dadude's comments

dadude | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Manual skills that pay well and can be self taught?

Plumbers that work with the brown stuff. Had a drain backup and the guy that showed up said it was $150 an hour. minimum 1 hour. As he was working he kept getting calls. He said he had 6 more calls that day for drain issues. The he was getting he had to schedule for the following day. Sometimes when im neck deep in tech crud for hours tracking down a problem or trying to cram in yet more "needed" features I sometimes wonder if ditch digging or working in the brown stuff would be much more rewarding. After all you can see the problem is resolved when your done with a plumbing or ditch issue. With IT you never really know if it will crop up again or not.

dadude | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the best domain registrar?

Hover. Private registration is free and no bullshit trying to sell you something while they force you through a bunch of pages. Plus their default TTL is 15 mins. Perfect while moving stuff. Try setting anything less than 2 hours on others.

dadude | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you use for password management and why?

1password on computer and iPhone. Generates strong password for every stupid site that wants a login and store it for easy use should I need to return to the site.

dadude | 10 years ago | on: Comcast switches on the first public gigabit cable modem

Fantastic!! Now their customers can exceed their data cap in 42 mins.

dadude | 10 years ago | on: Pixate (YC S12) and Google

Was on the "Check it out" list for IOS. Guess I can cross it off as Im sure IOS support will go first then the entire product later to the great google product graveyard.

http://www.wordstream.com/articles/retired-google-projects

dadude | 10 years ago | on: Apple Watch orders fell sharply after the first day and haven’t grown since

and yet you still can't buy one in a store and online orders are late June early July.

Someone doesn't have their facts correct and I don't think its Apple hiding stock somewhere to pretend they are selling out.

dadude | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: I was let go for writing about my depression. What should I do?

I would also guess that the reason you were let go had more to do with the admission of addiction history then the depression or the combination of both.

I would get some legal counsel and aim for some form of severance in combination with continued health benefits (if you had any) rather then lengthy litigation that will only add to your burden.

Good luck on your difficult journey.