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jonnii··on OCaml All the Way Down – How Jane Street Builds FPGA Designs [video]
That is exactly what is happening in high frequency trading. Firms are paying crazy money to be colocated in the same data centers as the exchanges.
jonnii··on Don't Give Silicon Valley More H1B Visas
You can change jobs on an H1B, if you're planning on working in the US it's probably your best option unless you can quality for an O1. I can tell you most people on an E2, an L1 or comparable visa would give their left arm to be on an H1B if they have any intent to stay in the US.
jonnii··on I’m Joining LinkedIn
Probably not for the same reason this isn't concerning:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=vue.js,react.js

jonnii··on Ember.js 2.0 Released
I have the same problem. list-view 2.0 exists as a branch on krisseldens github (https://github.com/krisselden/list-view/network) and there have been other people forking from there. The implementation is _much_ simpler now due to glimmer, no more needing to get funky with ember internals. So it's essentially a re-write.

I haven't tried the 2.0 branch myself, but it _should_ be a drop in replacement.

jonnii··on “Start Rails 5 development”
When you say "Ember seems to do too much", can you give me an example? I'm interested in understanding why it has this reputation of being bloated.
jonnii··on Go Continuous Delivery is now open source
Have you looked at octopus deploy? (octopusdeploy.com/) We've switched over all of our server deployments to it and it's great.
jonnii··on For $45 Per Month, All the Coffee You Can Drink
If they can convince Zibetto on 6th Ave to sign up I'll immediately give them $45/month. It'll save me a fortune!
jonnii··on Ember.js is driving me crazy
I write a lot of ember.

It can, occasionally, be frustrating (for example run loop craziness), but in my opinion it's no more frustrating than working with any other stateful front end framework (WPF, backbone etc...).

jonnii··on Do-it-yourself EEG, EKG, and EMG
There are some really good cheap prosumer level EEG devices on the market now, for example the Avatar EEG (http://avatareeg.com/) and a few of the Emotiv devices.

I've been working on a side project (https://octopusmetrics.com) that allows you to connect these devices to your computer to record, visualize and analyze your EEG data in the browser. I think it's great that there are people out there thinking about how to do this more cheaply as it'll bring _real_ EEG devices into the price range where it'll be more available to hobbyists.

jonnii··on Git Tutorials and Training
I believe volume licenses apply after 100 users, but even so there is a rather large price difference.
jonnii··on Visual Studio 2013 released to web
There's a lot of things wrong with ClickOnce. IIRC chrome's installer only uses clickonce as a bootstrapping mechanism for the _actual_ installer.

Problems:

* Can't choose installation path * No offline installation * Hard (impossible?) to use with a CDN.

Here's an example of how to turn a directory of precompiled binaries into a click once package using powershell:

https://gist.github.com/jonnii/2628150

My powershell isn't _great_, so forgive any powershell oddities, but notice how much you have to massage the output of the mage tools to actually get it to do what you want.

jonnii··on Visual Studio 2013 released to web
Or maybe try Shimmer?

https://github.com/github/Shimmer

jonnii··on V8 performance can beat C sometimes
Quickly, everyone convert their C to javascript!
jonnii··on Show HN: goworker – a faster, Resque-compatible background worker
I'm not sure tbh, we haven't had that problem yet.
jonnii··on Show HN: goworker – a faster, Resque-compatible background worker
I'm using this and it works great. We even managed to get it deploy to heroku, which was pretty magic.
jonnii··on Ember.js 1.0 Released
And Emu:

* https://github.com/charlieridley/emu/

jonnii··on Ember.js 1.0 RC6 released
Everything is in this pull request, including the guides/samples.
jonnii··on Amazon Changes HQ Plans for Something More Designey
bewbs

EDIT: Actually maybe more like sea urchins?

jonnii··on JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only
Damn, I was going to buy 5 team city agent licenses, but they're not on sale! =(
jonnii··on Some hedge fund managers walk onto an Argentinian navy ship
Unless you work for Elliott Management you know nothing about their investment strategy, other than it makes profit.
jonnii··on Megaupload Readies for Comeback, Code 90% Done
Now they just have to write the other '90%'.
jonnii··on Coding skill vs. employee skill
Good baseballers play for glory, not money nor power.
jonnii··on What's a $4000 Suit Worth?
Indeed. I was the best man at his wedding.
jonnii··on What's a $4000 Suit Worth?
My best friend from highschool has ended up in this world through his passion for all things sartorial (http://www.thearmourystore.com/).

He was involved in creating a wonderful documentary that follows suit makers of Naples called O'Mast (http://vimeo.com/16443611), which even for someone like me who knows nothing about suits was really interesting. I suggest checking it out as it'll give you an idea of the kind of skill required to make a custom made suit.

No matter what you may think about spending $4000 on a suit, it's a shame to see this kind of craftmanship dying out =(

jonnii··on Ultimate Rails developer & power user tools for Mac (2011 edition)
There's a chrome extension called Vimium which does the same thing.
jonnii··on A single line to 3 cashiers is ~3x faster than a separate line for each cashier
With the exception of JFK.
jonnii··on Michigan left
I'll see your Michigan left and raise you a magic roundabout

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)

jonnii··on RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried
I'm glad my browser doesn't support RSS natively when other apps offer a far greater experience. Have you tried the safari rss reader? It's awful.

As a chrome user I'm happy that it does one thing well and that's displaying web pages. Now I'm free to use any online RSS reader I want and be able to access my RSS feeds from anywhere.

jonnii··on Dropbox hits 1.0
Photos, Music, Video. It all adds up.

Oh and my .vimrc is about 3gb now too.

jonnii··on New York City could be the new tech mecca, thanks to Google
But it's google! They might buy your company and make you rich beyond your wildest dreams!
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