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romansanchez

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Roman Sanchez. Developer in Atlanta.

@rooomansanchez

http://romansanchez.me

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romansanchez··on Ask HN : What side project are you working on?
If you've ever used elasticsearch and needed monitoring and alerting for your cluster without the overhead of running tools in the cluster itself, you'll realize there's not many options. So came up with the idea to separate monitoring and alerting for elasticsearch clusters to create Pulse. Close to launch. https://www.espulse.com/
romansanchez··on Ask HN: I want to write a simple webapp, how should I start?
You could easily do this with Elasticsearch. I've created a search UI(http://www.github.com/romansanchez/calaca) for Elasticsearch, which is what I think you're trying to do. You may want to recreate it on your own for learning purposes.
romansanchez··on Show HN: AccountDock – Billing history for your Stripe app
Is the demo down? Looks very useful by the way.
romansanchez··on MongoDB Is Raising Another $100M
Have you tried elasticsearch?
romansanchez··on MetricsGraphics.js – D3-based library optimized for visualizing time-series data
Couldn't find in the docs. Does this support epoch timestamps? Does it support more granular x-axis ticks, eg hours, min, sec?
romansanchez··on Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps
I would honestly just use this to start off and save time, but once things start picking up, data export and in house user mgmt would be the move.
romansanchez··on How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers
Has any body heard of TIBCO? They've been doing this (flow-based programming) for years(>10).
romansanchez··on Mark Cuban: High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers
Does anyone know if the software used for HFT is built in house or is there a particular vendor that specializes in this particular market?
romansanchez··on Bye Bye Craigslist
I would say this pretty much killed Carsabi.
romansanchez··on What's that?
I'm curious if videos really do scare people away. If you take a look at dropbox and cloudflare they do a really good job at using a video to demonstrate their product. Now taking into consideration the size of dropbox's and cloudflare's users, I'm more inclined to the idea that "videos work".
romansanchez··on Stanford to host more online classes
This is awesome! I'm scheduling my spring classes around these classes.
romansanchez··on JavaScript Web Apps by O'Reilly
Not at all. Books are usually my first way to go too, then I'll go to blogs, documentation, etc.
romansanchez··on 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence
Same here, I learned about the golden ration in my high school Art class. Weird, because it was never mentioned through my college years despite how important and ubiquitous it is.
romansanchez··on Why are restaurant websites so awful? Because of restaurant culture.
It certainly is.For example, opening a PDF on the Firefox browser(Android) automatically prompts a download of the pdf.
romansanchez··on Why are restaurant websites so awful? Because of restaurant culture.
Wouldn't you agree that building a Flash site is harder, more expensive than a simple HTML/CSS site?
romansanchez··on Don't be rich, Live rich
Jealous!
romansanchez··on Revolutionary "Light Field" camera tech - shoot-first, focus-later
Props to the innovation, but in terms of reaching the consumer market I doubt the appeal will suffice for widespread reach. Even if it did, a licensing deal would be more appropriate just for the sake of them investing in the innovation which is what they're good at, not distribution.
romansanchez··on Ask HN: Best Practices on creating video for a startup?
Check out http://grumomedia.com

He's got some tutorials which cover what I think you're looking for.

romansanchez··on LivingSocial’s Founder: A Multimillion Dollar Hit Is Not Enough
It does seem quite funny, but it's totally plausible. Although, I highly doubt that it's a definite measure for future success. I myself used to do the same(buy from Sam's Club and resell in school) while in middle school(now a senior in college), but I'm no where near close to a million dollar success...yet :). What would suck though is that if and when I do have some kind of success, this story would be kinda overused, so I do understand where you're coming from. Guess we need to teach our kids something else to make money off of...
romansanchez··on Show HN: New platform for finding work - $2000 project minimum
Make sure you validate your text fields.
romansanchez··on 37signals Is Selling Sortfolio. What Happened
They wrote a blog post on SVN http://goo.gl/muMHE
romansanchez··on 37signals Is Selling Sortfolio. What Happened
You probably missed the "No thanks, just show me the video".