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by njl 15y ago
SEEKING WORK -- Boston, MA or remote Full stack web developer, browser Javascript all the way down through the stack to DevOps stuff. I'm most effective in Python, Javascript, Java, and Go, in about that order. I've used most of the NoSQL D
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by njl 15y ago
Doing the IP lookup yourself isn't very hard. The nginx HttpGeoIPModule[1] will do a lookup on the MaxMind databases for you. I used it in my weekend hack, http://spotwoo.com . Doesn't take very long to set up, very easy to use. [1] http:
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by njl 15y ago
I haven't played with it much, but the dateutil[1] package seems to do some nice stuff. [1] http://labix.org/python-dateutil
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by njl 15y ago
Momentum, I suspect. At some point, increasing demands from local government are destined to provide a competitive advantage to businesses in other locales. The interesting question is how much of an advantage being located in Silicon Valle
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The Enemy of my Enemy(cringely.com)
11 points by njl 15y ago|2 comments
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by njl 15y ago
No. Facebook created a collection of small social networks centered around existing real-world communities, then finally linked up all of those small social networks into a single, larger social network. This allowed them to reach saturatio
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by njl 15y ago
That seems disingenuous. It is my understanding that the fees are kicked back to the venue owners only if they make TicketMaster their sole agent. If you sell tickets anywhere other than your box office or TicketMaster, you're not going to
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by njl 15y ago
It's passable on my OG Droid. It was a weekend hack, and I need to revisit it with an eye towards speeding things up. Overuse of the Google Maps Javascript API is probably the source of a lot of the pokiness...
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by njl 15y ago
I built http://spotwoo.com in a couple of days using jQuery Mobile. Some weird gotchas, but I really enjoyed how quickly I could make something that looked decent. Congrats to the jQuery Mobile team. I've got a couple of clients who've be
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by njl 15y ago
http://spotwoo.com/ My weekend project a couple of weeks ago, an attempt to solve this sort of problem. I was picking up a friend, and there was no easy way for his smart phone to tell me where he was. So I wrote a site to let 'im. I have
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by njl 15y ago
I think JSON's power comes from the fact that it is a subset of a programming language. I organize data in arrays and hash tables (or objects, which can be implemented as hash tables), and that is what JSON provides. I remember teaching cla
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by njl 15y ago
Somebody on here built http://impossibility.org/ , which I've found to be fantastic. You give it a word, it sticks other words around it. I found about half a dozen better names in just a few seconds worth of work.
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by njl 15y ago
I wouldn't read the emails after day three, I'd probably have them automatically filtered by day five.
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by njl 15y ago
This is the sort of case that should be Amnesty International's bread and butter. They were an amazing organization throughout the 70s and 80s, insisting that repressive regimes treat dissidents as humans, with dignity. I think they lost th
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The Only Two Business Metrics That Matter(blog.scoutapp.com)
4 points by njl 16y ago|1 comments
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by njl 16y ago
I wrote a rough-and-ready jQuery plugin that sticks Perlin noise in the background of an element. This is a great writeup, I wish I had it when I was figuring everything out. http://www.njl.us/projects/jquery-perlin/
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Pure Python/C Accelerator Module Compatibility Requirements(python.org)
1 points by njl 16y ago|0 comments
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JQuery Perlin Noise Plugin(njl.us)
1 points by njl 16y ago|0 comments
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by njl 16y ago
The only VC was a guy named Marquardt. His firm had a 6.2% stake at the time of the IPO. I don't know when he invested.
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by njl 16y ago
I find Go's channels a much more natural way to express things than Javascript callbacks, so I've been using it where everybody else is using Node.
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by njl 16y ago
I wrote one of these a few months ago, and decided not to pursue it because I was one guy and just couldn't keep up on my own. I keep thinking I need to just shove what I wrote up on GitHub so people can at least look at it. It's a very int
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Rushing the net: Nokia’s coming fight to the Finnish(cringely.com)
3 points by njl 16y ago|0 comments
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by njl 16y ago
My last startup was in higher ed, and the stories about manipulating ranking are amazing. Everybody knows what goes into the rankings, and everybody manipulates the inputs. As an example, one of the inputs is percentage of alumni who donate
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by njl 16y ago
I like Cringely, but I thought he was a little hyperbolic on this one. Then I read this line: "If an ETF is comprised of large cap stocks like Microsoft and Dell, that’s fine, but if the index is composed of smaller companies like the Russe
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No Life Insurance for Bull Riders(cringely.com)
3 points by njl 16y ago|1 comments
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by njl 16y ago
"Der Fuehrers Face" is a fascinating watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iumEGAUceDg
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by njl 16y ago
Why would you do a deal with somebody who doesn't have any skin in the game? You're going to burn runway while you work on a product that you can't sell personally. They are going to have the right to sell it and not put any money in? I don
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by njl 16y ago
There is something really cool and compelling here, but I found it deeply disappointing that I wouldn't be controlling my drawings in battle. That makes it less of a game and more of an animated art gallery.
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by njl 16y ago
The front end dispatches requests to a Varnish, which is in front of a router that queues up requests and sends them to available copies of the desired application. Persistence is Postgresql, and delayed and scheduled jobs are handled by ce
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by njl 16y ago
I've been working on my Heroku for Django (or Python more generally) for a month or two now. It's good to see somebody else thinks this is a good idea.

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