brianm

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by brianm 8y ago
I am old fashioned, so I use IM to say things like "Hey, Martin, I'm thinking about ... Does it make sense?" Not so much mailing out code reviews, but sharing design ideas, approaches, etc. Former coworkers you are still frie
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by brianm 8y ago
Reach outside your company. Genuine appeals for focused help are rarely dismissed. You don't need to know almost everything (and derive what you don't from first principles), that is unreasonable. You do need to have a network of
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by brianm 8y ago
I was lucky enough to be in the audience for this, and have long wondered (and generally believed) if the questions at https://youtu.be/6nKfFHuouzA?t=2025 lead to reserved instances. The timing was right (reserved instances
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by brianm 8y ago
It is really limited, but kids pick it up MUCH more quickly than anything else I've seen. Alice ( https://www.alice.org/ ) is a step more advanced than Scratch, and works well for my middle-school-aged kiddo, who can w
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by brianm 8y ago
Ability to eyeball it on terminal is huge though :-( Never underestimate ergonomics like screen printability!
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by brianm 8y ago
I have never been directly paid for my OSS work, but I am well compensated because of it.
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by brianm 8y ago
A different implementation of same idea, if you just want to see how it's been done at least once: https://github.com/brianm/pwned
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by brianm 9y ago
They have focused relentlessly on making it easy to use for every day development. Solaris Zones, BSD Jails, and LXC were around first, but were (relatively) arcane and finicky, and no one ever looked at bringing them to non-linux (or non-b
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The Way to Design(thewaytodesign.com)
3 points by brianm 9y ago|0 comments
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by brianm 10y ago
Reach out to the folks using the open source software you've written or contribute to. To these folks, you are already vetted -- they rely on your code and they "know" you from the community around the projects. Different pro
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by brianm 10y ago
Vim to Atom
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by brianm 10y ago
The AL2 (and MPL2 and GPL3) language is designed to protect the users from the software authors. The Facebook PATENTS language is designed to protect Facebook from the users.
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by brianm 10y ago
I am familiar with the idea (and have felt it in the past), but the best approach I have found for most places (less than 10k engineers on staff) is, "be very careful that you only invent things that are core to your needs." The g
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by brianm 10y ago
I'm the author of original Stomp protocol. Much of what changed in 1.1 and 1.2 came from people smarter than me, so blame me for the ugly and them for the good. Why text? Because I wanted to be able to debug it with netcat, implement m
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by brianm 11y ago
In 2003 blogging was a conversation -- you'd post and folks would post in response. You'd get a real discussion around ideas. In 2016 blogging is just screaming (or whispering) into the void. If there is a conversation around the
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by brianm 11y ago
Looks like Twilight (which started life with Textmate, but has taken off all over since), or a variation thereupon.
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by brianm 11y ago
Most prominent Mozilla Go usage is Heka ( https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka ). I don't know about Apple, but knowing a number of folks in infra and ops there, and their tendencies, I do not doubt it is in u
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by brianm 13y ago
Oddly enough, Apache and MS have a pretty good relationship nowadays. There was definitely tension in the past, but MS is a very different company today then it was in the 90's, early 00's. I wouldn't be surprised, now that i
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by brianm 14y ago
Sodium is effectively a fork of NaCl, and is new.
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by brianm 14y ago
I'd fly VA all the time if I could, sadly they don't do my most common route, DEN <-> SFO :-(
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Metamarkets Open Sources Druid, A Real-Time Analytics Data Store(metamarkets.com)
71 points by brianm 14y ago|12 comments
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Learning to Code as a non-programmer who coded(skife.org)
4 points by brianm 14y ago|0 comments
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Self Engineering: Chad Fowler's keynote from PhillyETE(vimeo.com)
1 points by brianm 14y ago|0 comments
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by brianm 15y ago
The guy staring at me in all the screenshots really creeps me out. Hopefully that is not a feature of the actual product!
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by brianm 15y ago
If I read correctly, it is pretty expensive. $0.10 / connection (peer) / hour, plus dynamodb and transactor instance charges. For 100 clients, and not including the dynamodb or transactor instance(s), this makes it a hair more per year then
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by brianm 15y ago
A great deal of he complexity comes from OS vendors doing nigh-unspeakable things to httpd.conf. The default httpd.conf from Apache is a bit gnarly too, but compared to what redhat or ubuntu do... not cool. The mandatory configuration is ac
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by brianm 15y ago
HTTPD follows APR versioning ( http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html ) which semver seems to be based on.
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by brianm 15y ago
Frankly, if there are a lot of older folks (40 is older? I am in deep, deep trouble) with lots of experience having trouble finding jobs, then this is a ripe market to recruit from. Of course, I have a funny perspective -- I work with a guy
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by brianm 15y ago
SV is a very small world in my experience.
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The Letter(blog.8thlight.com)
3 points by brianm 15y ago|0 comments

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