thelarry

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by thelarry 14y ago
I get a little chuckle when I tell people I am building some app and they ask "Why aren't you using RoR and MongoDB?" Maybe I am not comfortable with them in production?
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by thelarry 14y ago
Cool idea, I believe aeorspike uses ssd's for key value store like this. Check out http://www.aerospike.com/performance/architecture/ .
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by thelarry 14y ago
Oh TC... you give me much amusement while i browse the internet while i poop
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by thelarry 14y ago
I've experienced that at other hackathons too. Fake click throughs using photoshop drawn screenshots beat out actual mobile applications with backends. I stopped going to hackathons after a powerpoint beat out my hack. It was a cool idea
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by thelarry 14y ago
Pretty cool, I have a rough time getting my lazy friends to test my iphone apps :/
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by thelarry 14y ago
This is pretty neat. I wonder what they use under the hood.
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by thelarry 14y ago
Agreed, the one time Amazon needed me to migrate an instance they told me when they would forcibly stop / start the instance and allowed me to do it before hand. How did you set up screen on EC2? I've had problems with it in the past but
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by thelarry 14y ago
Zend is kind of bloated and tries giving you the world when you only need a form parser. require_once is also "slow" because it checks the list of required files each time you call require_once to make sure you aren't requiring the same fi
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by thelarry 14y ago
There is a good reason to not include the closing tag. Silly people can add newlines after the ?>. That leads to random newlines in your output which are annoying to track down.
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by thelarry 14y ago
Hehehe so true. We use some odbc driver at my company and it had major memory leaks / seg faults. I had to compile debug versions and test it out to figure out what was going on. That being said, some PHP modules are really great and wo
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by thelarry 14y ago
I heard with hip hop you cannot easily use your typical C php plugins?
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by thelarry 14y ago
I really like trello. Something about it feels so natural. I like it a heap better than jira + agile plugin. I do like pivitol tracker too, but trello can do more.
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by thelarry 14y ago
How _do_ you use story boards? In the newer xcode I always opt out. Seems to be too general to make it do what I want
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by thelarry 14y ago
I've been there. I think the idea is to look for people who can "solve problems" and can use the right algorithm for the right problem. In the end, it seems that candidates just spend a lot of time practicing algorithm problems in online
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by thelarry 14y ago
Made me think of a recent stealth startup that somehow got a few hundred thousand signups before it launched... and then it launched... and failed. Went through a waterfall release process, and failed some more =/
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by thelarry 14y ago
Im not a RoR developer, so forgive my ignorance. But how does this keep happening? I thought ActiveRecord is a mature product by now. I hear about these types of bugs happening with RoR pretty often, is the "magic" of ActiveRecord and hi
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by thelarry 14y ago
Do you mean use something like a BaaS?
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by thelarry 14y ago
I remember at an old job on a stock trader's last day he emailed himself (from corporate email to gmail) a spreadsheet that contained proprietary models, client holdings, etc. That's a serious breach, and luckily traders are dumb enough to
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by thelarry 14y ago
I think this article can be a little misleading. Sure, with cloud tech you can easily spool up more instances. And yes, it is great to not have to worry about configuring a load balancer (I guess). But just because adding more instances
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by thelarry 14y ago
Just off the top of my head I know of https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking , http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/ (no longer supported but still used), and http://restkit.org/
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by thelarry 14y ago
One thing to keep in mind about wrappers is that now a days kids like accessing APIs from mobile applications. With iOS you cannot simply just wrap curl calls like you would in PHP. Developers use weird and random REST API accessing frame
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by thelarry 14y ago
Some people argue that whatever you get back from the request should be the exact json/xml/whatever object representation.
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by thelarry 14y ago
I didn't want to sound like a creeper....
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Most Awesome Use Of Technology EVER
1 points by thelarry 14y ago|4 comments
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by thelarry 14y ago
Life was easier back then
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by thelarry 14y ago
Maybe I am thinking of it from my perspective where on projects I have worked on alone as a technical person I wished there was someone who had time to hustle the product. Since I was trying to innovate 24/7 I did not have much time for th
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Ask HN: should we stop telling biz people to be their own technical co-founders?
4 points by thelarry 14y ago|4 comments
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by thelarry 14y ago
I would really like to know the answer to this too, I am equally confused by the global write-lock.
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Project Hydra – Scaling an API Globally  (techblog.appnexus.com)
4 points by thelarry 15y ago|0 comments