JoeH

12 năm trướcdiscuss

I was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor less than a year ago. It is a tumor that has been growing inside me for at least 5 years. Had it been correctly detected/diagnosed 5 years ago, it would have been an operable tumor with a high chance of a cure rate. Unfortunately, now that tumor is currently non-operable.

Current cancer screening guidelines aren't sufficient and in almost all cases they utterly fail in the early detection of cancers for people under the age of 50.

I applaud anyone working towards a better method for early detection!

JoeH

13 năm trướcdiscuss

I purchased a fair number of TSLA when they IPO'd, for a bit lower than the actual IPO price of $17. A little over a year ago, my brokerage offered to borrow my shares at 4% annual interest (paid on a monthly basis). I was told that I would retain the ability to trade the stock at any time, but I gave up my shareholder voting rights while the stock was "loaned" out.

I had never heard of that happening to small individual investors like me, and at that time I looked into it and learned that this was typically done because there was a lot of interest in short sales for the stock and there wasn't enough borrowable stock to cover demands.

I renew the loan agreement on a monthly basis and in March 2013 I was offered an increase from 4% to 6% interest for the loan of my shares, indicating that short-sellers were very eager to get their hands on TSLA stock.

I'm curious to see if today's activities cause my June offer to drop my interest rate or if the offer just expires altogether. I would guess that at minimum I'll see a lower interest rate.

JoeH

13 năm trướcdiscuss

I was initially very excited by this as I skipped over the part where it was "Shared App Passwords". I'm currently using 1Password and sharing the password file via a dropbox account, however, as I look into the details, it appears Meldium would only work for a portion of what we use 1Password for.

I need a solution like this, but allows the storage and potential sharing of other types of passwords not associated with a specific website or service (server passwords, door codes, etc)

That being said, it looks like a great start!

JoeH

14 năm trướcdiscuss

This was extremely timely. I just got off a call where I was struggling how our team could communicate appointment availability with a third party. This is a great solution and you don't have to share personal/sensitive calendar information with others.

JoeH

14 năm trướcdiscuss

I am currently in SF at the Game Developer Conference, and I have been using Unity w/an iOS license for the last year for a side-project. The timing is great for us, since we are just now working on re-deploying our project to Android for testing.

If you have ever considered doing any type of game development, I would strongly encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity.

Unity has allowed me to be immensely productive working relatively few hours a week. Being able to prototype up a game idea in a few hours and experience that on your mobile device is hugely powerful.

JoeH

15 năm trướcdiscuss

He stopped and restarted at a lower quality

JoeH

16 năm trướcdiscuss

Congratulations Ross, Tom & Francisco - go YC08 Alumni ;)

JoeH

16 năm trướcdiscuss

Perfection is the enemy of good. Good is the enemy of at all. (I attribute the last bit to Paul Buchheit)

JoeH

16 năm trướcdiscuss

I purchased this morning, after it went public, at $17.97 and was pretty happy with the results: +31.60%

I'm curious to see if tomorrow's early sell-off has a major impact on where the stock stabilizes.

EDIT: Removed actual dollar amount, no need to show that...

JoeH

16 năm trướcdiscuss

All of us at RescueTime want to wish Tony the best of luck!

We will still be seeing Tony on a regular basis as he continues working on some special RescueTime projects, so hopefully we'll get the early scoops ;)

JoeH

17 năm trướcdiscuss

I've been curious about this as well, I found this post by a guy who gave a few details: http://crustea.vjfrance.com/article-21479794.html

  Tech specs:
  Here are a few few technical details, the biggest mapping I've ever done so far.
  * 6 * 20 000 lumens projectors, to project on the 160m x 10m facade.
  * We'll use high res visuals: 1024x768 on each projector, so the output image is 6144x768.
  * To stream such High res format, we'll have 2 "killer" media servers, to run very large video files.
  * We'll use the VJ software Arkaos 3.6 to control the video, with multi output and Midi support, we'll be able to synchronize the visuals together and stream Gigabytes of video very smoothly.
  * VVVV will be used to sequence and root midi MIDI signals between computers.

Edit: formatting

JoeH

17 năm trướcdiscuss

Here at RescueTime we use EC2 for all of our servers, with the exception of one server outside EC2 for monitoring.

All of our MySQL instances are currently each running on 4x EBS volumes using LVM stripped across all 4 volumes.

Our primary transactional table is nearing a billion rows, and just this weekend we performed a migration that segmented this table into 40 partitions, containing data back to 2007.

We are currently handling roughly 3,000,000 inserts and 2,500,000 updates on this one table daily. IOWait on our DB holds steady at about 5% throughout our peak (5am - 4pm PST).

It is certainly not Fibre Channel backboned speeds, but the other benefits of using EBS CURRENTLY outweighs any IO performance hits we might have. The ability to backup production and refresh any of our other DB environments in less than 15 minutes, using EBS snapshots is worth it. Especially for the price we pay monthly for this infrastructure.

If you need any more details on our setup or tips in troubleshooting/setting up your own, feel free to ping me.

JoeH

17 năm trướcdiscuss

Take a look at Compiere ERP (http://www.compiere.com), they have an open source community edition. It has been many years (6+?) since I last looked at it, but it easily had over 500 tables.

In fact a quick search shows 531 Tables and 108 Views: http://www.knowledgesuccess.com/local/doc/schemaCompiere253b

JoeH

17 năm trướcdiscuss

and good is the enemy of at all. (I attribute that to what I heard Paul Buchheit say once at a YC dinner)

JoeH

17 năm trướcdiscuss

Just a heads up if you decide to do this, enabling tethering like this will impact your visual voicemail functionality. I (and others) would not see visual voicemail notifications until a power cycle of the iPhone.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/06/28/how-to-restore-and-...

JoeH

17 năm trướcdiscuss

A month ago I would have agreed with this statement, but after watching a couple episodes of the "Pitchmen" on the Discovery channel, I found Billy Mays and the whole process of promoting products very relevant to me as a startup founder.

JoeH

17 năm trướcdiscuss

The gamer in me wanted to see a hex grid option - but the poor site design made me miss it the first time.

The left hand nav and the big Ad at the bottom made it not obvious that there was more below.

JoeH

17 năm trướcdiscuss

Download link to Firefox 3.5 beta 4 (in case you were like me and it wasn't blindingly obvious): http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

JoeH

18 năm trướcdiscuss

On Dec. 17th I had blood work done for my yearly physical. At that time I was warned by the doctor that I was trending towards diabetes. My triglycerides were 381 and cholesterol was 173.

This really kicked me in the ass to drop weight. I did a fair bit of research into diets and really detested the idea of a fad type diet. But, for me - the South Beach diet allowed me to eat the food I enjoy and not feel like I was starving myself.

Fast forward to April 12th I had lost 42.6 pounds and had my blood retested. My triglycerides were down to 76 (a drop in over 300 points) and my cholesterol was down to 153. Granted triglycerides can range fairly broadly from day to day, but the doctor was very impressed with my progress.

This week, I started a morning exercise routine as outlined by the Hacker Diet ( http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/chapter1_2_5.html#Exerc... ). My goal is to drop an additional 25-30 pounds, which will get me to 170-175, over the next year by eating right and exercise.

JoeH

18 năm trướcdiscuss

I'd love to talk to you regarding your MOLAP implementation with RoR. I had previously taken a brief look at ActiveWarehouse as a potential solution, but put that on the back burner as we are currently in a very fast iterative development mode - having launched just a couple of months ago. My last 16 years of database experience have been grounded in Oracle (oh Oracle 6 how I don't miss thee...) so I am fairly familiar with the the "Oracle" solution and storage of MOLAP cubes in Oracle Express, but am a complete noob when it comes to the OSS solutions. Any insight into your learning experiences would be most welcome!

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