jchrisa

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by jchrisa 14y ago
Quality of life correlates strongly with low rates of car driving, in my experience.
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by jchrisa 14y ago
Somebody probably let an API key expire...
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by jchrisa 14y ago
After The Future is a great start for anyone who wants to go deeper than the stale "capitalism bad" arguments. PDF http://www.sok.bz/web/media/video/AfterFuture.pdf Or give money to the publisher and I hope the author: http://www.akpress
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by jchrisa 14y ago
I'm totally down with attributing the worst things about America to America as a whole, even if they show up in other countries. We could use a little deflation.
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by jchrisa 14y ago
The aesthetic is the political...
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by jchrisa 14y ago
My e-assist cargo bike is more practical but tops out at 20mph. Picture: https://twitter.com/jchris/status/312728928919896064 It was pricey for a bike but cheaper than the car I replaced with it.
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by jchrisa 14y ago
It was an old experiment of mine. See upthread for the Couchbase Lite stuff that has replaced it.
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by jchrisa 14y ago
Dropbox and iCloud have the same issue. They seem to be accepted by users. It is also possible to get status information telling you if you are fully synced or not.
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by jchrisa 14y ago
Great answer. Tiny nitpick: the next version of TouchDB is called Couchbase Lite. We call it that b/c it is made by Couchbase and is lighter than TouchDB. Couchbase for Mobile is what we call the umbrella (including our Sync Gateway which a
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by jchrisa 14y ago
It's not indefensible, it's radical. IMHO almost all productive enterprise should be 100% transparent. Good luck convincing the world of that. But most rational analysis of capitalism will get you to that conclusion.
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by jchrisa 14y ago
I'm a successful startup founder (we're 100 people plus and making money) and I was lucky enough to have supportive parents as a kid. Although I didn't really start coding seriously until after college. It sounds like you are smart / articu
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by jchrisa 14y ago
I didn't think it was so bad. I don't have time to go into detail, but briefly: If you read it as a critique of tech culture generally (and not Tim personally) it's interesting. The critique about polluting language is the crux of it. This
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by jchrisa 14y ago
I'm glad you are happy with 20ms, to me it is slow... Probably the best thing about Cassandra is that it is written in Java, so it is easy to fork and add custom behavior. Of course this is orthogonal to performance.
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by jchrisa 14y ago
This is good if it means Internet infrastructure gets treated with a new level of respect, as it is now the defacto emergency broadcast system.
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by jchrisa 14y ago
Biggest interference in the US is oil and agriculture subsidies... you don't hear the right wing complain about that much.
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by jchrisa 14y ago
I keep hearing Cassandra touted as fast, but I just don't see it. Instacluster brags about 17ms at the 99th percentile being fast, but where I come from that gets you thrown out of the running.[1] The Netflix benchmark linked above sees 10,
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by jchrisa 14y ago
There are a lot of alternatives to iCloud. Most of them are just backend-as-a-service, but some of them are really sync engines. Dropbox has been around a long time, and is really popular for iOS file sync. My team at Couchbase has been bui
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A Half-Naked Dancer Walks Into a Party… | Quest Board(susanarendt.com)
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by jchrisa 14y ago
My solution is to (as much as possible) assume that women at technical conferences are technical. If they aren't, it's not awkward, generally. At least it's less awkward than the inverse. That is something that is in all of our power to
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Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse(blog.katylevinson.com)
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by jchrisa 14y ago
Thanks for the heads-up. We are very responsive to issues filed via the Github issue trackers, or brought up on the mailing list. My guess is this has been fixed since then (we've rewritten a lot of that code path), but if it isn't fixed, y
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by jchrisa 14y ago
The TouchDB project was started at Couchbase, and since then we have ramped up our investment in mobile sync. The key thing about this project is that its designed to be tiny and boot fast. So it is written in Objective-C (and Java for Andr
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by jchrisa 14y ago
I hacked together a PhoneGap plugin so you can easily use Persona to log into your mobile apps https://github.com/couchbaselabs/cordova-browserid I think this is an easier protocol for devs than OpenId or Facebook Connect.
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MongoDB OS Command Injection(cxsecurity.com)
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by jchrisa 14y ago
I sold my car and got the Humvee of bikes, it can carry two loads of firewood, or two kids, or a kid and the plants we got at the garden store. Most of America is batshit crazy but in Portland, Oregon the no-car lifestyle is catching on. Ho
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by jchrisa 14y ago
There are BIG problems with welfare that are solved by giving it to Bill Gates also. For starters, right now the income you get when you transition off of welfare is taxed at greater than 100% - why work when you can get paid more to do not
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by jchrisa 14y ago
What's Wrong with a Free Lunch is another great one, and short. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0807047139/
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NoSQL showdown: MongoDB vs. Couchbase(computerworld.com.au)
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by jchrisa 14y ago
You don't have to install the browser based ones. Also, if they are decent at all, you can link to them.
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by jchrisa 14y ago
I was just going to post a shameless plug when I saw your comment. Here it is as a reply :) If you are interested in transparent data sharing across devices, with realtime magic and fully offline editing capabilities, you might want to look

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