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chewbranca | 15 years ago | on: Clojure on Heroku Cedar stack

This does actually work, however be warned this will incur costs on your heroku account.

EDIT: False alarm, Heroku billing has changed so the application did not fall into my free dyno range.

chewbranca | 15 years ago | on: Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation

I'm sad to hear his attitude towards android, I've been anxiously waiting for an android version of the app, and have been holding off on becoming a subscriber until he moved in the android direction. Knowing this, I will sign up as a subscriber to show my appreciation for the ability to export to kindle format, which has been great for me, but unfortunately it means instapaper is no longer a candidate for a long term solution, but rather an intermediary tool I use for reading articles on the kindle until something else comes along.

Marco I really hope you change your attitude towards android, there are definitely people out there who would happily pay for an android instapaper app. That said, I understand if you don't and want to say thank you for everything you've done so far, even without android support it has been a very useful application for me.

chewbranca | 15 years ago | on: Working Best at Coffee Shops

Silence is great, but sometimes silence can be, well, too silent. I bounce back and forth between coffee shops and my home office, because sometimes I want to sit at home in silence or listen to music, and othertimes sitting at a coffee shop with a lot of ambient noise helps me get into the zone. Something about having a lot of random noise around that I don't care about listening too helps me concentrate.

chewbranca | 15 years ago

Same here, I can spend all day working on a computer, but reading on a computer monitor tires my eyes out. I picked up the new standard size kindle, and while it does not do well at all with pdfs, it does a great job with ebooks. The Oreilly ebooks can be downloaded directly in mobi format, so they work very well with the kindle. Overall I've been very happy with reading ebooks on the kindle, and with the $139 price tag, you really can't go wrong. I'm still looking for a good pdf device, but unfortunately the ipad is the best device I've seen yet for pdfs, but its price tag is way too high for me. The ipad does a surprisingly good job of zooming in on columns, something I haven't seen anything else handle well.

chewbranca | 15 years ago | on: Netflix on Android

I'm not exactly sure what the underlying issue is on android devices, but at least for linux desktops, the problem is netflix uses silverlight which does have support for DRM, whereas the linux version moonlight does not. It could be a similar issue for flash on android devices, although that is just speculation on my part. All I know for sure is that I'm anxiously waiting netflix on both linux and android. I currently use a windows VM to watch netflix from my computer. On a similar note, one of the most appealing things to me about the ipad is that it does have netflix support. I would love to see it supported on android tablets.

chewbranca | 15 years ago | on: Exercise More to Hack Better

Lately I've found the best way for meto consistently exercise is to incorporate it with hacking and work. I've started using my bike as my primary mode of transportation when I leave the house to program. So instead of driving to a coffee shop or library, I ride my bike. Its made a noticeable difference in my energy, creativity levels and ability to focus.

chewbranca | 15 years ago | on: 8pen reinvents mobile keyboard

I just picked this up. I have very large hands so I'm always looking for an alternative to a standard on screen keyboard. This works amazingly well. I'm already becoming proficient with it, and it is nice to build up a natural rhythm once you get going. I am already 100% convinced and switching completely over. I was slightly annoyed at first by the lack of a free trial, but I figured this was interesting enough technology that whether I liked it or not, I was willing to spend $1.58 to find out, and it was definitely worth it for me. Highly recommended, that said, its not for everyone.

chewbranca | 15 years ago | on: The next big language

Yeah but #!/usr/bin/node does work. I've used some node.js command line scripts, and it works decently well. Some people praise Node.js for general purpose command line scripts. Personally, I find Ruby easier to use for command line utilities and scripts.

chewbranca | 15 years ago | on: Rethinking JavaScript for-loops

While I enjoy the creativity of his for loops, javascript is the not language to be doing this in. One of the key advantages of using a foreach loop with a callback function, is that javascript has functional scope. All of those variable declarations in his for loops are just for show, so personally I think the while loops in his examples are more appropriate for javascript as it doesn't fool you into thinking it has block scope.

chewbranca | 15 years ago | on: Faster Web Development With Virtual Machines at deviantART

This reminds me of facebook development, where you need to have a live fqdn for all of your environments. We used to use a staging server and had a similar problem with huge amounts of small unnatural commits for things you would normally test locally. I ended up moving to using ssh tunnels to a server, where each dev has a subdomain redirecting to their dev box through the tunnel. This has the added benefit that you can work locally from anywhere you have wifi. Whether you use tunnels or VMs, both are a solid way to do development.

chewbranca | 15 years ago | on: MongoDB's lead developer: Foursquare outage post mortem

I work on a team of 2 where I'm responsible for a handful of servers. I chimed in because I'm in a similar position, I've been looking for a monitoring solution for a while now. Things like nagios and zenoss are over kill, but lack of time has prevented me from finding an ideal solution. That said, I keep htop open and running at all times, and its saved my ass on more than one occasion. I say htop because of the color coding it provides, if things start going red it attracts my attention.

chewbranca | 15 years ago | on: MongoDB's lead developer: Foursquare outage post mortem

I agree completely about the complexity of monitoring solutions for small teams with fluctuating applications. However, something as simple as htop running on an extra monitor would have alerted you of this issue long before downtime resulted.

chewbranca | 15 years ago

Thank you for clarifying, I appreciate it. There are some very nice data manipulation functions in underscore, and its speed is impressive. I will definitely look into it more.
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