brianr

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by brianr 16y ago
Lolapps is hiring actionscript, python, and web developers. If you want to work on social games or help us scale, drop me a line!
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by brianr 17y ago
"Getting log output from an embedded Flash component is a huge chore, but with Canvas you can simply use console.log to output status messages to the inspector." Hmmm, you might be doing it wrong. Just trace(whatever); and keep a terminal o
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by brianr 17y ago
Whoa there, everything important is still crawlable and indexable. Here's what robots.txt says right now: User-Agent: * Disallow: /x? Disallow: /vote? Disallow: /reply? Disallow: /submitted? Disallow: /threads? This just disallows th
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by brianr 17y ago
bug fixin'
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by brianr 17y ago
Lolapps is hiring! We're looking for smart engineers to work on social games. Check out: http://www.lolapps.com/aboutus.php?s=jobs
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Why Web Developers should know Javascript(facebook.com)
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by brianr 17y ago
And best way, that will set your mind at ease even if you’re worried that “mysql is running but not responding; it is stuck”: connect to MySQL and issue SELECT 1, SELECT NOW(), SELECT something. Fortunately this is easy: $ echo "selec
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by brianr 17y ago
Cacti.
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by brianr 17y ago
As far as I could tell, Tokyo uses B-trees within a single instance, not across instances as this article is talking about. Has this changed?
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by brianr 17y ago
I have to say I didn't really like it that much. I enjoyed the "documentary" aspect of the first half or so, but the "plot" in the second half felt pretty weak.
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by brianr 17y ago
yes! check out http://www.lolapps.com/jobs.html
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by brianr 17y ago
Lolapps is hiring! We're looking for developers, PMs, QA, and more. Check out http://www.lolapps.com/ . If you like python and lolcats, you'll probably like us.
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by brianr 17y ago
I'm the code-writing founder at http://www.lolapps.com .
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by brianr 17y ago
I see this guy every morning on my way in to work. Had no idea he was homeless. Pretty impressive and inspiring story.
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by brianr 17y ago
I wouldn't be so hard on php for the mysql_* functions; they're wrappers around the C functions of the same names: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-escape-string.h...
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by brianr 18y ago
Or will he lose his scholarship for doing part-time? To answer your question: at Stanford, you have to take at least 12 units per quarter to be eligible for financial aid, unless you have special circumstances (i.e. illness). On top of th
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by brianr 18y ago
we're hiring -- send me your resume! email in my profile.
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by brianr 18y ago
Maybe Amazon can implement "Sort by Kurtosis" :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtosis
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by brianr 18y ago
Google analytics, plus lots of product-specific stuff. Scale is hundreds of millions of events per day, so there's a lot of work that goes in to making it all happen and be useful... lots of summary tables, log files, and the like.
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by brianr 18y ago
Most of Google's revenue comes from AdWords, the ads they run next to their search results, not from AdSense, their content network. From their 2008 Q4 earnings report ( http://investor.google.com/releases/2008Q4_google_earnings.h... ), G
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by brianr 18y ago
NO BOOK EXCHANGE HAS EVER REALLY SUCCEEDED. I did a variation of this my freshman year, by actually buying about $10k of books from students on campus and then selling them on Amazon. We made about $3k all told... I guess the author is ri
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by brianr 18y ago
rsync is fine, just make sure to exclude .svn and anything else you don't want the world to see, for example: cd $build_dir svn co path/to/project rsync -qaz -c --delete --exclude=.svn project $host:/var/www
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by brianr 18y ago
Nagios and Cacti.
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by brianr 18y ago
It was $500 million total including $100m in cash -- http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/twitter-rejects-500-mill...
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by brianr 18y ago
Why do you need to reuse other peoples code? So I guess you like implementing all your libraries yourself?
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by brianr 18y ago
If you can't afford downtime, check out Innodb Hot Backup (a commercial product sold by oracle). If you already happen to be using LVM, check out this post: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/08/21/using-lvm-for... Otherwise, you're
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by brianr 18y ago
Yes! We (LOLapps) fall into this category. Lots of traffic + ads = $$$
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by brianr 18y ago
Piano, guitar, bass, clarinet, viola. Haven't played the last three much in the last few years though.
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by brianr 18y ago
If you use Firefox and don't want to have to re-login everywhere, you can get the same effect with CookieSwap: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3255 . 3 cookie profiles... pretty neat.
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by brianr 18y ago
I'm a fan of the "throw a bunch of stuff at the wall and see what sticks" approach. Build lots of different things until one starts to get traction, and when one does, focus your attention on that.

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