andrewvc

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   String Searches in Redis using Sorted Sets(pythonik.blogspot.com)

   2 points by andrewvc 16y ago|0 comments
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   by andrewvc 16y ago

   I think that advice flies in the face of best practices. 1. Your dev box isn't supposed to be very similar to production, this is why you have staging servers. My dev boxes have weird tooling and debug tools. They also run all services on a
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   by andrewvc 16y ago

   Jason, we're currently looking to add a third engineer here at VOKLE in Santa Monica, the work's mostly Ruby / Rails, and we've been looking for someone experienced in that area, but given the quality of the Mahalo engineers I have met, I'm
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   by andrewvc 16y ago

   You are entirely right. In my mind use asynchronous for what it is good for, but use as little as possible. Delegate app logic to a synchronous threaded worker pool unless you absolutely cannot.
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   by andrewvc 16y ago

   Maybe. I've met a damn large number of openly sexist engineers though, so I'm not sure how true it is.
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   by andrewvc 16y ago

   I remember trying to get a quote / get a few details about buying large quantities of bandwidth from Joyent a couple years back. They consistently took days to answer simple questions via email. I generally take it that if a company can't e
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   by andrewvc 16y ago

   Errrm, I'm going to bitch about this. This is a great article to stumble across in google. But front page material?
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   by andrewvc 16y ago

   If you find this interesting, you might also be interested in DripDrop( https://github.com/andrewvc/dripdrop ), which is an alternate approach to the fusion of ZeroMQ, HTTP, and WebSockets. It's not a general purpose web server, but targe
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   by andrewvc 16y ago

   lol, very funny pete :)
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    It's a live discussion of current HN topics! It's a live discussion of current HN topics! Since it's on Vokle, viewers can join me in the discussion using their own webcams, or submit text questions.
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    Hacker Chat #3 Live Broadcast 7:15PM PST(vokle.com)

    3 points by andrewvc 16y ago|3 comments
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    An Atomic Rant(nateware.com)

    2 points by andrewvc 16y ago|0 comments
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    I spent a week in Montreal a few months ago, I'm an American and speak no french at all, and I didn't have any issues. All in all, I found it a pretty cool place to spend time, and somewhere I'd consider moving. I even spent a day at a pret
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    The difference is isolation. If I accidentally rm a file on a RAID, which is redundant, but not a backup, it's gone for good. Backups protect you by providing a distinct interface to >= 2 copies of a piece of data, this provides greater
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    This complaint is kind of like complaining about people going to dance clubs to socialize and hook up rather than dance. OP, I'd suggest you accept the current state of affairs, or start your own event focused on what you want to do. Why ra
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    The first one was, but it was really crappy, my home net connection ruined the recording (basically the stream kept resetting so the whole show sucked). We should have a recording of this one. I'll post any updates regarding this to: @andre
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    This is a live community discussion, so we can put your webcam up on screen! We'll be discussing recent HN topics live, and facilitating audience discussion. Since this is broadcast on Vokle, audience members can be edited into the broadcas
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    Hacker Chat #2 at 7 PST(vokle.com)

    13 points by andrewvc 16y ago|7 comments
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    Thanks to all who joined! That same link will work for our next broadcast later this week as well.
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    I'll be discussing the HN front page, live, and taking both text and video questions as well! Since the event is hosted on vokle.com any viewer can ask questions live via their webcam, as text, or speak in a chat room.
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    Live video chat show with other HN readers today at 5PST(vokle.com)

    10 points by andrewvc 16y ago|3 comments
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    Except that algorithm isn't lru
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    Yeah, I agree it's unbelievable stupid. that was meant as a tongue in cheek statement, hence the 'yeah, I know' at the end. OKCupid used to use tokens fwiw.
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    Iirc okcupid would let you login with one click via email via a token. I'm fairly sure they stopped doing this a while ago. A much better solution, with a better experience as well. Neither way is ideal, but making it easier to login probab
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    Pof has to store passwords in plaintext, sine they include it intentionally in a weekly email reminding you to login.. Yes. I know. At any rate, anyone who has actually used pof can tell its been hacked together by substandard developers. N
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    MessagePack is up to 4x faster* than protobuf, and easier to work with btw IMHO. http://msgpack.org/ I used it as the native format for DripDrop ( https://github.com/andrewvc/dripdrop ) * In Some tests
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    Live broadcast of LA Hacker News Meetup(vokle.com)

    31 points by andrewvc 16y ago|4 comments
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    Can't make it to the event? We'll be broadcasting LIVE via webcast[1] using Vokle. Speakers and topics: . John Buckman will be speaking founding companies, and various things he's learned as the founder of numerous successful startups. . Am
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    LA Hacker News Meetup is this Saturday. Live Webcast Available(meetup.com)

    21 points by andrewvc 16y ago|1 comments
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    by andrewvc 16y ago

    Have you tried manually calling GC.start with rmagick