cmer

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   by cmer 13y ago

   Here's my verdict in MongoDB after using it for a few years in a very high traffic application: I personally love most concepts behind Mongo. Schemaless, simple replication and sharing, JavaScript console, just to name a few. MongoDB i
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   by cmer 13y ago

   Author has been extremely helpful and responsive with issues filed on GitHub. Definitely appreciated.
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   by cmer 13y ago

   Try using Mosh. It makes ssh much less painful for high latency connections.
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   by cmer 13y ago

   Too few candidates ask about the founding/management team IMO. Prior success is often an indicator of future success.
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   by cmer 13y ago

   Ironically, classic "desktop" apps solve most of this. Even if Microsoft went out of business, Microsoft Word would still work.
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   by cmer 13y ago

   Caching. We request the same objects quite frequently and bandwidth is killing us.
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   by cmer 13y ago

   It stores everything but the object
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   by cmer 13y ago

   Is there something similar to this that exists that also caches s3 objects locally?
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   by cmer 13y ago

   My experience with them is that their reliability is actually below that. We moved to Softlayer, couldn't be happier.
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    by cmer 13y ago

    5 year on BMO and RY: http://www.google.com/finance?q=bmo&ei=FjDOUqiwMZGQqwHDJQ http://www.google.com/finance?q=ry&ei=GzDOUtiwAoGEqgHvUA Plus 3.77% and 4.34% yield, it's not a bad deal at all!
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    by cmer 13y ago

    I've been pretty lucky with Canadian bank stock. In Canada, there's pretty much zero competition in the banking industry because of how it's regulated. The risk is generally minimal (not factoring macro economic risks) and th
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    by cmer 13y ago

    A cruise might be your best bet! Read this: http://tynan.com/cruisework FYI, wifi is now a bit cheaper on some cruise lines. Last time I was on Royal Caribbeans they had an unlimited wifi package that wasn't so outrag
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    by cmer 13y ago

    It's Christmas, so I'll just say this... You have the power to put these guys out of business, or give them a break and help them find a way to promote their business in a more "ethical" way. I hate spam as much as you (
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    by cmer 13y ago

    My advice would be really fucking careful. It takes time to learn what millions are really worth. For me, 10k started looking like pocket change. I knew it wasn't right so I made a point not to spend any money for the first 6 months. O
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    by cmer 13y ago

    I fully agree. I actually realized only after that we're very happy he's gone. He wasn't a great fit at all. Even though he was an outstanding developer, we're much stronger without him.
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    by cmer 13y ago

    Kudos on not giving up. I've had our co-founder/CTO quit on us t the day we were expecting term sheets. Pretty bad timing and I was freaking out a little bit. Investors have seen it all. While I expected this setback to screw up o
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    by cmer 13y ago

    Anybody knows how long floppy disks, diskettes and their respective drives last? Odd question, but I've always been wondering. These things just seem to hast forever.
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    by cmer 13y ago

    Except that the service they offer is much superior and are open to a conversation about pricing if you're a big enough client.
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    by cmer 13y ago

    We switched from Cloudfront to Fastly and couldn't be happier. These guys are awesome and the product is top notch. I highly recommend Fastly. We weren't too impressed with Cloudfront. The performance was all over the place and th
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    by cmer 13y ago

    I agree with you. Their internal network is crap. And recently, their external network has been horrible as well. We have 40 servers with them and we're getting out of there. Been getting downtime almost weekly for the last couple of m
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    by cmer 13y ago

    Codified http://www.codified.co - Toronto, ON & Montreal, QC We're one of the fastest growing startups in Canada, and we're still in private beta! We're building a brand new type of social marketplace and have
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    by cmer 13y ago

    Are you doing so with MRI/Ruby 2.0? Been considering Puma over Unicorn since it works so well for one of our JRuby apps but was wondering about how it would perform on MRI since it seems like it was never really designed with MRI in mi
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    by cmer 13y ago

    This is getting really problematic. It stops our whole team every time. Anybody has experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI? How's the flow compared to Github, especially for pull requests, commenting and collaboration?
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    by cmer 13y ago

    This seems like an awesome project! Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't support Kindles yet, right? Only Android and iOS?
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    by cmer 13y ago

    They've had some internal network problems lately. It's been really annoying but it's apparently fixed now. The other thing is their billing system. We have ~30 servers with them and have to pay for each one of them separatel
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    by cmer 13y ago

    We've been with OVH for about 3 months and over all the experience has been good. Prices are also very competitive. I'd look there if I were you.
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    by cmer 13y ago

    We have over 25 machines with them. How do you cope with having to pay individually for every single machine, every single month? Their billing system is non-sense, unless I'm missing something?
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    by cmer 13y ago

    In my experience even a significant pay increase is usually not what makes you win/lose a candidate to a more established company.
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    by cmer 13y ago

    For startups, it can be challenging to compete with Facebook and Google when it comes to perks. Startup money needs to be invested wisely, at the same time, we need to attract the best talent possible. I'd be interested to hear what re
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    by cmer 13y ago

    +1 for Honeybadger. Moved away from Airbrake and we've been happy campers.