TimothyFitz

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Create music in a petri dish(dev.seaquence.org)
1 points by TimothyFitz 17y ago|0 comments
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Love that this presentation really nails the fact that continuous deployment is effectively a side-effect of truly integrating Dev and Ops. (At IMVU our VP of Operations is also our VP of Engineering)
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
He's confusing clicks with visits, which is probably the largest source of his discrepancy. In a nutshell clicks are a count of times a browser requests a page while visits are unique browser sessions: http://www.google.com/support/googlea
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the purpose of the job fair. In my mind, most programmers aren't great at walking up to 20 random new people; it's draining for people who aren't naturally social (I know it's draining for me). Flipping up th
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Reverse job fair Jan 16th: Job seekers have tables, recruiters walk around.(hackerdojo.pbworks.com)
54 points by TimothyFitz 17y ago|25 comments
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
This is a summary of cryptographic hashes being broken via cryptanalysis (breaking the algorithm), not RSA keys (big primes) being factored. I'd love to see the same chart but for prime factorization.
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Everyone underestimates the impact of removing the right 10 minutes from a process.
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
This is a great study of "what does an average gamer have?", for "what does an average casual game player have?" the unity hardware study is great http://unity3d.com/webplayer/hwstats/ Of note, a around 35-40% of unity users have Intel gr
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Did the rules change to allow running code not bundled with the application or did this slip through Apple's review process?
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Well, that explains my disbelief. Thanks!
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Yeah, I have absolutely no idea why Web Sockets aren't just an initial HTTP request and then a protocol switch (Upgrade header); that would work for the vast majority of proxies and make cookies/same domain/etc work seamlessly.
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Half.com (ebay) has it for $30 http://product.half.ebay.com/Peopleware_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ6570... It's probably worth the $95 anyway.
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
This is exactly why I don't read other people's A/B experiment results. I haven't seen a single A/B experiment that listed it's statistical significance (and how that was calculated). I fear that bad data is worse than no data at all.
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Expandrive (Flawless SSHFS for Windows)(expandrive.com)
1 points by TimothyFitz 17y ago|0 comments
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
IMVU Inc. is hiring: http://bit.ly/6XTJ5r Work in entertainment (profitably!) on fun problems with an amazing architecture and amazing development process.
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Apple is personally responsible, they bought out the company that created the original (or at least first commercially succesful one) http://www.fingerworks.com/ST_product.html You can pick them up on ebay but they're now quite old and ex
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Specific numbers (that I used to push for their purchase at IMVU): Cold-disk grep of the entire codebase: HDD 110s, SSD 7s Cold-disk svn no-op update: HDD 140s, SSD 14s
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Shipping the prototype as production code and not maintaining, fixing, rewriting or deleting it would be reckless debt.
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
This basically already exist(ed): http://www.fingerworks.com/ST_product.html Apple bought them up and stopped making their products (but we got multitouch on the iPhone, an interesting trade-off).
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
From talking to him recently in person, he's just super busy with his startup, which is taking off: http://saucelabs.com/
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
See also http://www.scriptlets.org/ . Similar idea, but implemented on top of AppEngine and opensource. Designed to give you persistent URLs to run your code so you can use them as webhooks, etc.
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter.com
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
I was unaware the cafepress version was $10 cheaper (I overpaid!). This book is worth it at any price, via any link :)
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
These posts are a summary-level intro to Steve's book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0976470705?ie=UTF8&tag=...
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Continuous Deployment in depth (video from SF Selenium meetup)(saucelabs.com)
1 points by TimothyFitz 17y ago|0 comments
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
I wasn't trying to claim you don't understand python, simply that the only way to be CPU bound on multiple cores with a single python process (as is claimed) is to be running non-pure python code that unlocks the GIL before doing CPU intens
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Ahh yes, I'm familiar (though not familiar enough) with project Xanadu. The concept of keeping track of derivations is fairly common; far less common is the idea of derivation for the express purpose of indicating participation in the value
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
I think we're agreeing. As I do for all blogs, I just assumed the courtesy implicit prelude: "This is my opinion shaped by my experiences and most likely only applies to the system I'm currently interacting with." I mostly agree with his sw
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Which book are you referring to? I wasn't the one who came up with the idea for this feature. The initial version of IMVU had this feature, so it's at least 5 years old.
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
I think his point is that scaling up on the web is a solved problem, which is mostly true. If you look at most startup's pitch/plan the biggest risks are not in technology. Steve Blank would say there's Market Risk (will your customers want

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