apinstein

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   by apinstein 13y ago

   Everpix team: sorry to hear that the runway ended before you could take off. It is a great idea, but with such tough competition for user acquisition (esp free competition in the B2C space), it's easy to see how customer growth couldn&
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   by apinstein 13y ago

   TourBuzz ( http://www.tourbuzz.net ) - Atlanta, GA - Full-Time - Local. - Lead Software Developer/Architect - Customer Advocate Our 8-person team has carved out a profitable niche in the real estate photography industry over
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   by apinstein 13y ago

   +1 I got sick of not having a unified way of managing auto-rebuiding across the variety of tools I use (compass, coffescript, closure compiler, rake, etc) so I built something similar. I just wanted to say if * changes, run X, oh and by the
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   by apinstein 13y ago

   autossh is great, too if mosh doesn't fit your needs.
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   by apinstein 13y ago

   TourBuzz ( http://www.tourbuzz.net ) - Atlanta, GA - Full-Time - Local. - Lead Software Developer/Architect Who the hell are we? Our small team has carved out a profitable niche in the real estate industry over the past 7 yea
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   by apinstein 13y ago

   This made my day. After spending the last 6 months turning down developers based on horrible code reviews, I finally feel vindicated for sticking to my instincts and hoping to eventually find someone that doesn't think code like that f
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   by apinstein 13y ago

   Prepare yourself for gross generalizations, but I have a point :) In 1997, people moved from perl to PHP in the same way that in 2004+ people moved from PHP to Ruby. At the time, the hard part of web programming was deployment, easy access
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   by apinstein 13y ago

   After I learned vim, I got very frustrated going back and forth between vim and Mac apps (Mail, MS/Word, etc) because I had to switch between the vim and Mac style of keyboard-based cursor movements/selection patterns. So I sat do
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   by apinstein 13y ago

   You know what strikes me most about that video? The tunnels and supports are so clean! Very cool.
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    by apinstein 13y ago

    Lead Back-end at TourBuzz - Atlanta, GA TourBuzz is a production and workflow platform for professional photographers. Our customers love us because we take leading-edge technologies and commercialize them in accessible ways that improve th
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    by apinstein 13y ago

    This is really a great idea. It has the potential to offer a practical end-run around recruiters for potential employees in this situation. As an employer, I'd love to be able to sign up and have your system DM me any time there's
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    by apinstein 13y ago

    At the time I had lots of remote teams, those tools didn't exist. This is why I'm asking for counter-examples. The few times I have done remote teams it has always devolved into the expected problems. I want a non-GitHub example o
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    by apinstein 13y ago

    We have tried that for the local team but it didn't get used despite trying 3-4 different chat tools (IRC, HipChat, I forget the others). People end up talking in person b/c it's easier.
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    by apinstein 13y ago

    GitHub is a pretty amazing company and story. Their culture, the tools, etc are all very inspiring, and the whole community definitely benefits from their experiments. This meme always gets me thinking about how to attract the best talent f
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    by apinstein 13y ago

    I had to say no as our startup is a platform for our customers to actually run their businesses! They have trusted us with their livelihood and if I thought that an acquirer would shut it down I definitely wouldn't sell.
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    by apinstein 13y ago

    Atlanta, GA TourBuzz (professional photography platform). 1. Computational Photography Expert 2. Senior Full-Stack engineer (future VP Engineering/CTO track) We are a polyglot shop and use tons of technologies: PHP, Ruby, Javascript, Java,
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    by apinstein 13y ago

    I was confused by that, too. I am sure it made sense in the context of their pitch (due to WHEN it was made), but the "milestones" slide didn't indicate which items had occurred vs were simply goals.
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    by apinstein 13y ago

    REPL's in PHP are quite hard due to the fatal error issue, among other things. I wrote one ( https://github.com/apinstein/iphp ) a long time ago that got around a lot of these issues using temporary files, but his idea to use forking is rea
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    by apinstein 13y ago

    Atlanta, GA - TourBuzz: SaaS Products in Photography / Real Estate / Property Search 1. UX Design & Dev: Web, Mobile, HTML, CSS, JS, Flash. Be our first UX hire. 2. Full Stack Dev & Team Lead: PHP, JS, Ember, Angular, pogtresql,
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    by apinstein 13y ago

    That's one awesome regex debugger! Going after such a small niche is a great idea as long as you know that the market is big enough to provide good ROI in both percentage and nominal terms. I don't think the worry from a competitor "adding
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    by apinstein 14y ago

    Is this a Canadian thing? Because that's NEVER happened to me Atlanta/NYC). Heck we even left an iPhone in an airplane seat pocket. Realized it as soon as we stepped off, but they wouldn't let us go back and get it due to "security". They a
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    by apinstein 14y ago

    Atlanta - TourBuzz 2 Senior Web Developers -- front end, back end, architecture, etc. Come work for us -- and bring a colleague with you! TourBuzz empowers independent real estate photographers to achieve their goal of delivering beautiful
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    by apinstein 14y ago

    That link about AllowOverride is true. The reason I didn't mention it is that one of the benchmarks I saw did turn off AllowOverride so I figured at least that part was fair :) But it is a very good point. I think I'll do a talk soon about
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    by apinstein 14y ago

    I think ngninx is likely faster and more stable than apache, but I have yet to see anything close to a trustworthy benchmark. I come from the php world, and people always say how much lower-memory nginx+php-fpm is than apache+mod_php. Wel
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    by apinstein 14y ago

    We found it much easier to pay the extra money for a wildcard cert and use that cert on dev/staging/etc and use subdomains for the various rigs. The only downside is that more people have access to your certs, which isn't a problem with a s
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    by apinstein 14y ago

    Does anyone know what this actually is? Is it just a local stack that delivers requests to PHP in the same way that Heroku does? Or did they do a custom buildpack? I am not sure what "Heroku on your local machine" means... I have a custom p
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    by apinstein 14y ago

    Because to be intelligent, you have to have the router talk to all the dynos to calculate load. Doing that in a performant way can get tricky, especially since people can hit a button and get 100 workers. The bigger the n, the more resource
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    by apinstein 14y ago

    Sure it does. You can create an IAM user, give that user only PutObject permissions to your bucket, and publicly share the key/secret key for that IAM user. Then people can use those creds with any s3 upload utility. Alternatively you could
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    by apinstein 14y ago

    The point TFA makes is a non-lean (fat) company may be viable whereas the lean version of the same concept might not be. If nothing else it's thought-provoking. In my head I'm trying to decide if what he's doing is still lean -- one might a
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    by apinstein 14y ago

    Does anyone know how to run these in Light Table? I really love the idea of that and was hoping to try it to learn Clojure, but I have absolutely no idea how to run the koans from inside Light Table.