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by harper 14y ago
In regards to Akamai and not Cloudfront - Akamai had a different offering than cloudfront. JdotP mentioned in this thread that we used Akamai GTM, it allowed us to do a lot of fun failover management which cloudfront didn't offer. It also a
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by harper 14y ago
we used python, ruby and php. a bit of java and what not sprinkled around for fun.
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by harper 14y ago
although not necessarily a public api, you can control the nest via rest. here is a reference implementation https://gist.github.com/3808559
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Wizard for Mac - a tool for statistics and data analysis(wizard.evanmiller.org)
92 points by harper 14y ago|34 comments
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by harper 14y ago
I spent some time with the ZippyKid team that other day. I was quite impressed with what they were up to and the technology they were looking at for the future. I am glad that they are focusing on support and service. This is a win for the
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by harper 14y ago
I am very happy for Neal and his team and, of course, 37signals. This is a great partnership and will lead to some great work.
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by harper 14y ago
I built one of these quite awhile ago to help a friend pick his babies name. https://github.com/harperreed/Baby-Chains The names it generates are hilarious. Markov chains are wonderful things. A good markov chain bot will really spice up
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Pure Creation is Hard(dylanreed.com)
2 points by harper 15y ago|0 comments
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by harper 15y ago
come work with us!
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by harper 15y ago
Chicago, IL - Obama for America ( http://barackobama.com ) We are looking for QA, iOS, DBA, and DevOps engineers to join our department through November 2012 at our Chicago headquarters. The Obama for America Technology department builds an
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by harper 15y ago
Chicago, IL - Obama for America ( http://barackobama.com ) We are looking for QA, iOS, DBA, DevOps and Data Science engineers to join our department through November 2012 at our Chicago headquarters. The Obama for America Technology departm
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by harper 16y ago
I have used the libpam support for a couple boxes. A neat way to use two factor auth on the cheap. http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/source/browse/...
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by harper 16y ago
i love those illustrations ex: http://bulk.destructoid.com/ul/user/9/9346-103247-111195jpg-...
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This is how startups should be made.(scottvdp.com)
21 points by harper 16y ago|9 comments
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by harper 16y ago
I built this last night using the previously linked SXSW data dump. It is on app engine and works decently well. There is a api: curl http://www.isxgoing.com/ -d "search=harper+reed" -d "api=1"
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A spreadsheet of almost all the 2011 SXSW attendees(spreadsheets.google.com)
13 points by harper 16y ago|6 comments
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Google opens up Public Data Explorer to your data(flowingdata.com)
2 points by harper 16y ago|0 comments
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Chris Holmes' Privateer Manifesto: Can It Save Music?(thedailyswarm.com)
4 points by harper 16y ago|0 comments
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by harper 16y ago
Just got back from a kickoff event and it is going to be an amazing year. Feel free to ping me (harper@nata2.org) or @harper if you want more info.
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Chicago based Excelerate 2011 accelerator is accepting applications(exceleratelabs.com)
5 points by harper 16y ago|1 comments
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by harper 16y ago
this was originally how i hosted simple sites on app engine. It works wonders.
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Google Chrome and (weird) DNS requests(isc.sans.edu)
2 points by harper 16y ago|0 comments
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by harper 16y ago
I certainly don't think your post was for naught. The flask app is a great way to do it. If i didn't already use git in my workflow, i would prefer this approach.
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by harper 16y ago
I use my www as the origin for the static media. I assume that cloudfront files stay in the CDN until they are invalidated. I haven't tested how long they stay. I imagine that if there are no requests, they go away after awhile. You do have
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using GAE and DryDrop to host static sites for free(nata2.org)
57 points by harper 16y ago|24 comments
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by harper 16y ago
The 30th works for me. would love to meet up.
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by harper 16y ago
This is great. I can't wait for the other vendors to follow suit.
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by harper 16y ago
This should benefit anyone who is looking to use the awesome everyblock data in their local news/data/etc apps.
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Everyblock.com releases an API(blog.everyblock.com)
36 points by harper 16y ago|1 comments
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by harper 16y ago
That was a fun hack. When i originally launched it - it proxied all the updates through the users accounts. ;) needless the users were like "wtf." heh. I removed that feature

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