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by mattlong 14y ago
Keeping his engineers happy and hopefully more productive would be a step in the right direction of that goal.
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by mattlong 14y ago
Others have mentioned it, but it's worth saying again: please don't wear headphones while biking in a busy city. It only takes the one time when you need swerve around that parked car's open door and but can't quite hear the car that is abo
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by mattlong 14y ago
I also have the crank-adjustable desk mentioned and vouch for its coolness. Very nice to be able to switch from sitting to standing on demand.
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by mattlong 14y ago
It seems that development is going full steam ahead even though the project hasn't reached it's funding goal yet. What happens if the goal isn't met by the deadline? I can't imagine Dalton will just drop it. I guess what I'm asking is, what
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by mattlong 14y ago
> In some cases, we may require you to change your password. (For example, if it’s commonly used or hasn’t been changed in a long time) This is ambiguous...by "commonly used" do they mean 1) I'm logging in with my password frequently or
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by mattlong 14y ago
Big ups to the team! I've always had much respect for ZenCoder in terms of people, technology, and company.
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by mattlong 14y ago
What's your definition of "basic level of understanding"? A public API is about 99% of what we (Crocodoc) offer. While designing the latest version of our API, I always erred on the side of staying true to REST principles. Fortunately there
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by mattlong 14y ago
Crocodoc’s (YC W10) next-generation HTML5 document viewer reaches tens of millions of users, and our business is growing fast. Our company was founded by four MIT-educated engineers who have been working together for four years. As we evol
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by mattlong 14y ago
The way it's detecting Django (checking for the Django CSRF cookie) is false-negative prone. For example, our site (crocodoc.com) uses Django but is not registering for it; probably because we don't have any forms on our homepage so no CSRF
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by mattlong 14y ago
Employees are typically awarded stock options with a non-zero strike price based on the FMV of the company at the time the options grant. Those options very well could end up worthless.
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by mattlong 14y ago
Also a fan of virtualenvwrapper. workon with tab completion (in bash, at least) is so nice when you've got more than a few virtualenvs and can't quite remember your naming scheme :)
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by mattlong 15y ago
Since you got rid of the MySQL bottleneck, it seems your server architecture now simply isn't able to handle higher concurrency. If you suddenly got 5-10x the number of users, you'd have the same problems as before adding your AJAX queueing
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by mattlong 15y ago
I know disk space is cheap these days, but at 16MB/metric/<level-of-granularity>, it seems like your metric dataset would grow pretty quick. With just 10 metrics tracked daily, thats another gigabyte per week. Of course it does come
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by mattlong 15y ago
It's a day behind for me; i's reading 5:14PM on March 20th in SF when it's actually the 21st.
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by mattlong 15y ago
I would not recommend expensing rent. The best you can legally* do in the eyes of the IRS is get a smallish deduction/credit (I forget which) for however many square feet of your home are used solely as a workspace. *I am not a lawyer
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by mattlong 15y ago
I grew up in San Antonio, TX and now live in the bay area. There is a marked difference in the Mexican cuisine available between the two. The bay area focuses way too much on cream sauces, mangos, avacados, and other California-isms. The of
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by mattlong 15y ago
I'm not too familiar with RoR, but does the mass assignment vulnerability basically boil down to not doing any input validation for the convenience of updating several model fields in one line of code?
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by mattlong 15y ago
Is it just me or does the homepage display noticeable lag when scrolling up/down? I'm assuming its due to the event handlers that trigger certain blocks' showing and hiding based on scroll position.
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by mattlong 15y ago
I agree that getting our aunts, uncles, etc to "get it" is very important. But I wonder if most of them even know this is an issue. Time for an anecdote: While visiting my parents for Christmas, I scoffed when we drove past a car with a Lam
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by mattlong 15y ago
No, PDFs don't have to be generated from PS at all. PDF has it's own well-defined spec. Valid PDF files can be generated in many ways besides from PS files. It's even possible to write a valid PDF file by hand if you're feeling masochistic.
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by mattlong 15y ago
I don't think he is addressing people who do physical labor.
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by mattlong 15y ago
Cool idea. I'd use music not associated with a show like Lost. I couldn't relax; was thinking about unanswered Lost questions the whole time...
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by mattlong 15y ago
The guys behind behind Zencoder released the same thing more than a year ago: https://www.thismessagewillselfdestruct.com
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by mattlong 15y ago
Old news. A couple weeks ago there was a magnitude 4.8 near San Antonio, TX caused by fracking[1]. [1]: http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Could-fracking-be-at-fa...
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by mattlong 15y ago
I'm partaking in both the AI and ML classes and I find the ML experience much more user-friendly and polished than the AI class. For example, being able to speed up the lecture videos is brilliant. I find the AI class video questions a bit
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by mattlong 15y ago
I really hope they go through with some form of the proposition and not throw it all aside in the name of backwards compatibility.
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by mattlong 15y ago
You can set custom headers as long as they are prefaced with x-amz-meta...Other than that, you're limited to just a handful of headers. See my reply to thamer for more info.
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by mattlong 15y ago
Sure, you can set custom headers as long as they are prefaced with x-amz-meta...Other than that, you're limited to just a handful of headers. This is a big deal for fonts because the Access-Control-Allow-Origin must be set appropriately to
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by mattlong 15y ago
How so? IMHO, it's an elegant demonstration of the async module.
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by mattlong 15y ago
This has been passed around MIT circles for a while and is as profound and relevant for me as ever.

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