smallegan's comments

smallegan | 9 years ago | on: Pricing Comparison: Cloud Hosts

Great marketing on Linode's part by adding in the Bandwidth to the cost. It is kind of the opposite of Tesla factoring in the rebates and other cost savings in their pricing. Linode is instead inflating competitors pricing assuming maximum bandwidth usage which wouldn't happen in most normal scenarios with a vm that size.

smallegan | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)

Grand Rapids, MI - Hiring Experienced .Net Web Developers. Experience in MVC, Angular JS, Knockout a huge plus. Rates are extremely competitive and the cost of living is low in Grand Rapids. Also if you love Craft Beer GR is the place to be! If you are interested in chatting about opportunities shoot me an e-mail (in profile).

smallegan | 11 years ago | on: Poll: How religious is hacker news?

I believe the way Mormonism differentiates itself from other forms of Christianity is the additional text (Book of Mormon) and the addition of Joeseph Smith as a prophet.

smallegan | 11 years ago | on: Poll: How religious is hacker news?

Fair enough but I figure it never hurts to ask if there is a chance at learning something new or interesting and the comments in this thread have proved interesting enough for me.

smallegan | 11 years ago | on: Poll: How religious is hacker news?

Good point, I guess that may have had a bit less controversy if it was only a couple of buckets. Also it is sad to see something core to our humanity moderated off the front page.

smallegan | 11 years ago | on: Why I don’t eat on Mondays

That depends on how many calories you are taking in. If you eat 5k calories a day and suddenly fast 1 day a week you aren't going to lose weight you will just stop gaining as quickly.

smallegan | 11 years ago | on: Why I don’t eat on Mondays

"I still try to adhere to a low carb diet, eating mainly meat and vegetables and severely limiting my intake of bread, pasta, rice and potatoes." - I think this is a much larger player in his weight loss success than he may realize.
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