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by papercruncher 12y ago
I worked in Vancouver as a Microsoft employee for a few years, it was a great experience. Ping me if you want to chat
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by papercruncher 12y ago
Tempted to deploy via rsync on my laptop
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by papercruncher 13y ago
We switched to the google pagespeed module for nginx and stop worrying about it. It doesn't do minification very well but it does concatenation and takes care of a bunch of other stuff as well, like image resizing, CSS concatenation et
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by papercruncher 13y ago
I hate to be the guy that just critizes, but I can't find anything that I like about the redesigns. Take Yahoo Sports for example: the dark background makes it hard to read anything, it's crazy cluttered and even after filtering f
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by papercruncher 13y ago
That system breaks down if you start dating from within your social circle (friends of friends). I know you'll tell me it's a big no-no but you'd be surprised how much more common it becomes as you get older
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by papercruncher 13y ago
johnjones, we took inspiration from Quibb whose founder told us that the feature has worked well for her. There's something inherently cool about someone valuing your opinion so much that they ask you to come in and join their conversa
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Growth hacking lessons: Turning new users into loyal ones(blog.sidelinesapp.com)
5 points by papercruncher 13y ago|2 comments
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by papercruncher 13y ago
I was in Online Services (aka Windows Live) about two years ago. Some groups are obviously better than others, that can be said for any company. I think the problem here is that the author does not realize that unlike college, corporate wor
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by papercruncher 13y ago
I spent 5 years at Microsoft as a dev and share almost none of the author's sentiments. I had very few meetings, my manager went out of his way to make sure that I was not blocked, code reviews were mandatory, blogging on technical asp
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by papercruncher 14y ago
Yes, but as the article pointed out, trust is broken and everyone thinks this will happen again
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by papercruncher 14y ago
I was born and raised in Cyprus and my entire family still lives there. I spoke to a few of them this morning and whether the measures pass or not (parliament still needs to approve) they all plan on making a run to the bank asap.
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by papercruncher 14y ago
I practiced writing code a lot during UROPs (research opportunities available to MIT undergrads). While UROPs are not required, most course VI (cs majors) that I know did at least one during their 4 years there.
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by papercruncher 14y ago
If I don't know much about hardware, would this be a good event for me to attend, learn more and potentially build something really basic? I'm asking because I see there is an application process which makes me think that only experienced t
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by papercruncher 14y ago
I dealt with this exact problem for a number of years. Background scrubbing takes away I/O resources and can be a disaster on your workload if you rely on sequential reads/writes. For that reason, most controllers are configured by default
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by papercruncher 14y ago
Distance between Cyprus and Syria is < 200km. How much money would it take to setup a wireless link between the two? Wikipedia tells me it's possible ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_WiFi#Italy )
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by papercruncher 14y ago
Apologies if this is a dump question, but isn't it trivial to derive the public key if you have the private key? If so, couldn't an adversary just keep a list of public_key->service mappings and profit by casting a wider net?
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by papercruncher 14y ago
It may be because I'm cranky this evening but I found the author's sarcastic quips really fun to read. On the content itself, it sounds like if you're not targeting a specific service, you could code this up and launch a few hundred c1.xlar
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by papercruncher 14y ago
I know there are lots of smart people working there but just look at the sheer amount of AWS offerings. Amazon certainly gets credit for quickly putting out new features and services but it makes me wonder if their pace has resulted in way
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New Topsy tool can spot Twitter trends before they blow up(news.cnet.com)
2 points by papercruncher 14y ago|0 comments
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by papercruncher 14y ago
I'm surprised that Redis cannot handle your traffic. What are you throwing at it? Or are you on EC2, with frequent BGSAVEs or AOF enabled on an EBS volume?
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by papercruncher 14y ago
Who owns the IP that may come out of this?
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by papercruncher 14y ago
We are not using anything fancy, it's just Google Analytics, redis and postgres. If we send anything out to the world (email, link to partners, open graph action) we tag it either with a google analytics campaign or a unique identifier so w
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by papercruncher 14y ago
That is a great question. We spent a lot of time designing our signup flow and are currently on the third major iteration. The one thing that we find works consistently well is to give the user something to do as soon as they sign up. For S
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by papercruncher 14y ago
Hi, I'm the CTO of Sidelines (startup mentioned in the blog post). For our landing page tests we use Google Analytics which now includes Google Website Optimizer. We track engagement by logging activity time stamps per user in Redis. We als
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A New Google App Gives You Local Information — Before You Ask for It(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
4 points by papercruncher 14y ago|0 comments
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by papercruncher 14y ago
Hotmail doesn't store any passwords, it is all centralized as part of Windows Live ID (Passport).
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by papercruncher 14y ago
You're not alone but the startup community definitely has less than average number of people interested in football and sports in general. I don't have data on this, it's the feeling I get as someone doing a startup in sports and talking to
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by papercruncher 14y ago
As a Microsoft employee, OP has access to the private symbol server. Open up windbg and for a lot of MSFT products you can file a bug and send a dump straight to the team... all with a single command and without leaving the debugger. Other
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by papercruncher 14y ago
theory: your outer tracks are filled with data which is older and that you presumably read less
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by papercruncher 14y ago
Not directly relevant to the blog post, but Sentry is an amazing piece of software. We're running it on an m1.small AWS instance along with a bunch of other stuff and it is rock solid.

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