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by mattlong 15y ago
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but it seems like this wouldn't really work with a web server that has several worker processes like uwsgi in preforking mode. Each worker process would be sandboxed to its own STATS object and attempting to serv
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by mattlong 15y ago
This whole Netflix debacle is a shame. Its one of the few web apps I don't mind paying for at all since they provide excellent value and user experience on both the DVD and streaming side of things. Hopefully they can continue to do so afte
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by mattlong 15y ago
FWIW, AMQP is the preferred protocol of Celery, the python distributed task library; which we've been using it heavily for the past year at Crocodoc. I have nothing but praise for AMQP and RabbitMQ in particular in terms of performance or r
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by mattlong 15y ago
Classic East Campus!
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by mattlong 15y ago
You can tell a lot about someone (or some company) by the beer they drink. What do you have on tap right now?
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by mattlong 15y ago
So I really like python and would love to contribute to a project like PyPy, but I don't have much (aka any) experience writing interpreters, compilers, etc. What's the best way to start learning about these things?
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by mattlong 15y ago
It almost goes without saying, but one of the biggest benefits in my opinion is that you get to have a different strong password for each set of credentials. Thus, god forbid, if some site you have an account with doesn't encrypt your passw
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by mattlong 15y ago
FYI, looks like the video has been taken down...
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by mattlong 15y ago
I too like them. Careful though, I had been using an exercise ball for a chair for the better part of a year, just a couple weeks ago it popped while I was sitting on it. A couple other caveats: 1)it can bit quite tiring on your back (espec
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by mattlong 15y ago
hindsight is indeed 20/20
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by mattlong 15y ago
How about not assuming a company that just IPOed is at the end of its road but instead will continue innovating and finding new revenue streams? They did just raise $200MM after all.
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by mattlong 15y ago
But how he assigns the three titles is almost entirely arbitrary. He might as well just call them Type 1, 2, and 3 programmers instead of trying to artificially force distinctions between developer, programmer, and computer scientist.
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by mattlong 15y ago
Yes, that's exactly what the article said.
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by mattlong 15y ago
So you're saying the yolks are good for me AND taste delicious?
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by mattlong 16y ago
*FPS
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by mattlong 16y ago
Wow, that guy is painfully awkward....I got uncomfortable just watching it.
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by mattlong 16y ago
They wouldn't be diluted at all. Convertible debt is not a priced round.
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by mattlong 16y ago
You'd be making above market and get 1% and get to lead the development effort? Amazing. That's like the holy trinity of tech startups if you ask me. :-)
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by mattlong 16y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but what about this is interesting? Is it that Redis is the backend? I'm not trying to bash it; I'm genuinely curious.
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by mattlong 16y ago
I believe what you are describing is more or less what Microsoft is trying to do with their New England R&D Center (NERD center as they like to call it) located in Cambridge, MA. They recruit big time out of MIT, host tech conferences (
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by mattlong 16y ago
You're right in that it's judgmental; I'm not at all familiar with him. Perhaps he's just gotten burned out on professorship. But this is coming from the horse's mouth.
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by mattlong 16y ago
Sounds like the author likes hacking but loathes being a professor. Can't help but assume he's doing a huge disservice to his students by being so disinterested in teaching that he forgets about/doesn't even try to improve his lectures from
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by mattlong 16y ago
The one thing that seems pretty blatantly overlooked in this whole discussion is that genetics have __alot__ to do with body building. I guarantee you that if everyone reading this thread mimicked Tim's 28 day plan exactly, that no where ne
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by mattlong 16y ago
I worked at their HQ in Redwood City briefly right out of college as an entry level programmer. The campus was very nice with a wonderful fitness center that I used regularly. They also had a pretty good offering of cafeterias. It was my im
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by mattlong 16y ago
FYI, the price doesn't seem to matter. A bid for $.50 isn't being fulfilled either. I still don't understand why a bid higher than the going rate isn't being fulfilled. :-/
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by mattlong 16y ago
interesting indeed. I hadn't considered this. If this is the case, it's unfortunate they don't reject bids saying they're too high. I just submitted several more otherwise identical bids at different prices to see what happens...
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Ask HN: Is there an EC2 Spot Instance shortage?
13 points by mattlong 16y ago|6 comments
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by mattlong 16y ago
I hear what you're saying and I tend to agree. I can't help but notice a huge parallel to my days in high school marching band. The state (Texas) imposed a limit on how many hours a school band could practice that our school mostly respecte
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by mattlong 16y ago
Can't speak for other YC companies (it may vary from batch to batch), but for us it was a generous rackspace cloud monthly credit for 12 months.
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by mattlong 16y ago
FYI, Hacker News is susceptible too.

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