dhruvbird

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   by dhruvbird 14y ago

   I personally use digitalocean for hosting http://en.wikipins.org/ and would like to say that I am very happy with their service and SSD IOPS - something that took me 6hrs. on EC2 takes me ~45mins on digitalocean hosted machines for a ha
2. 62.▲
   by dhruvbird 14y ago

   I tried that out initially (since it's simpler), but the single link on every pin on the page looked a bit ugly.
3. 63.▲
   by dhruvbird 14y ago

   It's there on mouseover (top right).
4. 64.▲
   by dhruvbird 14y ago

   EC2 for power!!
5. 65.▲
   by dhruvbird 14y ago

   Don't do this please. It's the total opposite of what startups actually want applicants to do I guess... If I were a startup CEO, this would be a bad thing, but I'm not, so I don't know what the reality is.
6. 66.▲
   by dhruvbird 14y ago

   hypocrisy??
7. 67.▲
   by dhruvbird 14y ago

   I remember the first 4 digits of my credit card and I want the whole of it. I do a search and "boom" the first 4 digits of my credit card are online.
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   A place for hackers to share news(news.ycombinator.com)

   4 points by dhruvbird 14y ago|0 comments
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   by dhruvbird 14y ago

   Thanks for the fixes! :)
10. 70.▲
    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    http & https mismatch for the page and the auto-complete end-point.
11. 71.▲
    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    I sort of agree with the inconvenience with pop-ups. Can't you selectively enable them for some web sites?
12. 72.▲
    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    Actually, even TAB should trigger auto-complete, but the server seems to be down. :-(
13. 73.▲
    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    That's actually a great point - something I didn't think of when I suggested python since I don't know scheme :D Maybe this is reason enough to learn scheme soon. For practical considerations would you still choose scheme, or would you try
14. 74.▲
    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    Might as well use python because of greater?? adoption and ease of use?
15. 75.▲
    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    Nice - much needed!
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    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    @mittermayr I responded to your comment too :) There isn't much you can do about the latency at their end except try and get the most out of your API quota by making sure you don't issue a call when you know you will time out (discussed in
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    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    Interesting practical problem. I've tried mentioning a few solutions you might try here: http://dhruvbird.blogspot.com/2012/11/twitter-api-y-u-no-res...
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    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    In India, if a train arrives, it is considered 'on time'.
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    Data Structures & Algorithms for Big Data (data too big to fit in main memory)(cs.sunysb.edu)

    2 points by dhruvbird 14y ago|0 comments
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    SQL Query Execution Optimization opportunities missed (or why write better SQL)(dhruvbird.blogspot.com)

    1 points by dhruvbird 14y ago|0 comments
21. 81.▲
    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    I can't edit it any more. It seems that the edit timeout has been reached.
22. 82.▲
    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    Fixed
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    Don Knuth releases Volume 4, Pre-fascicle 6A [gzipped ps](www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

    141 points by dhruvbird 14y ago|47 comments
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    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    From what I understand, all of this can be done entirely in javascript, mitigating any security issues of queries going over the wire.
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    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    Excellent judge of the protocol. It's interesting that no one is trying to solve the cookie bloat problem with http.
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    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    I guess there are some interesting results as a result of this effort: * Javascript can be used to program these things and is quite capable of handling low-level kind of stuff * Since it's easier to write js code than c/c++ code (for me),
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    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    Love the idea of dropping repeaters and back-tracking if the wi-fi connection is lost. I guess you could also extend it to remember where the repeaters were dropped and try to navigate to one of these spots if the backtracking fails (imagin
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    Normalized Google Distance(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by dhruvbird 14y ago|1 comments
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    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    @Ankur - Thanks again for the clarification - that's helpful information.
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    by dhruvbird 14y ago

    Thanks Ankur for the details! I saw you mention in another comment that memsql stores almost 30x the (rows) data as mysql by the end of the experiment. I would be curious to know why this is so, and what that data is. Also, from what I unde