bennylope

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Comment · 4 years ago
I noticed this trying to get to the Heroku homepage, then checking another couple Heroku hosted sites I know of. Neither this nor the prior DNS issue affected our applications using CloudFront however.
Comment · 4 years ago
This is the same path we're on. Migrated to Crunchy a month ago or so to remove the major migration risk and are using Render to host an auxiliary service while our core application remains on Heroku. Haven't yet done any non-toy deployments on Fly.io or Railway but I very much like Render's Blueprints and environment groups.
Comment · 4 years ago
The patterns aren't licensed for a single pair of shorts.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
> As others have said, I don't really get the fascination with LaTeX.

I have gone down this path with other types of documents (reports, proposals) not because I love LaTeX but because I hate composing and editing in Word, etc. Especially for long lived or repeated documents. Some of those tech clients might just prefer working with plain text for editing, source control, and/or version branching.

Comment · 5 years ago
Capital One customer here! This is interesting to hear. Capital One's website is easily one of, if not the most annoying bank website I've engaged with in memory, inclusive of behemoths like BofA, regional banks, and a local credit union.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
> Many places require you to deprecate assets such as computers over many years, so the deductions are not all taken out of your profit the year you buy them

It's likely that in some accounting regimes you have to to this, but in my own experience with a small business in the US, multiple accountants have simply depreciated assets like our computers immediately. When I originally questioned this our CPA said we could depreciate it over several years but it wasn't necessary in our case (small enough [asset] value and lifetime) and not worth it.

As it stands I imagine if someone is spending $1,000 per year on "servers" these are non-depreciable cloud service expenses.

Comment · 6 years ago
Don't forget that it's nitrogen fixing, too!
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
In the US you are required to have your drivers license while driving, but I do not believe there are any blanket requirements (since it would vary from state to state) that you must be able to furnish identifying documents at all times.
Comment · 7 years ago
I think the reason GP and LP weren't defined is that they're abbreviations for common[ish] terms that apply to partnerships generally, not specifically to venture capital or finance.
Comment · 7 years ago
My first real experience with sleep deprivation was when I was 12 1/2. My friends and I stayed up all night and sometime the next afternoon decided to go for a short hike. I made it down the street and then realized I was tired and said I was going back to the house. Next I knew I was sitting at the kitchen table with a Dr. Pepper in front of me, surrounded by my friend's parents and the rest of my buddies. Apparently I had been walking around the house talking to myself, and I still have vague recollections of being pursued by my 7th grade journalism teacher demanding that I name the world's oceans.

I try not to stay awake that long anymore.

Comment · 7 years ago
Yeah, I think I've mixed something up.

I was [lightly] researching this a few weeks back and am pretty sure I found that the net effect of the final ruling was that for the purpose of enforcing regulations [any] city could mark tires, and that because it the outside of the vehicle on public property it was not trespass...

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