Hacker News: robwgibbons

New comment by robwgibbons in "Stop hand coding, start Zen Coding"

robwgibbons — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:09:22 +0000

Tab completion included standard in many editors is just as efficient. Linkbait title but Zen is cool.

New comment by robwgibbons in "Whistling Into a Tape Recorder: What the East Coast Doesn't Get About Startups"

robwgibbons — Thu, 31 May 2012 00:14:01 +0000

I realize OP already altered the title, but I just want to reiterate that this is a universal problem and has zero to do with East vs West

New comment by robwgibbons in "reject.ly and rejectly.com are available"

robwgibbons — Sat, 26 May 2012 00:28:26 +0000

"I'm kind of sick of .ly domains" - Everyone ever

New comment by robwgibbons in "Hacker News clone for CouchDB"

robwgibbons — Fri, 25 May 2012 02:10:00 +0000

This is great. Except you forgot to return "Unknown or expired link." every other request

New comment by robwgibbons in "Kickstarter for a JavaScript top level domain (.js TLD) "

robwgibbons — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:58:02 +0000

Those are all way too long

New comment by robwgibbons in "Did anyone else notice that Hacker News has changed?"

robwgibbons — Thu, 24 May 2012 07:33:14 +0000

I fail to see how the age of an account makes a point any less valid. Baseless elitism should be discouraged, not someone who could viably have been a lurker for years posting an honest opinion about how things have trended. Of course now this comment will likely be downvoted. You've changed, man.

Ask HN: Raspberry Pi Server Farm with Load Balancing

robwgibbons — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:08:11 +0000

Hey HN,

I am a Web developer with only rudimentary knowledge of how a server farm is physically designed and maintained. Nevertheless I would like to build a tiny rack filled with about a dozen Raspberry Pi computers (when suppliers allow buying that many at once.) I would like to use each as its own modest server instance, akin to Webfaction, and use another to manage the load balancing across them.

I know this has been considered before, but I would like to ask HN about advice and resources. I have never had to run an application distributed on more than one server so any materials on horizontal scaling, building and managing a small farm would be appreciated. Also, it will need to account for more storage than just a small SD card in each RPi. What's the best way to mount a harddrive RAID into this setup for shared storage?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4014023

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by robwgibbons in "The Pregnant Entrepreneur And The VC Who Wouldn't Fund Her"

robwgibbons — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:08:14 +0000

It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman: starting up a company when you know you have twins on the way is a really ballsy move. Like, ballsy to the point that I personally believe it shows a lack of dedication to the company, the babies, or perhaps a bit of both.

A startup company is basically a newborn baby. It requires continuous attention and care, cleaning and feeding. Except, unlike in the case of twins, it can't be given a bath and fed alongside another baby. This baby is an attention-hungry baby with special needs and demands, which requires focused, dedicated care to thrive and grow.

And to reverse the analogy, caring for children is in itself a full-time job, just as hard if not harder than starting a company. When shit hits the fan and you get 3 hours of sleep every night for a week, which of your dependents becomes your priority? Are you going to care for your children or get hard work done?

I'm not arguing that it can't be done, but I also think there's little argument that taking on both significantlty drives down the odds of success, to the point that it's questionable why any VC would give them their money.

I say either found your company before you have kids and wait until the company is no longer a newborn, or have your kids before you found and wait until the kids are no longer newborns.

New comment by robwgibbons in "Show HN: My first web app, DailyDo.it"

robwgibbons — Sat, 19 May 2012 22:24:35 +0000

Great job. You've made a great app here :)

Only one suggestion for usability -- autofocus the "Add a task" input on page load, so the user can begin typing without an extra click upon arrival (think Google.) I think this convention works well with any app which expects text input as its immediate feature

New comment by robwgibbons in "Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?"

robwgibbons — Sat, 12 May 2012 21:22:13 +0000

Kill them with fire

New comment by robwgibbons in "HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS"

robwgibbons — Sat, 12 May 2012 04:29:46 +0000

This made me shoot my drink out of my nose

New comment by robwgibbons in "Entrepreneurs, The Clock Is Ticking On Your Career "

robwgibbons — Sat, 12 May 2012 03:21:53 +0000

Holy cow, quote of the night

New comment by robwgibbons in "Flashed Face Distortion Effect"

robwgibbons — Sat, 12 May 2012 03:09:41 +0000

I suspect it's the law of contrast

New comment by robwgibbons in "Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference"

robwgibbons — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:09:57 +0000

"Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated"

New comment by robwgibbons in "Ask HN: Would you donate your email signature..."

robwgibbons — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:39:16 +0000

Such as an embedded donation box?

New comment by robwgibbons in "Pythonect 0.2.0 release"

robwgibbons — Tue, 01 May 2012 05:58:53 +0000

I expected a Python Kinect wrapper

New comment by robwgibbons in "An employee, whose last name is Null, kills our employee lookup app"

robwgibbons — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:14:25 +0000

This is what bounties are for.

New comment by robwgibbons in "Show HN: iPG - YC Interview Simulator"

robwgibbons — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:40:59 +0000

Me too.

Ask HN: Calculating percentile rank by comparing your score against a benchmark?

robwgibbons — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:53:10 +0000

Article URL: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/135831/finding-percentile-by-comparing-score-against-benchmark

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3879084

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by robwgibbons in "It's definitely a bubble"

robwgibbons — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:21:48 +0000

This isn't a problem with hiring. For crying out loud, the founders of these companies aren't looking for jobs, they're founding companies. Larger companies are drooling over their customers, their products, and their people. There is a big difference.