timaelliott

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by timaelliott 14y ago
http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting is a similiar resource for php, perl, python and ruby only.
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by timaelliott 14y ago
I use http://sugarsync.com personally which provides versioning and also lets you arbitrarily sync directories, not just the 'dropbox' one.
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by timaelliott 14y ago
He already told you, they are good with the goddamn customers. They have people skills, they are good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you?
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by timaelliott 14y ago
I don't disagree nor do I use heroku, it's moot for myself. I was just commenting how row-limitations were a very NoSQL way of enforcing data limits and inappropriate for an RDBMS.
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by timaelliott 14y ago
I like that you guys pointed out more efficient ways to do stupid things :)
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by timaelliott 14y ago
I disagree. By restricting the number of rows I think you're just going to end up with folks creating sloppy schemas specifically to avoid going over the limit. post.categories (varchar) = "1,51,78,84,100" and other wonderful non-nor
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by timaelliott 14y ago
Is making otherwise innocuous changes which have a substantial impact on user behavior important to the startup culture? No, no at all.
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by timaelliott 14y ago
I fantasize about computers too. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see
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by timaelliott 14y ago
Took about 45 seconds of Google+Yelp to determine it's http://www.yelp.com/biz/mirai-chicago
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by timaelliott 14y ago
Nice try, overpriced US universities and for-profit degree mills.
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by timaelliott 14y ago
Awesome response from Spolsky but that's not Quora. You can tell because it has users and content :)
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by timaelliott 14y ago
Why do you think you'd only get paid $33k? If that's the case, that's suggesting the compensation and ownership is: Co-Founder: $33k Salary, 45% Equity Co-Founder: $33k Salary, 45% Equity You: $33k Salary, 10% Equity I'm h
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by timaelliott 14y ago
Yes. In 2008/2009, another engineer and myself built an ad-platform that received around 500M impressions per day, 5M clicks per day. And it wasn't just recording a tweet or publishing out to followers. We took the user input query, had to
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by timaelliott 14y ago
What unit suffix is 'l'
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by timaelliott 14y ago
Twitter's attitude is laughable. Yes, you have a decent amount of traffic but you're also only dealing with ~160 uncompressed bytes (plus whatever overhead) per event. The hurdles you've overcame aren't that particularly amazing nor challen
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by timaelliott 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem
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by timaelliott 14y ago
Yeah, just not cutting it for me. I understand the workarounds but the reality is they shouldn't be required. I should be able to right-click a directory and "Add to Dropbox"
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by timaelliott 14y ago
I use droplr for quick screen-sharing, pastes, file-transfers, etc. I do not use it for anything sensitive whatsoever.
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by timaelliott 14y ago
They really should have more intelligent individuals manning public-facing support channels.
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by timaelliott 14y ago
Redis is a key-value store. S3 is a distributed file system. Can we stop labeling the set of "not a rdbms" data storage mechanisms with the stupid fucking "NoSQL" moniker.
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by timaelliott 14y ago
Hrm, so for a proximity search it basically has to take a combination of all potential encompassing geohashes and then do a second-pass (substantially reduced data set) using a haversine approach or something. I suppose that might work pret
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by timaelliott 14y ago
So you make the r-tree 3 dimensions (lat,lng,time). PostgreSQL supports this. I dunno I can't envision Solr being more efficient than a properly designed RDBMS for these situations. If you were integrating a full-text search I'd absolutely
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by timaelliott 14y ago
I really wish Dropbox would add the ability for arbitrary directory syncing. This single "dropbox" folder is so annoying. Until them, I'm quite content with one of their competitors.
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by timaelliott 14y ago
> For our geo-search API, we used PostgreSQL for many months, but once our Media entries were sharded, moved over to using Apache Solr. It has a simple JSON interface, so as far as our application is concerned, it’s just another API to
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by timaelliott 14y ago
Paypal hates everyone, not just developers.
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by timaelliott 14y ago
Author has either been making some ridiculously inappropriate system apps or is about to start making equally questionable web apps. Obviously languages can serve multiple purposes but the intended uses of these have almost no overlap.
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by timaelliott 14y ago
I strongly suggest you communicate your pricing as $0.008 instead of 0.8 cents. Be consistent with your units and more importantly: how people think.
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by timaelliott 14y ago
http://www.codeschool.com/courses/rails-for-zombies http://www.codeschool.com/courses/rails-for-zombies-2 http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-ruby
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by timaelliott 14y ago
This is an excellent point. I so often attribute my disdain to Java itself when, in reality, the issue is the majority of Java engineers. Java itself can be a beautifully terse language.
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by timaelliott 14y ago
Java still gives me nightmares ;(

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