rgarcia

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by rgarcia 14y ago
It's turtles all the way down. I love LCD, but here are examples of things James Murphy lifted: the fall telephone thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOtckaZtLg#t=0m36s pretty distinctive way to say "i'm tapped" used in movement: htt
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Major flaw in Java-based Spring Framework allows remote-code execution(networkworld.com)
77 points by rgarcia 14y ago|43 comments
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by rgarcia 14y ago
If this kind of stuff interests you, you should check out the lecture videos from Harvard's Stat 110: http://stat110.net . Prof. Blitzstein is hilariously nerdy but still has a very clear presentation style (he had kind of a cult following
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by rgarcia 14y ago
Someone should integrate this with Splitwise and solve bill/rent/etc. splitting once and for all.
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by rgarcia 14y ago
The overhead of maintaining separate Dropbox accounts is pretty high IMO. There's no easy way to switch between accounts on the desktop client, an I'm pretty sure there's no way to be logged in to multiple accounts.
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by rgarcia 14y ago
Has anyone done an analysis that computes probabilities without brute force enumeration? Probabilistic decisions in Minesweeper are interesting, but this algorithm left me kind of disappointed.
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by rgarcia 14y ago
Even if there are already about twenty AWS libraries on NPM, this is a welcome addition. One nasty part of the Node.js ecosystem is the elevated risk that the owner of a library you depend on goes AWOL. For some reason (maybe the low barrie
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by rgarcia 14y ago
The competition Google is putting up in this space reminds me of a Ben Horowitz quote from Startup School (paraphrased): You have to have a 10x better product to beat established competition. Compute Engine has a long way to go to be 10x
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by rgarcia 14y ago
It'd be cool to see something like this built on top of the Pingdom API. https://www.pingdom.com/services/api-documentation-rest/#Res...
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by rgarcia 14y ago
At Clever we do this with mongo + mongoose. Mongoose is janky in places but it's great for type safety and migrations like you describe.
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by rgarcia 14y ago
The solution is simple; use a tool to keep an eye on MongoDB, make a best guess of your capacity (flush time, queue lengths, lock percentages and faults are good gauges) and shard before you get to 80% of your estimated capacity. Any reco
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by rgarcia 14y ago
AFAIK Beanstalk doesn't support node...is this in the works?
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by rgarcia 14y ago
I agree, but it begs the question: is there a point at which the damage you can inflict with a single bad transaction makes some central authority necessary? e.g. if every 20th car I sell on eBay is a lemon, I still have a 95% rating. If I'
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by rgarcia 14y ago
The pro-Disruption argument goes like this: In a digitally connected age, there’s absolutely no need for public carriage laws (or hotel laws, or food safety laws, or… or…) because the market will quickly move to drive out bad actors. If an
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by rgarcia 14y ago
Typical cost of a SIF integration is well out of the budget for all but the largest districts in the country. From what we've seen it typically takes 6+ months to do a full implementation (faster if you hire some consultants). Clever is fre
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by rgarcia 14y ago
Thanks for the comment, pflats. We've seen our fair share of ugly SISes! Clever actually isn't an SIS, though--we provide an API/integration layer that sits on top of the SIS. We think SISes are great at a lot of things (state reporting, fo
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by rgarcia 14y ago
Some honest feedback, FWIW... What's your plan to get users? A large part of the success from other asset-sharing services is due to the fact that they initially chose a vertical (Airbnb: apartments, Getaround/RelayRides: cars) and made a s
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by rgarcia 14y ago
I'm really curious how they measure "active". For example, recently I've noticed that when I initiate a video chat in gchat it forces me to use a hangout on Google+. Does this make me an active Google+ user?
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by rgarcia 14y ago
Really they should just use underscore: @originalStyle = _(@element.style).pick ['top', 'left', 'width', 'height']
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by rgarcia 14y ago
That's the x-axis.
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by rgarcia 14y ago
Anyone know what the y-axis measures? The original Nanex source doesn't label it either[1]. [1] http://www.nanex.net/aqck/2804.HTML
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by rgarcia 14y ago
There's a difference between the "crowd" in crowdfunding and accredited investors. pg was probably talking about the former.
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by rgarcia 14y ago
Same here. I was able to get it to work via the answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9329243/xcode-4-4-command...
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by rgarcia 14y ago
How does it work with ads? For example, if I get a 30s ad and the other person gets a 60s ad, does it still sync up? I watch shows like this (on hulu, hbo go, netflix) w/ my SO fairly often and one thing I found with hulu is that oftentimes
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by rgarcia 14y ago
Yeah, that makes sense, and I agree. You make a finer point than the third bullet point in the post :) Btw, love Bridge--using it to do some slick "client-side" form validation across browser and iOS clients. Keep up the good work!
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by rgarcia 14y ago
While this is awesome, I think declaring the "death of client-server" is kind of naive. For anything that handles sensitive information (e.g. the auth() service here), it'd be mayhem to have all clients also be servers.
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by rgarcia 14y ago
How many times does this have to happen before heroku spreads across multiple regions?
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by rgarcia 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Just so you know, we're not creating an MIS or SIS, so we're not trying to do either (1) or (2).
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by rgarcia 15y ago
I had the same question, and it looks like you need to roll your own buildpack. This looks promising (although it's for phantom v1.4): https://github.com/jessefulton/heroku-buildpack-nodejs-phant... .
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by rgarcia 15y ago
Could the difference be mostly due to handlebars vs. underscore? I'd be curious how it'd look normalizing for templating engine.

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