lindvall

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Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Receiving Data(blog.packagecloud.io)
144 points by lindvall 10y ago|9 comments
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by lindvall 12y ago
> Not a fan of Java-based software either, to be honest. It makes me sad to see this is still something people say. I hope you reconsider this sentiment and investigate some of the really great Java-based software out there, especially Z
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Kafka 0.8 alpha announced (includes replication)(cwiki.apache.org)
3 points by lindvall 14y ago|1 comments
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by lindvall 14y ago
The app looks pretty great. Being able to incorporate the geolocation data from foursquare, instagram, flickr, facebook, etc. would aid in not feeling like you have to think of your traveling as starting when you downloaded the app.
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by lindvall 14y ago
If you're interested in other examples of this sort of solution, this is how Shopify has tackled this problem: https://github.com/tobi/imagery It looks like tobi also has played around with porting it to go as well: https://github.com/to
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by lindvall 14y ago
Ends up that passing the file directly to grep will allow it to use tricks to make processing faster than reading from a pipe.
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Introducing Metriks: A new metrics and instrumentation library for ruby(bitmonkey.net)
8 points by lindvall 15y ago|0 comments
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by lindvall 15y ago
Can you elaborate on the 4S battery life issue? I've only had my iPhone 4S for a week, but I haven't noticed anything drastically worse than my iPhone 4. It certainly hasn't ran out of power during the course of a day yet.
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by lindvall 15y ago
Based on what? Building really cool technology that you decide to give a way sounds a lot like how many startups have failed. You've attributed arbitrary value to peoples worth when you have absolutely no way to know if you are correct.
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by lindvall 15y ago
He smelled.
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by lindvall 15y ago
"PBKDF1 is recommended only for compatibility with existing applications since the keys it produces may not be large enough for some applications." — RFC 2898, September 2000
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Uber tests their pricing with science(blog.uber.com)
6 points by lindvall 15y ago|0 comments
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by lindvall 15y ago
Why are they emailing developers out of the blue to "claim" their profile? Please don't base your service off of crawling sites and emailing people who don't ask for either.
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Faraday: Advanced HTTP requests made easy with ruby(mislav.uniqpath.com)
2 points by lindvall 15y ago|0 comments
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by lindvall 15y ago
Really? What is it going to take to get beyond the stupid provocative titles? Can we work on being constructive? It would be pretty sweet if people started writing post-mortems for crazy bugs they found the way people write them for outages
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by lindvall 15y ago
So far I'm not really a fan of forking RubyGems, but I am concerned with the solution you mentioned for compatibility with Rails (which I take as a good metaphor for any large Ruby project) — a new point release. How is that going to work f
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Performance Problems with ActiveRecord in Rails 3(blog.tstmedia.com)
2 points by lindvall 15y ago|0 comments
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by lindvall 15y ago
This post is as vapid as any of the this-NoSQL-datastore-is-better-than-this-RDBMS posts that pop up weekly. "Oracle also has a large number of background processes all competing for CPU (about 10 for a default installation). They are very
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by lindvall 15y ago
I hope this point does not get lost in the shuffle. This whole issue is very much due to the fact that Dropbox did not handle the initial reporting of this problem when it was announced. Their initial solution to the problem was updating th
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Privacy and incentives: Thoughts on the iPhone location database(marco.org)
15 points by lindvall 15y ago|1 comments
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by lindvall 15y ago
Yep. And this may be one of those cases where they would have been better off ignoring their customer requests for the good of their reputation and their customers uptime.
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Native Mac implementation of Shairport looking for contributors(github.com)
4 points by lindvall 15y ago|0 comments
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by lindvall 15y ago
I strongly believe one of the most positive aspects of EC2 was that it demonstrated a beautiful philosophy that a node and their disks should not be relied upon to always be around and pushed it into the mainstream. Even for people who didn
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Magical Block Store: Why EBS Can't Work(joyeur.com)
124 points by lindvall 15y ago|53 comments
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by lindvall 15y ago
It's great to see sites like dribbble and forrst push to make money so relatively early in the life of the product. I can only imagine how hard it would be to make the leap to charge money for a service that could easy be characterized as f
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Dribbble Pro Launches(blog.dribbble.com)
3 points by lindvall 15y ago|1 comments
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by lindvall 15y ago
Another aspect of this thread that I find very refreshing is the fact that the previous implementation may have used magic numbers doesn't reduce anyones desire to actually understand what is going on going forward. The realization that a m
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by lindvall 15y ago
That is correct, but is based on a philosophy that the longer something has been in use, the less chance it has to demonstrate behavior that has not been previously observed — he even explains that in more detail in further posts where he d
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Sorry, wrong number(cringely.com)
1 points by lindvall 15y ago|0 comments
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Moore’s Law and Medicine: Why We Should Be Spending More(blog.tomevslin.com)
1 points by lindvall 15y ago|0 comments

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