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qrpike

27 karma · joined September 5, 2013

Web Developer. Worked for places like Cartoon Network, CNN and Google.
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qrpike··on Open Source Ticker Tape
You can customize almost anything. Font colors, BG colors, size of the boxes, animation speeds, scroll speeds and more. It was created for our office (Polygon.io) but wanted others to be able to make it their own, for their use case.
qrpike··on Open Source Ticker Tape
Thanks for the info! This would be really interesting to try. The code is structured so that most would be reusable with a different rendering method. We may purchase a couple to try out.
qrpike··on Show HN: UI for Apache Kafka
What is the difference between this and https://github.com/yahoo/CMAK
qrpike··on View Sketch files in the browser
Very nice ;)
qrpike··on Tell HN: Yahoo Finance has apparently killed its API
https://polygon.io - real-time stock data APIs
qrpike··on InfluxDB now supports Prometheus remote reads and writes natively
I'm not sure I would call Cassandra slow. If the schemas are done well, it can be quite good for time series. Obviously this depends on the type of time series you're writing/querying.

Our biggest goal was writes & uptime. We sometimes do over 150k writes/sec. We also needed it to be up and accepting writes even if one node goes down.

We regularly take nodes offline for updates/etc and cassandra never misses a beat.

We ~really~ wanted to use influxdb, but as a startup we couldn't justify the cost/benefit over Cassandra since we have 8 nodes for the DB. I just went to the influx site to try to find the pricing again and it seems to be hidden now :/

EDIT: As a PS, just remember every one of the influxdb benchmarks ( that I've come across ) are single node. Cassandra is meant to be horizontally scalable. Testing a single node Cassandra is like testing a racecar on your driveway...

qrpike··on InfluxDB now supports Prometheus remote reads and writes natively
Both are open source, distributed ( must pay for influxdb ) databases. If you setup Cassandra's schemas correctly it can be good for time series. Influx is more suited to time series, however it's not 100% free and open source.
qrpike··on InfluxDB now supports Prometheus remote reads and writes natively
We offer free real-time forex streams ( polygon.io ). We are required to charge for equities because the actual exchanges charge us fees per use. Otherwise I would love it to all be free.
qrpike··on InfluxDB now supports Prometheus remote reads and writes natively
Still paid only for anything other than single node? We switched to Cassandra for that reason.
qrpike··on At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on politics say they’re isolated
Now it's 215+.... Very strange
qrpike··on At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on politics say they’re isolated
Agreed. It went from #2 on front page, to #215 in half an hour.
qrpike··on Meshbird – Distributed private networking
Keep up the good work! Much appreciated
qrpike··on Ask HN: Is 170k a good salary for a software developer in Seattle?
Personally, I don't think so. You can make more contracting as a developer ( 1099 ). Also you get more tax writeoffs, too.
qrpike··on Flex your computing power!
109.105.177.184 Was the attempted IP.
qrpike··on Flex your computing power!
Signed up for this and minutes later got notifications from LogMeIn with failed login attempts from Russia. Never had this happen EVER before.
qrpike··on Why I’m done with Apple
AGREED 100%. They forget the people who are MAKING the apps for all of these nice mobile devices they are selling hundreds of millions of.

What happened to Apple being for those who want to create things.

qrpike··on Show HN: Download Spotify Playlist
NodeJS Script to download an entire Spotify Playlist ( FROM SPOTIFY @ 160kbps ) to your local machine.

Also upon download it writes the ID3 data to the file.

qrpike··on [dead]
Quick script for downloading an entire spotify playlist ( FROM SPOTIFY @ 160kbps ) to your local machine.

Also upon download it writes the ID3 data to the file.