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Its a great little tool. I have been using it for a over a year now and it simplifies the dev environment issues by sandboxing it. In general, it allows you to isolate your develop…

Employers will always have the upper hand because in the western world discussing/knowing salaries of peers is considered taboo( I never understood this as somebody who comes from …

Do you see any performance issues. How long have you been using this setup ? Just wondering if the SSD's on the air can handle the extra I/O without shortening its life drastically…

Looking to see what tools the community use to do development on os x 1) Develop as is on os x by directly installing various tools and apis on the machine 2) Using virtual box - V…

When we see todays enterprise IT products, you get a feeling of being transported back to the 90s, old stodgy corporations ripe with bureaucracy moving at a snails pace when compar…

Awesome links!

Its been now close to a decade and half since I have been working with software development and I feel like there are new trends that while I have heard of, I dont have a working k…

Good point. Your comment about being face in the crowd is similar to the gut feeling I had. I guess the question now becomes how does one really start a professional services busin…

My objective is to work for myself and eventually turn that into a sustainable business, but I am having a hard time trying to figure out what exactly are the next steps in order t…

I would like to look into starting a business and cant really think of any products to start off with. I feel offering businesses implement solutions can be a start as I am using m…

Hi HN, One of my goals this year is to increase my income by 30-50K. I am currently employed full time and am looking for guidance from the thoughtful and capable HN community on w…

I am facing a problem of managing our photos and videos. The problem is me and my wife take photos and video using our 2 iPhones, 1 iPad, 1 canon DSLR and 1 Fuji Point and Shoot an…

What happens to my data on the website when I revoke my permissions from google/Facebook ?

Lots of sites offer to avoid creating accounts with them and instead allow you to sign in with yor google or Facebook account. For eg Flickr. If I were to sign up for flickr using …

Really !! AT&T will do that for free without giving me trouble ? If so that would be fantastic.

We got two iPhone 3GS' in Aug 2009. Both phones work fine just that they are slow. I would like to get new phones but hate the fact that I have to throw these away. What have other…

Any suggestions on how I can get a list of distinct email addresses from which I have received emails ? Kinda like a select distinct on db table ?

I use gmail and over the years have accumulated a lot of mails. Some that I'd like to keep and some that I'd like to get rid off. The Issue is that I have about 5000 emails and goi…

Why is this surprising?

I have the same question but seems like its free and anybody can go. Gary's blog does not post any restrictions either.

Nicely condensed

Agreed on the salivation and the opportunity in terms of a dream job. But to think that just because the data science team thinks more about social science than Facebook prOducts t…

What Facebook knows: too much. What it has: too much squared.

More and more os x and the Mac "platform" is moving towards a becoming a crystal prison. They are still the undisputed leader when it comes to quality hardware. But locking down th…