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by shadowmatter 14y ago
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." - Mark Twain (attributed)
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Show HN: Slides for 20 minute on Redis at LA HN(mgp.github.com)
1 points by shadowmatter 14y ago|0 comments
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by shadowmatter 14y ago
Grubwithus occasionally has special dinners with noted authors, entrepreneurs, and personalities of any age. I'm sure if a dinner were focused around you, it would sell out really quickly. You had an exit that dwarfs anything praised around
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by shadowmatter 14y ago
As someone who bowed out of the SpaceX interview process because he couldn't see himself coding in C++ anymore, and now focuses on web and mobile instead... I wish I shared your confidence right now. That launch gave me goosebumps that no a
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by shadowmatter 14y ago
I wish this article had some hard numbers for availability, performance, and the size of their data as opposed to hand-waving. Shameless plug: If you're looking to benchmark or load test CouchDB a bit, I wrote one at https://github.com/mgp
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by shadowmatter 14y ago
I love the idea, and I think there is a huge, ignored opportunity here. But relevance is what makes or breaks search engines, and dabbling with a search engine I made for Joel on Software (like in the example video), I think you should work
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by shadowmatter 14y ago
Until Mark Pincus wins a Turing Award for Farmville, it's probably not fair to compare the two.
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by shadowmatter 14y ago
On slide 52, which is supposed to demonstrate that the Android and Java source code implementations differ, it's clear that the Android definition did not come from Android: The anotherString parameter is not referenced, and there are no of
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by shadowmatter 14y ago
Kinda sick of hearing this. I mean, you've been able to download an archive of everything you've posted to Facebook for awhile now. The Facebook APIs are way more built-out than the Google+ APIs. And here are like a billion other web sites
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by shadowmatter 14y ago
Congrats on the first launch. Looks very professional! For the lazy like me: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/overnight-buses-magazine/id49...
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by shadowmatter 14y ago
I was testing this last night. It reduced the time for the emulator to cold boot from 120-130 seconds down to 45-55 seconds. Not as snappy as the iPhone simulator, but over cutting the time by over half is really substantial. Props to them.
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by shadowmatter 15y ago
I found the following two documents on the replication protocol: http://www.dataprotocols.org/en/latest/couchdb_replication.h... https://github.com/couchbaselabs/TouchDB-iOS/wiki/Replicatio... From the end of http://wiki.apache.org/cou
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Show HN: Iron Cushion, a CouchDB benchmark and load testing tool(github.com)
8 points by shadowmatter 15y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Loco, an iPhone library that simplifies location acquisition(github.com)
1 points by shadowmatter 15y ago|0 comments
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Choosing whom to work for: problems and products(mgp.github.com)
2 points by shadowmatter 15y ago|0 comments
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by shadowmatter 15y ago
"We built the system to stay within the limits of 3600 calls per hour, however it seems that a surge of imports pushed it over the threshold before we could throttle it back." It sounds like they designed it to stay within the rate limits,
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by shadowmatter 15y ago
Looks good. Just FYI: There's already a MapKit class called MKPointAnnotation that provides a simple implementation of MKAnnotation, so your Place class is redundant: MKPointAnnotation *point = [[MKPointAnnotation alloc] init]; po
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by shadowmatter 15y ago
Good post. Reminds me of that quote by Oscar Wilde: "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
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by shadowmatter 15y ago
Mainstream media'd. Meaning someone from the mainstream media posted a link to that post, and the surge in traffic made everything slow.
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by shadowmatter 15y ago
Jeff and Sanjay wrote the original protocol buffer implementation. The project was taken over by Kenton Varda, who rewrote the C++ and Java parts; this is what was open sourced. See http://temporal.fateofio.org/files/resume
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by shadowmatter 15y ago
Like you, I disagree with some of the points in her blog post, but I can't agree with your statement "As for what team you'll be working on, you as a candidate have a lot of power in that regard." I had one referral decline an offer because
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by shadowmatter 15y ago
That's what caught my eye too. I like how it's soon followed by "Pushing code fast and often does have a cost, but the benefit in productivity is well worth it." That's certainly true if it's mostly _tested_ code, but there is nothing produ
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by shadowmatter 15y ago
I did a math minor at UCLA, and he taught the upper-division linear algebra class I took. He didn't like the book, so he decided to write his own lecture notes, which formed a book unto themselves. They're still available online at http://
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by shadowmatter 15y ago
His "me" page explains that he's a database engineer at Facebook, and before that worked on performance-oriented systems and software at Wikipedia. It's part of his job to be aware of the drop in flash costs and employ it where he can while
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by shadowmatter 15y ago
Note that fountain codes are very, very patent-protected by Luby et al. Five years ago I came across literature on rateless codes, which are digital fountain codes that allow practically infinite encoding, or a practically infinite stream o
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
I'm an ex-Googler, and I disagree. Before I left the GWS team ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/google_web_server/ ) became a model for how frequent, stable releases should be done within the company. That's all I'll say.
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
As an ex-Googler, I disagree with this second-hand account. Yeah, political infighting sometimes happens and things get shook up, but this person paints the picture of no project ever launching. Addressing some points: 1. See item 3. 2. VP
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
I started about a month ago... As someone with a background in Java/C++/Python, here are some more that have caught my attention: - The ability to assign types as ClassName<Protocol>, instead of the protocol specifying the type comp
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
What he really means is that branches are now a part of your daily workflow. You can sync up to head (or wherever you pulled your working copy of the repository from), create a branch, and start working on some feature on that branch, mucki
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by shadowmatter 16y ago
This is similar to the Sybil attack in peer-to-peer networking. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack : "A Sybil attack is one in which an attacker subverts the reputation system of a peer-to-peer network by creating a large numbe

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