services). I'd probably be at the cusp of your free tier but I also have 3 domains. Currently I'm sending approximately 2k emails per month, if you had a hobby plan around $5/mo with unlimited domains and around 5k emails per month - I would sign up. Otherwise I'll probably just load up on Postmark credits and then eventually switch off to something else entirely down the road.

I have friends who work at HQ and others that were laid off during the myriad rounds they had a few years ago. It would be safe to say that their warm/fuzzy corporate culture has been completely changed with their current CEO Brian Cornell. It's a numbers game at this point. Not saying it's a bad thing when you're fighting for survival, but to say they value their employees well and that Amazon doesn't, isn't necessarily founded in reality. In fact many former Target employees I know have either gone on to start their own rep companies that work with or go to work directly for Amazon. Which should tell you something.

The expression "eating well" is ambiguous at best so I consulted a good dietician which made a big difference in my overall well being and health. Also, I work out every MWF, first thing in the morning - I find that if I don't do it first thing I'll come up with excuses throughout the day to skip. Another thing I do is make sure I get up and move around at least once an hour. I work from home and will take my dogs on a couple walks per day, I realize that's not an option for a lot of people.

Did you mean "Freemium"? And I think it's a very interesting idea.

I just finished doing a restoration on a Bally Party Zone pin, down to rebuilding ramps with a DIY vacuum form machine. These things went for a couple of hundred dollars 5-10 years ago. Now you're lucky to find a relatively ho-hum pin for under $1200 regardless of condition. Additionally they are notoriously difficult to transport safely and affordably, so you may find one you really want at a good price, but good luck since it's 1500 miles away from you.

Anyway, just wanted to chime in since I don't have a lot of pinhead friend who would appreciate the months of work I put into restoring this pin: home made ramps, all new solenoids, complete tear down, all LEDs, new posts, new bumper rubbers, cleaned the playfield. Now I have electronic gremlins to sort out - stupid horizontal DMD issues.

Maybe not courteous, but at least attentive. If you're driving a manual in stop and go, it's hard to be playing with a cellphone (not that it doesn't happen). You are being forced to spend some thought on the act of driving, which I think is a good thing.

I just saw this at my state fair. I think I'll be getting one now:

https://www.amazon.com/Woody-Paddle-Natural-Scraper-Scrape/d...

I also have an Ecobee3. I had come from a 2nd gen Nest. I will agree with others and say that the remote sensors are really nice. I've always had multi floor houses whose temperature differentials (between up and down) would border on 10F. Obviously I could adjust the temperature on the Nest from bed, but I found toward the end of my ownership (middle/end '14) that the service would be down every now and then and I couldn't communicate with my Nest. I haven't experienced this with the Ecobee yet. Another positive you can quickly see the weather forecast from the thermostat, which is great for when you're about to leave the house and don't want to whip out your phone.

On the downside, the Ecobee doesn't "feel" as high quality. The touchscreen shows finger prints, it has a plasticy feel and you don't have that nice orange or blue background color indicating whether it's cooling or heating (not a big deal). It also doesn't have the schedule learning system, but to be honest I would usually adjust the temps manually throughout the day anyway. It also doesn't have the automatic fan function after the AC has run, sort of an afterrun fan which helped continue to cool the house without the AC on.

In the end I wanted to try something different and so far I think it's met/exceeded my expectations. Just hope you have a C wire when you install! :)

I would love to have f.lux on my un-jailbroken iPhone. Currently I use Twilight App on a Nexus by my nightstand during the night because of how harsh the iPhone screen is in the dark (even with brightness turned down all the way).

How much is the developer license? I couldn't find it on your website. Thanks!

Looks great by the way!

I would imagine it would have to be baked into the OS (if not jailbroken) as I presume you'd want it to affect the display and all applications. But I completely agree, I love f.lux on my computer. The only downside is I feel the need to sleep very quickly if I try and work at night :)

I thought I read that it shows up for a google app account that is also the domain administrator. But I'm not sure if this is true or not. I wouldn't say this is a "fix" as much as it's a work around for showing that other favicon.

Agree, I've had numerous situations with a site I created that didn't have email verification where users reported problems logging back into their account.

The problem should be pretty obvious. They click the "I forgot my email" button so we generate a new password, send it to the email account they registered with and it bounces back. User emails, we try to do a search for it, find it and discover random slight misspellings such as .con.

With verification at least the user is aware that they didn't enter their email properly.

Additionally we send messages about rewards, ones that users would want to receive.

Maclaren also lined the engine bay of the 90's F1 road going car with gold. Additionally many of my friends who highly modify their turbo charged cars line the interiors with gold foil (although I can't help but think this is mostly for aesthetics :).

I did the same thing. I had to read HN to even have a clue about this as their email correspondence/site gave no indication that this was even a possibility.

I would assume a large majority of their clients don't read HN and would have no line of sight to do the same.

It's unfortunate that this happened, but I'll be looking for another host in the near future.

He was just on the Today show. Unfortunately, this is real.

I really like FlightCar in theory, but I'd never actually allow my car to be rented to someone I don't know (and even to some people I DO know). I realize they provide wear/tear and mechanical insurance, but I don't think $10/day in gas money is worth the hassle of potentially having to have my clutch repaired or new brake rotors installed for someone who rides both my clutch and brakes. But maybe this is geared more for someone who buys an econobox and doesn't care?

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The author (Armin Ronacher) also authored Flask (Python web micro framework) and its template engine Jinja2. I've used Flask for a number of my most recent projects and really have enjoyed working with it.

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Next up, I'd like to read.

Dear Investor, I want some money

Sure someone will post this as a new story, but it appears DNS services are back online. I checked a few of the sites I manage and they are now working.

Now I need to bust a nut and get things moved off ASAP.

Bookmarked! Thanks for putting that together, great work.

Good points for past classes, but I don't see the harm in listing the current class. On the other hand TC seems to cover them, so I'll lower my hand now :)

I'm curious why there isn't a place on HN where we can see the startups for each of the classes including their web site, industry, a description of their service, etc.

I know there are a few resources online, but they don't seem to be kept completely up to date. Personally, I love reading about the startups and would prefer to have that information made available here in an organized fashion than having to read about them on TC or elsewhere.

Anyway, no apologies necessary for me! :)

Maybe this?

https://github.com/markdotto/github-buttons/issues/23

This looks great! And just in time for a personal project.

Just out of curiosity, why did you choose MongoEngine? I worked with MongoEngine and MongoKit before deciding to use MongoKit because of the flexibility of working directly with the pymongo library. But I'm pretty new to the world of Python/Mongo. So any insights would be helpful to me.

Thanks!

Agreed, I think it's brilliant and enjoyable to read (unlike many technical writings).

I was expecting satire. Not what I got.

I would have accepted a caveat like "...for people who don't know how to code, but want a CMS". Like the client who told me - and I quote - "I would love to have HTML5, but PHP is fine".

Love this question. I have a partner who comes from the retail world and he is constantly leaning toward perfection before launching for an idea that may or may not be a good one. I agree with kingsidharth but it's hard to convince him. Seems most people who build a retail location need it to be as close to perfect when you open as possible.

Thanks for sharing.

On a completely side note I noticed that Brendan Schaub had a CarWoo logo on his shorts at UFC121, so someone at CarWoo must like MMA. Anyway, I've always been curious about how much those fighters charge to have advertisers on their shorts...would you mind sharing how much it cost you? :)

Apologies to the moderator gods for the random and off topic question.

That's awesome, good luck!