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Does anyone actually prefer coding to the IRC and XMPP protocols instead of the Slack API ?

https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term seems more than sufficient to me, and hackable if I find an itch to scratch...

Better yet, would anyone here pay for development of a self-hosted IRC or XMPP gateway to Slack? :P

I ran across this a couple years ago because Tumblr let you use a leading - for your subdomain... I remember being so shocked reading this thread, but clearly nobody on that discussion had heard of Tumblr at the time. Very surreal.

+100000

Someone needs to teach the next generation about ABI compatibility...

last email I got from them was 12/12/15 about the launch of stockfighter.io ... which is also dead as is their Discourse :(

Open your account with a $100 Visa gift card.

Apple was at Lucene Revolution in DC this past fall. It's a little silly IMO to extrapolate too much from a job posting -- Apple has had a large search infrastructure for a long time, as do most tech companies.

Ahhhh, I freaked out because I forgot this edge case: VPC vs Classic reservations don't affect whether you get a price cut or not, they only affect the capacity portion of the reservations -- being guaranteed to launch an instance of that size in that Region+AZ.

Found a $200k mistake with this. Thanks. :(

Thanks for dropping code ahead of the talk, looking forward to the presentation tomorrow.

Here is one example: eye tracking could completely eliminate the need for alt tab or switching desktops. Put your keyboard's focus in a window by looking at it, and have it automatically recenter into your natural field of view. Still doable in 27" but not nearly as useful.

Just guestimating, I would need 11 or 12 27" screens to fully utilize the area I can see without moving my head. With gentle neck motion included I think that number triples or quadruples.

VMWare has this feature too, they call it vMotion. I haven't found anyone who could explain the resilience of vMotion in production use cases though.

Fact: Recording user behavior most certainly is a privacy issue...

My opinion: ...and it should be both disclosed and opt-in.

Not in the compiler, but enjoy a Microsoft Research paper about Steno, a C# library that claims to be superior to stream fusion (section 8.2): http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/173946/paper-pldi.pdf

In case anyone is unaware, LINQ lets you represent queries as a series of function calls which it represents as a series of Expression objects and an in-memory AST.

re: storage capacity, does df -h report inodes on other OS? On Ubuntu you need to do df -i to see inode utilization.

Only thing I took issue with was "Instead, explicitly define your servers in your configurations for as long as you can."

Maybe you can get away with this for a small scale deployment, but "as long as you can" sends a bit too mixed of a message. You should only defer a service discovery implementation until you get to the point where you have more than one read path in your stack.

IMO, as soon as you go from load balancer -> app -> cache -> database to having a services layer you should start thinking service discovery.

The simplest bandaid is to leverage DNS as much as possible until you get even bigger, and use static CNAMEs.

Thanks for sharing! Here are my comments, mostly critiques but please note I really think you have a great start here.

Nice clean interface, reasonably quick to use.

Doesn't work with 1password.

HTTPS isn't the default, and when requested gives a cert failure (representing *.onmodulus.net)

Email notification should be opt-in? Also should have a toggle for product notifications.

When I click on someone like http://chapp.is/people/hayk/activity the profile link takes me to my profile instead of theirs.

All in all, I'm looking forward to watching this service grow! (p.s. I suggest looking into PostgreSQL 9.3 as a backup plan to Mongo)

All programmers end up either learning or rewriting Lisp.

You underestimate the value of the graph data.

I forked an extension released under MIT license because of this -- original author pushing shady updates.

After I re-released it on the Chrome Store, now I get emails trying to buy "my" extension from me.

Why is line level profiling so non-existent for dynamic languages? Function level just doesn't cut it, esp. w/ the zillions of monkey patches in Ruby.

How are you deploying? You 'should' push a tarball to s3 and have web nodes pull it down.

Red-black deploys via AMI changes are one way for sure, but those seem to be usually done via separate scaling groups entirely. Netflix has a lot of automation around this (see Asgard and AMInator)

Hi Jeff!

I assume this is a reference to the charge per 1M I/O requests on EBS.

Can't you just jam the data into Postgres JSON columns? :)

I like the general tone of this piece, but how many salaries are below market rate at a startup these days? The fringe benefits are pretty insane right now too.

IMO, the biggest concern for an employee is dilution. Sometimes this happens in non-obvious ways, like on exit what happens to undistributed shares allocated to the employee grant pool?

also assumes y-combinator acceptance increases your survival odds, right ?

I thought Twitter was all private DC, did platform previously point to S3?

I forgot how tedious signup forms are. OpenID or facebook/twitter login?

I had an excellent exchange with Chad recently on twitter (and then Github Issues) where we went through a transient GitHub OAuth issue that Github ended up acknowledging via email as being an error on their side. I feel much more confident in him and the gittip service where initially I felt some hesitation and doubt about the trustworthiness of the service.

Is this supposed to be a framework for collaborative editing and synchronization? I would expect a lot more examples around merge conflicts and locking if so. "Models are never locked" make this sound like it is just an abstraction for abstraction's sake, why would I use this instead of just binding DOM elements to JSON?

i, on the other hand, tried to learn puppet over the course of a weekend with a brand new laptop and Boxen just after it was released. There is a nightmare of broken dependencies that still aren't resolved months later (librarian-puppet won't install apache because apache's version has a -rc in it which isn't a ruby version blah blah blah...)

now I know that using VMs / vagrant is critical to sane server orchestration development workflows though, so there's that.