CptCodeMonkey

I used VNC a few times to connect to a Mac build box ( I only used Linux professionally ) and ran into a lot of problems with artifacting ( even on a dedicated Gigabit LAN ) or more annoying the remote service would crash and the only way back in was to SSH into the Mac box, kill the remote service, kill all user sessions, and restart.

Just as a historical note, I meant to type C Star ( C\* ) but HN's formatting changed c\* into C. C\* is shorthand for Cassandra.

Knowing some of the FC people first hand, MongoDB did actually serve them fairly well for a substantial amount of time. Until they started hitting max limits, it didn't really make sense to move to c.

Going straight to C or something like it would have been almost cargo-cultish ( eg If we build industrial strength, we will get industrial levels of traffic ).

I am starting to hope for a PyPy 2.8 or a PyPy 3000 that removes the GIL. Will have to wait and see how STM plays out.

You guys have been hiring consecutively for the last 3 months and the rejection letter for two of those months is the same formulaic response. Perhaps you need to refine what exactly you're looking for?

Just separated from a company over some employment contract issues. Taking it easy for the month and working on my own stuff, still I would be open with working on any cool idea's for equity or better money.

Quick background on me: prefer backend/data mongering ( high tides in my career was ~1-1.2 Billion pageviews/month and 300GB of data collected/day ) but I do have an understanding of CSS 2&3 ( done a few contracts for Conde Nast's clients ). Primary work in Python but worked professionally with Java, PHP, and Ruby ( no more Rails ).

Currently working on a CherryPy like overlay to twisted web ( similar object graph to endpoints but with all of Twisted's strengths & capabilities ) and a ZMQ mobile/web/desktop notification system ( QT4 & Sencha Touch 2 for other systems).

This is nice to hear, I suppose. I just separated from a company due to failure to pay/contract term violations and been thinking the odds of me finding gainful employment would be pretty low or non-existent until late Jan.

Still seems like its going to be an upward climb as my normal places to look for python and or backend dev are somewhat sparse right now.

Tend to agree, but to be fair whenever a major site/service ( Reddit, github, netflix etc ) goes down, it is inevitably posted.

This is perhaps the most elaborate "fuck you" to asnine interview questions. Fizzbuzz was a great acid test but now a days people who can't solve `a = 1+2; a == ?` know fizzbuz somehow.

Vbox's "api" is kind of an abomination. Vagrant succeeds because it parses sometimes non-machine friendly command line executable output.

That's too bad.

Issue is wget.

>U.S. prosecutors pointed out that wget was not on the list of “approved” programs for use in facility where Manning worked.

I know it sounds trivial but it was an unauthorized tool run on a system that was supposed to be secure as that system was talking to SIPRNET. Above all the other things PFC Manning has shown the world, he's also shown that security standards & procedures around some of the most damning secrets the DOD & State department could stupidly put on one fileshare was unprotected. Ironically this stuff might have shown up in foreign intelligence circles even without the PFC's actions.

Taking a page from something I learned from MySQL replication tricks, have you thought about trying a master -> inner slaves -> slaves out peers? Where there's one inner slave per datacenter/region.

I know atleast with 1.2.6 a slave can be a slave of a slave but I never measured the latency of a write at master, through the inner peers, out to the fan out slaves. Admittedly a more complicated topology but it would circumvent the stampede's against a master instance and also makes it easier to spin up larger numbers of slaves without wiping out the entire platform.

I have a widget like this for AWS+Virtualbox, it sorts all instances across all regions into tag name groups, by ip, by region, and by instance type. Unfortunately I know it only works for Windows and linux at the moment and my company hasn't given me a green flag to release it.

Still this project is a lot prettier and appears to have been more refined while mine was hobbled together in a hour or two and fit in one Python file ( reasonably, its not 10 files in one ).