w3matter

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by w3matter 17y ago
Only thing is cheap programmers generally -- not exclusively -- but generally suck.
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by w3matter 17y ago
I already see it when trying to hire programmers and designers. Because a programmer knows a mish-mash of PHP, Java and a little Javascript, they think that they are immediately qualified to write a scaleable web app. Designers are even wor
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by w3matter 17y ago
Yeah, Heroku should put up or shut up until they start offering alternate NoSQL databases (and no, MongoHQ is not an alternative because of network latency). Interesting article though.
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by w3matter 17y ago
Hilarious and totally credible!
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by w3matter 17y ago
Google wave is a godsend for teams of people who work together. We no longer have to exchange a million emails about a project topic. We all keep it into the wave. Its not an email alternative. Its and adjunct.
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by w3matter 17y ago
Nope those are systems that few people use. If I'm gonna pay a contractor in virtually any country, PayPal is the place to be.
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by w3matter 17y ago
Paypal suxxors, sometimes. Been using it for years and years and years. It has not sucked for me.. except once. But then again, my bank sucks. Amazon sucks as a payment system. Google sucks as a payment system. Thing is, so many people use
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HTML/CSS Web Designer wanted (part time) - MIAMI
1 points by w3matter 17y ago|0 comments
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Why does NPR have it in for Toyota?
5 points by w3matter 17y ago|2 comments
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by w3matter 17y ago
For sure he does not want people to buy into the noSQL movement, because it would mean less work for FathomDB. Good service, but disingenuous remark about the nascent noSQL movement.
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by w3matter 17y ago
Well worth the read to learn the design decisions and the capabilities that are opened up with Redis by keeping just the keys and least used data in memory. Antirez is my hero of the week :-)
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by w3matter 17y ago
It does not matter if he considers himself a startup or not. Think about it. He does fairly well doing what he does. Must a dentist "scale", or is the dentist perfectly happy running her practice until she retires? Why do people have to sca
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by w3matter 17y ago
For us the big thing, during the current refactoring of http://www.funadvice.com , is eliminating joins. In testing of the new up-coming platform, that was a huge, huge win for speed. And we're a Postgresql shop too. MongoDB allowed us to:
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by w3matter 17y ago
Calling bullshit on that tablet. Why would I want two separate OS's in the same device? In that test, you could see the display lagging terribly in the touch drag. And also the UI is completely horrible. As @austinshea says, its pretty roug
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by w3matter 17y ago
Sigh. We geeks want a do-it-all tablet in the fevered imagination of our wet dreams. Meanwhile, Apple has leapfrogged all of us, and made the iPad (and iPhone) so easy, that my toddler and my grandma can use it without a manual. Think! They
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by w3matter 17y ago
We're looking for an intern eager to learn Ruby in the Miami area. Should be a hacker type and know at least one computer language in-depth. We're paying a modest stipend monthly $1,000.00 - eric@w3matter.com
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by w3matter 17y ago
Make sure you pay your taxes dude
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by w3matter 17y ago
Yeah, we have something simple. I'd be glad to let you get the code, or even set it up on one of our servers here. Provided you totally run it. We use it in Jamaica for stuff there. http://www.brawtalist.com Dependencies? * Ruby on Rails
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by w3matter 17y ago
Redis -- with Ohm. Really great. Build a bunch of sites with it. A nice replacement for ActiveRecord in many use-cases. Now ready to redo some BIG sites that we have using just Redis. It has transformed my thinking about data (i'm a postgr