ashleyw

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by ashleyw 18y ago
Unemployed, Freelance, Hacking, and on a break from being a Student. Don't do much work freelancing, just enough to pay for my essentials, and mainly spend my time hacking and working on my own small projects. My plans are to finish school
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by ashleyw 18y ago
It'd be nice to include the actual library: http://search.cpan.org/src/RCLAMP/Algorithm-MarkovChain-0.06... …so, 165+15 = 180 lines total?
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Don't require your users to activate immediately, give them a day to do it, and just don't give them access to anything a spammer would love to use - or limit how many times they can do it before they need to activate. And after they have s
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by ashleyw 18y ago
S3 based on 100k members uploading on average 5x5MB audio files each, and a growth (new uploads) of around 10%/month: Storage: 1500GB Transfer in: 150GB Transfer out: 30000GB PUT requests: 50000 GET requests: 10000000 ————————
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I guess I should start saving up — sucks being a student! My 1.83Ghz 2006 MBP does everything I need, but I cannot help wanting one of the new ones! :D
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Works out of your network too, as long as port 8000 is open and accessible…
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by ashleyw 18y ago
"This video is not available in your country." At least they didn't add "Yet" to the end of it like Hulu and other video sites. That just winds me up, because you know they likely don't have any plans to roll out internationally. If YouTube
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The quickest way to launch a web server for sharing files. All you need is Python…or Ruby!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I guess, but that "extra hardware" wouldn't be that much. I was talking about like 1 second extra CPU time per 50 page loads or something — I wouldn't worry about that kind of thing, even if I had time to make my code slightly faster, I'm s
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Oh yes, didn't scroll down much to see that. Just highlight each image (all 91) and let it generate. Looks cool... :)
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by ashleyw 18y ago
1) Build your app how you would normally build it (obviously dont expect to put massive objects into memory for every request — just dont worry about the small things) 2) Go back and refactor the things that really stick out as bulky 3) Dep
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Heres what they all look like together: http://www.faceresearch.org/tomcat/psychomorph/uploads/img21... …cool how it does look perfectly average, you cant say "he has nice X" or "his X is Y", its just a human face.
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Yeh I should have mentioned the times I've used SQLite was early in development, or one time when I created a script which would pump tons of data into the database in threads, which resulted in errors and missing data. I'm sure I could hav
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by ashleyw 18y ago
That is a bad idea I think — SQLite locks the database while inserting data, obviously this is bad for a big application. I don't think it was designed for web apps with possibly hundreds of queries a second.
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by ashleyw 18y ago
I think its just from their experience as customers elsewhere. For me — $10 for a simple service seems a little pricey, $9 is basically $10 still, $8 is still a a tiny bit high — but $7 is the sweet spot! Same goes for higher prices too — I
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Actually, I've just worked it out, you could host around 1.02 billion small (50KB) images in 50TB. Quite a lot, but for a photo site like flickr, thats only 12 million 4MB original photos, not including the smaller versions. (well — thats s
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by ashleyw 18y ago
How many people use even 50TB of storage on S3? Never mind 500TB+?
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by ashleyw 18y ago
On the ticket searching page, I would expect it to be ajax goodness — yet it wants to keep reloading the full page for every option change. I don't like that. The homepage — ticket buying visitors likely don't give a crap about anything but
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Looks cool. Google has been top notch for me for a few years now, but this looks even better! Though, you can be sure Google will make it near real-time and have an API soon! If/When that happens, I may just return to Google. So try to impr
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by ashleyw 18y ago
For a moment I thought "~5 m" meant that it was going to be around 1/3 of the "15 m" asteroid that hit earth and caused dinosaurs to go extinct.
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Each task has a language or two which will fit the task the best, but don't get hung up in the finer details like which language you should use. Use which ever language feels right, and invest your time into the application itself. (just do
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Well I "quit" school last year, I did so because I think I can learn more solo than I can in a schooling environment. Or maybe not "more", but different things that schooling may not focus on. (and I'll be able to return in a few years) In
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by ashleyw 18y ago
A, firstly, because your a genius, secondly because you use OSX all day, as apposed to Windows, and lastly you get store discounts. As you may have guessed, I'm an Apple fanboy, so fixing adware/spyware/malware infested windows machines all
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by ashleyw 18y ago
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10058352-1.html?part=rss... Looks cool. Hope they lower the price, I know its worth it, but for a student who already needs to buy a lot of books anyway, it can soon become something you can live withou
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Dont call me a low life, I got from 66-70 with this very bot. =P Why'd I do it? Got bored watching friends raiding most nights when I could only play a few hours a week, I was estimating a few months for the last few levels — but using the
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by ashleyw 18y ago
There are tons of developers in India, check this out: http://www.google.com/trends?q=programming The problem is for many, its a job, just like working at McDonalds — they aren't like us, they don't go home and work on open source project
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Whats the best server distro?
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Pretty nice, better if it didn't redirect to www.hackerne.ws though...maybe I'm just too picky though!
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Exactly! I've learnt to use and love Rails and it has a massive community spanning many years, so I'm not going to jump ship because others said its cool... Thats not to say I'm ignorant to new methods of doing things, if something is bette
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by ashleyw 18y ago
Cool, didn't know about that, thanks!

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