chadr | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anybody else EC2 issues on us-east-1?
Yes
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chadr | 9 years ago | on: Removing Python's GIL: The Gilectomy [video]
Semi related to this, is it possible to run multiple CPython interpreters in the same process, but with restrictions on shared memory? The idea being that each interpreter would still have its own GIL, each interpreter would have restrictions on shared memory (like sharing immutable structures only through message passing). Note, I'm not a big Python user so if this already exists, has been discussed, etc I am not aware.
chadr | 12 years ago | on: If Your Business Uses Rails 2.3 You Need To Move To A Supported Option ASAP
You've sold me on it. It is well worth the money considering the time/effort it saves.
chadr | 12 years ago | on: If Your Business Uses Rails 2.3 You Need To Move To A Supported Option ASAP
How long do they plan on supporting this fork? Hopefully for multiple years? I didn't see it mentioned on the site.
chadr | 13 years ago | on: A Linux dev who helped thousands needs help to fight cancer
Newer blog post about the surgery:
http://linuxlock.blogspot.it/2012/08/it-started-with-hopeles...
chadr | 13 years ago | on: Curiosity landing is in a week
from Wikipedia... "The landing sequence alone requires six vehicle configurations, 76 pyrotechnic devices, the largest supersonic parachute ever built, and more than 500,000 lines of code."
chadr | 14 years ago | on: Android Market Tops 400,000 Applications
I can't give you an exact answer, but I can tell you this... out of the 224,133 apps I track in the android market, here is the breakdown of how many installs they have as of this morning: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/131/installs.csv
chadr | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: New iOS game by Blue Frog Gaming (YC Summer 07)
Our artists get to choose the technique that works best for them. A lot of it is done using the computer, but some of it is done by hand and scanned. The coolest bit of art tech is definitely the Wacom Cintiq. It lets the artists draw on top of an LCD panel.
chadr | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: New iOS game by Blue Frog Gaming (YC Summer 07)
No official Android plans as of yet, but it is something we are thinking about. Also thanks for the compliment on the art. We do all the art in-house and I passed your message on to the team.
chadr | 15 years ago | on: System Admins R.I.P.?
It definitely sounds like you wear multiple hats at your job. Shoot me an email... I'm interested in hearing more about what you do.
chadr | 15 years ago | on: System Admins R.I.P.?
I think you're missing the point. Many developers don't know how to develop systems that will work well in production. At the same time, many sysadmins know only about the OS, hardware, and network. Great sysadmins are learning to combine the two skill sets. It's clearly a hybrid role and not a case of one replacing the other.
chadr | 15 years ago | on: System Admins R.I.P.?
High quality sysadmins are evolving into what is called the devops role. Trouble shooting, scaling, architecting, and automating production systems are just a few areas where devops people shine. The cloud just provides them another set of tools to work with. It also frees them from dealing with the annoying/repetitive tasks (spinning a CD to install the OS, plugging in the network cables, etc) and allows them to focus on improving the application. A number of devops people I know can easily transition into developer roles when required. Summary: a great sysadmin should know how to code and does so in order to improve the app.
chadr | 16 years ago | on: Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants
Do you routinely edit the source code of your web server? Just curious since I've never needed to do that.
chadr | 16 years ago | on: Nginx, the little Russian web server taking on the giants
Why don't you trust Passenger? I'm severing about 6 million page views/day with it and it has been extremely reliable and easy to work with.
chadr | 16 years ago | on: Why MongoDB thinks single server durability is overvalued
Can you tell me your hardware specs and CPU usage? Just curious since I'm considering mongo for some of our future games.
chadr | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you use to monitor your websites?
Pingdom for site uptime & paging, munin for capacity planning and performance monitoring, and monit for process monitoring.
chadr | 16 years ago | on: Nice Find: An asynchronous find in project plugin for TextMate
It appears to follow symlinks if I uncheck 'Use git-grep'. Unfortunately, if it finds a file (by following a symlink) it seems to always open the file in a new window instead of a tab.
chadr | 16 years ago | on: Nice Find: An asynchronous find in project plugin for TextMate
Any chance nice_find can have an option for following symlinks?
chadr | 16 years ago | on: GitHub's Unicorn Setup
Have you tried contacting the Passenger developers about this? I won't be surprised if they come out with a fix for this.
chadr | 16 years ago | on: GitHub's Unicorn Setup
It seems to me like the Passenger guys could easily add an option so that on a "touch tmp/restart.txt" a set of new worker processes is started before the old ones are killed off. I imagine this would make this slowness a thing of the past. For the record, my apps experiencing this momentary queueing and slowness on restart (5 seconds max).
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