andrewjshults

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by andrewjshults 15y ago
I haven't used mailgun's API (yet) but I worked on a fairly involved incoming email system that used sendgrid's parse API and I'm currently deciding between the two for another reply system. Sendgrid's parse API (in it's current state) is p
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Can't recommend Schwab enough. The no international ATM fees is amazing when traveling (especially if you are going between countries since you tend to get killed on those secondary conversions if you take out large sums). The only disappoi
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Rightscale scripts to provision new machines and Fabric to do the software deployments. We pushed a tarball up to S3, downloaded it to all the servers, untar the new deployment into a new directory, and then swap the symlinks/restart nginx
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
While I've seen the usual batch of tech early adopters, I've also seen a large number of high school and college friends that are not in tech who have accounts and are using them. Granted, it's nowhere near the facebook level of penetration
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
I'm a happy Schwab customer and an out of necessity BoA one. I keep the BoA account around because they're pretty much the only bank that actually has branches in all the cities I visit and sometimes need a physical branch (deposits and lar
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Having just done a C2DM implementation, the biggest factor would be that C2DM requires 2.2 or higher. I didn't fully explore how urban airship's helium works but they state support for 1.6 and higher. Beyond that, they also have a unified A
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
From my experience, it's probably your shoes. I've been using a standing desk for about a year and can definitely notice a difference in my feet dy to day depending on the shoes I'm wearing (personally, I find five fingers the most comforta
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
We're using a combo of the PHP version and the Ruby version and it's been working great for us (we migrated over from a custom queue on top of MySQL. The Sinatra based front-end is awesome for being able to monitor everything that's going o
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Do you have open/click tracking on the emails? If not you should either roll your own or use someone like sendgrid who can automate the process for you (depending on how many emails you send out, even the free tier of sendgrid might be enou
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
If they follow the HTC Evo design (basically non-existant borders) and drop the dedicated button area I could see them being able to squeeze a 4.5" screen into an almost the same sized package. It's thicker than an iPhone but the surface ar
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Debugging/security logs are probably one of the last things that I'd want to hand over to customers without some serious scrubbing first. Either on purpose or accidentally (backtraces, var dumps) I've found things that I wouldn't want turne
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Changing the ISO at time of exposure actually increase the amplification at the sensor level. Changing the exposure in post processing just shifts bits around (the advantage of RAW is that, depending on the camera, it captures between 12-16
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
This explanation is going to confuse non-photographers because for modern 35mm format lenses the difference between the maximum f-stop (which is purely the ratio between the focal length and the diameter of the aperture) and the maximum t-s
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Looks like it's currently just a beta signup page (at least that was all I got).
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
It's part of their new messaging system. They started rolling it out to developer accounts a few month ago and for a while you could invite other people to the new system. It look like they may be rolling it out more widespread now. You can
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
If it's self reported (which seems to be the case from the article, I could imagine that people reporting under 11 hours might be using different criteria for what they really consider sedentary activity compared to those that report over 2
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
The article author is the one that calls it fake. Invalid probably would probably be a better choice of words.
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Biggest problem I'm seeing (and understandably so) is that it doesn't handle in JS files that are inject after page load (such as all of ours are - http://frid.ge ) even if they are local. We do this for our cache busting routines (we curr
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by andrewjshults 15y ago
Even if you were in multiple AZs (we were, including a multi-AZ RDS deployment) there was a chance you where going to go down (which we did). Being in a different region entirely was the only "guarantee" that you wouldn't have gone down (wh
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
S3 + CloudFront (CDN). S3 is super easy to deal with programmatically and if you ever need to do batch operations from a GUI, there are "FTP" clients that can connect to S3. CloudFront is a nice bump up in performance for minimal increase i
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
The internet gets boring (relative) and you're almost guaranteed no distractions. The other time I've found for myself is on public transit (busses/trains) where I have imperfect internet (tethered 3/4G) which is enough for hitting third pa
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
Possibly using the open source platform, fairly unlikely on a hosted version. Why? I think it's almost certain that at some point I'm going to need some configuration or tweaks to the server side code that are application specific and canno
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
The google charts link at the top of the thread ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2419367 ) https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=150x150&cht=qr&#3... is served via HTTPS. Their docs don't officially acknowledge supporting HTTPS
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
The bright flash of daylight color temperature when the MacBook Pro's switch graphics cards is the only downside* that I've experienced using f.lux. After you've been using it for a while it's painful to use a computer without it at night.
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
It'd be great to have a signup waiting list for other areas (I passed the link around to a handful of friends and it's something we'd all be interested in trying out but we're all out in NYC).
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
A friend of mine does custom dress shirts ( http://propercloth.com/ ) and one of his solutions (besides the detailed measurements option) was to get base measurements from a whole range of retail shirts and let people pick a shirt that they
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
If you are working with location data, Mongo has built in geospatial indexing built in since 1.4 (earlier in the unstable builds) - http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Geospatial+Indexing which has been a big draw for a number of people I
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
Has anyone used the underlying recommendation service (or another similar service)? This definitely seems like it could be a huge time saver for a number of sites, but it's hard to tell from the site what people's impressions of the recomme
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
According to their tech talk about building it ( http://www.slideshare.net/mongosf/real-time-ecommerce-analyt... ), the original goal was to collect real time data to use in picking products for their gift page. I also heard that the other
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
At both JFK and EWR (Newark) the air trains are also the links out to NY/NJ mass transit (LIRR/Subway from JFK and NJT from EWR). I always thought/it's been my experience they were free for intra-terminal stops and you only had to pay if yo

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