pearkes

21 ms·

31.
by pearkes 13y ago
Hopefully not too late but: I think it comes down to reliability. We offer a service with very little downtime (only a few hours in 2013 during a large, planned transition we were doing). Additionally, we do a lot of support for folks, usua
32.
by pearkes 13y ago
Do you live in the city with public transportation? Then I would definitely agree. Otherwise, Canada can be really big and rural. Not having access to car (or in this case, potentially not being able to afford it) can be really damaging to
33.
by pearkes 13y ago
This is a shameless plug, but with IRCRelay[1] we focus on the "I want to use my client" crowd. It seems to be a different group of IRC users (also, IRCCloud I think is a fair bit larger and more successful then us) but we have be
34.
by pearkes 13y ago
> A friend of mine, Steve, noted that gold-backed economy logically evolved into the mess we are now Here is where you lose me. Other articles, just like this, fall apart in the same places. Maybe it is the irony of this statement. Why i
35.
by pearkes 13y ago
Gotcha. Yea, I put that in there because I've read/heard second hand information about Node.js requiring a substantial amount of boilerplate, etc. Sounds like that time has past. :)
36.
by pearkes 13y ago
> That's a lot of ops complexity you can save yourself right there. If you're doing that kind of sustained request volume then you'd like have web server redundancy for availability reasons , right? Reverse proxying from n
37.
by pearkes 13y ago
What I find interesting about Go[1] and the web application community is that people constantly point to speed as a huge selling point. Speed in the sense of latency and request volume per server. I still feel like for the majority of cases
38.
Spy Copters, Lasers, and Break-In Teams(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by pearkes 13y ago|0 comments
39.
Live Stream of Twitter Opening Bell(new.livestream.com)
1 points by pearkes 13y ago|0 comments
40.
NSA Files Decoded(theguardian.com)
2 points by pearkes 13y ago|0 comments
41.
by pearkes 13y ago
Thank you for posting this and demonstrating how absolutely pointless these questions are for finding qualified candidates. For those of you who didn't notice, antirez[1] makes a data storage system called "Redis"[2] [1]: ht
42.
Show HN: Send notifications and receipts for Stripe Webhooks(github.com)
1 points by pearkes 13y ago|0 comments
43.
by pearkes 13y ago
bloomd[1] is a "high performance c server for bloom filters" for those looking for a low-overhead and deployable implementation with quite a few clients, like Python and Ruby. [1] https://github.com/armon/bloo
44.
by pearkes 13y ago
I use the two Heroku tools `foreman` and `heroku` regularly. I've recently switched to their Go alternatives, and for one thing, the speed has improved[1]. However, the Heroku client is mostly network bound (communicating with their AP
45.
by pearkes 13y ago
Yea, same here. I took this traceroute (mtr): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/v5k29jnfkhz0ggu/2013-10-... Not sure what was going on there, I wish I did, but seems to be related? Edit: that was going to an nyc
46.
Rapid schema development with PostgreSQL(speakerdeck.com)
104 points by pearkes 13y ago|53 comments
47.
The creepy capital efficiency of Goldman's cafeteria(cnbc.com)
34 points by pearkes 13y ago|49 comments
48.
by pearkes 13y ago
This is super exciting. My only concern on cost relates not to CloudFront itself, but rather the burden of using your own SSL certificate, as mpetrov mentioned. I wonder if this will be improved as well? I personally wouldn't want to a
49.
by pearkes 13y ago
Currently, they are 21st in the world for web facing computers[1]. The growth has been pretty good, too. [1] http://trends.netcraft.com/www.digitalocean.com
50.
Structlog: Structured Logging in Python(structlog.readthedocs.org)
2 points by pearkes 13y ago|0 comments
51.
Autoworkers of our Generation: A Repsonse(dave.cheney.net)
7 points by pearkes 13y ago|3 comments
52.
by pearkes 13y ago
If you're like me and make golang apps with private packages on GitHub, you're going to have a bad time deploying to Heroku. This is because the heroku buildpack for go has to `go get github.com/user/private-repo` the ne
53.
by pearkes 13y ago
If you're using Puppet and like upstart, check out geetarista's go deployment workflow, simple and straight forward. Locally compile go binary for target platform, upload to S3 (with a makefile + s3cmd), puppet runs, downloads ver
54.
by pearkes 13y ago
No, I think I may not be making myself clear. Good regulatory structures, like we've been trying to develop alongside the emergence of the free market as "the way", are important, along with the consumer being keenly aware of
55.
by pearkes 13y ago
HA! I literally caught myself doing this yesterday.[1] It's a terrible habit. My mother would agree and give you a high five. :) [1] https://twitter.com/pearkes/status/369868903456862208
56.
by pearkes 13y ago
Yea, let me clear – I'm not saying a huge multi-national corporation is squeaky clean because of one positive thing they've done. The point I was trying to make is that the motivation of said company may not be to "save the w
57.
by pearkes 13y ago
> What Facebook and Google have done is discovered a village with no water and they plan to bring them cheap Coke to buy when—if their motives were truly honorable—there is another glaringly obvious option: you could teach them to build
58.
NSA-Proof Your Email - Consider your Man Card Re-Issued (fiction)(medium.com)
2 points by pearkes 13y ago|0 comments
59.
A Push to Connect Millions Who Live Offline to the Internet(nytimes.com)
4 points by pearkes 13y ago|0 comments
60.
A guess at Path’s brilliant valuation strategy(pandodaily.com)
2 points by pearkes 13y ago|0 comments

More ›