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aonic

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Start-up CTO

Scaling & Performance help: raja.kapur@gmail.com

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aonic··on Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air
Windows 10 has the Linux subsystem feature now. You can have a Linux CLI without a VM :)
aonic··on How Dad's Stresses Get Passed Along to Offspring
There have been similar findings presented in other research shared on HN in the last year. For anyone interested in the topic, you might find more on the subject under the terms microRNA and epigenetics.

Some other interesting links: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-018-0146-2 https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-stressed-dads-affect-o...

aonic··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)
Job poster here. I definitely do try to let the candidates know of the outcome once they make it past the coding interview phase. throwawaybcporn completed his interview fairly recently and a decision on that round of interviews had not been made yet. The candidates will hear back this week.

As with any startup, we are a small team doing a million things, and sometimes things (such as interview rounds) may take longer than they should because a critical need for the business was prioritized.

aonic··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)
Thanks for the interview. Since I only interviewed very few people from my post last month, I have a good idea of who you are.

The reason you haven't heard back yet is because the most recent interview round is still on-going and a decision has not been reached yet. You should expect to hear back this week.

aonic··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)
Shoptiques (YC 'W12) - NYC - FULL-TIME, VISA

Shoptiques.com is a fast-growing New York based start-up that is changing the way consumers shop for unique products and the way local boutiques find their next great customer. Shoptiques.com aggregates the world's best boutiques onto one ecommerce site allowing consumers to virtually jet set from a boutique in Paris to London to New York City without the cost of a plane ticket.

Shoptiques.com is backed by a virtual dream team of top Venture Capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, SV Angel, and Y Combinator. We have been featured in Elle Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, CNBC, New York Times, Lucky Mag etc.

This is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast-growing startup backed by the best investors. You will contribute to the success of the company with your skills, and will also be given opportunities to grow your skills in other areas such as DevOps/system administration, machine learning, data science, recommendation systems, caching systems, as well as enabling our growth through scalability and high-availability of a multi-faceted marketplace platform.

We use Grails, Groovy, JavaScript, Backbone, EC2, RDS, SQS, ELB. Experience in our exact stack is not required. Engineers of all levels are welcome to apply. Please include your GitHub profile and/or code samples with your application.

To apply, please email me at raja -at- Shoptiques.com

aonic··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)
Shoptiques (YC 'W12) - NYC - FULL-TIME, VISA

Shoptiques.com is a fast-growing New York based start-up that is changing the way consumers shop for unique products and the way local boutiques find their next great customer. Shoptiques.com aggregates the world's best boutiques onto one ecommerce site allowing consumers to virtually jet set from a boutique in Paris to London to New York City without the cost of a plane ticket.

Shoptiques.com is backed by a virtual dream team of top Venture Capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, SV Angel, and Y Combinator. We have been featured in Elle Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, CNBC, New York Times, Lucky Mag etc.

This is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast-growing startup backed by the best investors. You will contribute to the success of the company with your skills, and will also be given opportunities to grow your skills in other areas such as DevOps/system administration, machine learning, data science, recommendation systems, caching systems, as well as enabling our growth through scalability and high-availability of a multi-faceted marketplace platform.

We use Grails, Java, JavaScript, Backbone, EC2, RDS, SQS, ELB. Experience in our exact stack is not required.

Engineers of all levels are welcome to apply. Please include your GitHub profile and/or code samples with your application.

To apply, please email me at raja -at- Shoptiques.com

aonic··on How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast
I've run into a similar case. In my case using ESI defeated the whole purpose of the Varnish implementation because the dynamically generated portion of the page had to rebuild the user session and bootstrap the framework, which, while faster than doing it for the entire page, was still not as fast as I would have liked to deliver the content to the browser.

In the end I ended up placing special HTML tags where the ESI tags would have been placed, and then making AJAX calls (on dom ready) to swap out the static content with the dynamic user-specific content.

It worked well for our needs.

aonic··on IO.js, a Node fork
There are more details on "why" in this previous discussion from 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8669557
aonic··on Varnish 4.0.2 released
This is false. I have personally configured Varnish to power blogs, marketplace websites, and a Magento powered E-commerce store.

If you've worked with Magento then you know it relies heavily on cookies and sessions. Even with all difficulties of modifying Magento I was able configure Magento and Varnish to work together perfectly within a week.

I can point you to the Magento site running with Varnish if you send me an email.

aonic··on Ask HN: Are you seeing lots of broken images in Gmail?
I have been seeing this and also hope there is some fix available.
aonic··on Ask HN: books for new engineering manager?
I liked http://www.managinghumans.com also good articles on the authors blog.

And there is of course http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

aonic··on Ask HN: Remote access, are you using a VPN?
SSH tunnels for the data center. Remote Desktop or TeamViewer for office access.
aonic··on Ask HN: how do I get myself ready for the job market again?
Send me an email (in profile) I would be happy to give you a phone interview, that would be a good start. Maybe even some tips for your resume or cover letter.
aonic··on Cloud Printing and Shipping Service Lob (YC S13) Raises $2.4M Seed Round
What service do you use? Does it also have an API?
aonic··on Plot thickens in Airbnb vacation rental horror story
Her blog post here http://ejroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-year-new-hom... mentions that its a rented apartment.

I quickly rented a place of my own and began to settle in – unpacking dusty boxes, unloading suitcases and scouring the internet for furniture. Something along the lines of a home began to take shape, and with it came that invaluable feeling of being at peace.

aonic··on Ask HN: List deduplicator w/fuzzy matching?
FuzzyWuzzy: Fuzzy String Matching in Python

http://seatgeek.com/blog/dev/fuzzywuzzy-fuzzy-string-matchin...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2744190

aonic··on Limelight creates a beautiful site for your apps in seconds.
Are you talking about ThemeForest, or is there another one like it with great themes?
aonic··on Ask HN: What are the current best options for faxing?
I love using HelloFax for signing and filling out documents. "Faxing" to email is free
aonic··on Possible to learn iPhone Dev in 4 weeks with no experience?
Do you have a link? I cant seem to find it on AppSumo
aonic··on Ask HN: What flowchart software do you use?
- Archi [1]

- OmniGraffle on OS X

- Visio on Windows

[1] http://archi.cetis.ac.uk/index.html

aonic··on GfxCardStatus - Utility for unibody Macbook Pro
I've been using this utility for a while, no external displays will work under integrated mode. This has caused some confusion for me in the past when I was trying to connect to a projector in a meeting and realized later why the external display was not being picked up.
aonic··on Erlang code worth reading
I've been checking out Chicago Boss to get involved with Erlang on the web front.

Chicago Boss is an open-source web framework inspired by Rails and written in Erlang. http://chicagoboss.org/projects/chicagoboss/wiki

Looks like a nicely coded and laid out project.

aonic··on Show HN: 114,444 Google+ profiles indexed and organized. What do you think?
Tell us about your crawler :)
aonic··on FuzzyWuzzy: Fuzzy String Matching in Python
I did something similar for product matching across a Yahoo! store with products in a Amazon merchant account.

I had a set of products from Yahoo! that needed their equivalent product in a set of products from Amazon. I indexed all the Amazon products into Xapian and let the search functionality do its magic by using the Yahoo product title as the search keyword. It also had a scoring mechanism and worked flawlessly for my needs.

aonic··on Ask HN: I need a chat feature in my legacy webapp
How about this? http://ajaxim.com/

Or if you want to experiment, seems most async frameworks have some kind of chat demo that you could potentially modify and expand for your use

http://chat.nodejs.org/ http://demo.liftweb.net/chat http://socket.io/#how-to-use

aonic··on Poll: What database does your company use?
What kind of data are you storing in Riak? And is it write or read heavy usage?
aonic··on Pusher Raises $1M From Heroku Founders And More To Bring Realtime Tech To Apps
I think the number of connections is more than enough, keep in mind that its concurrent connections. If you're using so many connections where their price seems like a sticking point you should probably roll your own.

Check out http://socket.io for the front-end libraries

It's not too hard to roll your own, I wrote my own over the course of a week in 2007 using Flash XMLSockets and Twisted Python as the backend, check here on hints if you need ideas on implementing your own: http://code.google.com/p/aonic/wiki/Examples

aonic··on Ask HN: Should I join my friends business?
What have you got to lose by taking on the role? List out the pros and cons for yourself to help.

30% is very good for a business that has been running for 4 years with existing customers.

aonic··on Free SQL dump with 200 million tweets from 13 million users
Thanks! More interested in the scraper.. is it open-source? If yes, where can we download it? If not, can you write about your experience in building it?
aonic··on CloudFlare: A website security product accidentally makes sites 60% faster
What do you guys use for your reverse proxying? Custom software with very good on-the-fly HTML processing?
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