dkoch

Aidentified | Front End Engineer, Data Engineer | Charlotte, NC - Hybrid | Full time

Aidentified (https://www.aidentified.com) is a fast growing Series-B company working on big data and machine learning challenges.

* Front End Engineer: https://careers.aidentified.com/jobs/67199-senior-front-end-...

* Data Engineer: https://careers.aidentified.com/jobs/66399-senior-data-engin...

Looks very promising!

Any plans to expose a Python API in addition to the Scala API?

"Asked what IT equipment Glacier uses, Amazon told ZDNet it does not run on tape."

Linode may outperform a similar DO box CPU-wise, but IO is no contest:

Here's a 512MB DO writing a large file:

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/out bs=1M count=4k; rm -f /tmp/out
  4096+0 records in
  4096+0 records out
  4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 16.1503 s, 266 MB/s

A 2GB Linode of mine doing the same:

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output bs=1M count=4k; rm -f /tmp/output
  4096+0 records in
  4096+0 records out
  4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 36.4609 seconds, 118 MB/s

DigitalOcean's big selling point for me is SSD disk. I don't see that listed on the OVH offering.

"Again, depending on the choice of the database-engine, MySQL can lack certain features, such as the full-text search."

Both of the two biggest engines (MyISAM, InnoDB) support full-text search. It was added to InnoDB in MySQL 5.6/Maria 10.

Ansible can be used as a distributed command runner but it's also a configuration management tool like Puppet (and much more).

Its "playbooks" are by default meant to be idempotent -- you can run them over and over ensuring that a system is in a consistent state.

The AP Stylebook switched from e-mail to email a few years back.

My first job title was "webmaster." Which meant dev-ops-designer-product-guy.

What about CGI scripts from Matt's Script Archive [1] which amazingly is still alive?

[1] http://www.scriptarchive.com/

I don't know anything about shipping, but I wonder how much of the crews' time is spent in maintenance and repairs. Are they trained to fix common issues? What happens when the robot boats break down?

Or are they just there to fill minimum crew size regulations and babysit ships that mostly drive themselves anyways?

Signed up for an account when they started offering free, didn't really understand the benefit because no one was there.

I have not been back.

How do you compare to big players in the market like Concur, which has these features?

Self-funded health insurance plans are very common with employers. Third-party administrators (TPAs) that provide the claim processing are big business.

Yes. The author of South is writing the built-in migrations, and keeping a 3rd party migration library would be redundant.

It's pretty cool that at least two of the off-site links from that page are still live, considering how quickly most sites from that era fell into link rot:

"prefab hell" http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/96sep/kunstler/k...

"sushi" http://www.lauralemay.com/essays/death-by-wasabi.html

I think more flexible is a better word -- it can do more than what you can do when you bake a static image because you also use it to dynamically manage a running system post-boot.

Ansible can deploy all of your dependencies, keep them updated, push out configuration changes, and deploy your main application code.

I don't use AutoScaling, but no reason it couldn't be used with Ansible. The docs have a bit of detail on how to do it. http://docs.ansible.com/guide_aws.html

I create an AMI with a bare minimum OS. Then I use a configuration management tool to install all software packages, libraries and configurations. My new favorite is Ansible (ansibleworks.com) but Chef and Puppet are others.

Updates are easier this way versus having to rebake images.

The example looks very clean.

Reminds me a bit of treesaverjs.com, which created automatic magazine-like page layouts for any size screen, but unfortunately seems to have run out of steam.

Do you plan on offering a complete solution for publishers including CMS integrations?

Don't be a pedant. The author uses the word in the sense of the slang expression "insanely great."

I've found django-allauth a bit friendlier than django-social-auth, and it covers registration of local accounts in one package.

Do you use a sheet and a mattress pad on top of the mattress?

I never would have noticed that the Dropbox icon was the only colorful icon up there if I hadn't read this article. Oh well.

It seems to have dependencies on core Foundation Javascript. I don't think it can be used stand-alone.

What do people recommend for functionality similar to Interchange on a Bootstrap 3 site?

At least they had "use strict" turned on. Not sure why they weren't using DBI and placeholders to prevent SQL injection attacks in 2005.

A copy of the 1Password master password stored on the Yubikey could also be stored offline (safe deposit box).

Another nitpick about the source code:

Let the code breath a little -- no whitespace around control structures is a bit jarring:

  if(error){
    ...
  }else{
    ...
  }

Instead:

  if (error) {
    ...
  } else {
    ...
  }

Maybe adopt this Node style guide: http://nodeguide.com/style.html

I'm the parent of two toddlers and I can see how it happens. It's not quite as serious as leaving them in a hot car, but I've been in a rush and so distracted by work or life that I've put them in the car and driven away without remembering to fully buckle them into their carseats.

Realizing that you've potentially endangered them is an awful feeling, and a stark reminder to slow down and remember what's important in life.

Luckily they've gotten precocious enough to yell at me "Daddy I'm not buckled" so it doesn't happen any more.

MySQL has strict mode flags that can turn those silent "best guess" inserts into errors.

Triggers have existed since 5.0.2 in MySQL.

The query planner has been greatly improved with MySQL 5.6 and the MariaDB fork.