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Re:Ask HN: What keeps you from exercising? on Saturday August 13, 2016 @01:37PM (#12282275)
iyengar yoga is great for me. I started with exercises at level 0 with a competent instructor (15+ years) ...

Ask HN: How to audit all permissions for people in Active Directory

I work as a developer in a .NET shop and I was asked to audit all users permissions (permissions directly granted to the user and via groups ...) in Active Directory. I tried to do it with PowerShell but that seem to be very difficult to do and after doing some research that approach is not recommended. I am stuck on this issue and I am new to Active Directory security. I need to do it on the...

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Ask HN: Best platform to build a large website/app?

What would be the best platform to built a large website with tenth of thousands of pages and tens of thousands registered users and high traffic from scratch? The registered users could also log in and i.e. publish various stuff to the site etc.Any advice will be appreciated. So far I am thinking about:- PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript & PostgReSQl- Ruby on Rails with PostgReSQL (not sure...

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have a startup idea to share? on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @08:11PM (#3050532)
I guess one of the reasons that I find it so difficult to find or come up with a great idea is because I am looking for an idea within my ability and resources - within my ability to execute as a single founder - within my coding, design and marketing ability and with a minimum amount of money.

For example something like www.metrolyrics.com is within my ability to execute. I wish I came up with that idea. Oh well. Anyway the story of this site and his founder is very educational. I can't find the link right now.

Ask HN: Do you have a startup idea to share?

I keep hearing and reading all the time that great ideas are everywhere and easy to come by but I find it extremely difficult to come up with a great or at least a good idea for a startup.I am hoping that this will become a very long thread about new startup ideas and be an inspiration to all.

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Thanks. I have not touched this app since last October. I did some rough calculations on the number of hours I will put in and a possible return. I will give it one more shot and do a complete revamp of the interface etc. when I find the time. I will implement the features people are asking for. This time I will try to build what the users want based on the feedback I received and see what happens.

Should I keep updating this iPhone app? Or is it complete crap?

This was my first attempt at writing an iPhone app last September. It is now free and gets on average 150 downloads per week since 1 January 2011.I have not updated the app since last October as I am not making any money from it. So now I am trying to figure out if I should update it - i.e. rewamp the interface and recompile to the most recent...

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