mcos
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9 years ago
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on: Tabs or spaces – Parsing a 1B files among 14 programming languages
The biggest problem with the spaces vs tabs debate is that editor presentation is still tightly coupled to file persistence. Imagine an abstraction layer created so that developers might choose to see what they wished, yet have files saved in a standard format it might negate some of the issues people have.
mcos
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10 years ago
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on: Buffett FAQ
This is great. I wonder if there's a way to package it up for an e-reader, or as a PDF?
mcos
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11 years ago
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on: YC Open-Source Sales Agreement
This is a great move. Unfortunately it's still in Microsoft Word format and there's no license associated with it. Would love to see this somewhere like GitHub, where it could be forked and changed by others.
mcos
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12 years ago
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on: Show HN: HireMyFriend – Get your friends to help you find a new job
I'd like to give this a go, but I don't have a twitter account. How do you see this working for those developers without a social media presence?
mcos
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13 years ago
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on: Show HN: Get a summary of your Steam account apps – price, install size, etc.
mcos
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13 years ago
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on: Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything
You could read all the responses into a Queue-type structure and then populate the database in the background.
mcos
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13 years ago
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on: Goodbye, Malcolm
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mcos
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13 years ago
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on: Download Adobe Creative Suite 2, Including Photoshop and Illustrator, for Free
Unfortunately, if you're using an Intel-based Mac, the Mac versions of applications are limited to Power-PC machines.
mcos
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13 years ago
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on: AWS Data Pipeline
Thanks, I've already tried that. My main issue is EBS performance when writing the dump file to disk. The backups themselves don't impact on database performace much, but writing up to 20 Gigs of a dump file to an EBS disk on a nightly basis is extremely slow. Maybe this Data Pipeline service will help bypass that.
mcos
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13 years ago
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on: AWS Data Pipeline
Just this week I was looking for a better solution that would back up my RDS database to S3. I'm currently using mysqldump, but the RDS instance size has grown extremely large and so, it has become unwieldly. Hopefully this will help with that.
mcos
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13 years ago
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on: Why Geeks Should Care About Sports
If you've seen the movie, I'd highly recommend "Moneyball" the book too. It goes into a lot of great detail that the movie doesn't deal with.
mcos
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13 years ago
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on: A History of the US Congress: Partisan and Ideological Makeup
mcos
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13 years ago
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on: AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others
No, just straight up EC2 and RDS. It seems not all the RDS instances are affected, but it's just frustrating that they all haven't failed over.
mcos
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13 years ago
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on: AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others
"11:03 AM PDT We are currently experiencing connectivity issues and degraded performance for a small number of RDS DB Instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region."
Given that my sites are deployed using Multi-AZ RDS instances and yet they're still down, this takes the cake a little.
mcos
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13 years ago
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on: DeployButton is the simplest and fastest way to get code on your server
"It's built with simplicity and power in mind -- The simplicity for a non-technical user to be given the reigns to deploy from a master branch to a "staging" server… or to a production server after any tests have passed."
I'm sure there's good reasoning behind wanting to give a non-technical user the rights to deploy code to servers, but I'm afraid I can't seem to conceive of them right now. Can you elaborate why you would want someone without the requisite technical skills deploying code?
mcos
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13 years ago
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on: What A Hacker Learns After A Year In Marketing
mcos
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13 years ago
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on: Paid Vacation? That’s Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, Paid Vacation.
There is an argument to be made that no guaranteed vacation days means that companies don't have to pay you for your unused vacation days if you leave or are let go.
mcos
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13 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Summer reading
mcos
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14 years ago
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on: Wil Wheaton: Yo Hollywood, Let Me Download Ubuntu
I've always thought that using some sort of internal torrent mechanism would be a good way for applications to download their updates, especially something like Chrome, which updates quite frequently.
mcos
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14 years ago
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on: Facebook Co-Founder Gives Up U.S. Citizenship
For the vast majority of the world's population, not being in the United States hasn't been a barrier to doing something with their lives.
