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by dylanvee 14y ago
For what it's worth, Google App Engine uses a so-called "intelligent" global request queue/scheduler. In most circumstances it's quite effective.
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Leveling Up(dylanv.org)
1 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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Tokaido: Making Ruby Better on OS X(confreaks.com)
1 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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Vetting a Chrome Extension(dylanv.org)
1 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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Bootstrap 3 will be mobile-first when released(twitter.com)
2 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: PonyUp, the absolute fastest way to repay your friends(ponyupapp.com)
1 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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Why Rails' ActiveQueue got moved to a branch(github.com)
1 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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by dylanvee 14y ago
I could make myself remember to special-case you fairly easily, but I really don't want to have to special-case anyone. That's why I love iMessage--it's a progressive enhancement, not a separate app. When that breaks down, like when I can't
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by dylanvee 14y ago
(Khan Academy dev here.) The datastore being a black box is a slight concern to me personally, but the really great tradeoff is letting Google handle the responsibility of keeping our persistence layer, among many other services, up and run
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by dylanvee 14y ago
I interviewed with a Twitter search engineer and he told me that that's because their in-memory search index is not big enough hold all tweets ever posted. On top of that, their efforts to scale up the index are counteracted by the ever-inc
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by dylanvee 14y ago
function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {...} How clever of them.
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Size Isn't Everything(chronicle.com)
2 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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by dylanvee 14y ago
Khan Academy video that uses Illinois as an example of what happens when pension obligations are underfunded: http://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/american-civics/v/illi...
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by dylanvee 14y ago
I don't know, but either way it's much snappier.
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by dylanvee 14y ago
No, we don't plan to. Before every hackathon we get these delusions of grandeur about evolving our upcoming hack into a thriving business, but the morning after we're always left with, well, a big hack.
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by dylanvee 14y ago
Thanks man! Now how are you still awake?
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Facebook Hackathon Finals post-mortem(dylanv.org)
38 points by dylanvee 14y ago|12 comments
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Khan Academy Internship, Summer '12(bjk5.com)
4 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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by dylanvee 14y ago
At my internship last summer, several devs were partial to those super-clacky keyboards one can buy. I can't stand working without (or even with) headphones in places like cafes when loud conversations are going on around me, but I found th
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Show HN: Rapidly test Tesseract OCR in real-world conditions(github.com)
2 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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Facebook pilots “WiFi for check-ins” program(insidefacebook.com)
2 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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by dylanvee 14y ago
Until Letterpress I had no use for Game Center at all, but I just used its auto-matching to start two engaging rounds with strangers. Fun game.
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by dylanvee 14y ago
What kind of magic expression is that?
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Building SSH Services with JRuby and Apache MINA(dylanv.org)
1 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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The One World Schoolhouse(amazon.com)
1 points by dylanvee 14y ago|0 comments
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by dylanvee 14y ago
That's a really good idea, thank you.
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by dylanvee 14y ago
Yes, perhaps.
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by dylanvee 14y ago
Thanks! The server is in EC2's Oregon region, so it'll be laggy if you're very far from there. Didn't stop you from beating me though... And you don't have to type in the username, you can click the button and it should open a new SSH sessi
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by dylanvee 14y ago
Today I'm launching a little side project of mine. I'm striving for a sublimely simple user experience with this one: log in with your GitHub account and with one click you can launch a terminal window and instantly get matched up with anot
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Show HN: GitHub + Tetris = Gitris(gitris.com)
12 points by dylanvee 14y ago|12 comments

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