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by qhoxie 17y ago
This is the theory I subscribe to, and I list my profile email just as stated.
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Agreed. The only thing I could derive is the cautionary words about previous failures of languages with similar models.
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This really would not be all that surprising, but it also would not surprise me if the average Postgres setup was better tuned/architected than the majority case of MySQL uses. Our setup was surely not ideal, but even with significant tunin
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by qhoxie 17y ago
This is a good clarification to make. It was not that our entire application ground to a halt when we flipped the switch. We would experience intermittent and extreme performance issues. We dug deep with tools like cacti and ended up bei
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by qhoxie 17y ago
We have a highly trafficked and large dataset that we aimed to move from our datacenter to EC2. This is all in MySQL. Upon doing so, we had to spend significant effort trying to get our system stable and we ended up narrowing it down to E
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by qhoxie 17y ago
This has been discussed fairly exhaustively, but here is a quick summary: You cannot really go wrong with python or ruby. Both have a number of solid frameworks for you to try (rails, django, pylons, sinatra, etc). Try a number of them an
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by qhoxie 17y ago
I've lived here in Portland for about 9 months, and I can safely say this is an excellent list. It should keep you busy for a while.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
A quick UX note: I think it would be a good idea to use a more appropriate cursor style on the mileage slider. Otherwise, nice clean design.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
Defcon sets a good example is this arena. It is said to be the most hostile network there is, and for years the wifi was effectively unusable. The last couple of years, though, it has been nearly flawless. I know it has evolved a lot. F
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I understand what you're saying, but it seems like it's just worth the upvote to save it.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
I've used http://www.colourlovers.com/ for years. Great site.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
AWS products are pay as you go, so I'm not sure what you mean by that. This will be free until you cross the limit.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
True, it's no Cassandra :) Anyway I think 10gb per domain is reasonable for many people, but it is another limit of the store that could cause problems. Fortunately Amazon knows the boundaries of SDB, so it can put these in place and help
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by qhoxie 17y ago
What you said is very true, and a good summary of shortcomings, but I'd like to note a real benefit it affords you despite these drawbacks. While 3. is a pain-point in many systems, the fact that you can do selects with where clauses on a
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by qhoxie 17y ago
There are actually some backup services that leverage S3 and require customers to have their own accounts. It seems to work quite well as a model.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
The only way to achieve this would be to shard the file across multiple entries. The limit per is 1k, so I doubt it would fit your needs. There is also a hard limit of 1gb per domain, which is not difficult to run up against if you treat
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by qhoxie 17y ago
If you don't throw too much traffic at it you will be fine using it as a memcached alternative, but you will probably notice the overhead of an HTTP transaction. It largely depends on what you are doing. It seems like you are referring to
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by qhoxie 17y ago
The move to Rackspace will bring about a new backend architecture and a lot more servers, leading to a much improved user experience for everyone. - TPW from Github I don't believe that cost was an issue for them with EY. It was about th
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by qhoxie 17y ago
There are some tabbed window managers out there, and many swear by them. Check out fluxbox - http://fluxbox.org
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by qhoxie 17y ago
The answer to this question almost completely hinges on what you want for yourself. What are your career goals? What is your current education? Do you feel any educational deficiency or are you comfortable with your status? Do you hav
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Redis 1.0 Released(github.com)
4 points by qhoxie 17y ago|0 comments
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I don't interact with other developers because I worry that it will pull me toward the middle of the bell curve This will almost surely be damaging to your career and education. If this means that you are too easily influenced or cannot
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by qhoxie 17y ago
After a bit of searching around I verified that there had been no activity in my GMail account since I left on Friday, so they couldn't have accessed the confirmation email to verify the Twitter account Be sure to check your filters as a
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by qhoxie 17y ago
Similar to the sibling, I see 5-10% as being a fairly solid impact.
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by qhoxie 17y ago
Most people, even high-end smart phone users, choose their carrier first and their phone second. I think there is a lot of truth to that, but I also have seen a big shift since the iPhone. Countless friends and colleagues of mine have sa
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by qhoxie 17y ago
How would that work? Who would make decisions about building the groups? Would 'good' people just be placed together - that doesn't make a good team. It seems like something that could happen, but making it a community (as in HN) effort se
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by qhoxie 17y ago
To start, we are hiring at AboutUs in Portland, OR. We need more Rails hackers to help us scale outward and develop new aspects of our application. We are a top 10 Rails site and get to deal with intriguing issues every day. Solving massi
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)
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Portland, Oregon
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That is correct. Things like S3 can expand without issue, and others like Voldemort handle partitioning data natively.

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