Hi,Without going into too much personal detail - I'm not living by my own principles.My view of the world doesn't fit my lifestyle, I work on things that aren't important to me, etcHow can I get on track? What strategies do YOU use to live by YOUR principles?
Google Pixel is out:their new flagship phone which is aiming to compete with iPhone, particularly at the high-end - high quality video, sound, etc.They seem to have discontinued the Nexus line.What if I don't care about high quality video and sound.I want to run a python repl on a train or address a server issue from a terminal on my phone from the back of a cab.I don't want to send anonymous...
I just received an email from a company: - that is a multi-billion dollar company - with whom I spend thousands of dollars a year as a customer that contained my password in plain text.As a customer, of this specific company, what should I do?As a customer, generally in the current era, with ~50 "important" online accounts, how can I protect against incompetent technology practices and...
Hi all,My co-founder and I are working on several web projects, fishing for a new startup idea.We've made our first prototype using django/python and we're working on our second using cake/php.We'd like to stick to one language and/or framework. My co-founder and I are now disagreeing as to which language and which framework to move forward using.We're pretty new to building production sites...
Hi,I'm a web-developer, I love working with a django stack (django/postgres/south/redis/celery/etc), and I've deployed apps myself on ec2 or hosted on dotcloud.I'd like to be able to iterate through some product ideas so I'm very price-conscious. Ideally I don't want to be charged 10x for hosting 10 web-apps, I want to be charged by traffic. For example if 1 app gets sticky and 9 suck, I...
I am working on a social networking concept and I'd like to make a prototype. I've got most of the know-how, but my problem is, I'm not sure how much capital to allocate to running my test.Setting aside certain logistics (assume I pay myself nothing and I pay nothing for marketing/advertising) how much would you estimate it costs to maintain servers (using AWS for example) and scale to a...
Hi,In PG's essay on reasons startups fail (http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html) he mentions in #10 that "...[servicing] People interested in local events...is a perennial tarpit."I'd like to understand people's thoughts on why. Is the space too crowded? Are the typical solutions simply bad or not specific enough?Thanks for your thoughts!
I'm curious if there are any good books or online resources or even coaches/tutors for etiquette and manners, particularly as it applies to academic and tech conferences...I don't mean like where you put your fork and knife but more:- how to get in and out of a conversation circle- event invitations: when is it ok to go and not go- what's the appropriate amount to talk about yourself and your...