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by bjclark 17y ago
This is the most inane headline for the topic. A. Journalism isn't going to die. Newspapers might, but Newspapers != Journalism B. They don't need hackers, they need entrepreneurs. As cool as hyperlocal news is, it's mostly just an iteratio
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by bjclark 17y ago
I would never be stopped for applying to a job because it's "Senior". If you know your shit, it doesn't matter how old you are.
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by bjclark 17y ago
Well, it's an implementation of the original wiki, but not the same exact implementation the original runs.
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by bjclark 18y ago
I think you're missing the point. You can't bash Ruby because you wrote shitty code in Ruby. What do you want to bet I can write a shitty message queue in Scala? Does that mean Scala is bad? "Reliable, high performance, correct and maintain
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by bjclark 18y ago
You dismiss anyone who's job applies to the topic at hand? Shouldn't you dismiss Alex because he's writing a book for O'Reilly on Scala? Should the only people allowed to discuss this be the Erlang people? Just asking because I'd bet they w
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by bjclark 18y ago
I think this advice matches up really well to one of the things you say in your "5 Founders" essay about Paul Buchheit: "PB made a point in a talk once that I now mention to every startup we fund: that it's better, initially, to make a smal
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The Elegance of Imperfection(alistapart.com)
1 points by bjclark 18y ago|0 comments
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by bjclark 18y ago
I can't say enough things about my Mirra. I also agree that it's 50% more comfortable than an Aeron. I think they have much better back support.
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by bjclark 18y ago
Very timely. I'm presenting at Rails Conf this year and the last time I gave a presentation was, uh, high school. :\
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by bjclark 18y ago
Totally agree. I don't think this is Facebook trying to kill Twitter. I think it's more Facebook learning why people like Twitter and applying it to their domain of data. Facebook isn't turning into a microblogging platform.
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by bjclark 18y ago
Nice, Safari 4 gets all but the column stuff.
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by bjclark 18y ago
Silly me, I used the bug tracker. :\
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by bjclark 18y ago
I don't think FB is too worried, honestly. I reported some security issues with photos through the API, and it took weeks/months for them to fix them.
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by bjclark 18y ago
Really? What size of index/documents where you doing searches on? We're doing live updating, probably close to 1 update per second.
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by bjclark 18y ago
One thing to note is that on a large/complicated site, you can have 10's or 100's of possible engagement loops(what most people call this) which this metric applies to. The article tends to talk about optimizing a single loop. The most comm
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by bjclark 18y ago
Programming language.
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by bjclark 18y ago
Pretty good run down. Actually, a very good run down. Sphinx is cool, but there's no reason to be afraid of solr/lucene. It takes _very_ little java knowledge to get it up and running and it's very very, really, crazy fast. Like, hundreds o
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by bjclark 18y ago
I've done it at my current gig for about 5 months now. I'm not sure I'd work anywhere where I didn't pair, from now on. Infact, I've started pairing with my friends via iChat screen sharing when I'm working on side projects away from work.
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by bjclark 18y ago
Depends more on language than on anything, I think.
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by bjclark 18y ago
I guess people did care. I thought it would only be alpha geeks, and people would whine for a few weeks, and then we'd all go back to playing scrabble.
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by bjclark 18y ago
Huge processor spikes which we think are caused by too many connections to a single room or user. We're not 100% sure because we can't replicate it in a dev environment and we don't really want to turn on debugging in a production environme
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by bjclark 18y ago
I believe the term is "debt". When you launch an app to the public, you're creating debt for yourself, forever. Magnolia just managed to transfer the debt from time/work debt to "image" debt. In other words, now they just look really really
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by bjclark 18y ago
No.
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by bjclark 18y ago
This guy obviously hasn't actually used xmpp in real life. eJabberd does really weird things to us when we throw 300-400k messages at it a day. And this: "XMPP servers, which are essentially make or break an XMPP application, are rapidly m
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by bjclark 18y ago
It's safe to say there's some reasonable replacements already, and there are some smart guys working on better ones. http://www.pauldix.net/2009/01/ruby-http-client-library-perf... But, if you didn't know better, yes, Net:HTTP is going to
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Ward Cunningham interviews Ron Jefferies and Chet Hendrickson about Technical Debt (video)(youtube.com)
3 points by bjclark 18y ago|0 comments
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by bjclark 18y ago
Unit tests have nothing to do with, and aren't in any way mutually exclusive to load testing and logging and user reports. Frankly, it just sounds naive to say that you replaced unit testing with logging, or load testing, or letting your us
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by bjclark 18y ago
Judging by his analogy and depth of insight, I'm guessing he's never even tried to write unit tests on a daily basis and certainly never done TDD. It's the same old argument that everyone makes when they've never actually learned to do some
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"Joel Spolksy is wrong about my work" - Kent Beck(threeriversinstitute.org)
85 points by bjclark 18y ago|98 comments
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by bjclark 18y ago
Using a slave isn't fool proof either. If someone were to run a malicious command, it gets replicated, and could get backed up before being caught.

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