lynchdt

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by lynchdt 12y ago
The search space is all tunes that have been played on Soundwave from all sources plus a large source with a huge catalog. Soundwave sources include Android Native, iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Rdio, Pandora, Deezer and a few others. The author
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by lynchdt 12y ago
My son is a few months old and I work for an early-stage start-up. Man, stop coding at 2am - what you're hacking will need re-hacking in the morning. Go home to your daughter. There will always be tasks on your board. The only sure thi
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by lynchdt 13y ago
"To buy us time, we ‘sharded’ our MongoDB cluster. At the application layer. We had two MongoDB clusters of hi1.4xlarges, sent all new writes to the new cluster, and read from both..." I'm curious about this. Why were you doi
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by lynchdt 13y ago
I echo this entirely - nice work guys.
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by lynchdt 13y ago
"But another possibility is that we engineer the perfect happiness drug, with no bad side effects, and no one wants to do anything but lay in bed and take this drug all day, sapping all ambition from the human race." That would be
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by lynchdt 13y ago
A documentary that starts with a slightly de-tuned low and flat piano note. Impactful.
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by lynchdt 13y ago
Over the past year we have from scratch built a significant web-application with MongoDB. We also have a social graph. We build infinite-scroll activity feeds on the fly. We handle multiple writes per second and 10s of reads per second. We
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by lynchdt 13y ago
I signed up and created a sinatra and java app. Wouldn't usually be one to but a downer on a new product but the whole process was quite buggy. Great idea though.
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by lynchdt 13y ago
It would be a great way of learning Scala.
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by lynchdt 13y ago
> Age or experience has nothing to do with getting things done. I would argue it has everything to do with getting things done, in particular the right things. Also, why write an article detailing your experiences and then write experien
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by lynchdt 13y ago
31 years living, studying and working within 20 minutes of Dublin City Center. Got lucky I suppose.
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by lynchdt 13y ago
I love the way he only dropped maybe two beats in executing that one.
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by lynchdt 13y ago
The metrics you provide are certainly useful in putting low ad-revenue in some context for a business.
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by lynchdt 13y ago
Have any of your customers used the metrics they gleaned to size up an ad-blocker white-listing offer themselves?
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by lynchdt 13y ago
The first paragraph of the "recent study" you linked. "In a poll commissioned by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), 92 percent of 1,000 Americans surveyed agreed that free news, weather, email, blogs and video content wa
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by lynchdt 13y ago
>> The program will cost $60,000, which school officials >> said compares favorably with other professional degree >> programs. Entry-level data scientists in the San >> Francisco area can command salaries in the
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by lynchdt 13y ago
I couldn't get it out of my head for the whole article. >> "Hide had become 'withdrawn'" Priceless!
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by lynchdt 13y ago
Actually, the social graph is directed - like, say, twitter. So I can explicitly follow people I know have a penchant for picking up decent new music first. This might be the "muso" in your real-world social group or it might be a
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by lynchdt 13y ago
I've seen six months work - that's time enough to ramp up somewhat and deliver. In that regard, it's plenty of time to assess the traits that we're looking for in strong developers.
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by lynchdt 13y ago
> And admittedly, the questions I asked were so difficult that I seriously doubt I myself could've answered them when I first got hired Sometimes I have to stop myself doing this before conducting interviews. I think it's an ego thing,
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by lynchdt 14y ago
You did not get the job because of your attitude. "...I realize I’m a pretty well-rounded and high-performing developer/engineer/architect. At the scale of Facebook, I’m exactly the sort of engineer I’d want many of...." In my opinion there
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by lynchdt 14y ago
I thought some of you might be interested in this. It's a good read and there are echoes of many PG articles throughout. http://www.randomhouse.com/book/176227/antifragile-things-th...
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by lynchdt 14y ago
Patrick writes about this extensively here http://patrickcollison.com/post/stripe-ireland
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by lynchdt 14y ago
Just be happy you don't live in Ireland. [1] Our prime minister explaining what cloud computing is - "A wireless connection to shared storage" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzaQxLFl3rQ [2] A senator explaining why the abundance of rain o