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by tbrock 13y ago
That was the first thing I looked up and there was a quora post claiming you could not pay for AWS with an Amazon gift card. http://www.quora.com/Amazon/Can-I-use-Amazon-gift-cards-to-p...
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Ask HN: Cloud computing as a gift
3 points by tbrock 13y ago|3 comments
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by tbrock 13y ago
Much lighter weight. Instead of hosting an entire operating system you just host the application. Imagine spinning up your db instance vm, your web tier vm, your load balancer vm... etc. Unless you have a ton of ram it isn't going to h
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by tbrock 13y ago
So the bank gets to charge the store a transaction fee and you don't get the benefit of the bank floating the charge for 30 days? That sounds like a good deal for the bank!
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by tbrock 13y ago
Sure. I think there are two big use cases. The first would be learning/demo purposes where the data you store should essentially be ephemeral (imagine training sessions, interactive online tutorials, etc). In these cases it's more
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by tbrock 13y ago
You did a really good job of taking the example from the docker site and turning it into a blog post. Anyone wanting this information is better off getting it from docker.io directly, where it is likely to be updated: http://docs
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by tbrock 13y ago
This is great. Now if we need parallelism we can choose Rubinius and if we require raw speed we can choose Crystal (when it's done) instead of jumping on the JRuby bandwagon. I respect Charles Oliver Nutter but Java is something I want
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Amazon testing its own non-mvno wireless network(mobile.bloomberg.com)
1 points by tbrock 13y ago|0 comments
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by tbrock 13y ago
I use it every day on 10.8. Use homebrew and have less grey hairs: brew install macvim
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by tbrock 13y ago
Wouldn't you be doing something horribly wrong if you couldn't serve 70k requests a day? It's actually less than 1 a second: 70000 / (60 * 60 * 24) = .81 I think this article is more about distributed systems being costl
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by tbrock 13y ago
You are right, I'm pretty sure everyone who is a professional programmer uses homebrew, it's amazing. However, coding to 1.8.7 lets those who aren't hardcore rubyists currently enjoy a gem they may otherwise not be able to wi
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by tbrock 13y ago
It's definintely time for an open source alternative to GMail... but I think everyone knows this isn't it. These tools like exim, horde, dovecot, etc. have been around and worked for decades but wouldn't it be great to have f
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by tbrock 13y ago
Yup it's a shame an operating system released as early as this year (mountain lion) came with 1.8.7 because it will be around for quite a while. We recently had to make the difficult decision to continue support of it in a new release
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by tbrock 13y ago
I'm just excited the older models will be getting less expensive soon so I can afford one.
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by tbrock 13y ago
Working on a product for developers that they love to use.
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by tbrock 14y ago
I found myself talking to a co-worker about this being a problem last week. We found that having this functionality as part of the core is something that makes a framework feel significantly more agile. Virtually nobody gets their schema ex
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by tbrock 14y ago
Each map reduce job can still only use one thread. Before, under spider monkey, only one job could be executed per mongod instance. Now you can have many jobs executing in parallel on a single server instance but each one of them still only
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by tbrock 14y ago
Yeah, this is a big deal. It enables very interesting opportunities to create a map reduce engine that isn't awful or which requires Java. People use Hadoop because they have to, not because it is great. Isn't it time for a better alternati
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by tbrock 14y ago
Keep in mind that it is both new and experimental. If you are comparing them based on functionality and performance you are missing the point. It is my opinion that this easily bests external implementations by reducing moving parts and rem
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by tbrock 14y ago
If anyone hasn't seen this video from the Microsoft team analyzing how this went down, I highly suggest watching. I was on the edge of my seat! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
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by tbrock 14y ago
Aaron Patterson just rocks, what a great explanation.
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by tbrock 14y ago
While I know multitudes of new frameworks are usually unwelcome wheel reinventions, this seems very well done. Kudos to the team. Releasing software like this makes me wonder what other kind of amazing things are going on at Walmart Labs. T
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Python Amazon Web Services CLI (Developer Preview)(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by tbrock 14y ago|0 comments
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by tbrock 14y ago
Agreed, this is sweet. Can't wait for Mongo 2.4
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by tbrock 14y ago
Same licensing that 10gen uses for MongoDB (AGPL) and drivers (apache).
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by tbrock 14y ago
Hahah don't be naive. Use homebrew. Macports has been broken for years.
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by tbrock 14y ago
I constantly check this website for nice little touches that usually go unnoticed: http://littlebigdetails.com/
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by tbrock 14y ago
Notable Features: - Named arguments - Multiple inheritance (traits) - Incremental performance improvements over 1.9's VM - Better compatibility with non-unix environments and small/constrained devices (embeddable) - Sandboxed VM
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by tbrock 14y ago
I wish there were an amazing guide for building these shell extensions somewhere. I tried to look for some and couldn't find any that really got into the details.
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MongoDB Shell Enhancements for Hackers(github.com)
12 points by tbrock 14y ago|0 comments

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