larsmak

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by larsmak 13y ago
Landing a job in the tech industry in norway is no problem - especially if you are a software developer, IT-consultant, or have any kind of engineering-deegree. Currently there's a huge demand for engineers, esp. in the larger cities.
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by larsmak 13y ago
About a year ago I implemented a sub-system relying heavily on MongoDB. The load is not that immense, a couple of hundred requests per minute. The dataset is large however, several hundred GB, spread over millions of documents. Also, update
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by larsmak 13y ago
I'd be interested in this as well. The workarounds mentioned seems to require a bit to much hacking for my liking. Are there any actual plans for implementing simple disk-usage (and perhaps network) limiting?
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by larsmak 13y ago
Maxmind, http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/ , is one option. Look into their git-repo for clients to read into their proprietary (but effective) db-format.
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by larsmak 13y ago
> GWT is/was a terrible amount of overhead baggage GWT is very much alive and kicking, but it's primarily used on internal business applications with large and complex code bases. And what overhead baggage are you talking about
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by larsmak 13y ago
J2EE-containers can take a while to start indeed (for large projects), but in most cases they can be tuned to restart in less than 10sec - at least during development. Using GWT you don't "write Javascript in Java", the java-
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by larsmak 13y ago
These stories about mitigating DDoS-attacks often comes up, but there is seldom any actual details on how it was done. I guess it's because there often is a manual process, analyzing logs and banning IPs and/or IP-ranges. But for
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by larsmak 13y ago
I tend to agree. The "start-up"-term has become so bloated that it hardly make any sense any more. To churn out hundreds of generic landing-pages based on templates, built with "start-up generators" wont create anything
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by larsmak 13y ago
Well as a person hosting a service under a .io domain I must say that it's next to impossible to find a decent domain under .com these days. They are all taken by domain sharks hoarding away and running link-farms. The .io landscape is
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by larsmak 13y ago
Hehe, hey, I was gonna say that!
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by larsmak 13y ago
"found they didn't cooperate with tools" ..interesting, care to elaborate?
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by larsmak 13y ago
As many others in here I'm continuously working on start-up ideas when my day-job is over. One of these is nearing it's beta phase. Ideally I'd do a closed beta-test for invite users only. They would have to expect all their data to be lost
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by larsmak 14y ago
The singularity is coming: the day google translate can correctly make that translation.
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by larsmak 14y ago
I think these are all valid points, especially working on something you're passionate about. I would like to add (I guess these apply to general development as well): - Get into a "serial" mode, i.e. work on a single (small) component at a
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by larsmak 14y ago
"You were not kicked off for taking pictures. You were kicked off for acting odd." I agree - you can come a long way by just saying "My apologies, I dit not know that", give a short smile and look another way. Inside you might mean somethin
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by larsmak 14y ago
I agree, some people tend to think that Heroku is some kind of silver bullet that magically scales anything into the sky. But the underlying platform is nothing we haven not used before, and scaling linearly as the userbase grows is no easy
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by larsmak 14y ago
I partially agree. Norway is a pretty small country - and folks here, it's seems, would rather sit on cafés drinking coffy and "solving the problems of the world" rather than getting into the hard world of entrepreneurship. There's just not
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by larsmak 14y ago
I'm a sports-climber my-self (around 5'10" and average I guess). What people forget is that as length increases in two dimensions, weight increases in three. Also the top climbers tends to be sub 5'10", but idk, it's all about having fun an
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by larsmak 14y ago
I started out with Visual Basic about 10 years ago, as an introduction to programming it did it's job well. I then moved on to C/C++ as I started my MSCS. It was great for doing implementation of algorithms and image processing. Working rel
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by larsmak 14y ago
Also, write lots of code! If you're stuck with legacy-code, start a hobby project that you think might be useful to someone (if you're not stuck with family that is, then there's really no hope).
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by larsmak 14y ago
I had to stop and think about that one myself. But it makes sence, at least if you emphasize on "hint at". When you wander though the source code, cascading the layers of abstraction, and jumping from place to place, it's nice that the code
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by larsmak 14y ago
Well put sir!
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by larsmak 14y ago
6. Some users have developed som kind of "Ad Blindness". I can't remember having seen an Ad in years. Maybe the unconscious mind sees them though (?) That being said, I'm all for advertisements. Content providers have the right to get a RO
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by larsmak 14y ago
Yeah, I can relate as well. Spending countless, restless hours building small lego-cities. I have no doubt in my mind that that's what got me into an engineering-career. Except now I'm spending countless hours designing complex, high availa
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by larsmak 14y ago
I'm against commenting code, with two exceptions: - You're implementing something complex (like an algorithm) - You're implementing something stupid (typically a workaround for something that could not be done in a more elegant way, and you