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by pashields 15y ago
According to announcements made by Alex at the end of the conf, videos will trickle out slowly but surely on infoq. He hoped the first would be available in a few weeks. It is definitely worth watching and I suspect worth re-watching many t
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by pashields 15y ago
Not so sad I skipped the Brisk talk at strange loop now.
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by pashields 15y ago
This is definitely worth putting money into. Building these kinds of tools is so key to user adoption and yet it is such difficult and (hopefully not in this case) thankless work. Even if you aren't a CCW user, there are plenty of potential
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by pashields 15y ago
similar problem in exercise 26. It contains a link to http://learncodethehardway.com/ruby/exercise26.txt , which doesn't exist (and is the wrong domain anyways).
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by pashields 15y ago
Floop - New Haven, CT or remote (us only, northeast preferred) - iOS, Android, OpenGL, Mobile app design (Information Architecture through gradients and icons) We're a funded "stealth" startup building what we call a social opinion platform
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by pashields 15y ago
Floop - New Haven, CT or remote (us only, northeast preferred) - iOS, Android, OpenGL, Mobile app design (Information Architecture through gradients and icons) We're a funded "stealth" startup building what we call a social opinion platform
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by pashields 16y ago
New Haven, CT or remote (us only, northeast preferred) - iPhone and/or opengl developer We're a funded stealth startup building what we call a social opinion platform. We'd like to add another developer on our iPhone client. In particular s
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by pashields 16y ago
I've played around with it and my team is using it on our current project. I've found it to be a bit rough around the edges. It's still in the process of transforming from an internal resource to a community based open source project, but I
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by pashields 16y ago
The answer you are looking for is homebrew: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ That's not to say the process you are describing shouldn't be easier, but I've switched to OS X for almost all desktop work since homebrew and can't imagine usin
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by pashields 16y ago
In my admittedly limited experience with mongo, it felt like they were designing the ultimate database for the web. Not in a "web-scale" sort of way, more in a swiss army database for the web dev way. This came to me when I wanted to do loc
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by pashields 16y ago
I don't think the keyset will be in ram: "Redis will never use more RAM, even if we have 2 MB of max memory and 1 billion of keys. This works since now we don't need to take keys in memory." I haven't looked at the current code to see if th
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by pashields 16y ago
A number of web startups are using scala for their apps, most notably foursquare. I wouldn't dismiss it as academic when the big push I am seeing for it is for use with lift (scala webapp framework).
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by pashields 16y ago
"more conventional technologies like Hadoop" It's remarkable how quickly distributed computing has come to the forefront of scaling. 3 years ago, before hadoop and horizontal scaling became huge buzz-ideas, this (buying comically large boxe
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by pashields 16y ago
I agree about China being representative, but even the best performing state in the US (Massachusetts) still takes a beating from a country like Finland. See the Atlantic's "Your Child Left Behind" - http://www.theatlantic.com/national/arc
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by pashields 16y ago
According to the guys I talked to at clojure-conj, most all work at Relevance is pair work. http://thinkrelevance.com/
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by pashields 16y ago
I don't know why they made up a new word for this or why they think it is different from underemployment. From wiktionary definition of underemployed: "Employed in a job for which one is overqualified" http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/undere
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by pashields 16y ago
Lists are hashes on acid. The default return value of indexing in is NULL. That's a weird semantic for a list, but maybe not so much a hash. The weird part is that if you explicitly assign null to an element of the list, it deletes the e
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by pashields 16y ago
Just to clarify, there is no polling in redis blocking list ops. I believe the pub/sub doesn't require polling either. Given that, I can think of a lot cases where Redis will work fine as a messaging server. If you need a very sophisticated
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by pashields 16y ago
Indoor bouldering is the loner's form of climbing. Outdoor is feasible too, but even with the small falls I worry about someone being totally alone. Bouldering does tend to be a little more intimidating and requires more upper-body streng
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by pashields 17y ago
This is all a little bit out there for me, but Gelernter is a great mind. I still think Linda will take over the world. The most interesting part of this, for me, was this quote: "The computer mouse was a brilliant invention, but we can se
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by pashields 17y ago
No, that's exactly what CAP doesn't allow. Unless by scalable you mean non-horizontal scaling. In which case yes, but we already knew that big machines make things fast.
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by pashields 17y ago
I don't know what makes you think that all CS programs are like this. My operating systems course did not require me to write a kernel. In fact, there was only one class that required you to work in a language that required manual memory ma
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by pashields 17y ago
Message passing circumvents locking, but not necessarily synchronization and I would not describe using it as easy. The difficulty in concurrency is maintaining an understanding of all possible states at any given point and message passing
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by pashields 17y ago
I'm not sure I understand this. Even if you buy the idea that "[y]ou can almost always use a simple locked data-structure for synchronization fairly painlessly," how is the choice of granularity anything more than the choice of what and wh
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by pashields 17y ago
"Distributed systems" is not a new term. Please don't use it as though it only applies to systems designed to distribute data (ala NoSQL). Distributed computing has classically been focused on the use of network nodes for both data storage