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by jwatte 12y ago
If only there was some way to quickly get told when production hiccups... And if only there was some way to prove each feature works automatically... :-)
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by jwatte 12y ago
I was on the BeOS team for many years. While we did many interesting things, and especially kernel and driver layers were more modern than the alternatives, Palm threw away those pieces. If I were to build (or fund) a new OS today, I'd
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by jwatte 12y ago
While this comparison is true for 100-200 year ago industrial jobs, and farming in subsistence conditions, the original hunter gatherers had plenty of free time, and that's what we're evolved for. Main problem is, there's to
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by jwatte 12y ago
You assume that dissent needs privacy to grow. In a free society, I don't see why that is necessary (or even desired.) The financial crisis was driven in part by "private" takes on "publicly available" investments -
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by jwatte 12y ago
The only real solution is to build a culture where nobody (private our public) expects or gets privacy. There are lots of things people "would rather not share," that don't matter if we all know that people are people. Beside
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by jwatte 12y ago
The article talks about mobile app feeds, and I understand how I could build a system rpc server for mobile and desktop apps. How would this work for web apps? The headline says "real-time web!" Compare this solution to push it al
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by jwatte 12y ago
There's a reason we say that the current American population has an obesity epidemic...
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by jwatte 12y ago
I want to see a comparison to other similar tools with longer history: - Filter Forge - Substance
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by jwatte 12y ago
I would be surprised if Google didn't use per-ip reputation and targeting at some level of their stack.
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by jwatte 12y ago
Note that browser fingerprinting is a good thing for those fighting online fraud (such as credit card chargebacks.)
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by jwatte 12y ago
I have asked this question (more or less,) and the point is to get the candidate to singer point where they don't know the answer, and then the real question comes: "so how would you design that next piece?" That's the i
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by jwatte 12y ago
I'm 45. I walked alone to and from school every day of my youth since I was 7. My kids do the same. This is totally normal. However, some states are still ruled by people who want to teach creationism, or legislate that pi is 3, becaus
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by jwatte 12y ago
I would argue that this statement is a mistake that should have been foreseen: "negative integers isn't literals!" Specifically, twos complement signed integers will be a bitch of you continue down that path.
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by jwatte 12y ago
Android, Google chrome, also have the resolver problem.
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by jwatte 12y ago
The other problem with a cache buster is that it logically changes the endpoint of what you're viewing. We like HATEOAS and dislike clients editing URLs. As an aside for search and filtering, we do allow clients to add query parameters
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by jwatte 12y ago
Good point. We actually use MySQL and Regis for persistency with a helping of memcached for good measure. The "graph" part is an API view on our data, not the canonical storage.
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by jwatte 12y ago
Suppose I spend some credits to buy some new accessory for my avatar, and then put n that accessory. My credits balance updates. My inventory updates. My avatar product set updates. My profile picture updates. The "sold count" of
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The Real-time Web: How to Get Millisecond Updates with REST(engineering.imvu.com)
167 points by jwatte 12y ago|23 comments
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by jwatte 12y ago
So it's ok for the NSA to snoop on people out of curiosity, but not Uber employees. Some citizens are more equal than others. Gotcha
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by jwatte 12y ago
"Selfishness is the the new black and I despise it." That. Right there. He sees it; we (collectively) don't.
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by jwatte 12y ago
Isn't there a gigantic influx of bankers who want to be close to Asia? Seems to compensate just fine...
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by jwatte 12y ago
Because everyone develops on trunk, migrating a >200k commit repo isn't high ROI. Works great for us! (Newer repos, like our real time web messaging and our C++ WebGL game engine, are in git)
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by jwatte 12y ago
How to fix a typo during high traffic (six digit CCUs) without breaking: 1. svn commit 2. Wait for all the tests to pass 3. Run imvu_website_push Oh, yeah, we are hiring, and don't ask the egg question during interviewing. :-)
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by jwatte 12y ago
If the SQL is I/O bound, the kdb version cannot be 1000x faster. And if it's not I/O bound, you're not pushing it right. (Nite: compare columnar SQL here.) K can't make your I/O subsystem faster, and the new OS
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by jwatte 12y ago
Every ten years, some company comes around and claims that their functional/data flow/columnar/meta shortish is orders of magnitude better. Usually, the one thing they have going for them is that they focus on only a small su
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by jwatte 12y ago
Add an indicator that the app is running, and add some language in the description that directly (not just indirectly) addresses the policy. Re-submit and build up a new reputation. Yes, that sucks. The entire "we'll take 30% of y
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by jwatte 12y ago
Quote: Disney pioneered the use of special camera rigs that would render the foreground with one ‘stereo camera’ or solution, while rendering the background with another. I saw that, and my brain hated it. I even tweeted about what I though
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by jwatte 12y ago
The one thing I'd like to emphasize in addition to the good advice here is that they are costing you big bucks in opportunity cost. Your main goal is to launch! They don't seem to be helping with that.
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by jwatte 12y ago
Research costs money. You need machines, a place to work, employees need to eat and pay the rent (even if you're the only employee.) Cost of database is just another cost of research. Most scientific fields have significantly higher co
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by jwatte 12y ago
And don't use MongoDB for data that matters ;-)

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