ericwaller

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   by ericwaller 15y ago

   I agree that the lack of ':' preceding a symbol is the most awkward part. Especially since it only works in object literals. It means that the expression { :test => 1 } == { test: 1 } is true, but the expression { :test => 1 } ==
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   Performance Monitoring with Tracelytics(seatgeek.com)

   2 points by ericwaller 15y ago|0 comments
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   by ericwaller 15y ago

   Quick aside, if you haven't seen this TED talk, definitely check it out: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
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   by ericwaller 15y ago

   In regards to #5, I think a more apt comparison would be teaching music theory students some basic piano so that they can mash a few keys and experiment with the ideas presented in class. And the choice of piano as the learning instrument i
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   by ericwaller 15y ago

   The comment I was replying to originally had "almost $1k/user".
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   by ericwaller 15y ago

   The current valuation is ~$8.5 billion, wikipedia puts them at ~100 million users. That works out to be ~$85/user.
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   by ericwaller 15y ago

   Do you mind linking to it here? Those three points sound pretty enticing.
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   by ericwaller 16y ago

   Very good point. I think optimally a really solid autocompleter allows you to bypass search as often as possible, and location awareness is definitely an important part of that.
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   by ericwaller 16y ago

   Thanks, very much agreed. I think Spotlight on OSX is probably the first place I saw it done really well. I remember on XP I used to use search all the time, but now on OSX I just autocomplete to what I want probably 95% of the time.
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    by ericwaller 16y ago

    We're actually using a slight variation of the second technique described, which involves maintaining a sorted set of the most relevant results for every possible prefix. A query for a single-prefix term (i.e. "yank") is technically O(log(N
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    by ericwaller 16y ago

    Glad to hear the name works for someone. We thought it meshed nicely with some of the other hyperbole out there in ruby gem names (god, unicorn, thor, shotgun, etc.).
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    by ericwaller 16y ago

    Thanks. If you do, definitely let us (SeatGeek) know how it goes.
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    Announcing Soulmate, a Redis-backed service for fast autocompleting(seatgeek.com)

    97 points by ericwaller 16y ago|23 comments
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    by ericwaller 16y ago

    It's not in dump format, but you should take a look at simplegeo's (free) api: http://simplegeo.com/
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    by ericwaller 16y ago

    Nope, they really mean $100,000: 1000 customers * $100
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    by ericwaller 16y ago

    (And TDD is the only way to get tests you really trust) Can you expand on this point? This is one aspect of TDD, which seems to focus most intensely on unit testing, I've never understood. Why wouldn't full-stack, acceptance testing be ju
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    Open, yet encrypted Wi-Fi [2007](stealthisidea.com)

    1 points by ericwaller 16y ago|0 comments
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    by ericwaller 16y ago

    That was roughly our thought process (I'm another seatgeeker btw). We wanted to come up with something that would be pretty quick to solve if you know what you're doing, but at the same time, demonstrates that you've got a pretty good under
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    by ericwaller 16y ago

    Absolutely, dropping Propel is TODO #1. I just figured I'd throw it on github and see if there was any interest first.
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    by ericwaller 16y ago

    Great to hear from you. I remember being impressed by how short and straightforward delayed_job was when I first explored job queues. That's actually one of the only reasons I even considered building/porting something myself. You're welcom
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    Announcing DJJob, a PHP port of delayed_job(seatgeek.com)

    38 points by ericwaller 16y ago|13 comments
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    by ericwaller 16y ago

    Thanks, in regards to the slowness, what browser were you using? The stadium itself is actually tiled bitmaps, we're using Raphael/svg for the section/row highlights. It would have been great to use vector graphics the whole way, for one it
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    by ericwaller 16y ago

    Thanks for the suggestions. Mouseover on the whole section is definitely nicer but unfortunately it caused some performance problems in IE (rendering a ton of paths is slow). Hopefully we can figure out a more performant way of doing that.
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    by ericwaller 16y ago

    Thanks so much, that's awesome to hear. Collecting the venue data was definitely a bit of a challenge. We used a combination of publicly available seating charts, google earth (believe it or not) and our own transaction data. It's easy enou
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    GoDaddy disables RescueTime.com with No Warning(joe-oyk9b.posterous.com)

    4 points by ericwaller 16y ago|0 comments
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    by ericwaller 16y ago

    I actually think it gives exactly the right signals. The people you'll have to sell to (customers, investors, future hires) will probably not be very understanding of the creative process. They'll think your idea is dumb, and they'll say "n
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    by ericwaller 16y ago

    Scrapy ( http://scrapy.org/ ) matches your description pretty well. You can specify which urls to crawl with regular expressions and then provide a bit of code to do some data extraction.
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    by ericwaller 17y ago

    I think it's more that experienced drivers are presumably more defensive and therefore more likely to avoid situations (tailgating, etc.) where a sudden acceleration would be tough to recover from.
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    by ericwaller 17y ago

    I actually almost included inexperience in my comment, but I thought it muddled the point since this article is asking why the elderly are over-represented in the toyota acceleration related deaths. It seems like you're correcting me, but h
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    by ericwaller 17y ago

    I like the concept, but when I clicked on the "blackberry smartphone" example I got no search results ( http://shouldget.com/search/?q=blackberry+smartphone ).