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by brooksbp 18y ago
RoR is an architecture. Kind of ironic because I claim that Ruby, as a language, has better support for scaling in the networking/dist.systems view than PHP. Yet, I would like to claim that PHP scales better than RoR in the web app domain
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by brooksbp 18y ago
As a language for developing applications, PHP really isn't that bad. It has pretty damn good support for OOP (at least within recent releases). It lacks in concurrency support and other random things like namespaces (for which swombat ad
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by brooksbp 18y ago
You're thinking too qualitatively; imagine the spikes they get... Also most apps are I/O restricted, not CPU... Also, all these proposed messaging architectures are somewhat flawed. Twitter isn't really "sending" messages to other people.
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by brooksbp 18y ago
"This means the open source community will almost certainly be more clever about the solution that one tiny closed source company because there will be lots of heads focused on an easy to understand problem." To be honest, I have to complet
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All hackers should read this book...(mitpress.mit.edu)
3 points by brooksbp 18y ago|0 comments
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by brooksbp 18y ago
"They come for the concurrency but they stay for the reliability." Perfect.
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by brooksbp 18y ago
Recent downtime (the 500 errors) caused by rebooting database servers... I just did a double-take... rebooting servers... really? really?? http://blog.twitter.com/
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by brooksbp 18y ago
"Even when we started Google, we thought, "Oh, we might fail," and we almost didn't do it. The reason we started is that Stanford said, "You guys can come back and finish your Ph.D.s if you don't succeed."" So true. Society has formed a ho
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How do I know what the best way to write software is?(codebetter.com)
2 points by brooksbp 18y ago|0 comments
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by brooksbp 18y ago
I clinically have a significant sign of addiction towards email, the web, coffee, alcohol, weed, snowboarding, listening to music, and the best... hacking!!! Should I seek help?
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How you can sign your code and why you should(scribd.com)
1 points by brooksbp 19y ago|0 comments
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by brooksbp 19y ago
Good article. Great pictures. I'm a CS/ECE undergrad at University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) and love it. To be honest I'll second anything positive that's said about Boulder; great environment.
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Ask YC: Which internship, Cisco or small C++ startup?
5 points by brooksbp 19y ago|15 comments
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by brooksbp 19y ago
Pretty much... more along the lines of that users should only interact with specified UI. Hashing filenames abstracts the media (files) from the user, leaving the application to deal with managing said media. E.g. If Facebook were to store
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by brooksbp 19y ago
Find & Replace... Eclipse has some nice tools that automate processes like pushing up methods into superclasses etc... so if you're looking for commercial 'tools', look no farther than Eclipse. Still, do not underestimate the power of
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by brooksbp 19y ago
By one-way I mean md5 or sha1. They're extremely useful for one-way validation in cryptography/security. Applications of these are storing passwords (e.g. normally you should salt and hash passwords before storing them in a database) SHA
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by brooksbp 19y ago
One thing this doesn't touch on is using a one-way hashing algorithm on your file uploads. This allows your application to do another layer of verification. This also obscures filenames so that they cannot be easily indexed (e.g. Google s
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Ask YC: Concurrent/multithreading programming books?
2 points by brooksbp 19y ago|2 comments
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Picotux - the smallest Linux Computer in the World(picotux.com)
2 points by brooksbp 19y ago|0 comments
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Qcodo Framework: PHP5 code generator(qcodo.com)
1 points by brooksbp 19y ago|0 comments
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by brooksbp 19y ago
I agree with this article. I find that it's hard to manage college courses, a part-time (~10hrs/wk) job, stay active (weight lifting), a social life, and staying up to date with tech and hacking on my own side projects. It's ridiculously
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Nets made by spiders fed on drug-dosed flies(cannabis.net)
1 points by brooksbp 19y ago|0 comments
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Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures(nist.gov)
17 points by brooksbp 19y ago|0 comments
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by brooksbp 19y ago
I believe the majority of OS X hackers fall into the latter category. I know I sure like my nice GUI ontop of this unix 3.0 OS... not to mention quality hardware build, nice screen resolution, ports galore, decent battery life, web cam, an
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by brooksbp 19y ago
Actually more interesting is their performance in scaling Google Code within the past couple weeks. Huge performance boosts! I find that their syntax highlighting is quite quirky... sometimes it's incorrect. Colors aren't too great as wel
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by brooksbp 19y ago
Can you please elaborate? Link? I'm really interested in Python, Ruby, JavaScript... Not looking to write a massive, enterprise-scale compiler/interpreter/parser/whatever in C, C++, or Java... possibly Java... but you get the point... I've
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Ask YC: Good compiler books?
32 points by brooksbp 19y ago|22 comments
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ECMAScript 4 Progress Spreadsheet(blogs.adobe.com)
1 points by brooksbp 19y ago|0 comments
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Updated YouTube Data API(apiblog.youtube.com)
1 points by brooksbp 19y ago|0 comments
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NVidia CUDA on Mac OS X(macresearch.org)
1 points by brooksbp 19y ago|0 comments

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