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Benjamin Boudreau

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dreur··on Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
There is a very recent Jepsen report on MongoDB. http://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6

> Jepsen evaluated MongoDB version 4.2.6, and found that even at the strongest levels of read and write concern, it failed to preserve snapshot isolation. Instead, Jepsen observed read skew, cyclic information flow, duplicate writes, and internal consistency violations. Weak defaults meant that transactions could lose writes and allow dirty reads, even downgrading requested safety levels at the database and collection level.

dreur··on Building sustainable microservices – our opinions and advice
Thanks a lot for this post.

Could you expand on the techniques you use to implement idempotency in your workers/queues and in your rpcs?

I have seen a mix of doing nothing if there is nothing to do, locking, using a idempotency key and so on. But I am always curious to see what others do.

dreur··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)
Foko - Visual Messaging for Retail Teams | Ottawa, Canada | Full-time/Permanent ONSITE

We are searching for:

* Backend NodeJS Developer

* Android Developer

* iOS Developer

* INTERNS in Development

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http://foko.co/careers/

Since launching in June 2014 - Foko has users in 10% of the Fortune 100, and boast high profile clients like Whole Foods, Trend Micro, Maxim Integrated, and One Medical Group. Monthly active usage is over 45% - nearly 3X industry average for enterprise services. http://www.foko.co

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Come work with passionate people! Come make a difference and be part of an awesome team!

dreur··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)
Foko - Visual Messaging for Retail Teams | Ottawa, Canada | FULL-TIME | ONSITE | INTERNS

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Since launching in June 2014 - Foko has users in 10% of the Fortune 100, and boast high profile clients like Whole Foods, Trend Micro, Maxim Integrated, and One Medical Group.

Monthly active usage is over 45% - nearly 3X industry average for enterprise services.

http://www.foko.co

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Come work with passionate people! Come make a difference and be part of an awesome team!

We have various roles in the iOS, android, web, backend and sales team.

Foko is built with Amazon AWS, NodeJS, Swift, Mongo, ElasticSearch, EmberJS and lots of passion.

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Web: http://foko.co/careers/

Email: careers@foko.co

dreur··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)
Foko - Visual Messaging for Retail Teams | Ottawa, Canada | Full-time/Permanent ONSITE

We are searching for:

* Digital Content Creator

* Senior Android Developer

* Backend NodeJS Developer

* Inside Sales Representative

* iOS Developer

* INTERNS in Development

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http://foko.co/careers.html

Since launching in June 2014 - Foko has users in 10% of the Fortune 100, and boast high profile clients like Whole Foods, Trend Micro, Maxim Integrated, and One Medical Group. Monthly active usage is over 45% - nearly 3X industry average for enterprise services. http://www.foko.co

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Come work with passionate people! Come make a difference and be part of an awesome team!

dreur··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
Foko - Private Visual Content Sharing App - Full-time/Permanent (on-site) - Ottawa, Gatineau, Hull - Canada

We are searching for:

* Digital Marketing Specialist

* Digital Content Creator

* Senior Android Developer

* Backend NodeJS developer

* Inside Sales Representative

* iOS Developer

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http://foko.co/careers.html

Since launching in June 2014 - Foko has users in 10% of the Fortune 100, and boast high profile clients like Whole Foods, Trend Micro, Maxim Integrated, and One Medical Group. Monthly active usage is over 45% - nearly 3X industry average for enterprise services. http://www.foko.co

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Come work with passionate people! Come make a difference and be part of an awesome team!

dreur··on Glimmer rendering engine is landing in Ember Canary today
I am just amazed by all the improvements that Ember has had since I started using it. Definitely shows that relying on a good framework is the way to go.

Also, I feel like the Ember core team is not only innovating in the product itself but in its way of managing all aspects of running an open source project and most importantly in how to grow, respect and help an ever growing community.

A huge thanks to all contributors and every members of the Ember community.

dreur··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
Foko - Private Photo Sharing App - Full-time/Permanent (on-site) - Ottawa, Gatineau, Hull - Canada

We are searching for Backend Dev position and a Marketing position.

http://foko.co/careers.html

Since launching in June 2014 - Foko has users in 10% of the Fortune 100, and boast high profile clients like Whole Foods, Trend Micro, Maxim Integrated, and One Medical Group. Monthly active usage is over 45% - nearly 3X industry average for enterprise services. http://www.foko.co

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# Backend Node.js Developer

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Responsibilities:

• Work in a small backend team to build an innovative platform supporting both mobile and web applications that solve real business needs.

• Work closely with client team and product team to deliver world-class innovative products to interrupt business world, on time.

Desired Skills:

• Solid knowledge of Javascript

• Strong commitment to quality

• Experience with NodeJS

• Cloud based systems (Amazon AWS, etc)

• Experience building and scaling a Rest API

• Being awesome and wanting to be the best in what you do

http://foko.co/careers.html#web

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# Digital Marketing Specialist

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We need someone with a talent for digital marketing. Someone that knows how to increase relevant leads through social media and SEO tactics. This person will use social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other to drive traffic and sign-ups to the service. The successful candidate will also be responsible for the social media interactions with our customers, fan and followers. The successful candidate will be passionate about strategy, communication and marketing.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a corporate marketing strategy and campaign for Foko.

• Work with the product and development team to understand product releases and develop the appropriate marketing campaigns.

• Work with customers to create internal marketing campaigns to promote Foko with their employees

http://foko.co/careers.html#marketing

dreur··on I've mothballed my blog
Poster here, didnt mean any disrespect by sharing this.

I think it shows a lot of strengh and courage doing this. I think most of us will have a moment in our life where we need to experience something new, something else and need more time. Time is so precious.

For me, it is just comforting knowing that it is possible to get out of that loop and that I am not the only one with that pressure.

dreur··on Let Me Jira That For You
For fun, Let Me Jira That For You! - For your lazy coworkers that did not search Jira before bugging you, Redirects to your Intranet Jira!

http://lmjtfy.github.bboudreau.ca/?s=Let+Me+Jira+That+For+Yo...

dreur··on Draw UML Sequence Diagrams with new Javascript library
Thanks, searched a bit more and found some more info on SO by the author of Lo-dash: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13789618/differences-betw...

Saw and updated some benchmarks, quite impressive: http://jsperf.com/lodash-underscore/6

Edit: added some benchmark

dreur··on Draw UML Sequence Diagrams with new Javascript library
Any plan on supporting async arrows and activation boxes?

I see myself using sequence diagram when dealing with a really complex process that normally almost always include threading and/or message passing.

dreur··on Draw UML Sequence Diagrams with new Javascript library
lo-dash compatible?

First time I hear about lo-dash. Anyone know of it and why it maters?

dreur··on Favicons Next To External Links
Or a simple JQuery Plugin I developed: https://github.com/dreur/JQuery-Showfavicons-Plugin

It adds the possibility to say which hostnames are internal and external.

dreur··on The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative to BitCoin
Except the notes are designed by the Bank of Canada not the Royal Mint.

http://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/bank-note-series/polyme...

dreur··on Was it up?-service is now offline.
What would be a cost efficient way of doing the same? Any ideas?
dreur··on Canada Is About To Pass Sopa’s Evil Little Brother. Politely
Speakout at http://www.ccer.ca/speakout/

Send a letter to your representative at Ottawa.

dreur··on Show HN: I built a faster way to burn your money on Etsy.com
Noo why have you done that...

Seriously I like is a lot, very well thought.

Sorry have to go back on Scrollsy...

dreur··on New Wordpress Release
Official post: https://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/sonny/

Release note: https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.3

dreur··on Vim: revisited
Thanks a lot! For a vimrc also supporting other version than 7.3:

  if version >= 730
    set relativenumber
  endif
dreur··on Adobe Donates Flex to Apache
I do not agree. I believe they did the right thing, now Apache has everything they need to take their decision. That Flex will be less and less supported by Adobe in the years/months to come so they'll probably need to put more resources on the project.

Doing it before would have been wrong and not well received by anyone.

dreur··on UseTheSource: a job board for hackers
Would it be possible to add jobs location in the RSS feed?

Thanks, a great idea.

dreur··on Interview: Robby Russell on oh-my-zsh, community zsh framework
Thanks Guys, I am using this interview to promote ZSH!
dreur··on Time-saving tips for Linux
One thing to say: http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml It has everything I ever needed. When something is missing send patch.
dreur··on Who else is hacking a project instead of watching the Super Bowl?
20 - At least that what it says when not logged in.
dreur··on Ask San Franciscans: Is it worth taking a 2 week holiday to SF?
Thanks for asking since I am also thinking about taking two weeks there in May. But not for the same reasons. I am starting my professional career in May just finished a CS degree at the U of Sherbrooke (Quebec).

I would like to visit the city and do some networking there too. Maybe try some surfing.

Any ideas how and where to start ?

dreur··on Ask HN: How do you come up with a good startup idea?
http://searchyc.com
dreur··on Apache is being forced into a Java Fork
Let put some facts right

* Harmony is already a fork of java. But without the patent grant there is an unknown.

* ASF wanted to pass the TCK for the patent grant and wanted Oracle to get rid of the field of use related to the tck.

* Dalvik is using some of Harmony's code.

dreur··on Hacker Monthly Issue #7 - December 2010
Thank you for the student subscription.
dreur··on Hacking Ikea products to make them personal
I wish they could support Inkscape. Anyone wants some XKCD pictures on their furnitures? Now that I want to see
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