carrollgt91's comments

carrollgt91 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?

I'll second Waking Up - I've been interested in mindfulness meditation for years, and this book is what finally helped frame it in a way that went down nicely for me.

I sometimes enjoy the podcast by the same name as well, though the conversations are more hit or miss.

carrollgt91 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?

The Power of Vulnerability, by Brené Brown.

Given the amount of imposter syndrome, internalized shame, and unhealthy posturing that I've seen in the startup space, it seems especially relevant for folks here. This really changed my relationship towards vulnerability as a leader.

Also, it's quite entertaining. She's very charming in her delivery, and she does a good job exemplifying her findings in the presentation of the book.

It's actually an audio seminar, as opposed to a written book, but I think it's delivered far more effectively that way.

carrollgt91 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)

Satchel Health | front-end | full-stack | Nashville, TN | full-time, on-site | VISA | www.satchelhealth.com | $70k + stock

Satchel Health is a technology company focused on making health care the most accessible it has ever been. We integrate video conferencing, diagnostic medical devices, and dynamic clinical workflows to connect patients in post-acute care facilities with healthcare providers around the country. By enabling providers to care for patients remotely, we keep patients healthy and out of the hospital. Our platform helps our customers build better outcomes for their patients, support their clinicians, and improve their operations.

Required skills:

2+ years experience building and maintaining substantial web applications

Significant skill in your programming language of choice

Willingness and excitement to own a substantial piece of an impactful product

If you're interested, send me an email at [email protected]

carrollgt91 | 10 years ago | on: Advanced Mesos Course

I can't speak for Kubernetes, as I haven't tried it, but we've just started the migration to using Mess/Marathon for infrastructure management.

Following this course will give you a solid foundation for debugging issues, and as has been mentioned, the logs are surprisingly useful for that task. Once we got the packages installed on the cluster, we tested various ways we could imagine it failing (application failing, docker container failing, image restarting, image dying, etc.) and found it pretty intuitive to fix most issues. Sometimes, the fix is necessarily outside of dcos - you'll need to set up an autoscaling group to ensure you always have the proper number of nodes running. You'll need to set up VPCs to ensure your public/private slaves are actually public and private. You'll need to tag those instances as they're launching so Marathon will know they're public/private respectively.

Assuming your team is pretty ops-savvy, I'd say dcos is surprisingly simple to manage and debug, and this advanced course does a great job of walking you through the entire stack of technologies used.

carrollgt91 | 12 years ago | on: Learn AngularJS with free interactive lessons

Great tutorial. I love these interactive lessons, but one thing I'd love to see in this tutorial (and many others like it) is something that Michael Hartl does in railstutorial.org, which is an extra credit section.

In the later sections of the tutorial, the addition of some suggestions for extending each example would be great. You don't need any "stuck" functionality or anything like that here; just some casual examples of how else you could use the subject of the tutorial would really help solidify the concepts.

carrollgt91 | 12 years ago | on: "Let me know how I can help" – a proposal to HN

I've been working on some web programming with a coworking space in Nashville, TN that has a focus on artists and creatives. I think they would be interested in your service.

I can't provide feedback on their behalf, really, but I'd be happy to introduce you to them.

Also, I really love the idea of the HMO meme. The rate problems can be solved when pushed to a distributed, diverse audience such as HN is amazing.

carrollgt91 | 12 years ago | on: Incubators are Bullshit

I don't think it's a description of many of the top incubators.

As a graduate of the Jumpstart Foundry in Nashville, TN, I can't say how useful a summer of paid entrepreneurial focus and education changed my life.

Also, the alumni support is fantastic. I know YC takes care of it's grads well, and JSF is definitely the same way.

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