gelliott's comments

gelliott | 3 years ago | on: Music for Programming

I've been enjoying "datawave" which a subgenre of synth music that has a pretty strong tech/retro-future vibe.

Datassette, who put together the Music For Programming site, shows up a lot on the playlists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9q6RYg2Pdg ("glitchy synthwave radio for retro computing")

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0gLnq5MERpg58hMfpSqVWr

gelliott | 11 years ago | on: Confluent, a company for Apache Kafka and realtime data

Can your endpoints log to syslog so they can be forwarded on to a central collector?

gelliott | 14 years ago | on: Why is C faster than Java: git vs JGit

That's really interesting - according to this presentation JGit clone is significantly faster than native git clone (2.3x in the example).

I'd love to hear more about any code changes that lead to this result.

gelliott | 16 years ago | on: Did someone try to steal Goldman Sachs’ secret sauce (source code)?

I don't think this guy was a quant at all, just a heavy-hitting programmer:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/aleynikov

gelliott | 17 years ago | on: Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code

Hey, I'm one of the guys who built WhoShouldiFollow. Glad the recommendations are working out for you.

The Twitter API rate-limiting makes things harder, but as a whitelisted app we haven't (yet) run into any situations where we've hit our quota or get throttled in any way.

It sounds like Alex is working on a new method to retrieve a users followers/friends in bulk which should help out a lot: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/...