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by bryanh 12y ago
It isn't specified in our version since a founder buys all the gifts, but you could just say in the thread "who wants to order it?" or come up with a more specific method.
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by bryanh 12y ago
We open sourced the little app (Bottle.py and React.js) that powers this tool: https://github.com/zapier/conspiracysanta.com We also wrote an accompanying blog post about it: https://zapier.com/blog&#x2
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Show HN: Conspiracy Santa: A Better Secret Santa for Teams(conspiracysanta.com)
71 points by bryanh 12y ago|18 comments
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Hack on Zapier's (YC S12) Entire Stack from Anywhere: Remote Full Stack Engineer(zapier.com)
1 points by bryanh 12y ago
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by bryanh 12y ago
Very incorrect. The YC founders I know are have a degree from none-Ivy league schools, didn't work at Google/Facebook and didn't write a book.
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by bryanh 12y ago
As a rule, an LXC jail is definitely very much better than code-inspection, but it is worth taking the time reading up on some of the rather specific configuration needed to tighten up LXC/namespaces. Docker (previously DotCloud) obvio
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by bryanh 12y ago
Building a truly safe Python sandbox (well, in CPython at least) is widely considered a fool's errand [0]. However, a Python sandbox can be relatively safely done in two ways: 1. By completely reimplementing Python at a lower level and
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by bryanh 12y ago
Though I can't really comment on the discussion as a whole, I can say with good authority that if Zapier zaps fail (for any reason), we will try to send out alert emails to the best of our ability!
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by bryanh 12y ago
> He does it because it makes him feel/look important, or he's paranoid, or he may as well because he has the money and the company may pay for it anyway. Unless you have internal knowledge, for all we know he and his family ha
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by bryanh 12y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure either. I'll look into it.
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by bryanh 12y ago
Zapier co-founder here, thanks for pointing this out! We do have a feed ( https://zapier.com/engineering/feeds/latest/ ) but we I think we need to add a meta tag for NewsBlur/readers to pick up on it. We&#
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by bryanh 12y ago
Knowing where you'll be in 5 years != knowing where you'll be in 3-6 months. For most earlier startups, that is near the optimum lookahead algorithm.
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by bryanh 12y ago
A fun, related read on what Google does when they must introduce a leap second to their fleet of servers: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-l...
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by bryanh 12y ago
I will attest that Slava is not only wicked smart, but a great person to just talk with.
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by bryanh 12y ago
Same here! Email in profile, in the Mountain View area for coffee/beers.
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by bryanh 12y ago
I bet some before/after load charts would be pretty impressive!
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by bryanh 12y ago
The renaming of struct, might that fix some of the json's libraries bugs? (IIRC, this was in the sandbox.)
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by bryanh 12y ago
I would presume because it is a long, distracting and unpleasant process.
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by bryanh 12y ago
Also, be prepared to be labeled a murderous hacker.
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by bryanh 12y ago
Would you mind putting your magnet link in a indented code block? The non-breaking string of chars is causing the page to go wonky.
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by bryanh 12y ago
Misquote, he actually said: "Yeah. I think we get the best companies, which is 90 percent of the hard work." Which has a completely different emphasis.
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by bryanh 12y ago
Yep! Redis tends to be more for reading inflight rate/plan limiting, something I've not heard a lot about in conjunction with graphite (though it might be great!). We might bring back statsd/graphite for alerting/monitor
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by bryanh 12y ago
Oooo, simmetrica looks very nice! IIRC when I was writing our implementation there weren't any solid Python versions yet. Glad to see that changing! More good implementation info here http://blog.apiaxle.com/post/s
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by bryanh 12y ago
Redis really is a fundamental building block for designing distributed systems these days. I was kind of surprised, but all these examples exist independently in the Zapier codebase as well (all backed by Redis). I've been meaning to o
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by bryanh 12y ago
Yep, take a look! >>> import collections >>> dd = collections.defaultdict(int) >>> print dd['doesnt exist'] 0 >>> print dd defaultdict(<type 'int'>, {&#
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Help Orchestrate Zapier (YC S12) as Remote DevOps Engineer(zapier.com)
1 points by bryanh 12y ago
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by bryanh 12y ago
https://www.webscript.io gets pretty close.
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by bryanh 12y ago
You might look at how Wufoo's rule system works. Designed for not-very-technical users and it is pretty powerful.
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by bryanh 13y ago
AWS's ELB (which we use) were vulnerable, we'll be replacing certificates ASAP. We (and most the rest of the internet using ELB) seem to be in the clear now: ./heartbleeder zapier.com SECURE - zapier.com:443 has the
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by bryanh 13y ago
Great suggestion, I'll bring it up with the team and see if we could arrange something.

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