mchadwick

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by mchadwick 13y ago
Likewise. Machine names are there to make your life easier. Cute names aren't fun when you have more than a couple. When your brain's as small as mine, you have to minimize your lookups.
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by mchadwick 15y ago
$0.02: The animated widget inviting me to share your text through half a dozen mediums obscured your text in such a way where I couldn't read it.
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by mchadwick 15y ago
Philadelphia, PA Vistar Media is company building some neat stuff in the "Digital Out Of Home" space. Right now, it's just us three founders -- two of which are coming from Invite Media, which was acquired by Google in 2010. We're looking t
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by mchadwick 16y ago
Not quite a mental calculation, but still in the spirit: One rough estimation I often find myself using is that a US dollar bill is six inches long. Using either folding or flipping, you can approximate most distances in the wave-your-arms-
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by mchadwick 16y ago
Google does an interesting engineering interview. The best advice I can give: 1) Read the first couple chapters of Introduction to Algorithms (Cormen et. all) enough times to know it cold. Something in there will come up. 2) Dedicate a day
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by mchadwick 16y ago
I have been horribly burned and disfigured following this advice. It's important to keep in mind that just because it's unlikely the spot price will go above the reserve price, there's nothing from preventing that. It has in the past, and i
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by mchadwick 16y ago
We've been running hundreds of instances on EC2 for a couple years, and have never seen one just "go down." However, we will get notifications of "degraded instances." When an instance is degraded, you have some window (generally a couple
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Introducing AppMake: An AppEngine Makefile(geewax.org)
30 points by mchadwick 16y ago|1 comments
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by mchadwick 17y ago
The Linux kernel (Popular. Not hot nor trendy). Over the past 12 months, I've touched Redis, Node.js, Clojure, and a few others on this list, but nothing blows my mind more than learning a new system call or OS feature. Learn the exact copy
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by mchadwick 17y ago
http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/joint-compilation-of-sc... Above is an overview of how the Scala compiler attacks this exact problem. Long story short: It is able to grok just enough Java to build a basic AST and resolve circular de
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by mchadwick 17y ago
http://ditz.rubyforge.org/ A self-contained issue tracker. I switched from hand-hacked TODO lists to Ditz a few weeks ago, and haven't looked back. I'm able to organize my tasks as I would a codebase (components, releases, comments, et
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by mchadwick 18y ago
I had actually tried to do this exact thing. Problem A is that you can't execute very much in a clients browser at any one time. Okay, so you make the jobs smaller and fetch more. Problem B is that it turns out that by the time you've pu
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by mchadwick 18y ago
That's extremely helpful. Thanks. Sometimes it's a bit daunting to be very pragmatic up front.
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Ask HN: When do I impose caps?
3 points by mchadwick 18y ago|2 comments
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by mchadwick 18y ago
Obviously a bit off topic, but his graphic representation is astounding. Though not quite a Tufte archetype, I gleaned more insight from the image than the article. Very well done.