andrewjshults

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by andrewjshults 16y ago
I think it also depends a lot on where you are. Being a NYC based company (and that NYC is a high population density city) I've found it useful here (both with people I actually know on it as well as a quick way to look up tips about places
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
I'm sure that Mint would love for banks to setup an oAuth type authorization system with real APIs (I can't imagine getting around login systems and screen scraping is something they like doing). However, given that some of my banks still d
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
Interesting writeup. The thing it seems to not address is that a different sharding model might have not worked for foursquare's data access needs. In this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1769982 HN post harryh alludes to the fact tha
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
In an open office configuration it's pretty nice. I have a "standing" desk at Dogpatch NYC (it's really just the standard Ikea desk all the way up + a printer box for my laptop) and beyond the general standing benefits (more mobility, less
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
Has anyone seen this in stores yet? For $100 it'd be fun just to hack with (both the software and the hardware, since I doubt that you could get all of those components for cheaper). Also, I love that the screenshot shows the browser with a
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
While you can probably indemnify yourself against legal responsibility of a photographer not getting a model release, based on your target photographers (teens and twenty somethings taking photos with camera phones i.e. in a hurry), this is
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
I think that this is spot on. I currently use a high resolution 15" MPB as my main development machine (with an external monitor at the office and at home) but would be interested in the MBA for carrying between the two instead and for trav
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
They might be referring to Mongo writing data into memory rather than requiring that it be written to disk before responding success (in its default configuration) or that Mongo uses memory mapped files (and tries to uses as much memory as
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
Vin (of Yipit) has a similar blog post ( http://viniciusvacanti.com/2010/09/cant-find-a-technical-co-... ) but from the perspective of someone who actually just got down into it and wrote the entire site. While not uniquely a NYC problem, i
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
Or using the command line version of PHP and GNU Screen (I haven't fully studied the code, but it looks similar to a queue system that I hacked together a couple of days ago where the worker is wrapped in a while(TRUE) loop). In the interes
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
As long as the horrible Java updater that the Windows version is saddled with doesn't come along as well. I've switched to using a MBP as my primary development machine but every time I start my windows boxes back up (which isn't that infre
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
From Netflix's own site they currently have around 15 million subscribers and from the world bank, there are about 230 million people with internet in the US so about 6% of the internet users are taking up 20% of the peak bandwidth (assumin
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
Creative Suite is decently integrated (as long as you stay consistent within the version numbers, importing older projects into newer versions has a nasty tendency to make them no longer backwards compatible unless you specifically re-save
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
Ignoring the gaping holes in the engineering side of the argument (because clearly there is you use the AJAX "language" to make calls to a magic blackbox that handles all of the data storage, notifications, business logic, etc), the UI/UX a
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
Are you sure that's not because Pandora is part of Facebook's instant personalization program ( http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/04/27/a-look-at-facebooks... )?
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
I would assume that they require that your Amazon account be associated with a credit card before signing you up for AWS. Regardless, I do think it's too bad that they just don't extend this to everyone (if you're already using AWS it's not
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
I think more importantly it ignores the networking effect that being in the general undergraduate program has. While I'm sure that people who attend the GS type programs at the various top universities are bright, you don't generally get to
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
I had a very similar experience, although it ended up being that the only reason I didn't reconnect my PC's DVD drive is that I ended up using my macbook pro for ripping DVDs. If you live within the apple world (itunes) this becomes even le
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
Completely agree - looking back at some of the code I wrote in PHP3 there were huge issues with the language but it was more that I had no idea what I was doing than an inherent problem in the language (granted, PHP5 is lightyears ahead of
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
The "how will you make money" question got "banned" about a year ago (from my understanding) because it was getting asked of every company (which is fair) and given the amount of time presenters have, the on-stage answers were always really
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by andrewjshults 16y ago
How does it handle complexly formatted documents? That's one of my main complaints of Google Docs (and main reason why I still use Office 2007 for all of my "serious" word processing needs).