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The Architecture of an Infinite Stream of Music(blog.petersobot.com)
13 points by psobot 13y ago|0 comments
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by psobot 13y ago
Currently building out http://forever.fm , an automatically-beatmatched radio stream of popular music from around the web. Built out the real-time music streaming backend in a mix of Python, C++ and Golang, just submitted the iOS
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Pipes and Filters(petersobot.com)
10 points by psobot 13y ago|0 comments
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Don’t let your app be crippled by someone else’s acquisition(petersobot.com)
1 points by psobot 13y ago|0 comments
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Dangerously Convenient APIs(petersobot.com)
1 points by psobot 13y ago|0 comments
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Interns are Leading the Way(petersobot.com)
5 points by psobot 14y ago|0 comments
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by psobot 14y ago
You don't need to be embedded to have performance matter - even if your OS gives you concurrency primitives, there are many situations where jumping into kernel code is still "too expensive."
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by psobot 14y ago
The actor model and data immutability are good for programmer productivity and reducing errors, but not for writing highly performant or low-level code. Even then, someone has to write the message queue, and how do you plan do to that wit
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by psobot 14y ago
Github does have academic plans. When I signed up, it was 2 years of a free Micro plan (5 private repos) if you signed up with a verified school email address. When they're back up, check out: https://github.com/edu
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Building an automatic, beatmatched, infinite radio stream with Python(petersobot.com)
13 points by psobot 14y ago|2 comments
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by psobot 14y ago
Facebook's global university hackathon.
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Writing C++ for Fun, Speed and Masochism(petersobot.com)
3 points by psobot 14y ago|0 comments
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Twitter's mandatory link shortener, t.co, was down(thenextweb.com)
77 points by psobot 14y ago|48 comments
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Thoughts on Working Remotely (from Khan Academy)(jamie-wong.com)
2 points by psobot 14y ago|0 comments
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by psobot 14y ago
Hey look, we're all here!
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by psobot 14y ago
I agree, although I worded the post in favour of "only" only due to the lack of situations where I've found a DSLR to be a better "moment capture device" than a phone. For most people, a smartphone is all they'll need in most situations
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The Ubiquitous Capture Device(petersobot.com)
13 points by psobot 14y ago|7 comments
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How to Use Eight Cores (Incorrectly) with Python(petersobot.com)
2 points by psobot 14y ago|0 comments
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Making a Single-Serving Site(petersobot.com)
3 points by psobot 14y ago|1 comments
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by psobot 14y ago
Quite correct - I neglected to think back more than a century. Very good point. I was merely trying to point out that modern pop music, while successful, has been very commodified. I'll stick in a quick footnote.
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Startups Are Bands for Hackers(petersobot.com)
202 points by psobot 14y ago|83 comments
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by psobot 14y ago
Thanks for posting this, @camtarn - I launched about 6 months ago and tried HN back then, too. Reddit ate it up, but HN wasn't all that interested. I've since written a bunch of postmortem blog posts, although the site is now running strong
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by psobot 14y ago
My bad - I tried to leave scrolling alone, but somewhere in my spaghetti of media queries it got hijacked. Working on a fix. Thanks for the heads up!
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by psobot 14y ago
It's fairly slow as-is, taking something like 500ms to locate and render one thumbnail. It might not work the best in a Rails project, but could be used as a pre-processor in a Rake task of some sort.
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by psobot 14y ago
You're right - the original author of the algorithm based it on the Reddit algorithm. (Original gist: https://gist.github.com/a54cd41137b678935c91 )
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by psobot 14y ago
Not the best - faces might not have the highest entropy in a photo. Existing photo managers (i.e.: iPhoto) already have advanced facial recognition built in, though.
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by psobot 14y ago
Dupes are definitely possible - though rare in my case. Not only am I randomizing which photos get thumbnailed, I also randomize their order on each page load. I do screen the photos before they get deployed anyways.
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A Use for Smartphone Photos(petersobot.com)
92 points by psobot 14y ago|20 comments