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by blooberr 12y ago
I'm curious... Any major websites using Mithril in production?
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by blooberr 12y ago
I was asked this same question awhile back and I recommended Fluentd: https://github.com/fluent/fluentd It's in ruby, very easy to understand, and also extremely useful. You can also extend it with plugins, which
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Ask HN: As an engineer, what do you look for when interviewing a product manager
1 points by blooberr 12y ago|0 comments
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by blooberr 12y ago
Yeah also shielding from other parts of the company. What would make you more inclined to having developers report to you?
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by blooberr 12y ago
Are you the only tech lead at your company? That's a good definition to distinguish between senior developers. How do you mentor your engineers?
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Ask HN: How would you define a tech lead?
1 points by blooberr 12y ago|6 comments
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by blooberr 12y ago
Yes, I always read the comments first. They act as a great prefilter before I attempt to the actual article.
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by blooberr 12y ago
Having code on their servers isn't a big deal.. it's just I don't want them to checkout from my repo. (Like having to provide credentials, etc)
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Ask HN: How to deploy to a customer that doesn't have access to your repo?
3 points by blooberr 12y ago|6 comments
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Protoyping streaming JSON API server
1 points by blooberr 12y ago|0 comments
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by blooberr 12y ago
Sure, email me (in profile)
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by blooberr 12y ago
At work, I refactor components with the new language. At home, I do stuff like taking labs from stanford cs courses and translating to another language.
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by blooberr 12y ago
That's actually what I'm doing right now, keeping everything in a config file in a directory accessible by all machines. It's definitely worked fine so far. I was wondering if others had other solutions.
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What do you use for service discovery?
3 points by blooberr 12y ago|4 comments
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by blooberr 12y ago
Here's how I did it and it'll sound like a geico commerical: I saved about $1000 a month switching from Ruby to Go by refactoring a backend system. I was able to clearly demonstrate the reduction in resources and the switch was se
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by blooberr 12y ago
Wrong company / interviewer for you. Just move on. That said, here's how I would answer: 1.7 because of legacy and potential stability reasons, and I will evaluate 1.8. I need to make a case for upper management and demonstrate th
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by blooberr 12y ago
Since you're fairly young, you should observe your older coworkers. Find mentors at various stages of life. Talk to them, figure out what worked for them and what didn't. And why they're there. If you don't like what you
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by blooberr 12y ago
Does http://www.iron.io/ fit your usecase?
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by blooberr 12y ago
I was in a similar position many years ago. I just translated algorithms from CSLR into real code and toyed with project euler problems. Leaving is the best option. Never looked back.
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by blooberr 12y ago
I would be working on comic strip that started about 10 years ago. The 6 months would allow me to accelerate the storyline!
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by blooberr 12y ago
Ghost was super easy to setup on digital ocean (pretty much one-click install)
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by blooberr 12y ago
I use Redmine. It's got everything I need from bug tracking to gantt charts.
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by blooberr 12y ago
Reminds me of this well-written short story (part 1): http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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by blooberr 12y ago
Sometimes its not the developer. You can also blame it on an unrefined interview process. I've probably turned down the right candidates accidentally while trying to work out an interviewing system. With a startup, its hard to get enou
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by blooberr 12y ago
I look at home security first. Access control, cameras..
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by blooberr 12y ago
Right, I should be more specific but I was looking at party control / status / inventory management.
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by blooberr 12y ago
Here's how. You seem like a decent person. Feel free to reach out to me. Email me (email in my profile) We can first start with coffee and goto a few events.
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Ask HN: What game has the best RPG party interface?
4 points by blooberr 12y ago|6 comments
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by blooberr 12y ago
Thanks I'll check that out.
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by blooberr 12y ago
Can't use AWS unfortunately - this is not within my control.

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