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Top 50 GitHub Projects on Twitter(tech.backtype.com)
36 points by omakase 16y ago|4 comments
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An introduction to Cascalog (slides)(slideshare.net)
13 points by omakase 16y ago|2 comments
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by omakase 16y ago
BackType (YC08) is hiring engineers to work on both the front and back end of our analytics product. We work mostly with Clojure and Python and use a mix of technologies from Thrift and Hadoop to Cassandra and graph databases. We're three p
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Spend the Summer with BackType and True Ventures(tech.backtype.com)
7 points by omakase 16y ago
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Spend the Summer with BackType and True Ventures(tech.backtype.com)
12 points by omakase 16y ago|0 comments
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by omakase 17y ago
BackTweets has actually been around for a while too -- and was always a part of BackType Connect (which shows you other reactions including hacker news, digg, reddit, friendfeed). We even personalize results to show a viewer which of their
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Follow-up to “The mathematics behind Hadoop-based systems”(nathanmarz.com)
4 points by omakase 17y ago|0 comments
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by omakase 17y ago
Hi Brad, thanks for getting in touch with us -- we had an issue related to your domain specifically that is being addressed right now in addition to some corrupted indexes that were affecting all of our counts today. Both of these will be f
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by omakase 17y ago
BackType is hiring software engineers. Our tech blog has a small glimpse at some of the tools we're working with: http://tech.backtype.com We're also contributing to some cool projects: http://github.com/nathanmarz/crane
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by omakase 17y ago
We opened up an API for backtweets a while ago: http://backtweets.com/api What would you build with it? Some people are using it in cool ways right now, e.g. hype machine uses it to power a twitter music chart.
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by omakase 17y ago
There are a bunch of coworking spaces in the city. I think all have monthly fees, but you can drop in and check them out: http://citizenspace.us/ http://www.parisoma.com/ http://www.sandboxsuites.com/ Panera in SOMA is right beside th
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by omakase 17y ago
You're right, it does increase the delay. It's more of an example of how Gearman can be used. Also, I _hate_ the idea of running an MTA on 30 machines that shouldn't be sending mail.
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by omakase 17y ago
Perhaps I'm getting hung up on the semantics. We use it more to farm out function calls, rather than passing content or delivering large messages. The one time I tried to use it for large amounts of data I did have issues with memory and la
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by omakase 17y ago
To clarify, Gearman is not meant to be used as a message queue, but instead it's a job server. The example in the post is an interesting use case (and convenient for us because we were already using it as a job server), but not really what
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by omakase 17y ago
Are you now using Beanstalkd instead? What kinds of jobs were you submitting? I've also run into problems using the python client handling errors, failover, and reconnects. But no issues with the C API, processing about 5 million jobs a day
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Using Gearman For Distributed Alerts(tech.backtype.com)
14 points by omakase 17y ago|13 comments
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by omakase 17y ago
Absolutely, we're going to be regularly deploying improvements to our search. BTW, we're hiring, so if you or anyone else is interested in helping us solve these problems please get in touch.
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by omakase 17y ago
Aditya, thanks for the feedback -- if anything this latest release reflects that we are much more focused on solving search problems as they relate to both consumers and businesses. Previously BackType was viewed as a toolset for comment au
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by omakase 17y ago
Yes, our API is live and documented here: http://www.backtype.com/developers/comments-connect Also here's a great app that was built by a user of our API: http://convotrack.com/I1
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by omakase 18y ago
In terms of widgets that pull all the conversation together, we just released a WP plugin that does that for posts (twitter, digg, reddit, hacker news, friendfeed, and related blog posts) http://www.backtype.com/plugins/connect . There is
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by omakase 18y ago
Thanks so much! If you find the plugin isn't for you, or you want something for non WP blogs, Wesley over at www.improvingtheweb.com made a great new app with our API (convotrack.com). Check out the button on the left side here: http://www
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by omakase 18y ago
All imports are done in the background using wp-cron so they shouldn't be directly affecting page load. But if you turned off any caching, given the traffic your blog sees, that's understandable.
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by omakase 18y ago
Paul, thanks for the great review and kind words. We've got lots to improve and these posts really help. For example, threading is very high on the list of things to do (we knew HN users especially would notice its absence). Looking fwd to
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ConvoTrack: A Simple And Useful Conversation Tracker Built On Top Of BackType(techcrunch.com)
10 points by omakase 18y ago|0 comments
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by omakase 18y ago
Fully agree. Threading is high on our list.
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by omakase 18y ago
No, but I really want that to. We have a bookmarklet that is sort of similar, but not quite there. I know of one tool being built with our API, that will be released soon that solves this problem. We'll mention it on our blog when it comes
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by omakase 18y ago
I've played with Chartbeat also -- it's clearly a big opportunity. Real-time chat with users has to be done carefully in my opinion. Done wrong I think it could be very intrusive and off-putting to users. I imagine it being user initiated,
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by omakase 18y ago
thanks guys!
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by omakase 18y ago
Thanks for spotting that. If you change your query to "justin.tv" with the double quotes included it will work in the meantime.
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by omakase 18y ago
You're right, we launched alerts a little while ago, subscriptions are the new addition to the alerts service today. Hope the alerts are working out well for you. If you're looking to keep track of lots of threads on news.yc give subscripti

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