evan2m's comments

evan2m | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)

Canary / New York, NY

We need Python and iOS engineers to help us disrupt the home security industry: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/canary

evan2m | 12 years ago | on: Elio Motors: $6800 car, 84 mpg

The infamous HN DDoS strikes again

evan2m | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

Canary - New York, NY - http://canary.is

We're looking for smart hackers to join us in our mission to revolutionize home security. Work on a small team of engineers where you can make a major impact on a daily basis. All positions are fulltime out of our SoHo offices.

Current Openings:

* Computer Vision Engineer

* Embedded Software Engineer

* Front End Web Developer

* Junior Python Engineer

* Linux Systems Administrator / Dev Ops Engineer

* Senior iOS Engineer

* Senior Python Engineer

Apply here: http://canary.theresumator.com

evan2m | 12 years ago | on: Simple API with Nginx and PostgreSQL

Exactly. Couchdb is preferable to this for so many reasons. The author is effectively using the Nginx configuration language for server-side scripting. The result ends up looking a lot like a bad PHP crud app. With couchdb, the REST API is already built in.

evan2m | 13 years ago | on: James Joyce's "Ulysses": Why you should read this book

See "A Wild Sheep Chase." It's full of humor.

evan2m | 13 years ago | on: Apple iPhone 5 US Carrier Comparison Chart

Looks like Virgin has announced their pricing for Australia but not for the US: http://www.virginmobile.com.au/iphone

Virgin's iPhone5 will likely remain a better value than any subscription option mentioned in the article. Unfortunately Sprint (and therefore Virgin) can't get close to Verizon's US 4G coverage.

evan2m | 13 years ago | on: Dwm.vim : Tiled Window Management for Vim

I recommend Golden-ratio for this kind of thing:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3690

It does not take away the ability to do :split or :vsplit or force a particular layout. It does dynamically resize your windows to maximize visibility

evan2m | 13 years ago | on: Mixpanel went down, so we're open sourcing a better pure Python memcache client

I would argue that python-memcached has been replaced as "the de-facto standard" by pylibmc. I'm not sure if pylibmc works with eventlet or not.

Companies open sourcing code is always good. But, I would be surprised if there wasn't already a python memcached client that would suit your needs.