timhaines

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by timhaines 13y ago
When I visited, the Android statues were cool, the conference bikes were unique, and the size of the campus (coming from NZ where 100 people is a big business) was mind blowing. Plus, it's Google! It had lost it's sparkle by the third vis
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by timhaines 14y ago
My app breaks going from 3.2.8 to 3.2.9. I haven't had time to fix it yet, so I've just applied the workaround for now too.
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Ask HN: Office space in Mountain View or Palo Alto?
1 points by timhaines 14y ago|1 comments
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by timhaines 14y ago
Twitter would blacklist the IP(s).
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by timhaines 14y ago
How about we meet up for a naked run?
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by timhaines 14y ago
I thought you'd done a good job on Fruiji - I like the YAS factor. Are you TwentyPeople? It give the impression you have a bunch of staff, but in fact it's just one person?
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by timhaines 14y ago
I think the post is relavant (today) considering Dan (the author) was instrumental in removing the hashbangs. Twitter's Engineering Blog Post from today: http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/05/improving-performance...
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by timhaines 14y ago
Ha. I've had and have plenty of data problems. After 2 days of making adjustments as per Basho's suggestions to try and improve the write throughput, I moved on. You seem to be making a lot of judgments and assumptions about that decision
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by timhaines 14y ago
Feel free to investigate further. I had to move on.
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by timhaines 14y ago
Hey - the Basho guys were aware and reproduced it pretty quickly. They saw the same response from their new bloom filter branch they're introducing soon too. I was monitoring with iostat and a couple of other tools. It was certainly very
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by timhaines 14y ago
The benchmarking tool is very slick. Easy to configure for a variety of scenarios, and once you figure out how to install R it produces those pretty graphs.
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by timhaines 14y ago
Well, for the benchmark, I was using Basho's benchmarking tool which is erlang, and I was testing with protobuf. I had 5 concurrent clients running for the benchmark, but also tried with more and less, and got about the same results. Searc
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by timhaines 14y ago
If you're thinking about using Riak, make sure you benchmark the write (put) throughput for a sustained period before you start coding. I got burnt with this. I was using the LevelDB backend with Riak 1.1.2, as my keys are too big to fit i