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mikeytown2··on The end of neighbours
https://nextdoor.com/ seems to filling that niche pretty well in my neighborhood; almost all my co-workers who own a house use it as well.
mikeytown2··on Show HN: We put an iPhone on the front wheel of a car
http://www.guthspot.se/video/deshaker.htm http://avisynth.org.ru/depan/depan.html
mikeytown2··on Exec($_GET
I found a legit repo for this code https://github.com/andresriancho/w3af-moth "A set of vulnerable PHP scripts used to test w3af's vulnerability detection features."
mikeytown2··on Present – Faster video recording on iOS with one touch
From the sound of it this seems very similar to Capture https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/capture-quick-video-camera/i...
mikeytown2··on Managed WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks
I'm curious how pantheon would have done in this test as it is the new kid on the block. https://www.getpantheon.com/wordpress
mikeytown2··on [dead]
If a video can be deleted for having a lot of fake views, I wonder how much money it would cost to have someone else's video deleted for violating the TOS. I think not deleting for this kind of TOS violation is correct.
mikeytown2··on Accidental Startup Office Manager: Ordering Food
I do the same thing at my work, but I have an honor system where people can keep a tab on a notepad. I buy everything at Costco as the prices are about 1/3 less than what you see on amazon. I round up to the nearest quarter to make life easy for everyone. I have a slightly different selection as well. Below are some of the hot items not listed on this post: Nature Valley Bar - Protein (Peanut Butter & Dark Chocolate). Individual Kirkland Trail Mix. Individual Tropicana OJ. Premier Protein Bars. Premier Protein Chocolate Drink. Lara Bars. Trio Bars. 5-hour energy. Cheese Sticks. Vanilla Whey Protein.

My go to meal is Quaker Oatmeal mixed with Vanilla Whey Protein. I'll eat that 1-2 times a day. Cost for that combo is $0.75, not bad if you ask me. Just trying to give people some good ideas here :)

mikeytown2··on The Ph.D Grind: A Ph.D Student Memoir
More info on CDE (Code, Data, and Environment) without having to read the memoir: http://www.pgbovine.net/cde.html
mikeytown2··on Lthread - C coroutine lib with multicore support
I think the LGPL will do what your wanting to do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_Licen...
mikeytown2··on Introducing Chrome for Android
I wonder how chrome does speed wise when compared to opera mini. I'm currently using opera mini as its one of the fastest browsers for my phone; G1 running the superE rom.
mikeytown2··on How I learned to stop worrying and love REST
i'm suprised using something like mod_rewrite to transform the query parameters into something that rails could cache was not mentioned. it's a cheap way to use the url structure you want after the fact. the next update the app can then use the new structure and the mod_rewrite rules will be there to support the old api until almost everyone has upgraded to the new app. this allows one to switch an api to being more restful in a graceful way.
mikeytown2··on The key value store we ignored (Postgresql)
Those benchmarks are very flawed as HandlerSocket only works in InnoDB. This is a better post on the subject: http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-a...
mikeytown2··on The key value store we ignored (Postgresql)
how does this compare to MySQL's HandlerSocket?
mikeytown2··on 80% of People Quietly Despise Their Lives
I've worked for my self in the past and now I'm working for a company; doing web dev (Drupal). I'm happier working for a company than when I was working for my self. Sure I don't have the crazy flexible hours anymore but then again no one else did either so it was hard to take advantage of that aspect of it; plus if I really need to do something I can usually take a 3 hour break in the middle of the day. (I'm single so this might change if I where married with children).

The nice thing about working for a company is the whole thing is not 100% riding on me & there are other dev's who can "cover" for you. I can also focus more on what I like to do vs when I worked for my self where I did everything; even the parts I sucked at but the clients like you so much they insist that you be the one doing it.

Long story short, I like working for "the man" and am quite happy with where I'm at.

mikeytown2··on Ask HN: What's your most-used function that you wrote yourself?
unless what your debugging has html in in
mikeytown2··on Ask HN: What's your most-used function that you wrote yourself?
One line debugger in php. $data is the thing you wish to look at.

    <?php
    echo str_replace('    ', '&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', nl2br(htmlentities(iconv('utf-8', 'utf-8//IGNORE', print_r($data, TRUE)), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')));
    ?>
mikeytown2··on Updated the NoSQL comparison: Neo4j and MemBase added, Riak and MongoDB updated
Mind adding in HandlerSocket? http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2011/03/28/whats-up-with...
mikeytown2··on Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.
Anyone know how to get the network working? ping/wget don't work. But seriously, this is pretty flippin sweet!
mikeytown2··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011)
Seattle, WA - Datasphere http://bit.ly/ifL25z

We are a fast growing company who just opened it's second office in AZ (http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2011/04/18/dataspher...) that is in the hyperlocal news market. On the web/tech side we are looking to hire .Net, JAVA, NoSQL, UX, PM's & Drupal people. On the non web/tech side we have a wide range of jobs.

mikeytown2··on Moviebarcode - Movies compressed to a single frame
AviSynth Script http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1480852#post1480852
mikeytown2··on Forty-five times faster at programming
Programming is a lot like learning to run. It takes about a year for a baby to walk; and another 2 before they learn how to run. In another 4 years (age 7) most kids are fairly good at running. Programming takes years of practice to get good at it.

Another analogy. Poetry & Programing have a lot in common. Once you learn to write it, creation is easy; good creations take practice & skill. Iteration is key.

mikeytown2··on 12,000 Requests per second with Nginx, PHP and Memcached
For those interested in full page caching, smart cache invalidation & and a built in crawler. Check out Drupal's boost module. http://drupal.org/project/boost

I'm the guy who has shaped this into the monster it has now become. The apache htaccess rules are still getting refined & it comes with lighttpd and nginx rules as well.

I've been working on taking this full circle; taking the monster that was created, keeping the core parts that work and spiting the other parts into separate Drupal modules. http://drupal.org/project/expire will contain the cache invalidation logic and I'll create a crawler once I come up with a better multi process crawler http://groups.drupal.org/node/126624

mikeytown2··on Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (January 2011 Edition)
Datasphere is hiring php, java, .net, and front end hackers. We are an ignition backed company.

https://datasphere-openhire.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm...

We are headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and led by a team of Internet veterans with backgrounds from Amazon.com, IMDb, Microsoft, RealNetworks, AltaVista, Trendwest and other leading companies.

mikeytown2··on Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak comparison
The latest Percona flavor of MySQL has it built in http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2010/12/14/percona-serve...
mikeytown2··on Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak comparison
I was hoping HandlerSocket would be in here. If you don't know about it, check it out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1886137
mikeytown2··on Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server
On the drupal side there is Boost: http://drupal.org/project/boost It has some fairly smart cache invalidation logic as well. At work we use the cache invalidation logic to tell varnish what needs to be refreshed. We use this setup for over 1,000 TV station news sites; supported by 10 boxes total. Flat file cache size is around 80GB. Our load is usually under 2 on all boxes.
mikeytown2··on Search for PHP
where's the foreach loop? http://php.net/foreach
mikeytown2··on Announcing DJJob, a PHP port of delayed_job
Made something very similar to this in PHP about a year ago. It's buried in the Drupal project called Boost. It's the multi process crawler. It supports up to 8 processes crawling your site getting the cache warm. Gets call on cron & then 15 seconds after drupal's cron finished it starts up all 8 "threads". I've used it for image processing as well. Very stable will run for days if you give it a big enough queue (millions of pages to crawl). http://drupal.org/project/boost
mikeytown2··on Programming is for Stupid People
Over in Drupal land we are talking a lot about the direction we want to take Drupal 8; FP vs OOP.

The last couple of posts on this blog are a good read. http://www.garfieldtech.com/

mikeytown2··on [dead]
This needs a video, like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4

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