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by fizx 15y ago
Unlike Instagram and Facebook, people on pinterest don't take their own pictures.
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by fizx 15y ago
Also, libphonenumber from google works.
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by fizx 15y ago
Sounds like a hell of a blog article. I hope you write it.
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by fizx 15y ago
It's available now, just not as part of a standard plan. I'll send you an email, just to make sure we're getting you the best setup for your needs.
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by fizx 15y ago
Hey, Websolr founder here. Websolr's indexes return in under 50ms for queries of average complexity. The more expensive queries usually involve "faceting" or sorting a large number of results. For an example, say you search Github for "whi
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by fizx 15y ago
FlockDB is really a SQL-JOIN-only database. It's how we scale many-to-many relationships. For more traditional graph db applications, we use https://github.com/twitter/cassovary , which we just open-sourced.
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by fizx 15y ago
I think you need to adjust for the fact that many of the tools that make remote employment effective are recent developments.
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by fizx 15y ago
Gabe outsources his full-web index to Yahoo BOSS/Bing.
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by fizx 15y ago
Search engines are expensive to run. Roughly speaking, to do it well, you have to keep an up-to-date copy of the internet in RAM.
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by fizx 15y ago
As a Scala developer at one of the major Scala-using companies, this feels on-the-money.
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by fizx 15y ago
Unfortunately it benchmarks 20-40x slower than stock Solr. If that wasn't the case, I'd use it in a heartbeat.
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by fizx 15y ago
Processed white flour has always been the worst for me.
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by fizx 15y ago
I think apple has the potential to be Disney, which reached its peak well after Walt's death. The key is to have everyone be in awe of the founder's legacy. Apple's failures in the 90's were because they went the opposite direction of ask
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by fizx 15y ago
Or heroku. No one says you have to use the app you deploy. just put a dummy rackup file in your homedir.
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by fizx 15y ago
Wouldn't it be sensible for the law to be that the loser has to pay the lesser of the two legal team's costs?
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by fizx 15y ago
In a more flexible language (or with overloading), you can get the best of both worlds. // yay, scala def someMethod(config: String = File.ReadAllText("bal.conf")) = { //etc }
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by fizx 15y ago
Ruby has a 6000 LOC yacc parser for the grammar. I would bet that Coffee's grammar is smaller, tighter, and less full of perlisms.
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by fizx 15y ago
Testable code is loosely coupled, because it has to interact with mocks. Untestable code tends to have things like hard-wired http clients, because it was "easier" to just inline the constructor. When you go back to upgrade the current ve
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by fizx 15y ago
Conversely, what happens if someone else renames/splits consequence_method? Without this unit test, how would they have known they broke something? Unit tests help refactorability in dynamicly typed languages. Whether this is an argument
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by fizx 15y ago
The author argues that TTD fails in code that's largely wiring. I think the opposite is true. I'm writing an application that's largely wiring, and for the first time in a long time, using TDD. It's refreshing. Most of my tests are two-l
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by fizx 15y ago
Also, we're generally H1Bs and intern friendly.
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by fizx 15y ago
I have contact info in my HN profile.
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by fizx 15y ago
"Bitcask can guarantee one disk seek, whereas LevelDB will do one disk seek per level, so at least from that perspective, it can't be better." Yep, this is a standard tradeoff. When you want your data to be iterable, you have to take the hi
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by fizx 15y ago
Classic Dunning–Kruger effect.
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by fizx 15y ago
You're both right.
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by fizx 15y ago
Facebook is using mysql at massive scale, and we conjecture that they are unhappy with it, therefore it doesn't scale.
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by fizx 15y ago
scala> List(1,2,3).flatMap(n => List(n, n*2)) res7: List[Int] = List(1, 2, 2, 4, 3, 6)
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by fizx 15y ago
It's back now.
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by fizx 15y ago
One of the key things that was kinda skimmed over: You should check out http://github.com/twitter/finagle . It takes async network programming with netty into a functional programming paradigm. Programming scala/finagle network services
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by fizx 15y ago
$1M in funding is a hell of a lot different than $1M in cash. Misleading title.

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