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nate
7,926karma·1,070submissions·October 10, 2006
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YC alum. Founded Inkling and Draft. Ran Highrise. Founding engineer at Census (acquired by Fivetran)
https://ninjasandrobots.com
I'm working on https://allihat.com, https://pageforth.com, and more. If I can be helpful at all with anything, please hit me up on X (@natekontny) or email me anytime (nate.kontny+hn@gmail.com).
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One thing I've noticed is that Google likes to use RC4_128 as their encryption method for SSL. Most people just pick AES_256_CBC like 37s has. RC4_128 is so much faster in tests we've run. Of course, …
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Thanks for the Thesis mention. I had posted this not intending to debate, I just am pretty naive to most things Wordpress related still. I remember the Thesis controversy getting started, but I tuned …
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Yes, I'm getting that now too. Just saw this and updated the post: http://wordpress.org/news/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/ "PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may be but are not requ…
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Jamie and his wife's enthusiasm for life is infectious. That is an awesome family. I spent an hour going through his videos last night. I can't believe how much energy that guy has to do everything in…
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Another couple things: - Make the subject and context of your email, "I could really use your advice". Ask these contacts for help and advice on what they would do in this situation. A guy at cars.com…
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I don't have much help probably. But my sympathies. I'm actually looking for a car now, and your search is gorgeous. I usually just go to carmax to use their search because it's user friendly, but you…
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Thanks a ton for this info. It helps add to my knowledge of what's going on there. What's also sad, is that seeing a psychiatrist has it's own dilemmas attached to it. "If I see a psychiatrist, what w…
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The number one thing I would improve is add some kind of alert system when someone replies to one of your comments or posts. Email me. Or put some kind of alert icon somewhere on the orange bar that s…
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I doubt you are going to fine the statistical evidence. Though that would be an awesome find. The main reason I want to be the user of the product I make: it's 100 times easier to get out of bed in th…
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I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet, but roseburg, have you considered packaging up this wisdom you shared on this blog post as a class and make some money teaching? I'd think you could get a b…
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Right, I wasn't saying anything at all about replacing mail. I was saying quite the opposite. How can the USPS succeed at getting more mail sent? And I pointed out a bunch of examples of people improv…
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Absolutely! I could have kept adding more and more too. But yes, this is a perfect one that they could turn on and I bet everyone would pay something per year to get a virtual address. And what's grea…
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Yep. Awesome thoughts. I can't help feel though that this goes against a bunch of the blockbuster desires of a bunch of folks on this here site. There's a lot of folks gunning for the next Groupon/Air…
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Don't be embarrassed :) Have you done a view source on Hacker News? It works.
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Well that wasn't exactly my point. You don't know who is going to die. Just someone. What if that someone is someone at work who you are close to. Might make you pause next time there's an argument at…
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99% of folks running their own businesses have and are going through this exact same thing. You aren't alone, and like others are saying, you are actually in great shape and growing a ton. I know very…
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This post from DHH misses one bit. This hiring remote workers works for them, (as it's worked for me/us at Inkling and Cityposh) because we also have another tenant to our hiring practices. We hire pe…