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by al_james 9y ago
Ometria.com | London UK | FULL-TIME ONSITE | Several roles: Backend Python, Frontend Javascript, QA, Machine learning Ometria's mission is to help retailers create marketing experiences their customers will love. We understand the chal
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by al_james 9y ago
Ometria.com | London UK | FULL-TIME ONSITE | Several roles: Backend Python, Frontend Javascript, QA, Machine learning Ometria's mission is to help retailers create marketing experiences their customers will love. We understand the chal
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by al_james 9y ago
Ometria.com | London | Full time | ONSITE Ometria's mission is to help retailers create marketing experiences their customers will love. We understand the challenges that retailers face, and we offer them a very innovative solution tha
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by al_james 9y ago
Sadly it's a bit more complex than that. Because currently running different transactions may hold a view of the database as it was before the transaction commits, the actual view of what does can be reclaimed depends on what transact
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by al_james 9y ago
No exactly right. As Google seem to be getting more serious about attracting aws converts and dual cloud deployments (eg in built aws vpc peering) I wonder if they will offer some kind of cut price data transfer to aws networks. That would
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by al_james 10y ago
Can you talk about the tech stack you are using to power this?
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by al_james 12y ago
Congrats on shipping! I was at a party the other day and we needed a way to all contribute to the same youtub playlist. Now we have a solution!
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by al_james 13y ago
Can anyone give an overview of why this is different / better than raphaeljs [1]? [1] http://raphaeljs.com/
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by al_james 14y ago
You mean, "IOS 5 is dead for services that use mixpanel". These "trends" in no way tell the story of the wider internet or other device usage. Consider the "mobile v desktop" report [1], supposedly mobile usage fell off over the first few w
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by al_james 14y ago
If its being used for competitive price analysis, I wonder if any retail sites will simply block their crawler? I am assuming that they are (correctly) announcing their crawler by its user agent, so could be blocked via robots.txt.
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by al_james 14y ago
Lol, yes typo.
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by al_james 14y ago
Does that mean its a big bate and switch model? Get market share with cheap prices, destroy the competition then ramp up your prices.
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by al_james 14y ago
For me, trials only work if the price point at the end of the trial is attractive. Personally I would probably be more likely to sign up at $1.50/month than $9.99 / year.... I know its crazy, but it just seems less risk. I really think you
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by al_james 14y ago
I love the pricing scheme. Most web based services start at several dollars a month (probably because of card processing fees) or an expensive yearly signup. For a simple task app like this, I would not pay several dollars a month and a yea
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by al_james 14y ago
Wow. There have been many of these "Look what I can do in CSS" articles lately, and frankly, they are normally quite boring. However this is the first time I have ever gone "wow". Very impressive. Quite useless really, but good work.
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by al_james 14y ago
Seems like a very misleading title. Surly it should be "MySQL now supports the memcache protocol for simple NoSQL-style access on InnoDB tables". As far as I can make out, the memcached server software itself is not included in MySQL right?
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by al_james 14y ago
Detailed discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4321603
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by al_james 14y ago
Seen a couple of startup's sites go down when they make the HN homepage lately, and both seem to be using node.js (according to the error messages). Not dissing node.js, but maybe its the wrong tool for the job.. Just use a static site for
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by al_james 14y ago
Yes, nice to see there is not a huge mark-up for the UK prices. $199 is £127 + 20% tax = £152... Close enough.
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by al_james 14y ago
...and I still dont know I want it even after looking at their page. ...Next...
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by al_james 14y ago
Cool. When the spec is published, I may have time to contribute a PHP client.
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by al_james 14y ago
Looks very convenient. Are their any plans for other language support (in particular on the client side). Ruby and PHP client libraries would be useful.
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by al_james 14y ago
Laravel[0] is good IMO. Seems to have a good community as well. [0] http://laravel.com/
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by al_james 14y ago
Excellent! Good work! Side note: IMO, If you want to completely dominate this space, make it super easy to add new nodes and replicate the existing DB without having to take a snapshot from the master.
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by al_james 14y ago
Yes, its not clear on their site, but the gigaom article states: "As its name implies, MemSQL achieves its fast performance in part by keeping data in memory". Yes, it does write to disk (append only logging I think) but my point was, that
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by al_james 14y ago
I think its that its an in memory database, optimised for memory as opposed to disk. The SQL to C++ seems a bit of a confusion to me, I guess it means it has a JIT SQL compiler to optimise the query to native opcodes. Meh. But the in memory
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by al_james 14y ago
Looks useful. Drop in mysql compatibility is a huge plus for many projects that are tied to mysql (for whatever reasons). Does anyone know if there are any plans for having MongoDB style replica sets (e.g. sharded and replicated databases i
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by al_james 14y ago
Arh yes. Thats almost exactly what I was talking about. I think its a good idea, although getsatisfaction's implementation (language, high fee to remove competing ads) is not great.
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by al_james 14y ago
How do you mean? Maybe I misunderstand what getsatisfaction is.... could I go there are report a bug on hacker news for example even if hacker news have not joined getsatisfaction?
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by al_james 14y ago
Yes thats interesting. In fact stackoverflow is an example of what I mean. Even if the service provider does not choose to use stackoverflow for issue tracking, people will still ask questions (and indirectly report bugs) because of the com

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