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by iampims 15y ago
If your data fits in memory and can be modeled on a key/value design, then why not? A few things you might want to consider: * depending on the size of your dataset, starting/rebooting redis can take a while. The bigger your dataset is, the
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by iampims 15y ago
San Francisco, CA – Formspring 25M users, 3.5B responses, growing fast. Looking for Front-end, Software and Systems engineers. We’re having fun solving challenging problems. Buzzword dump: Cassandra, Riak, Kestrel, Thrift, AWS, mobile… We’r
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by iampims 15y ago
Any reason why you decided to not distribute it through the Mac Appstore? Genuinely curious.
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by iampims 15y ago
San Francisco, CA. Formspring is looking for Engineers (front-end, back-end). http://about.formspring.me/jobs
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by iampims 15y ago
As a french citizen living in the US, I’m sad to hear that the French government is proving itself even more ridicule than it already was. Sad.
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by iampims 16y ago
Flickr decided that UTC would be the default for their stats. As long as you stick to it, it's not that big of a problem.
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by iampims 16y ago
Batman for Wallstreet criminals?
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by iampims 16y ago
RSS is a standard for content syndication. It doesn't have to be exposed to ”end users”. But it sure isn't dying as a syndication layer for pretty consumer facing apps.
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by iampims 16y ago
That's one of the most interesting dataset I've seen released. I know what I'll be playing with this weekend :)
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by iampims 16y ago
We use Redis for this kind of stat tracking at http://www.formspring.me/ At 10,000,000 responses per day, we're not that small. Here's the source from our collector: https://gist.github.com/794474
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by iampims 16y ago
Worked so well for the Joojoo ;)
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by iampims 16y ago
Why does Forbes try so hard to make the article unreadable?
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by iampims 16y ago
This is what makes SO a great site: an exhaustive answer and the thinking being it, neatly explained. Fascinating.
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by iampims 16y ago
The most comprehensive article on the subject, as far as I know: http://www.moserware.com/2010/03/computing-your-skill.html
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by iampims 16y ago
The static sitemap.xml made me laugh. Google webmasters tools allow you to submit your site's feed as a sitemap equivalent. No need to create one yourself. The static pages won't appear, but linking them from the front page of your blog sho
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by iampims 16y ago
Does this mean we can consider the Google Reader API stable now?
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Official Google Reader app for Android is finally here(googlereader.blogspot.com)
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by iampims 16y ago
The app is really nice. It has already dethroned NNW in my dock. It’d be useful to have an indicator of what’s happening when fetching feeds — like the one on the iPhone. There’s a lag between creating the note, and having it listed in the
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by iampims 16y ago
Please, do change the font on http://www.wheelbarro.ws/ as it’s really not legible. And maybe you could explain with less jargon why and how people can use your service. Good luck.
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by iampims 16y ago
That’s a variant of a quote by Steve jobs http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
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by iampims 16y ago
In a perfect world, I’d agree with you. The author of the article you linked to provides a good answer to this problem: If your audience is architecturally minded and aware of REST, you should version data representations in the M
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by iampims 16y ago
Quick suggestion about the API endpoints, versioning is really important as it allows you to add/remove/update features without breaking any application using your API. You should add it before anyone starts building on top of your API.
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by iampims 16y ago
Regardless of the platform you’re using, defensive programming is a good way to improve the quality of your software, deal with expected and unexpected failures. It is no different from sanitizing user inputs. You wouldn’t expect sane p
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by iampims 16y ago
Yes you’re right, I had forgotten this. I’ll argue that their nature is different though. small-EC2 won’t help you deal with a surge in traffic like GAE will. But small-EC2 will let you install anything you want. And like the OP pointed out
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by iampims 16y ago
I don’t think it has anything to do with hype. Heroku is a great choice to run apps written in ruby. It is the only language they support — with support for node.js coming soon. GAE, through Java, can run a multitude of languages, basically
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by iampims 16y ago
Genuine question: when should one refrain from posting a comment on HN? Mine aren’t exceptional bits of wisdom, or unheard-of in the technology world. I haven’t invented any programming language nor did I create an app which gathered 10M+ u
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by iampims 16y ago
Waiting for the mandatory "Goodbye Linode" post. </sarcasm>
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by iampims 16y ago
Don’t give them all for free. Keep accuracy and most frequent keys errors for paying customers, and incite them to upgrade if they want to know how well they scored.
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by iampims 16y ago
I don’t think that $29 is too expensive for a webapp. I’m a bit worried about paying any amount for a product I don’t own and which could disappear overnight. When buying traditional software that we install, even if the company goes out
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by iampims 16y ago
That’s really neat. You might explain why people would want to pay $29.95 because it is not exactly clear why we would need to pay. The practice feature is mind blowing, and works really well. Congrats.

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