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Hipsterdb: The Webscaliest Database You've Never Heard Of(github.com)
6 points by jergason 13y ago|0 comments
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by jergason 13y ago
Site looks great and congrats on the release. This announcement suffers from the common problem of assuming readers already know what Ghost is. A few paragraphs down you mention Markdown and Jack Kerouac so I assume Ghost is related to text
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Dependency Injection In Node.js(tech.i.tv)
2 points by jergason 13y ago|0 comments
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On Being A Polyglot Engineering Team(tech.i.tv)
4 points by jergason 13y ago|0 comments
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by jergason 13y ago
I'm familiar with Vivint's history. They are in the midst of an attempted transition towards becoming a tech company, partially to escape the terrible reputation they developed when they were APX.
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by jergason 13y ago
The populations of Chicago, SF and Seattle are 2.7 million, 800,000 and 620,000 respectively. Provo's is 115,000 while Orem's is 95,000. It seems weird to compare the shopping and food options of some of the larger cities in the U
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by jergason 13y ago
I am biased since I am a local, but Utah Valley is on the cusp of recognition as a tech hotbed. Just in our office park in the corner of Provo, we have 1. http://www.ancestry.com/ 2. http://www.qualtrics.com&#
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by jergason 13y ago
Another (js-specific) one is [0]JavaScript Jabber. Full disclosure: I am one of the co-hosts of the show, but we usually have much smarter people come on and talk. 0: http://javascriptjabber.com
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by jergason 13y ago
CompuCast[0] is by some folks at the University of Edinburgh. They cover mostly academic research, but do a good job of making it accessible for people with a basic background in CS. 0: http://computersciencepodcast.com/
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by jergason 13y ago
Dota 2 has fantastic matchmaking, so it avoids the problem of total newbies playing with experienced players. Because there are over 100 different heroes to choose from, sometimes you end up with people who are very experienced at the game
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by jergason 13y ago
I agree. The article is a reasonable discussion of the differences between the two frameworks from the perspective of an experienced Ember user, and does a decent job illustrating why Robin prefers Ember. The title is argumentative and infl
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Google to Buy Waze for $1.3 Billion(israelnationalnews.com)
2 points by jergason 13y ago|0 comments
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by jergason 13y ago
That is true with coin flips because the probability of a next coin toss coming up heads or tails is independent[0] of any previous coin tosses. Assuming you aren't spinning between turns, the probabilities are not independent anymore. 0:
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by jergason 13y ago
I opened up the console and saw the site is built with Ember. Nice to see some dog-fooding.
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Hacking strength: Gaining muscle with least resistance(matt.might.net)
173 points by jergason 14y ago|103 comments
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by jergason 14y ago
ember-data is a completely separate project that is still under heavy development. You can use ember without touching ember-data, and unless you are on the happy path of Rails with the active_model_serializers[0] gem, I would recommend not
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The Principles of Craftsmanship(blog.8thlight.com)
1 points by jergason 14y ago|0 comments
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by jergason 14y ago
own3d has not been paying streamers for a few months[0], and there was recently a public backlash against them. [0] http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=393...
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by jergason 14y ago
Disclaimer: I work at i.tv, makers of Nintendo TVii[0], so I have some vested interest in TV. This is definitely a generational/demographics thing. The average person spends 4:35 a day watching live TV. This is declining, but it is compar
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The Categorical Distribution in JavaScript(jamisondance.com)
1 points by jergason 14y ago|0 comments
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by jergason 14y ago
Provo, UT. REMOTE i.TV is making Nintendo TVii, the TV experience that launches with the WiiU on November 18th, and we want your help to make it awesome. We are looking for several engineers and one devops engineer to help us revolutionize
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by jergason 14y ago
This is beautiful. What charting libraries are you using?
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by jergason 14y ago
They are both trying to solve the problem of handling asynchronous operations in an easier way than nested callbacks. Promises are a different abstraction of async operations. I am still trying to wrap my head around them fully, but one of
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Nintendo TVii Announced for WiiU(theverge.com)
1 points by jergason 14y ago|0 comments
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by jergason 14y ago
I have been trying to get a group of people together once a month to read a paper. We have a google group at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/papers-in... , and meet over Hangouts. Anyone interested should join up and sug
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by jergason 14y ago
This looks really nice. I have used several todo lists, and found them all too complex. I made a little bash script called badoop at https://github.com/jergason/badoop if you prefer command-line apps or TaskUp isn't bare-bones enough.
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by jergason 14y ago
We did that in an early node app, and it indeed turned in to a nightmare.
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by jergason 14y ago
I have used Vim's similar feature, `:TOhtml`.
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Amazon Career Choice Program(amazon.com)
158 points by jergason 14y ago|91 comments
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by jergason 14y ago
What is GRRM?

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