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by ishbits 14y ago
Emacs. CVS (if only for pushing new version control systems to be better).
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by ishbits 14y ago
I currently use the free Window Keys application for resizing windows. I use it over other solutions as it provides resistance when you hit the edge of the screen. Does Slate provide this resistance on resizes?
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by ishbits 14y ago
I believe they are - more now than ever. However, I believe a traditional developer can jump into the frontend faster than a frontend developer can move into backend development. It doesn't mean it'll look good, but a designer can help here
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by ishbits 14y ago
I've found that companies are more open to Friday beers until someone has an incident on the way home. But back in the dotcom bubble the startup I was at had beer in the pop machine on Fridays. Now I work at home and have a beer fridge just
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by ishbits 14y ago
I was going to rant about django, but I think my issue is applicable to all wsgi applications. I develop APIs that often involve long polling as well as streaming, and while I can do this with most frameworks, the choice of the server in fr
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by ishbits 14y ago
I deploy SpringMVC apps, using an embedded Jetty instance into much the same environments as I do Python apps based on Tornado or Twisted. The biggest win for me is dependency management. One my maven file is setup right, I only need a J
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by ishbits 14y ago
With 10+ years experience optimzing/scaling PostgreSQL I wouldn't go for anything else. It also has me hesitating to use anything like JPA - Springs JdbcTemplate is about all the abstraction I can handle. But this is the kind of answer I w
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by ishbits 14y ago
I developed some test APIs and played with WebSocckets in play. One thing I didn't like, is like a WAR, it wants to be first level piece of software. However, I think this is an attitude I carry from embedding web services into projects y
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Ask HN: How are you setting up your Java applications?
5 points by ishbits 14y ago|11 comments
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by ishbits 14y ago
I used to use 2 NVidia cards. 9500GTs to be exact. Nothing special about these cards other than they had dual DVI output. Nowadays I just use one card with 2 monitors (Linux), and use synergy to bring in a 3rd monitor from a MacBook. If I
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by ishbits 14y ago
I'm currently using VPS services from buyvm.net. However, if business depends on it I've been using EC2 with good results.
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by ishbits 14y ago
Prefer a video card setup that can drive 3 monitors over the Matrox things. The Matrox thing will make 2 or more monitors appear as one. Under Linux you can hack xinerama to deal with this. The Mac support makes it annoying to use. I haven'
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by ishbits 14y ago
As a developer I tend to use RB trees in the prototype phase then migrate to a hash table if the performance difference matters.
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Flying Through TOR with Jetplane(blog.9bplus.com)
1 points by ishbits 14y ago|0 comments
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by ishbits 14y ago
Maybe go straight to functional. Check out Scala.
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by ishbits 14y ago
I write a lot if code targeting Linux on OSX. Mostly Java (with some JNI) and C. Sure there are some bits that have to be different. Perhaps 5%? But once that is abstracted away I can do almost all work in OSX then build on Linux. Of cour
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Ask HN: How do I achieve "full stack"
5 points by ishbits 14y ago|7 comments
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by ishbits 14y ago
IMO the built in framing is one of the things I really like about websockets. I'm sure it will become my transport of choice for non performance critical messaging even when a browser is not one of the peers.
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by ishbits 14y ago
My work place must be fucked up. Me as the old guy is still baffled why the young guys implemented our API in SOAP. a few of us older guys are. And this was in the last couple years. Way after SOAP lost its cool.
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by ishbits 14y ago
What's wrong with good old threads. It's not that hard. And threading in Java will blow away any pseudo concurrency setup in python. Been there done that. Love python but just couldn't get the performance we needed.
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by ishbits 14y ago
Anyone thought they were pretty good at reading source until they encountered a Spring application context spread over multiple XML files.
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by ishbits 15y ago
Back in my 20s 9pm->2 or 3am were prime. Now in my 30s with 2 kids I find that my most productive time is 9am til about 2:30pm provided I had a decent sleep. But sometimes that night owl hacker shows its face, especially when I really
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by ishbits 15y ago
+1
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by ishbits 15y ago
I self hosted mail til 2008.. Sometime in 2008 we were travelling more than at home so I moved to a virtual private server. During those travels, the VPS had catastrophic failures so I bit the bullet and moved the domain to google apps an
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by ishbits 15y ago
I've been using OpenBSD or FreeBSD or Linux as my primary desktop OS since about 1996.. As of last week, all my laptop/desktop usage is now Mac OS. The Linux desktop experience really isn't that much better than it was in the Helix Gnome da