steven_h

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by steven_h 8y ago
If you're in AWS, SWF and StepFunctions are great for starting and monitoring task completion / failure for long running processes, either interconnected or single. You can write your own code to long poll in either and do work as
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by steven_h 9y ago
The OP is talking about how when using a classic load balancer in AWS, your containers will be deployed all exposing the same port, kind of like running "docker run -p 5000:5000" on each ec2 in your cluster. Once the port is in us
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by steven_h 13y ago
If the stack, LAMP in this case, is Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Python? Why shouldn't you need to know about running servers, configuring databases, or other stuff to be a full stack developer? Linux is the operating system of your server
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by steven_h 13y ago
While I don't disagree with you that there is an opportunity cost of education, it is nearly always better to invest in yourself at an early age[1]. Also, I'm coming from a U.S. point of view, might be different in other countries. Also, af
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by steven_h 14y ago
Google isn't about to up and close Gmail when people actually pay for it through Apps for Business and Education. Gmail is hardly on an ad supported only model, which could be supported when you observe how they removed free email for new d
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by steven_h 14y ago
Hindsight is 20/20, but when you by IDEA Ultimate, you get all the other derivatives as plugins to IDEA (I have the Python, Ruby, and PHP plugins which is the same as having PyCharm, RubyMine, and PHPStorm). I almost did the same thing you
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by steven_h 14y ago
It will pay off, but it's more a long term investment and you should an opportunity cost analysis on the cost of hardware and expected returns. Use this to calculate your profit. http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/ Disclaimer: I mined bitcoin
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by steven_h 14y ago
This is exactly what makes reddit so great. I don't have to look at pictures of cats and rage comics if I only want to se stuff about programming/technology/etc.
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by steven_h 14y ago
Banner, the software quite a few universities use for student record management and other things, has migrated from PL/SQL to a Groovy on Grails system in their next version so that will push a bunch of people to learn Groovy.
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by steven_h 15y ago
It might have been when he initialized the variable result. He goes on to append strings to this variable which would lead me to believe it has some value that you can append to. This would make the third conditional where he checks for nul
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by steven_h 15y ago
I totally agree but that would be the in the implementation; the principle is an abstract idea, [1] such as the principles of modern physics. I know it seems nit-picky but as someone with an interest in chemistry and comp sci, and a degree
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by steven_h 15y ago
As a chemistry major, I've honestly seen stupider things allowed to happen in a supposedly supervised laboratory than what this guy was doing. Was it wrong that he was doing it in his apartment, putting all the other tenants at risk? Abso
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by steven_h 15y ago
Hyde does that, well the run in the background and recompile as you make changes part.
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by steven_h 15y ago
When I watched NASL the first day everything played great for the majority of the day then my stream started randomly locking up for no reason, just the video, the audio would continue to play then the stream would catch up a few seconds la
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by steven_h 15y ago
What alternate style launchers would you recommend then rather than the standard grid of icons? I agree that it doesn't look very good with few icons and has a bad UX with too many icons, but it seems hard to find something that fits perfec
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by steven_h 15y ago
Rather than hoping for people to stumble across you, you should probably look at a Who's hiring? post ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2503204 ) and Ctrl+F "remote".
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by steven_h 16y ago
The battery life will be similar, they are just using a realistic test on the 13" now. Go for the new one! :)
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by steven_h 16y ago
He is ecstatic because his app netted him $3/user with apple taking 30%. Now that his app is free he will make $.70/month/user. Apple was taking 30% of his profits before but has given him a way to make more money per user long term. @nika,
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by steven_h 16y ago
I am actually using this book right now as the textbook for my programming languages course, so far it has been fun but I tend to like the pragprog books.
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by steven_h 16y ago
Just start when you feel ready. As for web-app languages, either pick Ruby and use Rails or Python and used Django. There are pros and cons to each, I just happen to use Django because I like Python better. You could also use the Google App
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by steven_h 16y ago
Is there any place where it is easy to find high quality summer internships for students? I did research at GA Tech when I was working on my Chemistry degree and had a blast / learned quite a few interesting things. I would like to do somet
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by steven_h 16y ago
I'm wondering the same thing. I have a dual major (Computer Science and Chemistry) and save the holidays I don't have any time to give a startup. :( I have way too many ideas that I want to eventually implement though, all saved in Google D
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by steven_h 16y ago
Atlanta has been rock solid for me the last month, before that I was getting some lag in my SSH but that's about it.
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by steven_h 16y ago
You can add additional RAM in the Extras menu on your Linode. It's expensive and it only lets me add like 300 MB more Ram to a 1GB Linode but they aren't completely inflexible.
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by steven_h 16y ago
I'm looking for somewhere to intern at Summer 2011 and I see that you have a posted internship. Do you have any details about internship at 10gen? If you do, I would love to talk to you about it. My e-mail is in my profile.
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by steven_h 16y ago
I don't know, I work at my university as a mobile software engineer and I have trouble going to sleep at night as well. It's hard to think about a million different problems a day and how to solve them then just cut all that off at 10-11 or
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by steven_h 16y ago
Your were probably down voted because your comment added nothing to the discussion and those types of comments are generally discouraged on HN.
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by steven_h 16y ago
I think that this isn't really a problem if you remember that your users will forget which Open ID they used and if you allow them to use all their Open IDs, bad things will happen. When I implemented Open ID the last time I used their Open
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by steven_h 16y ago
But it isn't the US vs the World, its the US vs other individual countries. Which other countries make up 30% of Facebook's population?
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by steven_h 16y ago
Should have read the comments first, skipped breakfast this morning. :( Very nice site though, its good to see some quality stuff being made with CakePHP and the idea looks really catchy.

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