April 2010
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The Day Series: Introducing 'The Day Series' →
In December 2007, I left a cushy job at EMC as a Senior Software Engineer to start my first company, MessageSling.
I left to start the company w/ Scot Junkin, a friend and fellow geek from WPI. We started without funding. We started without experience. We started without even a clear idea of what…
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We love OpenX
Sean: dude, i had this awesome idea to delete a shitload of zones in openx
i was like "this is gonna feel goooood"
Me: AND NOT TELL ANYONE?!
oh.
continue...
Sean: all the confirmation page ones that are now in GAM
plus a lot of others
but then OpenX was like "i will let you think you can batch delete but I will just time out"
"Then if you try a smaller number to batch delete i will still time out"
Me: i almost spit diet coke on my computer
Sean: i hate openx
a lot
Me: i am posting this chat on my blog.
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Compete.com thinks twitter.com is shrinking →
I don’t believe it.
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Some mornings MySQL really gets on my nerves
mysql> alter table some_table modify column priority decimal;
Query OK, 1170663 rows affected (2 min 10.26 sec)
Records: 1170663 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0
Table was write locked the entire time. GO FASTER.
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Cool rundown of how to root a Linux box using NULL... →
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Ruby regex performance →
Just checking to see what the performance difference is between evaluating three separate regular expressions versus a single composite in ruby:
ryan = /\ARyan/ blake = /\ABlake/ darren = /\ADarren/
vs:
composite_regex = /\A(Ryan|Blake|Darren)/
The composite takes ~ 34% of the time as doing the three regex matches/evaluations. Nothing earth shattering here, was just wondering.
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“quitting quitting is for quitters.”
– me
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Intuit's premature NetPromoter & Selection Bias
Tax time!
I just finished my taxes for 2009, and aside from TurboTax flipping out at the fact I had two 1099-HCs [1], it went well. I’m in the black.
When I was finishing up and getting ready to pay, I saw a Net Promoter [2] survey at the bottom of the page:
Companies use NetPromoter to track how satisfied users are with a product over time. With a high enough sample size, even small...
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Apple bans cross-compilers on iPhone OS4
After reading all the hoopla about Apple banning cross-compilers[1][2], I was holding out hope that maybe there was a rational reason for it. So far, I’ve only seen one counterpoint[3]. It’s a terribly close-minded and selfish point of view; which I understand doesn’t necessarily make it incorrect. I was just hoping for something more “feel good.”
I’m still...
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I'm speaking at MongoSF
I’m wicked excited to announce that I’m flying out to San Francisco at the end of the month to speak at MongoSF. The conference is a single day, multi-track conference that’s going to run the gammit: programming workshops, MongoDB internal discussions, the current state of the OSS ecosystem around MongoDB, and (the reason I’m going) several presentations on examples of...
