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Hah, I thought of Kommu when I saw this post! I've used their slack to stay in NYC and had someone stay at my place in Austin. Would (and have) recommend to a friend

If I were giving a security recommendation to famous people and congresspeople I would recommend using a password like this. You might think it’s incredibly insecure, but imagine t…

Ironically, your pricing page is down. Starting an updown competitor now!

I think you need 500 karma or so.

I am approaching a point where I need to test out features safely. I want to know what tools/methodologies exists for rolling out new features and interfaces. Do you just randomly …

Amazon gets all the attention because it's Amazon. Work a retail job anywhere and you will discover that MILLIONS of retail workers must do similar checks.

As a potential parent in the next 5+ years, and also as a software engineer and eventual founder/business owner, what is your advice for having children? It would be helpful to hea…

The additional revenue from this stream is a drop in the bucket to Uber. I could be off here, but this seems like they will likely use these type of things just as advertisements a…

Great experience with Amazon Lightsail. The smallest instance is only $3.50 a month, and you can add a swap file if you need a bit more than 512 MB of RAM. Lightsail is like swimmi…

I still think the US has hope for rail and high speed rail that won’t bankrupt everyone. If, and this is a huge if (bc people love their cars), the US can replace a lane or two of …

To be honest, I think wind resistance would play a lot bigger factor than people give it credit for since its force scales nonlinearly with velocity. At 1000 or even just 600 km/h,…

Not controversial IMO, but useful. Most companies are stuck in the dark ages, despite what you think after browsing HN. A lot of money to be made in consulting if you can market yo…

This is worth other people chiming in on.

When I was an intern at an Aerospace org, I had a mentor that was the head of engineering of several smaller companies at once emphasize one point - Always align yourself positivel…

That's a great start up idea - Cloud based UI elements.

Not super familiar with the space, but ReWork by Jason Fried and DHH, founders of BaseCamp (DHH made Ruby on Rails), was pretty good. They provide a very different take on business…

This post should make many people on HN feel confident that they can run a company that does millions in revenue. As long as you aren’t doing favors for family and buddy’s, you too…

I can confirm Schwab banking is the real deal! No fees ever. Reimburse ALL atm fees (even those pesky international scammy ones that are like $10 a pop). Effectively wherever you a…

The only thing I’ve put together from light searching on GitHub might be to do with the fact that 15 and s15 can be used to describe school years (s for spring 15 semester) and a l…

I thought the most common file names had some peculiar results. > the filename “15” & “s15” made the top 50 most popular filenames Anyone know why? https://boyter.org/posts/an-info…

My org was constantly behind the “business” deadlines, leaving developers to work nights and weekends often. Bad personal growth (boring C#, tightly coupled, extremely complex ente…

Awesome! I’m going to give that a try!

Yeah, I suppose it was a little open ended. I’m using Flask, gunicorn, and looking for tools to keep it simple.

I am working on an MVP, which initially ran on Heroku to simplify things. However, I'm realizing I need to move to a provider that gives me control of the the server (likely AWS Li…