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by chubs 15y ago
Find a mentor. If you're serious, and not just 'going through a phase', you'll need people to spur you on with this. Find some organisations you admire, eg kiva, and email the founders to see if they'd mentor you or if they could recommend
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by chubs 15y ago
Hahaha... yes. Silly me :)
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by chubs 15y ago
If you're serious about beating that shipping-yourself-difficulty, read Pressfield's book 'the art of war'.
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by chubs 15y ago
Congratulations on shipping your first. You're in exactly the same boat as me. Keep it up till you've got a dozen apps, you can do it!
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by chubs 15y ago
I think a good place to start would be making a vim binding for xcode. Realistically its very difficult to escape the xcode ecosystem, however vim bindings would probably be enough to make it great.
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by chubs 15y ago
I just watched that video. It's brilliant! I'm going to force my sister to watch it now :) Thanks so much for sharing the link
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by chubs 15y ago
Looks fantastic. I'm personally really interested, and would like to know: * Pricing - beta/free won't last forever! * How will this compare with using iCloud when it comes out? I believe that icloud will provide api's for some storage/sync
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by chubs 15y ago
I love this article! Only had a chance to skim read it so far, but it looks along the same lines as a lot of things my friends have been discussing at the moment about making a worthwhile impact with our lives, especially the focus on NOW a
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by chubs 15y ago
I don't understand - why has it been such a big deal to raise the debt ceiling this time? I mean, didn't they do it 7 times in bush's 8 years, and 5 times in the last ~4 years of obama's presidency? If they've done it roughly once a year fo
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by chubs 15y ago
Yes, but the limit is: 65k only for a single incoming IP address. So 1m is fine, presuming the clients all have different IPs. So, for testing, i'm going to have to do 1m/65k = 16 servers running concurrently at 64k connections each.
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by chubs 15y ago
I would have thought the easiest way to land a job at google these days would be to start a blog, become a 'thought leader', start a few important open source projects, etc, that kind of thing.
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by chubs 15y ago
I googled for C hash libraries, and came across one of those 'shootout' blog posts where they compare memory size and cpu usage, and klib looked to be a winner. Plus it's only one or two header files to make it work. Documentation was poor,
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by chubs 15y ago
Holy moly! What a turnaround. You're welcome :)
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by chubs 15y ago
Thanks for having a look! The main thing i wanted to check for as of now is the performance (in terms of memory usage) of the hash/dictionary/list library i'm using (klib). In which case, i'm personally impressed with the work of klib's aut
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by chubs 15y ago
Those are orthogonal stats, true. More relevant is queued messages vs RAM used, which i'm quite happy with: 1m messages = 65m ram. Also think about the 1000 msgs/sec vs 5% cpu, which i'm also happy with. Thanks a lot for having a look!
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Show HN: Comet server w/end project, barely breaks a sweat at 1000msg/s(splinter.com.au)
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by chubs 15y ago
After being burnt by another cold calling recruiter (you'd think i'd learn to simply hang up on them) this week, i feel obliged to pay respect where it's due to my favourite recruiter. If you're in sydney, and you're looking for a job or
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by chubs 15y ago
Thanks for letting me know. Sounds like they have a bit more of an online presence than my target, cafe's, and would appreciate the linkbacks/blog coverage more. Having said that, its good to hear that they didn't worry about traffic. Good
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by chubs 15y ago
Simply brilliant! All this time i’ve been thinking i’d like to write staff scheduling software for cafe’s, if only i could make some contacts with cafe owners. This sounds like a great way to make those contacts. Do you mind telling us whic
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by chubs 15y ago
I'd love to video chat with my baby daughter in the mornings because i go to work before she wakes up. But cannot because due to bandwidth issues, its an awful experience. So count me as an adopter if and when video chat ever becomes good!
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by chubs 15y ago
If you end up choosing python, a popular first book is: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ A lot depends on which language is going to be helpful in your computational physics class: you should find out which language they'll expect you to
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by chubs 15y ago
Its unfortunate that the x86 camp is splintering, with developers caught in the crossfire unable to find a compiler that works well on all x86 processors, while the world drifts towards ARM...
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by chubs 15y ago
I was thinking that, but to be fair he gave that talk 4 years ago before the tablet/phone market took off.
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by chubs 15y ago
Some questions: * Who would you replace him with? * How much money do they make from enterprise vs consumer stuff? * If they make most of their cash from enterprise, is it reasonable to criticise him for missing the phone/tablet revolution?
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by chubs 15y ago
I'd love to see some benchmarks comparing the size of gzipped messagepack vs gzipped json for a wide bunch of example messages. If this is better than json, and has objective-c libraries, it could be magic for our purposes! (file size is ve
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by chubs 15y ago
Sounds like a good thing. iScroll is another option too, however if this is simple and small, it could be a winner.
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by chubs 15y ago
Maybe they'll pivot like IBM did, from consumer stuff to business consulting / enterprise products?
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by chubs 16y ago
This is why i love hosting on heroku: they'll work their butt off to get it fixed when its down, and i don't have to lift a finger. However, EBS has been long known to be a turd, its a pity they relied on it. Plus, if they had a way to brin
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by chubs 16y ago
Please add a stackoverfow icon? As a developer, SO is basically my resume.
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by chubs 16y ago
That's fantastic news! I can't wait for coffee to become widespread.

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