andres

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by andres 17y ago
Thanks for the response - I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one experiencing these issues. I've read a lot of articles recommending MemcacheDB but none mention these issues. I wish the authors had actually tested MemcacheDB before writing a
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by andres 17y ago
I've had problems with MemcacheDB and I'm curious to hear about other people's experiences. Basically, I've found that under high read/write loads I get occasional socket timeouts (tested on linux/osx). I think the underlying reason for the
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Deep in Bedrock, Clean Energy and Quake Fears(nytimes.com)
2 points by andres 17y ago|0 comments
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by andres 17y ago
incidentally, i'm still using memcachedb to store sessions and it seems to be working fine. i think the abstraction leaks under high loads which lock the underlying database.
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Ask HN: Is MemcacheDB a leaky abstraction?
4 points by andres 17y ago|1 comments
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by andres 17y ago
the symmetric add/delete operations are actually: mystuff[4] = 'apple' del mystuff[4] i'm not saying it's very elegant, but it makes sense.
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John Resig - JavaScript Library Loading Speed(ejohn.org)
16 points by andres 18y ago|4 comments
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by andres 18y ago
I abandoned Protocol Buffers because the Python implementation was too slow. The problem is that Google hasn't written a C-extension yet because it wouldn't be compatible with AppEngine. It's a known problem that has gone undocumented. htt
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Storm - Python ORM from Canonical(storm.canonical.com)
4 points by andres 18y ago|3 comments
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by andres 18y ago
I think you're right that at best it is a dirty business practice and at worse it's a scam. I found a blog posting about an identical email that someone else had received ( http://www.jamesmaurer.com/domain-registration-scam.asp ).
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Cybersquatter Email
4 points by andres 18y ago|3 comments
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by andres 18y ago
I have noticed the same phenomenon in the black and hispanic community as wumi. I think PG's explanation is still valid though. Kids choose popularity over intelligence because becoming successful by being smart seems to be more difficult t
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by andres 18y ago
We were all doing physics before Octopart so we were pretty comfortable in a unix environment. I took a class in C as a sophomore in college and Sam took the same class in Java. When we decided we were going to start a company I had never h
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The True Story of a Script, Big Dreams and Vanishing Private Equity(nytimes.com)
1 points by andres 18y ago|0 comments
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by andres 19y ago
AND Harish! Who incidentally, is solely responsible for the ultra-fast attribute filters.
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by andres 19y ago
The entire thing is pretty funny - we never thought an electronic parts search engine would get on the front page of reddit. Here are the reddit stats: 4056 unique ips, ~10000 queries The reddit post also got us traffic from popurls.com (15
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by andres 19y ago
The problem is not that Digi-Key is ignoring Octopart, but that they are making frivolous legal claims in order to rack up Octopart's legal bills. Digi-Key is acting the same way Microsoft did when they sued Linux for patent infringement.
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by andres 19y ago
In an earlier post, I pointed out some price discrepancies between the electronic parts industry and the consumer electronics industry ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=168796 ). This is the evidence that I'm basing my assertion on. Inc
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by andres 19y ago
Digi-Key is considered evil because they are trying to kill Octopart in order to preserve their monopoly pricing. They are making the frivolous claim that Octopart is acting illegally when it displays public information and links back to th
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by andres 19y ago
The reason Paul is calling Digi-Key evil is because they are actively trying to kill Octopart in order to preserve their monopoly pricing, not because they won't cooperate. Octopart needs as much cooperation from Digi-Key as Google needs fr
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by andres 19y ago
Digi-Key is the largest small-volume distributor of electronic parts in the US. They do $1.2Bn per year in revenue of which $700M is done online. Their gross margins are about 50% and their business is growing at 20% per year. When Microsof
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by andres 19y ago
In addition to listing parts from Digi-Key and Mouser we've also started indexing more consumer oriented sites like Newegg. Where there is overlap between Digi-Key and Newegg, we've found that the distributors are 10%-100% more expensive. F
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by andres 19y ago
Personally, we don't view them as evil (or ourselves as good, for that matter). We have had good experiences ordering from Digi-Key as well. They have a lot of parts in stock and they ship things right away so we don't have any qualms with
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by andres 19y ago
how about a feature where a user can ban certain domains from showing up in their results? or a spam filter tailored to each individual user...
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by andres 19y ago
awesome! i'd love to hear what you think we should do with the site. (andres@octopart.com)
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by andres 19y ago
we really like mcmaster-carr's website as well. eventually octopart's website will be closer to that. first we have to aggregate a lot of technical data though. technical data is hard to come by because it is held tightly by a few companies
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by andres 19y ago
thanks! it was definitely difficult at points so we're really glad we stuck with it. paul's essay is right on.
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Octopart Traffic(octopart.com)
48 points by andres 19y ago|25 comments
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by andres 19y ago
Since there are a lot more degree holders than dropouts, it's probably mathematically true that there are more PhDs starting companies. I wonder what percentage of dropouts start companies vs. percentage of PhDs. That is basically what I wa
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by andres 19y ago
In practice, it's hard to completely change course and take on even more risk once you are finished with your Ph.D. Often it's the dropouts that start companies and the PhDs that join them. In Physics, a Masters typically means 2 years of c

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