mickeyben

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by mickeyben 13y ago
We used to have Core War tournaments in college. It was first an assignment (write the VM) and at the end all the students warriors would compete vs each other and we watched the finals in the big amphi. One of the students even wrote an
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by mickeyben 13y ago
Did you try to remove the parts of Rails you don't need? (ex: middlewares). Also in New Relic you can look what's slower (ruby, db, rendering, request queuing, ...). Could you give us more details. Also your average is 423ms, but
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by mickeyben 13y ago
Don't know about that. According to Glassdor the average salary is about €39k[1]. In my experience a "good" salary for a french engineer is between €42-50k. Housing isn't cheap in Paris - count about 12k-18k for 430-650
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Interview of Glenn Greenwald [video](jonathan-cook.net)
168 points by mickeyben 13y ago|62 comments
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Try Git in your browser(try.github.io)
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by mickeyben 13y ago
Can we register multiple addresses ? If I had children (!) I'd love to have photos sent to my relatives every month.
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by mickeyben 13y ago
I've been using it for the past week and it's great. If you wish to get alerts for your brand and receive the HN link while it's hot it's the perfect tool.
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by mickeyben 13y ago
We stopped getting exceptions a dozen times from a few hours to a couple of days. And no the exceptions didn't came up after that delay, it's like they were never sent.
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by mickeyben 13y ago
Don't know which is best but we used airbrake and getexceptional in the past and it had massive issues. We now use BugSnag on 4 rails apps (ruby and js) + one node.js app and it just works.
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by mickeyben 13y ago
I spend about 1 hour a week at the bookstore, usually taking random books and reading the first page(s). I also try to discover new books on Amazon from time to time by going over their selections and recommendations but I end up reading th
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HeyWatch - new video preview API(heywatchencoding.com)
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by mickeyben 13y ago
It was in 2006, I needed some cash to pay my student loans. At the time I was all about C++, wasn't very good at it and couldn't find any part time job to continue my CS degree. One of my contacts proposed me a freelance gig to rewrite the
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My Best Mistake: Building in Someone Else's Yard(linkedin.com)
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Visa Demand Jumps(online.wsj.com)
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Applications Now Open for Canada’s Startup-Visa Program(startupvisa.ca)
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by mickeyben 14y ago
HipChat has an API and a lot of services proposes hooks to post to HipChat. Our "Saloon" usually looks along the line of : GitHub - mickey commented on issue 104 of xxx/fronted: +1 GitHub - yoktan pushed to branch master of xxx/frontend - T
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Adobe Revel(adoberevel.com)
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by mickeyben 14y ago
It's not clear what kind of visualizations you support. You should add a few screenshots. It looks like http://chartio.com/ You seem to do the exact same thing but you worded it differently.
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B- environment merits B- effort(37signals.com)
95 points by mickeyben 14y ago|41 comments
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Leading using numbers(jonathanboutelle.com)
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The birth of Intel Capital(twothirdsdone.com)
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by mickeyben 14y ago
We've been using bugsnag for a couple of months and it's really good. Their support is great, they're iterating fast and I never saw their backend stop getting the errors (as opposed to airbrake or exceptional).
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by mickeyben 14y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. Definitely worth reading.
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Multiselect - drop-in replacement for the standard select(loudev.com)
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by mickeyben 14y ago
> sends an email to your backers with a unique sign-up link That's a pretty cool feature. We kind of built this at Let It Cast to handle "The Canyons" movie campaign. We allowed some backers to vote for the cast. We lost a good amount o
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by mickeyben 14y ago
Awesome blog! Nice to see some people from EPITA doing cool stuff :-)
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by mickeyben 14y ago
We're using this in development, staging and test. But only in some circonstances. In development if we need to try something without cache, and in staging and tests for some tests runner (integration tests, QA crawlers, ...).
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by mickeyben 14y ago
I love this hack. We're using it a lot at our company. exemple: if ENV["NO_REDIS_CACHE"] config.cache_store = :null_store else config.cache_store = :redis_store end
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by mickeyben 14y ago
Screenshot: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3086081/tilt%20-%20Recherche%20Goog...
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by mickeyben 14y ago
exactly what I was thinking! I recently moved one of my project to jruby and the startup time is the only thing I'm complaining about.

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