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jcapote

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https://packagecloud.io co-founder
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jcapote··on Micro-optimizations matter: preventing 20M system calls
This is a follow-up to: https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2017/02/21/set-environment-...
jcapote··on How setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls
Oops! I'll fix this shortly, thanks for pointing it out.
jcapote··on Spotify is writing massive amounts of junk data to storage drives
This has been fixed as of today: https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/11/spotify-bug-data-fix/
jcapote··on Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Receiving Data
Just deployed a fix, thanks for the bug report!
jcapote··on Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Receiving Data
Sorry about that! What browser/operating system? I suspect this is a missing font issue.
jcapote··on Deb.haskell.org Security Breach
I can totally relate, that's why we built https://packagecloud.io to provide a service for securely and easily hosting debian and rpm files. We also provide chef and puppet cookbooks to make integration as easy as possible. Give it at try!
jcapote··on Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution
This looks neat, just in time for the weekend :)

I've been using the free plan at https://packagecloud.io for my debs (handles my rpms and gems too), and it's been working well so far.

jcapote··on HN Comment Generator
Cricket - 7 years ago, but a focus not minor language like actionscript and they just getting downvoted - it to see it could live person in other company. Less clever people just take the next Google Marketplace. Royskopp* Abroreal - we were doing business control?
jcapote··on Mercurial vs Git: Why Mercurial?
The need to be a technology contrarian, that's why.
jcapote··on HyperDex: A Searchable Distributed Key-Value Store
Is this better than hadoop?
jcapote··on Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?
Just black it out forever, that'll show 'em
jcapote··on LRU implementation in C++
How is your comment worthwhile?
jcapote··on Super Meat Boy leaves database wide open
They don't really care, could've even been intentional: http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1641/itsfinetrustme.png
jcapote··on Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox's attention to detail on their download page
Yet you need to download an app to hide their menu bar icon: http://dropboxwiki.com/MacDropHide
jcapote··on New MongoDB alerts and advisories page
So only one read at a time?
jcapote··on The Jasmine Standalone Test Runner: A Free Screencast
Stay away from Jasmine, just invest the time and go with qunit instead, you'll be much happier.
jcapote··on Steam loses user database
Confirmed by Gabe here: http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/121/1212201p1.html

All passwords are salted and hashed (hope they are using bcrypt), and all CC's are encrypted.

EDIT: updated comment to clarify what I meant with the bcrypt

jcapote··on Ask HN - Any interesting side projects you can share?
I started working on a k/v cache, primarily to learn erlang: https://github.com/capotej/nolimit
jcapote··on NuoDB another NewSQL database.
can't wait to read the white paper
jcapote··on Amateur rocket launch reaches 121,000 feet
"As the GPS devices on Qu8k failed to log readings above 100,000 feet, the attempt is likely disqualified."

would love to know what happened

jcapote··on Show HN: BackboneScreencasts.com
Not that it's ugly, its just distracting from the code, also it takes up screen real estate. Just my 2 cents, if that's your style, go with it.
jcapote··on Show HN: BackboneScreencasts.com
This is cool but do they all have your face on the bottom corner?
jcapote··on Dart language
Why do languages still require semicolons in this day and age?
jcapote··on Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro
Railscasts are cool, but if you want something more advanced, I cannot recommend destroyallsoftware.com enough
jcapote··on Hacker CS: Computer Science Challenges
Eh, project euler is good, but its more Math than computer science.
jcapote··on Google releases Games for Google+
Good night, sweet prince.
jcapote··on Letterbomb: Wii 4.3 Homebrew Installer Without Need For Special Game Disc
Syobon Action is one of my all time favorite games ever, would've never thought I'd hear about it here on HN though.
jcapote··on 2011 Rubyist’s guide to a Mac OS X development environment
brew install emacs --HEAD --cocoa
jcapote··on Rolling.fm: Yeah, We Copied Turntable.fm, But We’re Taking It to the Next Level
Sad to see it making the same mistakes as turntable.fm, such as the facebook logins only thing.
jcapote··on The Fallacy of Modern Web Development
I guess im the only one that feels the icloud interface feels heavy and bloated, much like a flash interface.
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