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Less known (but useful) Clojure Libraries(technomancy.us)
7 points by gnubardt 15y ago|0 comments
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by gnubardt 15y ago
From data we've collected[1] more iOS devices (the majority) are running the most recent version of the OS, compared to Android. Even though they may have an update available (non-eligable devices excluded) not every user knows how or is ab
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Google Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back(wired.com)
4 points by gnubardt 15y ago|0 comments
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by gnubardt 15y ago
The topics he's willing to speak about are clearly listed in his rider, and graduation isn't one of them.
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Why are you still deploying overnight?(briancrescimanno.com)
113 points by gnubardt 15y ago|77 comments
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by gnubardt 15y ago
Cambridge MA & Seattle WA Brightcove - brightcove.com/careers We're an online video platform (the second largest source of video traffic after youtube) looking to hire DevOps & QA engineers, as well as product managers. We're large
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by gnubardt 15y ago
We wrote something similar at Brightcove to collect system statistics and publish them graphite. It runs as an independent service and focuses on OS (not application) level metrics. https://github.com/BrightcoveOS/Diamond
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by gnubardt 15y ago
> Personally, I consider it a lot more awesome when some dude I never heard of appears from nowhere with a usable LISP implementation (Clojure). Which disregards that non Microsoft employed people create languages for .NET too.
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by gnubardt 15y ago
Try Eclim, it runs Eclipse in headless mode and connects it to Vim, letting you use the code inspection & analysis of Eclipise within Vim.
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by gnubardt 15y ago
Those are great, here are a couple more i find very useful: # Search for partial matches in bash history # so $ <C-p> goes to the previous command but # $ s<C-p> searches through history entries that start with s
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by gnubardt 15y ago
Comment it out (put a # at the front), unless your shell is set to ignore commented lines.
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by gnubardt 15y ago
Reminds me of a story about Mario Puzzo: When he signed the contract for The Godfather to be made into a movie the royalties he'd receive were to come from the net income of the movie, not the gross. Due to the accounting practices describ
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by gnubardt 15y ago
You don't need to operate in the first tier of customer support to help them either. We have a forum that developers monitor & post to ( http://forum.brightcove.com/brgh/?category.id=developers ). It's easy and not disruptive to inter
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by gnubardt 15y ago
plus you get tests out of figuring out your design, not just interfaces.
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by gnubardt 15y ago
Brightcove in Cambridge MA We're an online video platform looking for a stellar QA intern for the fall. You'd probably be using Java & Javascript/Actionscript but we use python/jython as well. Totally paid. We're also looking for Market
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by gnubardt 15y ago
Since each color is an LED display and can display shapes it'd be cool to use the traffic lights to direct people to detours when a road is closed or over capacity.
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by gnubardt 15y ago
Do they run the message queue on the same box as the gateway server in production? If not then the test he ran isn't a direct comparison (since network latency between the app server & queue isn't accounted for). Running both of those
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The Personal Energy Crisis(nytimes.com)
1 points by gnubardt 15y ago|0 comments
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Efficiently copying files to multiple destinations(engineering.tumblr.com)
2 points by gnubardt 15y ago|0 comments
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by gnubardt 15y ago
API keys usually exist for preventing abuse. By exposing an authenticated API proxy you're allowing anyone to abuse someone else's API using your key, likely leading to them banning you. At a minimum you should implement your own rate limi
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by gnubardt 15y ago
You can enable multiple sign in in your account settings page. It lets you switch between accounts very quickly and doesn't require re-authenticating each time. https://www.google.com/accounts/b/0/MultipleSessions
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Brightcove joins move to Boston waterfront(boston.com)
1 points by gnubardt 15y ago|0 comments
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by gnubardt 15y ago
Brightcove - Cambridge, MA & Seattle, WA ;INTERN We're an online video platform with lots of data, lots of traffic and lots of tough problems to solve. In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the Brightcove player has been load
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by gnubardt 15y ago
The Power Broker by Robert Caro is a fantastic biography of Robert Moses, the person who set the template for this kind of development. Though in power in New York, the projects he built (highways, parks, bridges, public housing) was at
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by gnubardt 15y ago
found this to be salient, there's a lot of malice to be done in plain sight of an ignorant user: Root access is only needed if you want to modify the system in some way so as to avoid detection. Doing so is by no means necessary however
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by gnubardt 15y ago
Why did the two lisp atoms lose all their money? They got consed
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by gnubardt 15y ago
I think a lot of people actively seek that consistency, especially while traveling. Knowing that a McDonalds is a McDonalds wherever you are provides a safe choice for a traveler (especially since they're everywhere). That's what a chain
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Brightcove Launches App Cloud, Open Standards Based App Platform(techcrunch.com)
5 points by gnubardt 15y ago|2 comments
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by gnubardt 15y ago
Brightcove (an online video platform based in Cambridge) has APIs for content CRUD and player customization. There are open source SDKs available here: https://github.com/brightcoveos
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by gnubardt 15y ago
It's interesting to see Amazon & Google directly competing, to the point that Google rushes a seemingly incomplete cloud music offering (also without label consent) to counter Amazon's early control of the market. They're also competing

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