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bnmrrs

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VP Engineering of Boltmade.
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bnmrrs··on Shopify is processing over $260k per minute right now
Actually real time streaming over a web socket.
bnmrrs··on Shopify is processing over $260k per minute right now
No, ActionCable for this one, it's a Go service that's handling the websockets.
bnmrrs··on Shopify is processing over $260k per minute right now
If you log in to Shopify you'll notice a card on your admin home that says "Reach a wider audience during Black Friday and Cyber Monday". That card will give you more information and allow you to opt in.
bnmrrs··on Shopify is processing over $260k per minute right now
Hey! The products actually are recently sold by merchants who opted in to be featured! We populate the first 5 and then new ones come down through the websocket connection
bnmrrs··on The Desk of Haruki Murakami
You may like wayswework.io.
bnmrrs··on The Day I Started Lying to Ruth
This was beautifully written.
bnmrrs··on Startup Workaway II: Thailand. 25 founders. 10 days. 1 kick-ass resort.
Villas can be super affordable when you're travelling with large groups. I'm the CTO of a startup that provides these sort of vacations. It's pretty common that the per person rate works out to much less than a hotel would be and you get the added bonus of an entire house!

Here are a couple of examples:

Sleeps 24 - $4,501/week - http://demeure.com/properties/villa-turquesa--2

Sleeps 13 - $4,569/week - http://demeure.com/properties/casa-fermentini

bnmrrs··on Collect HN: Aprils Fools
Thanks to the coming Canadian election Demeure was able to add a special rental property. http://demeure.com/special-offers/sussex. Come and stay in the former Prime Minister's house for only $3000/night!
bnmrrs··on Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2010 edition
SourceRepo - Git hosting

EC2/S3

Google apps - Email, Calendar, Docs, GTalk

Yammer - Not seriously used

Pivotal Tracker - Managing stories

SalesForce - CRM

bnmrrs··on Twilio Slashes Prices As It Looks To Further Boost Growth
I built http://phonetapapp.com during DjangoDash a few weeks ago using the Twilio API. The whole thing is available on GitHub as well. http://github.com/bnmrrs/PhoneTap
bnmrrs··on Django Dash 2010 Results
DjangoDash was a lot of fun. My project http://phonetapapp.com ended up placing 2nd for a single dasher and 16th overall.
bnmrrs··on Steam Hardware Survey: December 2009
I went ahead and made one. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/hackernews
bnmrrs··on Ask HN: So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas?
I got an Arduino last year and just finished a medium scale project. I hooked it up to a http://hexbug.com for remote control over a network with XMPP. If you want to take a look all of the code is at http://github.com/bnmrrs/HexBugNc
bnmrrs··on Ask HN: How many of you look at the code of open-source software you use?
Active - Only my own projects

Patcher - Doctrine ORM, symfony framework, Gearmand

One-off - Drupal, Wordpress, Trac

Curios - Many different projects. Some recent examples: Apache, Git, PHP

bnmrrs··on Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
The symfony framework and Doctrine ORM are both well written projects.
bnmrrs··on Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?
Good idea, I'll have to add that.
bnmrrs··on Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?
Most of my .vim folder and .vimrc came from andreiz and tomasr. I have it committed to github for easy download on any server I'm working on. http://github.com/bnmrrs/dotfies if anybody would like to check it out.

  map ,q :q!<CR>
  map ,s :w<CR>
  map ,w :x<CR>
  nmap <silent> <F6> :set number!<CR>
and ctags are especially useful