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by transmit101 14y ago
There's no single self-contained solution in the post really, it's more an illustration of a number of useful things that Lua can be used for. I might try to put another post together at some stage though. For us our main goal is to prevent
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Nginx and Lua(devblog.mixlr.com)
61 points by transmit101 14y ago|26 comments
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by transmit101 14y ago
Please, please don't help to persist the convention of putting the API version number in the URL. There are far better ways of doing it. http://stackoverflow.com/a/975394/62871
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by transmit101 14y ago
Thanks, it's a good point, I will update the post later.
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by transmit101 14y ago
Yes that works too as I mentioned in the first couple of paragraphs of the post. However having a beta.mixlr.com domain a) introduces a lot of friction and seriously reduces the ease with which you can test features b) may alter the percept
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by transmit101 14y ago
As I explained in the post, that's the intended behaviour. We want to allow our users to enable beta version for all visitors to their Mixlr page, not just for themselves. But a cookie approach would be easy too - see my other comment for a
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by transmit101 14y ago
Cheers. Yeah a cookie approach would be suitable for a lot of uses, including A/B testing. It's easy in Nginx/Lua: local is_some_cookie_set = nginx.var.cookie_SomeCookie ~= nil; Then you don't need Redis at all. For us though, we want to se
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by transmit101 14y ago
Thanks. I didn't know that. I did strip out a lot of the more advanced/ambiguous Nginx config for clarity though.
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Improve your beta-testing with Nginx, Lua and Redis(devblog.mixlr.com)
72 points by transmit101 14y ago|16 comments
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by transmit101 14y ago
Perhaps he is a vegetarian. Being homeless doesn't require you to sacrifice your principles.
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by transmit101 15y ago
Looks great Hrishi. Nice work.
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by transmit101 15y ago
London: At Mixlr, [ http://mixlr.com ], we’re currently looking to meet developers. Mixlr is a platform for broadcasting and listening to live audio. We launched less than a year ago, and have a large and fast-growing user base including so
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by transmit101 15y ago
> There is a human curation step (~5% of the process), but that is mostly for removing really crappy videos. Actually, I'd be tempted to make the process 100% automated, and open it up to the general public as soon as possible. This has
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by transmit101 15y ago
There's nothing to stop a Facebook app being built like this. In fact, Facebook recommends this approach. It's simply that many developers feel that it's easier to get all the permissions in one go, when the user first signs up.
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by transmit101 15y ago
London: At Mixlr, we’re currently looking to meet developers. Mixlr is a platform for broadcasting and listening to live audio. We launched less than a year ago, and have a large and fast-growing user base including some of the world’s top
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by transmit101 15y ago
London - Mixlr ( http://mixlr.com ) Web Developer Mixlr is a platform for broadcasting and listening to live audio. We launched less than a year ago, and have a large and fast-growing user base including some of the world’s top DJs and radi
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by transmit101 15y ago
It really shouldn't be even close to a defining moment in your life. There are a myriad of routes to building a successful company, and YC only accounts for a tiny percentage of them. It's easy to miss this fact if you spend a lot of time r
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Inside the Sarcophagus: video from inside Chernobyl nuclear reactor(youtube.com)
3 points by transmit101 16y ago|0 comments
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by transmit101 16y ago
I worked as a cold-call telesales rep between the ages of 19 and 21. If you have a product targeting SMEs, then I would highly recommend you consider cold-calling. It's cheap, fast, highly effective and every owner/manager of such a busines
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The myth of the panicking disaster victim(independent.co.uk)
1 points by transmit101 16y ago|1 comments
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by transmit101 16y ago
Great video and a beautiful composition using very simple rules. I'd have liked to have seen more about the circle of fifths and harmonic structure though, because this is where the relationship between music and mathematics starts to get r
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Don't touch me, I'm British(ft.com)
201 points by transmit101 16y ago|140 comments
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by transmit101 16y ago
Personally I would expect to get a salary much closer to market-rate than "lodging and food plus some" from a company with $1m funding - especially if I was to be the lead developer and first employee. I would then consider 1-2% equity to b
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Former nuclear reactor operator on Fukushima risks(theenergycollective.com)
73 points by transmit101 16y ago|14 comments
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by transmit101 16y ago
Any chance of a brief explanation which doesn't require either (a) signing in with Twitter, or (b) watching a video?
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by transmit101 16y ago
Interesting, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's very different for different people. For me, coding comes very naturally indeed. Next, writing, then music, and finally visual art which I find next-to impossible to master. :-) And when I sa
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by transmit101 16y ago
I don't know about novels, but finishing a piece of music is a truly arduous task. I've never found another activity which is so deeply challenging: forcing you to confront your own ideas of what you're trying to produce, how good you expec
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by transmit101 16y ago
Really not sure I agree with that. Coding is tough, and in my experience developing iOS apps well (and Cocoa apps in general to a lesser extent) is one of the most difficult forms of programming. And as for marketing and promotion, I'd sa
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by transmit101 16y ago
Please don't write code for others for free unless there's a good reason. There is already a shortage of good programmers available for _hire_ [1]. If you want to code for fun, or to increase your profile as a developer, either get involved
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by transmit101 16y ago
Have you used a debugger before? The interface to gdb built into Xcode works pretty similarly to other debuggers. To get the most out of gdb, learn to use it on the command line. It's very simple to get started, you can use it outside of Xc

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