andrewvc

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   by andrewvc 15y ago

   Interesting article on learning to shoot but.... To me, taking SLRs everywhere turns you from a participant to a documentarian. Additionally, and I say this as a former professional assistant and current serious amateur, SLRs for family stu
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   by andrewvc 15y ago

   Ah HTML w/ a Silverlight fallback.... What's the usecase for this?
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   by andrewvc 15y ago

   I'm on my Android handset, and this thing doesn't work at all for me.
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   by andrewvc 15y ago

   Actually, IntelliJ's tools do pretty good autocompletion for javascript. Not perfect, but much better than you'd expect.
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   by andrewvc 15y ago

   Any reasonable dev knows that version numbers are useless until you know the process and history behind them. You should have a healthy amount of fear before commiting to a brand new to the market db, regardless of 1.0 status. There are pla
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   by andrewvc 15y ago

   Your post only mentions two people a CEO and a developer. No CTO or technical founder is mentioned.
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   by andrewvc 15y ago

   And who built that team? Who hired and managed those dozens of devs? Often times its engineer #1. Also, who picked the stack? You're selling technology short on HN of all places.
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   by andrewvc 15y ago

   You can't throw a stick around here without hitting someone who has tried Unity and hated it Maybe, but I, and a good number of other people really like it. There's sizable support for unity, and my guess is a lot of non-power users (who
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   by andrewvc 15y ago

   So the takeaway here is to be wary of the amount of effort those driven more by passion than finance can have? I don't see much new here. I'm always disappointed by these counter-intuitive link-bait titles.
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    What a cool and elegant way of publishing a tiny gem! However, I will say that I personally prefer to stay away from gems like this, as they add indirection, and make projects confusing for new devs. I would say that bang :calculate_sco
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    I have to wonder why so many presentations have 'X sucks, I say use Y which rocks' as an attitude. Negativity doesn't really sell me on much. I realize he has just grievances against multi-json and couch-rest, but really that kind of attitu
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    One good reason to use Redis with snapshotting to disk instead of Memcached. Even if ALL your cache servers go down, you'll at least have the reheat load distributed among a cluster of cache servers in a super-efficient direct memory dump r
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    This is why Redis / *SQL is my favored stack. It just covers so many bases, you get things like safe queuing, caching, pub/sub, and weird high-performance low-durability cases from Redis, and great, safe relational support from SQL. For bes
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    Not really, since nothing is guaranteed to be on .xxx. If there was a requirement that people be forced onto .xxx you'd be correct, but people are going to be doing deep inspection anyway if they actually care about blocking content.
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    Regardless of your opinion of adult content, this stuff makes far less practical sense than things like RTA labeling http://www.rtalabel.org/ . All that RTA requires is a simple meta tag, and it's free. Content filters abide by it, and it
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    zsh `vimtab ~/.zshrc`
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    Or even alias vimtab="gvim -f --remote-tab-silent" in your .bashrc, .zshrc or equivalent
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    For those wondering about the differences between 4:2:2 and 4:2:0, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling#4:2:0
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    Yep, private github repos work fine
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    So, both MongoDB and Redis are DB's optimized for keeping stuff heavily in memory. I wouldn't use either for heavy logging. RRDTool is nice, but only for data where you don't mind losing records. For straight logging, SQL is actually a bett
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    I thought it was going to turn out that Michael Ian Black was behind lulzec.
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    Well, yeah, but if you perform financial transactions, you can't just lose 5 minutes of history. Also, for a DB, LVM's probably just as good as a full VM.
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    My only question: how is this better than syslog?
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    I've been watching people up/down vote this comment. I don't see the controversy here, I gave an opinion, perhaps the fact that I'm biased is the issue, but I hardly see why that deserves a downvote.
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    Seems like a less polished version of the kind of shows we facilitate on http://www.vokle.com . For an example of the kind of interaction we allow for http://www.vokle.com/events/19937-its-going-down
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    I read that one, it was a bunch of anecdotes and hearsay. There wasn't much substantive there.
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    OK, so, once again the SD meetup rockets to the front page of HN, then accrues no further votes. Not surprising, clearly they are coordinating their voting. This brings to light the issue that other meetups (I run the LA one) don't put the
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    Full of hustle, Los Angeles tech takes on Silicon Valley(venturebeat.com)

    14 points by andrewvc 15y ago|5 comments
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    Ah yes, I love nothing more than functions on the left side of assignment. Edit: Yes, it is a special form, but its still irregular, and that makes it shitty.
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    by andrewvc 15y ago

    Well, if it was on HN, then it must be true :) But LA is where media is, tons of opportunities are here.