Hacker News: RickFromSA

New comment by RickFromSA in "Learn random facts while pulling code changes"

RickFromSA — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:17:02 +0000

You need elinks, that's all. So: brew install elinks

New comment by RickFromSA in "Swole.me - The automatic diet planner"

RickFromSA — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:13:51 +0000

Needs a little refinement. It's suggesting I eat 6 eggs a day and while I am no expert, that sounds excessive.

Harvest is hiring Rails devs, a designer, support and admin roles

RickFromSA — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:33:35 +0000

Article URL: http://www.getharvest.com/careers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2127607

Points: 1

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New comment by RickFromSA in "What's missing from this list of Y Combinator-like accelerators/incubators?"

RickFromSA — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:32:00 +0000

Spark Charleston, in Charleston, SC: http://www.sparkchs.com/

New comment by RickFromSA in "I'm a nearly broke developer/entrepreneur and felt like venting"

RickFromSA — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:06:43 +0000

I live in Charleston. If you need a loan, a sympathetic ear or a sympathetic beer, find me on Twitter @warwickp any time.

New comment by RickFromSA in "Ask HN / Review my startup: Transloadit"

RickFromSA — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:00:51 +0000

This is interesting. Having been part of a startup which focused on video upload, encoding and streaming I think there is a market for this service. Past experience has shown me that one of the unplanned significant overheads of a service like this is the myriad of esoteric codecs out there and what they do to ffmpeg and related encoding tools. There is always a source or device that produces a video file which causes ffmpeg to hang or segfault on transcoding, or to output a flawed transcoded file with poor video or no sound, etc.

I'm curious how you deal with these 2 issues. The first issue being an infrastructure issue, where incoming media can cause problems for your tools, the second is a quality issue, where the output your tools produce may not be what the customer expects.

What is your plan to handle these 2 problems?

New comment by RickFromSA in "Bring me the head of Adam Croot"

RickFromSA — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:55:46 +0000

Vaguely reminiscent of the Jerry Taylor of the City of Tuttle vs. Johnny Hughes of CentOS, the episode in which a default CentOS Apache page replaced a previously running site and hilarity ensues via email.

http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127 and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/

New comment by RickFromSA in "Ask HN: What's your most interesting life goal currently?"

RickFromSA — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:17:33 +0000

I hesitate to suggest parenting techniques, because each child is different. Rather, a story of what works for us: Our son is 10 months old and he uses 1 diaper a day (max). My wife loosely followed the tenets of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination_communication and "The Diaper Free Baby"

Early on you put the child on the potty when they have a high likelihood of needing to pee/poop. You keep a potty nearby, put them on it 10 times a day and make it fun: read books while they sit on it. He learned to associate peeing/pooping with the potty very quickly. After 3 months or so he will now generally wait for the potty. He has his little routine and my wife knows the general times he needs to go and puts him on the pot. He only uses a diaper when in the car or sometimes at night.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that EC/Diaper Free Baby suggest the reason babies commonly pee on you when you remove their diaper is that it goes against their instinct to soil themselves in their diaper. When you remove it, its time to go! The argument is that a baby who is afforded the opportunity to learn to use the potty quickly will be happier. My son is very happy to use the pot. In fact he is sitting on it right now :)

New comment by RickFromSA in "Ask HN: what unwanted domain names are you sitting on?"

RickFromSA — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:15:42 +0000

ElkHider.com (say that out loud) MoreInterviews.com BlueTu.be BlogTu.be BitsOfHope.com MessageRecord.com ModernError.com Overclass.org AreaMates.com