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by slysf 8y ago
What's a shame is they didn't compare it to far superior devices in the same price range like the Nvidia Shield or the OSMC Vero 4k. The fact that you can't stream all 4k HDR content on a device billed as 4k is pretty unforgi
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by slysf 9y ago
My apologies, and why I linked the other project. README goes a long ways, cause at the end of the day you're trying to release a project in an ecosystem where (for better or worse) that's what gets shown to users looking at your
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by slysf 9y ago
If you can't write data to a file, and then read it back in, it's not valid.
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by slysf 9y ago
Thank you, yes I did try it, bcp does not escape commas or newlines in a field.
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by slysf 9y ago
If they can't get a fundamentally simple feature right, why would I give them the benefit of the doubt that other features are thought out? bcp does _not_ escape commas or newlines in a field, you have to write sql to replace() those c
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by slysf 9y ago
I can tell you your app would be super useful to airline employees if you could disregard airfare for ranking! Pretty small user subset, but aside from hardcore skiers like yourself I don't know how many people will consider resorts ou
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by slysf 9y ago
I considered messing around with your project, then immediately gave up due to lack of documentation. Sure I could spend the time reading through all your code, but one of the benefits of using a library by someone else is I can treat it as
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by slysf 9y ago
I'm sorry but I just can't take MSSQL Server seriously when it cannot export valid CSV. It does not escape commas for CSV or tabs for TSV, and has no option to. If they had their own flat file export that could be re-imported I co
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by slysf 9y ago
There's a lot of great advice here which can be broken down into two categories: specialist vs generalist. A really important thing to figure out is what kind of developer you are. Which sounds better: a. Constantly being challenged to
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by slysf 9y ago
At many bay area startups I've worked for we would do whiteboarding sessions but I would stress that the candidate "treat me like google". I would actively encourage them to ask questions of the type they'd look up, to b
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by slysf 10y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Seattle, WA or REMOTE or Onsite Remote: Yes Technologies: Rails/Ruby, MySQL/Postgres, Redis, Mongo, Erlang, GIS systems, SOLR, massive scale. Email: sylvain dot niles at gmail dot com I'm open to many t
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Show HN: mongomapper-paperclip(rubygems.org)
2 points by slysf 14y ago|0 comments
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by slysf 15y ago
"I'd gladly save fuel and make a 2hr trip in 3hrs if I didn't have to waste my attention on the vehicle." Isn't that the bus/train?
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Seed investment as a recruiting strategy.(sylvainsf.tumblr.com)
3 points by slysf 15y ago|1 comments
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by slysf 15y ago
Have you looked into using ets storage instead of bitcask storage? Millions of keys at ~12bytes value would fit just fine in memory without the bitcask overhead and as long as your N value is > 1 you shouldn't have to worry about data l
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by slysf 15y ago
Mephobox has an excellent collection of great designs: http://box.mepholio.com/
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by slysf 15y ago
Know of any other web companies doing analytics in education?
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Analytics in the classroom(mindshift.kqed.org)
5 points by slysf 15y ago|1 comments
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by slysf 15y ago
Have you talked to any teachers? Teachers are facing budget cuts and being laid off left and right, so even if you're price sensitive your're going to be trying to reach a small group within the larger teaching community. Have you thought a
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by slysf 15y ago
An absolutely necessary feature for me is auto-discovery. Zabbix really has this down with recent versions. If your system has comparable templating/groups and the ability to autodiscover in IP ranges you'd be +1 on most solutions. If you t
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by slysf 15y ago
Creative Commons has a search engine for finding documents licensed via CC and there are a ton of results for TOS: http://search.creativecommons.org/?q=TOS Also good for privacy policies.
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by slysf 15y ago
I find it takes about 3 weeks if I start reading the text with a real-world use in mind. A week into it I'll try to write something towards that real-world goal and it will be horribly broken, but it will force me to really research what I'
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Kindle supplementing school libraries in small districts.(newstrib.com)
1 points by slysf 15y ago|0 comments
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by slysf 15y ago
Most definitely yes! Any time you can reduce steps to conversion without sacrificing the design elements you're going to increase conversion. One company I worked for introduced a free tier with a 2 field signup on their homepage and it got
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by slysf 15y ago
They are located 2 blocks from the ball park on 3rd between townsend and brannan. You can get a hold of me by my name (sylvain) at my company (conovate) with the usual extension.
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by slysf 15y ago
I followed the structure outlined by mindcrime for almost 2 months with a supportive wife. It really depends on how ready your partner is for you to get serious about a new company. Even once you transition to full time on the new company y
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by slysf 15y ago
I've had a ton of experience with hosting.com's offerings and can get you a discount. Basic reasons I like them: * itemized billing (know what you're paying for) * offers great deals on longer terms * SAS 70 Type II certified (excellent if
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by slysf 15y ago
I'd argue that ejabberd is faaar more mature than OpenFire. Their web gui is a little less polished but last I checked OpenFire's clustering mechanism is "buy very expensive oracle database". Still for small (under 100 users) installations
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by slysf 15y ago
Because then you'd have to implement your own presence, discovery, and routing mechanisms. You get all of that (and more) for free with an XMPP backplane like ejabberd. Even if you decide it's better to roll your own, you'll then have to co
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by slysf 16y ago
The article glosses over the most important part of Khan Academy: pairing the clear concise videos with practice/assessment. This is what engages the student "on a deep enough level" and reinforces the lesson. The only thing missing from th

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