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by colinhowe 11y ago
Like it. I'd love to see a way to set a weekly allowance. E.g. I set "eat junk food" at 0, but really, I want to say I can do it once per week as a treat ;)
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by colinhowe 11y ago
I read this as a missed opportunity to say "gun manufacturers are aiding those who rape, defraud, assault, or even kill, with their manufacturing policies".
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Twitter Ends Its Partnership with DataSift – Firehose Access Expires on Aug 13(blog.datasift.com)
8 points by colinhowe 12y ago|1 comments
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GitReview – IMDB for software(gitreview.com)
3 points by colinhowe 12y ago|2 comments
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by colinhowe 12y ago
Disclaimer: I work for a company providing customer service over social media solutions. Allowing businesses to do messaging with customers is a big deal. It's been there on FB messenger for a while, but, it hasn't had the attenti
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by colinhowe 12y ago
Fair points - we don't allow failed servers back into replica sets and rely on writing to multiple nodes instead of the disk as source of truth. This may not suit everyone and absolutely does not suit financial transactions. You can be
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by colinhowe 12y ago
We have a dataset much larger than RAM (600gb vs 60gb RAM). It's the working set that really matters. Accessing data outside the working set can be slow - unless you have SSDs :) Regarding consistent/durable: during the past four
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by colinhowe 12y ago
This is cool :) The difference between this and what I've made is that hotfilefinder looks at number of lines changed
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Hot File Finder – Finding the 'hottest' files in a Git repo(github.com)
4 points by colinhowe 12y ago|3 comments
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by colinhowe 12y ago
We've been playing with this architecture. It makes testing a lot easier - you just shove data in where needed and things pop out the other end. It also forces us into splitting things up in a more sensible manner. Along with easier te
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by colinhowe 12y ago
Browserify manages to remap our source maps... but we're using coffeeify to do that
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by colinhowe 13y ago
This also holds us back from trying it out as our primary data store (but it is interesting as an additional store for other things that don't need additional unique keys)
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The RRT(tech.conversocial.com)
1 points by colinhowe 13y ago|0 comments
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by colinhowe 13y ago
From what I've heard TSA agents don't think about the situation either
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by colinhowe 13y ago
Apple has not received a warrant for customer ID XYZ Apple has not received a warrant for customer ID ABC
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by colinhowe 13y ago
but then for any reasonable application to be able to use them they'll need to store the unencryption key anyway..
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by colinhowe 13y ago
Cool idea. However, you should remove your age from it. Given a lot of banks etc rely on date of birth as a security identification
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by colinhowe 13y ago
and we see a lot of people using Macs but running Windows on them.
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by colinhowe 13y ago
Also, if they were told to get one it would be trivial to change your login code to siphon off valid logins to another database somewhere.
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by colinhowe 13y ago
I sat in on a graduation ceremony at Maker's Academy. I was extremely sceptical at first. The quality of the projects they'd produced in just a week (after having only spent 11 weeks learning to code) was surprisingly high. Having
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by colinhowe 13y ago
I wonder what this mindset does for the future employability of FB people, do people really want to employ people who are (basically) reckless?
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by colinhowe 13y ago
Join the pervert list or the suspected terrorist list. Great options, both :(
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CujoJS(cujojs.com)
3 points by colinhowe 13y ago|0 comments
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by colinhowe 13y ago
5.6 million. You need a hot standby. Or 8.4 if you're feeling cautious :)
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by colinhowe 13y ago
That's probably 6k writes to a "normal" DB. The fanout is handled by Redis which I doubt is included in the 6k writes. Not if you want to fan out to 30 million followers in under 5 seconds.
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by colinhowe 13y ago
And, we're recruiting in London :) Coffeescript engineers, Python engineers and dev-ops
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Conversocial - CRM Social Media Tool Raises $4.4M(techcrunch.com)
3 points by colinhowe 13y ago|1 comments
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by colinhowe 13y ago
When do you cease being a startup?
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by colinhowe 13y ago
I'd love to sign up... but recruiters should be hellbanned from this.
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by colinhowe 13y ago
This is wildly different from place to place... which is almost sadder. Some places have so little bureaucracy it's amazing. Some places are a mess of incompetency. In my experience, bureaucracy is a sign of lots of incompetency to follow.

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