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by andrewvc 16y ago
This will be our first meetup, so join in on the initial discussion for what we hope to be a monthly fixture!
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The Los Angeles Hacker News Meetup is this Saturday(groups.google.com)
38 points by andrewvc 16y ago|21 comments
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Title is misleading, he was using the unstable dev branch. There's no evidence here that the stable branch does this.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
One thing they really need to do, is have servers ready to serve a better error page. On servers I maintain, if there's an outage, and it looks like it may be awhile, I have an outage page I can put up. Sites being down is bad enough, but a
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by andrewvc 16y ago
They've had a lot of down time lately, they really need to figure out something as far as contingency plans.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
This is the problem with ALL health insurance, national or not. Unless everyone starts paying for everything out of pocket, some will take more than their 'share'. To make a larger point, the problems of others are your problems as well. If
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Interesting, however, it reminds me of an interview I saw of outsider independent filmmaker Errol Morris on 60 minutes[1]. When asked if he wishes he could win an Oscar for his work, he never has, Morris quickly replied 'of course', and we
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Where I live, Los Angeles, U turns are only allowed in intersections. I'd gladly trade you.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
This is more like the guide to a bad geek stereotype. Seriously, gems like Geeks tend towards packaged, junk foods just made me shake my head. Especially funny given how many diet and exercise articles show up on hacker news. As another e
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by andrewvc 16y ago
This tech talk is an in depth look at their CPU design process http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uljtqyBLxI
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Wouldn't it suck if you were some kid with a lot of ambition, and some huge ideas, who tried to bite off more than he or she could handle, all while the world watched and encouraged you? Wouldn't it suck if you felt a real obligation to se
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by andrewvc 16y ago
How ugly do non-regex based email validation functions look? I've never seen one, but I've always wondered if that was a more elegant solution.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Cool, welcome!
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by andrewvc 16y ago
There's already been interest expressed by about 5 other HNers, if you'd like to meet some of your fellow LA dwelling HN readers, join the discussion with the group!
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Any HNers in Los Angeles interested in a meetup?(groups.google.com)
4 points by andrewvc 16y ago|3 comments
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I didn't see any Los Angeles meetups in there, so I added one, if anyone's interested, leave a comment here: http://blog.andrewvc.com/los-angeles-hacker-news
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I expect what any reasonable person who just invested $170k in a group of four strangers with vague plans and no proof of concept would expect.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Good to hear, but that algorithm isn't LRU, and LRU makes more sense when backing a cache.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I think you nailed it. I'll add to that though. often, when people die (and _why did in a sense die), people view everything they did through rose colored lenses. I'm with the majority in HNers in this thread so far, still in awe of _why, h
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by andrewvc 16y ago
With spiders of course. The cows will be somewhat harder to remove.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Didn't work 10 min ago, works now for me.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
The proposition that we should end a matter of opinion 'once and for all' makes absolutely no sense. Submitter, you do realize human nature doesn't work this way, yes?
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Agreed, node development is going at a breakneck pace, but you should count on your code not working 6 months down the line without at least as few tweaks. BTW, the new Buffer objects are awesome, and provide massive speed increases with bi
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by andrewvc 16y ago
My company's a paying customer and we migrated from EY to Heroku. I think they're roughly comparable but the deal breakers for me were Postgres, Addons, and the Git Workflow.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I'm guessing this is what caused the Heroku outage on May 4.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
That's true, I agree 100%. I'd add to that though, if you're a small company sometimes you must recognize that a larger 3rd party can use scale to provide a more reliable service than you can.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Agreed, my point was google should just integrate straight lines into maps, not make a drag-able scale.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
What about how heroku is designed would require re-engineering if you move it elsewhere? Rails + SQL + Memcached = the most standard stack you can build, aside from the fact that they use Postgres. Most of the addons aren't too hard to setu
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Because the correct feature would be a line tool that tells you the distance between two points. You can actually use gmaps-pedometer to do this (set it to straight line mode): http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/ , it'll also show you an eleva
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I think you're exaggerating / misinformed. I'm a heroku customer, and I dealt with the pain of this outage earlier this week. status.heroku.com had all the info about it. If you want more detail you can just submit a request to support, whi

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