TheSmoke

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by TheSmoke 15y ago
it is definitely both cool and exciting but depressing and stressing as well. i think every developer should have this experience at some point of their carrier.
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by TheSmoke 15y ago
as i have said in the disclaimer, i'm definitely not bashing or blaming mongodb for anything. when you read it, you will see that i have done a 30K/sec load testing. the url it was pointed at was doing writes to mongodb. it opened every con
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by TheSmoke 15y ago
i have written all these because i have made these mistakes so someone in a similar situation does not. it's not about courage, it's knowing yourself. when you do stupid things, you have to acknowledge so you don't do them the very next tim
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by TheSmoke 15y ago
i've checked how many pageviews we've got the very next day, it's >100K as well. that's without caching. i have not observed any problems that day. the real deal here is handling such jump in a very few seconds. and yes, increasing ulim
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by TheSmoke 15y ago
this was a reason specific to our stupidity. why on earth would someone keep connections open for 2.5 hours? how he misses this setting? my point in this is, if you have something that balance connections between servers, check if it kills
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by TheSmoke 15y ago
apache had not fallen first because netscaler is load balancing between 26 web servers and they are already pre-configured for all these heavy load.
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A Depressive Journey With MongoDB(mengu.net)
105 points by TheSmoke 15y ago|60 comments
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by TheSmoke 15y ago
what happened to convore?
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by TheSmoke 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote i'm a web developer, currently working for one of turkey's top visited web sites with the following skills: * Python (Django, Pyramid, TurboGears 2) * Ruby (Ruby on Rails) * Groovy (Grails) * PHP * JavaScript * MySQL (
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by TheSmoke 15y ago
heroku used to be a ruby paas. calling it a ruby paas or primary ruby paas is not fair as now it supports node.js, clojure, java and python along with ruby.
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by TheSmoke 15y ago
pyramid is also following you there however you are right on causing confusion.
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by TheSmoke 15y ago
mothers, in my belief, are the most beautiful, most precious creations. i felt your mourning in my heart. my condolences.
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by TheSmoke 15y ago
don't forget to check out what's new at http://grails.org/doc/2.0.0.M1/guide/introduction.html#whats... .
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Grails 2.0.0M1 is available(grails.org)
5 points by TheSmoke 15y ago|1 comments
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by TheSmoke 15y ago
there are totally unfair comments to django, django committers and the django users. having used many tools such as grails, rails, django, pylons, turbogears and pyramid for different size of projects and loving them all i have a good amoun
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by TheSmoke 15y ago
1 with Ruby on Rails and 1 with Pyramid.
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by TheSmoke 16y ago
Definitely a great service. Wish you guys luck!
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by TheSmoke 16y ago
if people know it, they'll read it. otherwise, you are wasting your time if your primary goal to share the knowledge with other people and not keeping notes to yourself.
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by TheSmoke 16y ago
agree with scala. you'll enjoy it.
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by TheSmoke 16y ago
well, one of my reasons is reasonable and other is not. - i'm very far away from the US. - my brother didn't agree with me on appyling to YC.
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by TheSmoke 16y ago
uhm, reddit? :)
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by TheSmoke 16y ago
there, there.
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by TheSmoke 16y ago
i liked it, i really liked it. the first thing i've searched is "django" and i got an awesome result. :) congratulations and wish you all the best.
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by TheSmoke 16y ago
i'm using terminator as my terminal which lets me split my terminal windows. As my programming editor I use vim with nerdtree and bunch of other plugins. Ubuntu is my distro.
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by TheSmoke 16y ago
me and my brother have decided to learn wing chun. seems very interesting.
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by TheSmoke 16y ago
Well, actually if you were a "young rich Arab muslim", then you'd enter without any problems. :) I have a suggestion, not about entering USA. From what I have observed, many of non-US based successful start-ups are domestic projects and the
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by TheSmoke 16y ago
Lovely Turkey.
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by TheSmoke 16y ago
Python - for web development and some various jobs I need done and I'm using it at work. D - for cross platform desktop applications I'm developing. Learning Scala for the future and planning to use Vala for GTK apps.
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by TheSmoke 16y ago
I was just about to ask if you've built the app with django. :)
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by TheSmoke 16y ago
I hope this works for other countries as putting my code out there didn't help me, in Turkey, for over 10 companies I have applied but I should note that this is the reason why I have a job now. If you are interviewing with the start-up fou

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