dmitrig01

In general, I like Ansible's concepts of idempotency, etc., and find them to be well suited for server configuration in general, but it does come at a price, both in terms of development time and speed (I actually find Ansible to be a lot slower than Fabric).

I've started thinking of server configurations in Ansible terms (i.e. "I want X module installed, Y directory present, etc"), but sometimes nothing beats a simple bash command to git pull && sudo service restart.

Dmitri from Branch here. When a user has already had a fingerprint matched once, we can do future matches with much higher certainty, so as more and more users click links and are matched, the chance decreases.

Additionally, as Alex said, though most uses of the links don't require a 100% match rate ("any growth is good"), we do have an option for links which require a 100% match.

Yikes, should not have asked friends who didn't have accounts to vote for us. Thanks for the insight :-)

Ah, very interesting use of the ! operator.

Sorry, should have clarified on 2. As an expansion of one of the examples given:

    loadAndPrintFile: (contents) {
       if (!contents) {
         fs.readFile() -> (error!, contents)
       }
       console.log(contents);
    }

i.e., expected behavior would be as if readFile was not an async function.

I'm asking because I built something similar (though it only worked with promises, not general async functions), and I'm curious to compare approaches :-) - mine is a sweet.js macro: http://pastie.org/9410315 (uses https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird and https://github.com/BranchMetrics/promise-accum). The basic syntax would be:

    task {
      item1 <- LoadItem(1);
      item2 <- LoadItem(item1.foreign_key);
      ret <- DoSomethingWithItems(item1, item2);
    }

1. Instead of implementing it in vanilla JavaScript, consider creating a Sweet.js macros (or series of macros), so it can be used with other flavors of JS as well (e.g. JSX, etc)

2. On the async functions – what happens if you put an async function inside a conditional? This is effectively solved by ES6's yield + co or an equivalent.

3. A nitpick, but, is there a way to create static functions on classes? E.g. Car.x instead of Car.prototype.x?

Congrats – amazing to see all the hard work come to fruition!

Branch Metrics, Palo Alto, CA. We are an early-stage VC-backed startup helping apps grow their user base organically. We've developed a neat set of techniques and technologies to help apps grow in ways that were impossible before!

We're a small, very high-growth company, with an exciting place in the market and an amazing team. You'd play a vital role in the success and growth of our company, would have ownership over a large part of the business, and would be part of a small, fast-growing team in a huge market. We're at a point now where we have tons of customer demand and not enough features to satisfy them!

Our stack:

    - Servers in Node.js, backed by Postgres
    - Deployment on AWS with Docker and Ansible
    - iOS SDK in Objective-C and Android SDK in Java

Our team: 2 coders, 1 sales/operations, 1 sales/design

What we're looking for:

    - Great frontend or backend developers – particularly, JavaScript ninjas!
    - self-directed, good communicator
    - full-time employee willing to work out of our Palo Alto office

What you get:

    - competitive salary
    - serious equity
    - health
    - lunch
    - open vacation
    - the opportunity to be in the ground floor of a rocket ship – to have a meaningful impact on the business, to work closely with the whole team, and to help us grow to an amazing place, together

If you're interested, I'd love to talk - dmitri@branchmetrics.io.

From the documentation:

    Each training pattern should have an input and an output, both of which can be either an array of numbers from 0 to 1 or a hash of numbers from 0 to 1.

Branch Metrics, Palo Alto, CA. We are an early-stage VC-backed startup which helps apps grow their user base organically through a mobile referral SDK. We're working right now on building a dashboard to view analytics data from our system.

Our stack:

    - Servers in Node.js, backed by Postgres
    - Deployment on AWS with Ansible
    - iOS SDK in Objective-C and Android SDK in Java

Our team: 2 coders, 1 sales/operations, 1 sales/design

What we're looking for:

    - HTML/CSS knowledge with an eye for design
    - advanced JavaScript skill
    - self-directed, good communicator
    - full-time employee willing to work out of our Palo Alto office

What you get:

    - competitive salary + equity
    - the opportunity to come in as employee #1 and take ownership of a critical part of our infrastructure

If you're interested, I'd love to talk - dmitri@branchmetrics.io.

This sort of thing is already possible – anyone can add GMail actions and cards to their messages: https://developers.google.com/gmail/actions/overview

Kindred Prints - http://sdk.kindredprints.com/ - Palo Alto

We are an early-stage VC-backed startup providing an iPhone and Android SDK for mobile developers to offer photo prints through their apps; we handle printing, logistics, customer service, and payments for those apps; our goal is for it to be as frictionless as possible for those developers.

Our stack:

  - servers in node.js
  - deployment on AWS with Ansible
  - RethinkDB database
  - iOS SDK in Objective-C and Android SDK in Java

Our team: 2 coders, 1 printer operations, 1 sales/design

What we're looking for:

  - experience writing iPhone or Android apps - we're looking for someone take full ownership of the SDK of either platform
  - self-directed, good communicator
  - full-time employee (summer interns are great too!) willing to work out of our Palo Alto office

What you get:

  - competitive salary + equity
  - the opportunity to come in as employee #1 and take ownership of a critical part of our infrastructure

Email me – dmitri@kindredprints.com – I'd love to tell you more :-)

There are several promise libraries (the most promising among them seems to be Bluebird, though Q has some popularity as well), which can easily convert callback-style functions into promises. For example:

    var b = require('bluebird'), request = b.promisify(require('request'));
    request(...).then(...)

These libraries also have utilities for controlling callback flow -- e.g calling several promises in parallel, which is done in the article with jQuery's $.when, waiting until a certain number finish, etc

Kudos for Steve Reich on the very front!

I am in very much the same situation. Something thing I've found that really helps me is just reading about shy behavior. I find that identifying an issue is the first step to solving, and reading descriptions of shy behavior often help me better and more precisely identify what to fix. One book I found to be quite helpful in this regard was "The Introvert Advantage" by Marti Laney.

Actually this app could be useful this -- input an address and a radius, and it could tell you what stations are available.

Is there, or will there be, anything like this going on around the SF area at some point? I'd love to take part in something like this, but 3000 miles is a little steep.

There's a difference. If you see the URL drupalindepth.com or commonusesofdrupal.com, you obviously should think "hey, this is about the Drupal software blah blah blah", while if you see davedoesdrupal.com, you should think "This is about what dave does with drupal", not "what drupal does in general". The first is allowed, the second isn't unless you have a license.

[Edit: IANAL]