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by colinhowe 14y ago
We play a lot of openarena at lunch (private server in the office). We're just trying this out now. First impressions are that the install and configuration steps are really smooth - something often omitted in these kind of projects. It's a
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by colinhowe 14y ago
There's definitely a lack of good developers in London. We don't mind too much about what language people know as the fundamentals of good software translate to pretty much any language :)
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Conversocial is looking for Python Developers(roundabout.io)
7 points by colinhowe 14y ago|3 comments
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by colinhowe 14y ago
they're totally worth it: - less time spent optimising - fewer machines needed (can pile a lot more data on to one server) If money really is an issue then something like flashcache might be a good stepping stone ( https://github.c
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SSDs on AWS - Impact on Conversocial(colinhowe.co.uk)
8 points by colinhowe 14y ago|6 comments
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by colinhowe 14y ago
A bounty on issues would also be interesting... sometimes you have an issue you can't personally fix and isn't critical enough to get a contributors interest. $100 might get their interest though :)
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MongoDB - Collection per user performance(colinhowe.co.uk)
2 points by colinhowe 14y ago|0 comments
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Powering Conversocial's Analytics(colinhowe.co.uk)
1 points by colinhowe 14y ago|0 comments
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Considerations when sharding(colinhowe.co.uk)
1 points by colinhowe 14y ago|1 comments
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MongoDB - Strategies when hitting disk(colinhowe.co.uk)
2 points by colinhowe 14y ago|0 comments
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This is what we make happen(colinhowe.co.uk)
1 points by colinhowe 14y ago|0 comments
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by colinhowe 14y ago
Are there any stock letters to send to my MP?
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Never use Your ORM Directly(colinhowe.co.uk)
1 points by colinhowe 14y ago|0 comments
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Tackling Technical Debt(colinhowe.co.uk)
1 points by colinhowe 15y ago|0 comments
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If your database server fails, what happens?(colinhowe.co.uk)
1 points by colinhowe 15y ago|0 comments
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by colinhowe 15y ago
"The information commissioner said public bodies not involved in dealing with serious crime or national security, such as the Department for Work and Pensions, should have to apply to a court before access was granted." I don't have much of
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by colinhowe 15y ago
sigh In preparation, where's the best place for a startup hacker to emigrate to nowadays?
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Django Sampler 0.6 Released - Splits samples by day(colinhowe.co.uk)
6 points by colinhowe 15y ago|0 comments
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by colinhowe 15y ago
This does make me tempted to just put everything in one zone (less latency) and have a backup on another region entirely. Clearly, backups on different AZs isn't the best plan
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by colinhowe 15y ago
Their dashboard not showing this and Twitter being more reliable as a way of showing downtime is a sad tale.
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by colinhowe 15y ago
East coast issue. Looks like routing issues mainly in getting to Europe. Fun times.
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90% of problems are people problems(colinhowe.co.uk)
1 points by colinhowe 15y ago|0 comments
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by colinhowe 15y ago
This is nice. I'd love it if I could create a company account, invite my colleagues and then know that only those people can access the pads that we make. Also, ability to download all data as a dump would be nice.
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Why every developer should have Redis(colinhowe.co.uk)
2 points by colinhowe 15y ago|0 comments
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by colinhowe 15y ago
Mr Chaffetz is my new hero. More politicians should raise the issue of people not having a clue what they're on about. Even better, raising it eloquently.
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by colinhowe 15y ago
London - Conversocial We make a SaaS platform that helps companies do a better job of customer service and marketing on Facebook and Twitter (and other social networks soon) We're looking for someone to automate breaking what we make and te
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by colinhowe 15y ago
Clearly invalid. Prior use dates back to X BC when gestures by cavemen were used. [Edit] Or are they going to be chasing anyone that uses light in some fashion?
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by colinhowe 15y ago
Interesting that it has transaction support... I don't believe many of the mainstream NoSQL options support transactions. Having had the joy of installing an Oracle database in the past I nearly spilt my tea when I read "Easy Administration
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by colinhowe 15y ago
Does anyone know what these patents claim to cover? "wifi" seems a bit broad
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by colinhowe 15y ago
Awesome stuff. You should put the source somewhere :)

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