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by wanderr 16y ago
This. It's one of the brilliant things about mongo. The downside is that after a reboot it's up to you to get the OS to warm those caches back up.
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by wanderr 16y ago
In Firefox it always reported >40 fps, however I could see that it was dropping massive amounts of frames, to the point where creeps would be coming in the entrance and then be halfway across the screen.
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by wanderr 16y ago
I like this and wish they had a US version. Their no-cost no-hassle return system makes me a lot more inclined to just trust their recommendations even if the review systems they are built on top of are somewhat flawed. If you don't like it
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by wanderr 16y ago
There's a huge problem with user generated reviews in general that makes it very hard to go by top rating. Some peple will give 5 stars to a mediocre product, some will give 2 stars for a perfect product just because they wish it was someth
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by wanderr 16y ago
Has anyone found/done any benchmarks showing what performance impact running mod_pagespeed will have on your /server/? I'm all for optimizing the crap out of page serving, but if this is going to double our Apache load, a) I'd like to know
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by wanderr 16y ago
It is if you stick their ads in an iframe, ala Grooveshark.
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by wanderr 16y ago
On my Motorola Droid running Froyo, the flash side is much smoother. On the JS side I couldnt really control it because the browser was also intercepting every keystroke and trying to put them in the url/search bar.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Only if those proper nouns have twitter accounts. ;)
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by wanderr 16y ago
Agreed, however the article is about adoption of cloud services. Hopping on temporarily for extra capacity doesn't seem like the kind of adoption they are trying to encourage. The other problem is that if you run a mix of in house and out o
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by wanderr 16y ago
I'd be happy to discuss the morality/legality of Grooveshark in another thread. It's not relevant to this discussion at all.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Grooveshark is bigger than StackOverflow, and our page views/server ratio is better too. And we run PHP. The language argument is BS. I will say that Microsoft SQL server is easier to scale than MySQL. But the licenses are significantly mor
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by wanderr 16y ago
There's also cost. At certain scales (such as Grooveshark's scale) it can be significantly cheaper to do infrastructure in-house. Try negotiating bandwidth prices with Amazon.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Yup, my dad did this for a while. Had to buy the truck. In a rural area this was a real losing proposition, the area he had to cover was so huge he was putting in 12hrs a day to get everything delivered. With all the wear and tear on the tr
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by wanderr 16y ago
Search for ergonomics training rather than ergonomics experts.
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by wanderr 16y ago
In addition to hbt's complaints, the ability to see responses to requests from Flash, and not ripping out get vars from the URL would be incredibly useful (our api all talks to the same endpoint, but the method name is the first get var, ma
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by wanderr 16y ago
Unless you read the article he linked to before delving into his rant, it's very unclear that he's talking about MongoDB, not MySQL. You are correct that InnoDB and as far as I know all other MySQL engines, does not store field names with e
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by wanderr 16y ago
Mongo technically only requires indexes to fit in memory, but in practice if your data doesn't fit in memory, performance is abysmal. We also use short names, but find that it's not terrible for readability because we use class constants re
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by wanderr 16y ago
This is awesome. :) I'm wondering, do you have any plans to monetize this? If so I'm curious as to how, I'm not sure about the terms of the YouTube API but the last.fm one says it's strictly for noncommercial use.
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by wanderr 16y ago
If you don't mind using Firefox, the web developer toolbar extension gives you the ability to toggle images, js, redirects, meta refresh and many other things. Adblock is also great for blocking a lot of crap you'll never want to see even w
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by wanderr 16y ago
Put another way, Amazon also sells market space.
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by wanderr 16y ago
I haven't kept up with VS since it also doesn't apply to my target platform, when you say that is changing do you mean it /has/ changed in the latest version, or that it will be changing soon?
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by wanderr 16y ago
I must be a lunatic because despite all its warts, I love PHP. There are a fair number of gotchas with PHP, but I think the docs are generally great, mostly thorough and usually easy to find what you are looking for, everything is in one ce
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by wanderr 16y ago
These complaints are valid, it is annoying but fortunately the docs are extremely easy to use.
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by wanderr 16y ago
We just got bit on the ass by this one yesterday. (still deployed on 5.2)
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by wanderr 16y ago
I was going to suggest long polling as well. Seems to make way more sense than normal polling for this application.
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by wanderr 16y ago
How is placing the blame on the wrong tool understanding the problem?
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by wanderr 16y ago
I agree, radio is probably our weakest area. We try very hard not to play duplicates, but our underlying data is very messy since most of our content comes from users. Better recs and better deduping are high on my wishlist.
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by wanderr 16y ago
I think the last.fm decision was purely about money. Internet radio streaming is significantly cheaper to license than on demand radio. I can't comment on lawsuits but I think the Wikipedia article is inaccurate. We remove tracks voluntaril
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by wanderr 16y ago
The destop app supports media keys, with installation of the appropriate platform specific helpers. :) As far as I know, no sites support media keys directly because browsers don't make them available, even to extensions. If anyone has exam
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by wanderr 16y ago
Groooveshark employee here, so excuse me for the shameless plug. ;) We love last.fm but I've always thought it was more for learning about artists and discovering new ones...and of course tracking everything you listen to and seeing what yo

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