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sad part is that some of us went to school thinking we would change the world for the best and what we do is actually hep companies sell more advertising, get more bullshit valuations, help them send dick picks that delete themselves.

I don't know what to do, i still have to feed my family, I can't imagine that i am the only one feeling this way.

I've seen 3 companies that tried to disrupt email and bring alternatives to email and they all failed, they had great developers, great ideas but they still failed.

My question to your team would be, why do you think people want this. Are you seeing people claiming that they wish email was better? It is hard to change people's behaviors and this is the reason why these companies failed. I agree that there are better ways to communicate now, slack, hichpchat, facebook, but why try to reinvent the wheel.

People are not going to drop something reliable as email for a new fad. what would make your product different that would make me want to use it?

Cheers

look at this diagrams , i think they will help you a lot. :)

http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/

I love collecting old video game systems and games trying commodore 64 software on a real commodore 64 Playing with my raspberry py and arduino and Basic stamp exercise. Reading about old technology old computers.

Vagrant and Ansible to provision a vm with nginx python django supervisord.

Then if you want to load the database we have a shell script wrapper that can do a few things.

Load an sql from an s3 private bucket to refresh your local database, so even if you crash anything you can always fix things with a quick shell command. We also tie things into newrelic and sentry to help us debug code locally before it even gets to sandbox or prod.

I bought a Samsung chromebook and basically it was useless as a workstation, but I bought a 32 gig sd card and installed ubuntu on it. Now i can switch between chromeos and ubuntu with a few keystrokes. I am able to develop ansible code , python code on this machine. I also have dosbox, Vice C64 emulator on this sd card . I also installed openvpn on the machine and can vpn into our network and do my work. It is a great computer because it is light and the battery life is good.

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I work in the analytics space myself and jobs keep coming left and right. I don't know if you work more on the dev side or the Ops side or project management? but I can tell you that in the ops and dev side there are lots of companies looking for people with experience working with all sort of analytics tools Kafka, Hadoop, Hbase, Hive, MongoDB, Python flask or django , Map Reduce. If you have some of those skills under your belt I would suggest to reach out to your network on linked in. Specially if you have some recruiters as contacts . Also if you are in NY city or would consider moving to NY i can make some introductions.

first some questions. Do you have savings, can you work in Asia at a full time or part time position an work on your project on the side? You mentioned you can't contact your existing network? Something going on there that you need to avoid these people?

Hey, Don't take for granted what you have. Life is not perfect. Really , you are lucky in so many ways. I know you might not like where you are but other people would give everything to have what you have. I like you have a great job. make great money, my job is not perfect but I work on lots of personal projects.

I don't take for granted what I have, I know it can easily go away at anytime, and that's why I fight to stay relevant and get better at my craft. I might not be able to do it at work but I have my own free time to learn all the new technologies, docker, ansible, aws , etc.

You need to find something else outside of work to make you happy, I think you have everything to make any man happy.

a good wife a kid on the way a good paying job health you live in a great country and you have freedom.

if you are not happy wait until you lose any of the above.

Happy 2015

an alternative is to just hook up an old pc running ubuntu to a home router. Setup dynamic DNS and you have a full running server. I run my personal blog and email server from home and it works fine.

Why do you need to spend it. Keep doing what you are doing. Be tight with that money and just keep working and being resourceful. Why do you feel a need to invest it?

ONLY use that money as the last resource.

What do you think is making you not attractive to these companies? What do you think are your strengths and some of your weak spots?

I am a devops engineer and there are lots of things I do at my work.

Manage a Cloud infrastructure from creating, destroying and provisioning instances using tools like Ansible and in the past Puppet and chef.

The environments where I have worked are so large that doing things manually does not scale and you have to automate all these processes. I have to work with developers to help them setup their dev enviroments using Vagrant and have them mirror production.

Also, I have to make sure the code the developers work with is managed and deployed to our instance using automated tools like Jenkins or Travis CI. Help the developers troubleshooting networking, DNS , SSL issues once we detect bugs on production on sandbox and help them get access to logs, automate alerts using New Relic, Elastic Search .

I work with environments where I have to know and understand the whole stack. Hadoop, kafka, Django, Postgres , MySql, Mongodb and be able to pin point where our bottle neck might be when we have production problems. A lot of developers just work on one part of the system so they come to me when they need help understanding the whole stack.

My work involves helping making the developers and the business work with operations and work as a team. hence the term DevOps .

Automate all the things! that's my job

I use WindowsXP to run some software that I can not longer use on windows 8. I have chess software and some old games that no longer work on windows 8 and it would not run well on a virtual machine as it needs real access to a hardware video card. I don't use Windows XP for anything else and I am ok with it . I only use it for games not for doing my banking , sending email or browsing the web.

I've been reading about founder's depression. Why do we have to label it as if this is something that is affecting founders. Depression affects everyone, from a single mother who works hard to support her family and has no time for herself. From the dad that works hard and has to put kids through school, put food on the table, the person who works behind the counter at your favorite burger place who works hard and can't pay for his/her school because they don't make enough money.

I suffer from depression and I am not a founder we all have issues so why do we have to label this depression and founder's depression. These people are no different that anyone else just different problems.

seems like we should actually be doing something to help people with depression and not just a certain group just because they are founders. After all depression is the same regardless if you are a founder, a manager, a business owner, a student.

get a digital ocean instance and install openvpn. periodically destroy the instance and rebuild it.

I've worked in all sort of places. There have been places where business used to make the wrong decisions, but the only thing that kept our team together was our manager. He defended us and took one of the team many times trying to shield us from the crazy decision made from above.

Once he left the company I left afterwards. I was loyal to him not to the company. He was my manager and I respected him and always wanted to do my best to make his life easier. I worked with him not against him. I didn't care about the business decisions as long as I got paid. We did great work but as always bad decisions can make or break a company. When I join a company I don't know what is going to happen 1 or two years but I can try to ask questions to my potential manager to see if we are going to be good fit or not.

you can bridge two networks together using a VPN you can use openVPN and also AWS and Rackspace provide dedicated VPN's into their network. We already link rackspace and aws via open vpn it is not as fast as WAN point to point line between the two networks but it does what we need.

Buy some reserved instances and then put them for sale.

congratulations on your online business, I see some people don't like these sites here because you are not a Solo founder using some cool language or library. I admire your drive to setup a business online. One suggestion would be to reach out to pet cremation companies and offer them a catalog of your products so that they can recommend them to their clients. I had a pet parakeet die recently and I would've loved to have a nice box where to put his remains instead the boring and sad looking box I got. I would've paid good money for it and I know people love their pets.

Keep up with this great idea, add more entries in your blog and good luck to you .

I love my Nook HD, it is a great Tablet, It has the google App Store and I can extend the storage. I think it is a great alternative to other tablets out there.

I agree, I used to get upset because things didn't get done the way I thought should be done. I was worried about a server crashing and not having a budget to get another one, telling people about security and they not following recommendations. I left that company to go to another one a more corporate and bigger company and guess what the same issues, then another company and the same issues. Then I realized that technology is a means to an end. The company's goal is not technology is to make money, to pay investors, to have cash flow, yes technology is important but it is not the primary goal of a company. Code might be ugly or legacy but it pays the bills, now I do great work but don't try to think that everything has to be done a certain way I just adapt, nothing will be perfect.

Did you find anyone? I guess there are not that many people willing to rent their glasses in NYC

Reach out the the editors of teenvogue they always showcase apps. You can find their info on the Condenast directory.

Teen magazines are very influential, don't be afraid to reach them. Research all the companies that have magazines or media that reach women and teens and contact them. If only one or two reply and talk about your app you can have lots of attention and hopefully downloads.

Cheers

How do you manage your servers? Are you using puppet or chef? I am using the free version of new relic and I wrote little modules to use their free service. I can monitor all those stats and I am also monitoring MySQl and other stuff. Give it a try. it is free :) they will try to sell you stuff but you don't have to buy it. I can't with our budget.

I worked at an ISP in NY exactly around 1997-2004 we had also the Rac/Qube devices and I had to manage stuff I was not familiair with :) I learned so much by trial by fire.

Don't throw the towel yet, You can sell the technology behind your site. You can package the whole thing and sell it so that people with big software QA shops can use this on their own sites.

I totally agree with this. This has happened at two places where I worked. We had to bring back development in house because once the project got started the main guys we talked to the first time where no where to be found.

Lots of tech companies have a careers section. Make a list of companies you want to work for and got to their careers URL. You can probably apply right from there

What exactly are your needs? What type of remote desktop solution are you looking for?