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by geoffc 16y ago
Redis has a rapidly growing list of data operations to model a wide variety of problems within a bound storage space (the VM feature expands that space). Cassandra does a specific task, unlimited high volume redundant writes, extremely well
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by geoffc 16y ago
Woohoo! Redis has quickly become my favorite transient data store. I'm using a combination of Postgres, Redis and Cassandra and feel like I have the natural data mapping for every scenario. No more pushing square pegs into round holes.
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by geoffc 16y ago
Good idea, I filled one out.
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by geoffc 16y ago
I don't have the specifics but I believe the other times were narrower claims against specific technologies. This is a broad brush stroke against an entire industry segment.
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by geoffc 16y ago
This is unusual behavior for MS. I wonder if this is the opening move in a buyout/takeover gambit.
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by geoffc 16y ago
The manifestation of this crisp thinking is tarsnap. The best linux backup product I have ever seen.
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by geoffc 16y ago
Very timely ... Amen on business lawyers! I just signed the papers on a seed round and what drove me nuts was all the expensive back and forth on possible IPO provisions (caps on legal fees etc.) let's see if we can get user one without usi
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by geoffc 16y ago
Agreed with the pain of admin with CPAN. I ended up creating a custom build and distribution tool to manage this as the existing solutions are weak.
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by geoffc 16y ago
CPAN is the killer app for Perl. Every time I flip across to another language I usually love the syntax and structures but the lack of a CPAN equivalent is always grating and I usually end up right back at Perl to get stuff done fast.
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by geoffc 16y ago
>Wow. I wonder, have you and this smug author ever considered that you are the problem? I'm positive I am part of the problem but I haven't found a better way for me to build a top notch team given my skill set and inclinations. As we g
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by geoffc 16y ago
This works incredibly well. At my last company I fired about a third of the engineers I hired after 3 to 6 months and ended up with a great technical team. I never know how good an engineer is going to be during the interview process but af
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by geoffc 16y ago
That's cool! I'm going to try an omaha steak in my cooler, it is already vacuum sealed so as far as I can see I just throw the steak in the hot water and go have a few cold beverages while it cooks. Mmmmmh.
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by geoffc 17y ago
Agreed it is not accurate for huge servers and IO bound cases but I have found it to be a good rule of thumb for a LAMP web application stack on anything from single to 8 core machines. It is a useful metric to start digging deeper into the
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by geoffc 17y ago
My rule of thumb is that the end users of a web application will perceive that the system is "slow" if the 1 minute load average is above 4 on the application or database server.
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by geoffc 17y ago
When stocks tumble the companies usually keep operating along, the shareholders take the big haircut.
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Show HN: What I did with Notifo
1 points by geoffc 17y ago|0 comments
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by geoffc 17y ago
I have a good story about this market. A friend of mine is doing this and he bought a $20M portfolio of bad boat loans for less than 1/2 cent on the dollar. He closes on the portfolio and the next day gets a call from a bank in Texas that h
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by geoffc 17y ago
Have to disagree on point 4 about Boston. I have raised VC during the boom and the bust here, it is do-able, maybe not as easy as the Valley but not impossible either. Agreed on the importance of customer traction.
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by geoffc 17y ago
I went with Linode because of the pricing and am happy with the service so far. Only nit is that if you want more than 1 additional IP address for a machine you need to justify the address by installing a commercial SSL cert on it.
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by geoffc 17y ago
I'm using jquery and google analytics to track this. Tie the interface actions into different analytic tags and use google to store and display the activity. http://www.thewhyandthehow.com/tracking-events-with-google-a...
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by geoffc 17y ago
The idea for this site came from a comment from yannis on my prior HN submission for townflier.com. Sadly eBay sent me a form letter rejection for the affiliate network but I like the way the site turned out so I'm launching it anyway to se
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Ask HN: Review my eBay/Google maps mashup inspired by HN (thelocalbay.com)
1 points by geoffc 17y ago|1 comments
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by geoffc 17y ago
The site now does an IP address location and zooms you to the state level.
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by geoffc 17y ago
Agreed. First step was getting the software working, the next far bigger step is figuring out how to get content into the system and distribution.
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by geoffc 17y ago
Wow this is why I love HN, Thanks!
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by geoffc 17y ago
Nope running at Linode. Postgres/postgis and mod_perl on the back end sending JSON to the UI rendered in javascript. Thanks for the information on Gumtree. I will look at that.
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by geoffc 17y ago
If you are using a location enabled browser like the latest version of firefox it will ask and try to use that location. The javascript uses the navigator.geolocation object.
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by geoffc 17y ago
Thanks for the ebay pointer I will look at it. I know scraping craigslist is not the way to go :-) Yes, we have discussed allowing private or subscription townfliers for micro-communities. That might be the next step.
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by geoffc 17y ago
postal code and radius is another approach but what I like is that the push pins on the map quickly show you where everything is. Very useful for say planning a trip to multiple yard sales.
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by geoffc 17y ago
I couldn't figure out a better way to select a geographic region and hope that over time online map usage becomes ubiquitous

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