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by birken 15y ago
We actually had a debate in our engineering dept about how we wanted to handle functions like this, and in the end decided on tt_function_name() in the global function space. We decided against putting them in explicit namespaces, because w
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by birken 15y ago
The string slicing would have been a lot more efficient had PHP accepted my patch to add this into the PHP core functions :) --> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54387 In general though we just use these around the code base for general
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by birken 16y ago
I can't say this makes a lot of sense to me. If you want an interpreted language that has great threading or multiprocess support, I don't know why you wouldn't use Python or Ruby. PHP certainly offers some solid functionality in a lot of
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by birken 16y ago
Of all the perks Google has, this is one that I don't recall striking me as one I missed when I left. Comcast business class internet is certainly fast enough for standard usage.
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by birken 16y ago
If the service provider can ever decrypt the file, then you have to trust them, and then it isn't secure. When it comes to security, you can't trust anybody. The only way to secure your files in a Dropbox style situation is to use your own
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by birken 16y ago
I worked at an aquarium store (probably one of the ones mentioned in the story) for a long time, and was a pretty experienced and dedicated reefkeeper at my peak, and I never knew this. This situation must be incredibly unlikely though beca
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by birken 16y ago
I agree this is certainly a simplification, but I don't think one grossly so. A lot of the points you mention do not apply to our setup: - Our standby database is guaranteed to be consistent (barring some massive hardware failure), because
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by birken 16y ago
I can't say I have a ton of experience with Mysql, but I am a huge fan of Postgres. I think especially for people who just want their database to work, having to worry about which of the storage engines you should be using for MySQL would
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by birken 16y ago
(post author) Yes, there are a lot of third-party replication solutions for Postgres ( http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Replication,_Clustering,_and... ), which offer various features (some of which offer even more complex and redundent repl
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by birken 16y ago
I think calling Google processes "mistakes" is a little strong. For example, I recall at one point at Google where they were trying to improve latency on the products, so you weren't allowed to launch a new feature if it hurt latency. I co
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by birken 16y ago
Strongly disagree. All of the identity issues aside, ensuring deliverability is another key issue. Some email providers can be very aggressive when it comes to marking emails from new services as spam. Getting a user to pick a confirmati
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by birken 16y ago
5 of the last 10 superbowl coaches were black. 2011 - Mike Tomlin, Steelers 2010 - Jim Caldwell, Colts 2009 - Mike Tomlin, Steelers (won) 2007 - Tony Dungy, Colts (won) & Lovie Smith, Bears Before 2007 no black head coach ever coached i
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by birken 16y ago
This statement basically could not be less accurate. The NFL itself thought there was a huge problem with the lack of black coaches in the NFL, so it took a pro-active approach by making the Rooney Rule ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roone
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by birken 16y ago
I know of one incredibly talented potential female founder who applied with a killer idea and was rejected. I think it is very likely that YC has a strong bias towards men, which this data certainly supports. I'm also not blaming YC for ha
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by birken 16y ago
+1 Though I do think the author's title was (unsurprisingly) more accurate than the poster here.
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by birken 16y ago
Well to be completely fair to DNSMadeEasy, this failure wasn't necessarily their entire service, it was just the one nameserver pingdom was testing, ns10.dnsmadeeasy.com. However, both GoDaddy and Dynect were tested using just one nameser
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by birken 16y ago
Nope, it was just these 3 (as we were deciding between DNSMadeEasy and Dynect, and wanted to throw Godaddy in there for comparison). Although we currently use DNSMadeEasy, and due to the uptime issues we might be looking to switch at which
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by birken 16y ago
Very surprising so many people use Godaddy for their DNS, given it is very slow as far as DNS servers go. I've been running a Pingdom speed/reliability test for a few popular DNS servers for the past few months, and here is the data:
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by birken 16y ago
:sor|%s/)/, :country => "USA")<ENTER> works for me This shaves off a few chars: a) combining the commands b) leaving off the last / in the search/replace
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by birken 16y ago
It is worth noting this whole series is incredible. I used to work with the guy who started it (@jordansissel), and he was an incredible sysadmin/software engineer. If you go through the archives on the right side, you will find lots more
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by birken 16y ago
You also just wrote a story about Jason Calacanis... The only thing you forgot to do was link to Mahalo. You might not want to work for him, but you should at least respect his shtick is genius and very effective at getting coverage and li
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by birken 16y ago
The people who get to take their equity off the table at 50B valuation aren't doing too badly either.
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by birken 16y ago
I like how this article is suggesting new hires at Facebook get .1% of the company, or over 25 million dollars worth of stock at the current valuation. I have a feeling if we actually knew the truth, and not this sensationalism, the whole s
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by birken 16y ago
That part at the beginning was certainly realistic. The part where there were 6 guys interviewing for facebook by taking a shot a minute "cracking SSL" or whatever it was surrounded by 30 screaming people was not realistic.
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by birken 16y ago
A few extra data points about using subdomains vs different domain for static content (assuming that you serve your site exclusively off www.domain.com)... OK: Google Analytics - You can use the function "_setDomainName('www.domain.com')" o
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by birken 16y ago
I think Google has about 10,000 engineers, so this article is saying that over the past 5 years, approx 1% of Google engineers have moved to Facebook. I think this article is light on facts and high on sensationalism. And it is "common kno
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by birken 16y ago
Well it depends. For example if an application uses Bigtable, then the key + column names often gives a lot of information about what data is stored there, which if somebody had access to some basic application data they might be able to ge
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by birken 16y ago
And we never imagine what the internet would be like without Google. You think spam is bad now? It's possible that in a world without Google web search just wouldn't work because Bing or Yahoo (or altavista, cuil, powerset, or whoever) ju
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by birken 16y ago
If there was no irrelevant "bullshit" the show would be incredibly boring. I also find that the random tangents Jason goes on are the most interesting parts of the show. And as far as respect goes, I think the fact that Jason speaks his mi
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by birken 16y ago
Google python style guide has a very good way of dealing with long lines: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.ht... In fact at Google the maximum line length for python code is 80 characters because long lines make t

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