chewbranca

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by chewbranca 16y ago
I just picked this up. I have very large hands so I'm always looking for an alternative to a standard on screen keyboard. This works amazingly well. I'm already becoming proficient with it, and it is nice to build up a natural rhythm once y
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by chewbranca 16y ago
The concept of job scheduling algorithms made me much more conscious about the order of approaching things in my day to day life.
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Thanks for creating this book! I just picked it up, and everything I've seen so far from the website and the first chapter has been a blast so far. I'm excited to dive into the rest.
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Yeah but #!/usr/bin/node does work. I've used some node.js command line scripts, and it works decently well. Some people praise Node.js for general purpose command line scripts. Personally, I find Ruby easier to use for command line utiliti
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by chewbranca 16y ago
I have trouble with classifying the most visited site in the world as a startup. I don't find that accurate.
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by chewbranca 16y ago
While I enjoy the creativity of his for loops, javascript is the not language to be doing this in. One of the key advantages of using a foreach loop with a callback function, is that javascript has functional scope. All of those variable de
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by chewbranca 16y ago
This reminds me of facebook development, where you need to have a live fqdn for all of your environments. We used to use a staging server and had a similar problem with huge amounts of small unnatural commits for things you would normally t
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by chewbranca 16y ago
I work on a team of 2 where I'm responsible for a handful of servers. I chimed in because I'm in a similar position, I've been looking for a monitoring solution for a while now. Things like nagios and zenoss are over kill, but lack of time
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by chewbranca 16y ago
I agree completely about the complexity of monitoring solutions for small teams with fluctuating applications. However, something as simple as htop running on an extra monitor would have alerted you of this issue long before downtime result
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Thank you for clarifying, I appreciate it. There are some very nice data manipulation functions in underscore, and its speed is impressive. I will definitely look into it more.
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by chewbranca 16y ago
I don't understand this statement. Initially when I saw underscore.js a few weeks ago, I was under the impression it was a light weight js library for when you didn't want to use jquery or something even heavier. Do you use this in conjunct
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Nice article. Another good resource I found is this Google I/0 2009 video on performance tips with google maps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI8at1EmJjA
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by chewbranca 16y ago
While the final recursive solution is nice, it is trivial to split the string on spaces and recombine inserting newlines when the current line overflows. This is not as elegant of a solution, but it took far less time to build that than it
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by chewbranca 16y ago
I'm fairly sure we'll be judged to some extent that we allowed Bush to be president, twice no less, and also that we spent the first decade of the 21st century in war.
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Another vote for xmonad. I have been using xmonad on my desktop for most of this year, and it has worked amazingly well, and definitely has one of the best multi-monitor setups I've ever used. One of the most impressive things is how well i
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Agreed. I wasn't aware this was around since 2008 when I initially posted as I hadn't heard of it before. I figured this had already gotten a fair bit of interest so I would just let it go rather than changing it after the fact to an Ask HN
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Ahhhh interesting, so it doesn't provide you with a generic payment system, but instead provides you with a way to meter content on S3 or the use of an AMI. That's still an interesting service model, where you charge users on resource consu
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Not much content in that thread. Has any used this since then? I'm interested to hear from people who have used it. I'm not seeing a whole lot about it in general, seems DevPay got some interest in 2008 and then faded off.
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by chewbranca 16y ago
I hadn't heard of it before so I figured others might not have either. More importantly, with the introduction of micro instances, this creates a very low barrier of entry into creating a service behind a paywall. I'm looking to do just tha
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Amazon DevPay(aws.amazon.com)
81 points by chewbranca 16y ago|26 comments
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Alternatively, use languages that aren't PHP and actually have standards and have a designed API rather than something organically grown into a disgusting mess. That said, I used PHP for years and am very familiar with how annoying the lack
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Aves game engine previously discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293816
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Wow, a more polished demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmtQOB_KFzU&feature=relat... They have multi monitor support as well as the ability to play super mario bros inside of their game. That's pretty wicked. I wonder if this engine
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Dextrose (jQuery game engine maker) acquired by Zynga(dextrose.com)
3 points by chewbranca 16y ago|3 comments
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Oh get a life.
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Really? downvoted for that? You know that was funny.
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Satellite error... please, it was a game of global thermonuclear war! Anyone else find it ironic this happened in the same year that wargames the movie came out?
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Juggernaut 2 using node.js and redis(dailyjs.com)
1 points by chewbranca 16y ago|0 comments
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by chewbranca 16y ago
Yeah I've been thinking about moving in that direction. I'm currently halfway through an 18 month contract, so its going to be some time before I'll be able to change some things up. I'm not entirely sure how to break into the consulting ma
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by chewbranca 16y ago
When midnight strolls by and I'm in the zone hacking, then I'm programming for me. When I wake up early and tired mon-fri to go program all day, then I'm programming for my family. I love what I do so I'm not complaining and I'm very thankf

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