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by ismarc 14y ago
I was able to learn development thanks to open source and the first full time development job I had was at a company that used an almost all open source stack. Imagine some poor kid wandering into a university library to try and get a libr
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by ismarc 14y ago
I'm of two minds of this. 1) I'm very much NOT anti-college/anti-credentialing. 2) I don't see your average business application software developer having any need for a degree in CS. I believe the anti-college/anti-credentialing stance is
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by ismarc 14y ago
All of the failed responses weren't just not admitting failure, but directly blaming others. One example was a team lead in charge of a project where they said the developers missed their deadlines and would "whine" about not having enough
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by ismarc 14y ago
Part of our culture/personality/team fit questions is like this. We also have one that's something like "tell me about a time you failed a commitment (deadline, etc) and how you handled it". Numerous people with over a decade claim perfect
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by ismarc 14y ago
I'd like to correct your last paragraph. Most CDNs use anycast to send traffic to the closest POP they have to you. However, most implementations use DNS responses for the front-facing servers. Not many companies outside of CDNs have the
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by ismarc 14y ago
Call your representatives. Seriously, honestly, call them up and explain it to the staffer who answers the phone. Make sure to let them know that you are a voting member of your district and express your opinions politely and confidently.
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by ismarc 14y ago
We recently have been having to work around an issue that, on top of all the other issues we've had means we're moving away from mongo entirely. The current issue is that a mapreduce on a cluster into a sharded collection will, at some poi
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by ismarc 14y ago
I had looked at it, but none of the writer friends I have had any experience with it. I'll give it a shot now that it has had a recommendation from someone who has actually used it.
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by ismarc 14y ago
From past experience, planning for 30,000 simultaneous connections is in the right range. What they don't cover is peak association rate (how many people per second can associate to the APs and have the LWAPS/controllers not fall over. Th
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by ismarc 14y ago
While this looks kind of interesting, I've seen a large number of things that fall into this vein, and a few concepts seem to be missing (conflict resolution being a big one). Independent of that, though, when I first started working on my
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by ismarc 14y ago
When I was first going through what turned into a very long diagnostic phase for some mental health (let's call them) oddities, every person involved at any stage asked, every time I talked to them, whether I had thought of suicide. At one
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Ask HN: Any editors/would like to be editors frequenting HN?
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by ismarc 14y ago
I made a flash game at one point with gravity as the core feature, tuned the acceleration, etc, then added collision detection. The simplest way I found was to give everything a destination x, y first, then collision detection checked curr
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by ismarc 14y ago
When a server gets slow, log in and look at top or vmstat. There's a field called st that stands for steal time. If you're using a micro, you have higher peak CPU available, but lower baseline. We found they were notoriously bad about th
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by ismarc 14y ago
I didn't really get much of the humor in King of the Hill until I moved to Texas. It is very much a parody and exaggeration of each particular "stereotypical" Texan you actually run into. Now that I've lived here for a significant amount
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by ismarc 14y ago
I rotate through antique/classic cars about every 5 years. I buy one in alright condition, slowly fix it up/restore it on weekends until it's in good enough condition to be a daily driver (normal commute is less than 2 miles), drive it for
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by ismarc 14y ago
I use a Macbook Pro for work and while the hardware may be pleasant to look at, it's a pain to use. The keyboard is set entirely too close to the screen, meaning I can't use it comfortably for very long without an external screen and/or ke
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by ismarc 14y ago
Registration plate lookup would be a chicken/egg problem here in the States. You need proof of insurance in order to get your registration, so on a vehicle that has no plates, there's no number to give, so wouldn't be able to get insurance
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by ismarc 14y ago
This has the exact same issue that nearly all insurance companies seem to have and is the reason I'm with my current insurance company. I have a 1978 Datsun/Nissan 280Z. Only one insurance company allowed an online/unattended quote for ins
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by ismarc 14y ago
It's hours later and I'm just now responding, so this will likely get lost amongst the other comments, but... I distinctly recall playing The Legend of Zelda and having Link be completely genderless. It even led to a lot of interesting co
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by ismarc 14y ago
I rarely use postgres arrays as an actual storage type, but have used them frequently in results (there are aggregation functions to turn multiple rows into an array). The common use is something like pulling a user's info and roles in a s
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by ismarc 14y ago
That's the entire f-ing point of patents. It's so they AREN'T kept as trade secrets. They are granted a monopoly in exchange for publication of it. It's the same reason the only prior art is something published, not a trade secret no one
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by ismarc 14y ago
There is one massive thing that I picked up from using Erlang that you failed to mention and I think should be pointed out. I have applied it in various ways outside of Erlang with a large amount of success (and the habit has caused no en
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by ismarc 14y ago
Yeah we are, as it was the least-convoluted method for handling the multiplexing (but wanting to maintain the same handler for all of them). Burned entirely too much time assuming that documented ways to handle things were actually rock so
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by ismarc 14y ago
When I saw the title, I thought it was going to be coverage of how under-the-hood EventMachine's model only allows it to scale up to a certain throughput per-process (which is reasonably high for most uses of it) or how there is some fundam
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by ismarc 14y ago
For scaling postgres, have a look at PL/Proxy. You can basically partition tables across servers without knowledge of the fact that the other servers are even there. However, it doesn't easily cover you for fault tolerance and recovery.
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by ismarc 14y ago
In postgres, you can index on a stored procedure, so you can use a simple stored procedure written in JavaScript to look up by key and return values, etc. Example available at http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archive..
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by ismarc 14y ago
For a while, I've been pondering how to solve the same problem. I also reached similar conclusions, that parallelism needs to be implicit at the language level. I've even been working on an implementation that will run on the JVM (it's al
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by ismarc 14y ago
I am actually a fan of well written resumes. The problem is that a resume is not a CV or even a listing of all skills/qualifications of an applicant. A resume should be a highlight reel of the skills/experience/qualifications of the appli
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by ismarc 14y ago
Invodo, Looking for Senior Software Engineer Austin, TX, remote strongly unlikely (I'm going to copy-paste pieces from the job posting, but if you'd like more information or are just curious about what we're doing, drop me a line at mbrace@

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