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bluemoon

1,259 karma · joined July 10, 2009

Here's some stuff I've been working on: https://bradfordtoney.com

Twitter: @bradfordtoney

Email: bradford.toney@gmail.com

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bluemoon··on We Need To Talk About Vercel
Cloudflare (and likely other cdns) has a development mode for this exact use case
bluemoon··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2012)
SEEKING WORK - Remote or on-site Hi! I'm a passionate Python programmer. I have a background in web development using tools such as Flask and Django(and so many more).

I'm self-directed(entrepreneur) and spend much of my free time learning about computer science. Currently I'm interested in new opportunities full or part time.

I can do full stack web development, maintenance, deployment, and so forth. Apart from Python I also have experience with JavaScript, Common Lisp, C, and others.

Feel free to browse my GitHub and please do not hesitate to contact me! Github: http://github.com/bluemoon Contact: bradford.toney@gmail.com (name: Bradford)

bluemoon··on Why You Should Be Excited About Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.0
Jruby seems like it has the most potential in the GC department. It seems like most of the interesting GC papers I've seen are work that's been done on the JVM.
bluemoon··on Realtime Metrics for 128 Million Users with Redis: 50ms + 16MB RAM
There is a way in mongo to replace the id with an auto incrementing number. Have a look at the docs. It's also helpful of you want to use the id as a base62 value for urls
bluemoon··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2012)
SEEKING WORK - Remote or on-site

Hi! I'm a passionate Python programmer. I have a background in web development using tools such as Flask and Django. I'm self-directed(entrepreneur) and spend much of my free time learning about computer science. Currently I'm interested in new opportunities full or part time.

I can do full stack web development, maintenance, deployment, and so forth. Apart from Python I also have experience with JavaScript, Common Lisp, C, and others. Feel free to browse my GitHub and please do not hesitate to contact me!

Github: http://github.com/bluemoon

Contact: bradford.toney@gmail.com (name: Bradford)

bluemoon··on Ask HN: Did my post get penalized?
Yeah it has 127 karma and it was just on the front page, I don't think flagging has that much weight
bluemoon··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2012)
SEEKING WORK Remote or Spokane, Wa. I'm a Python hacker, i generally do web development. Im always interested in new projects. Feel free to look at my Github: https://github.com/bluemoon I have done everything from full web stack deployments to various other projects. Don't hesitate to email me: bradford.toney@gmail.com
bluemoon··on RIM Co-CEOs step down
Yeah it sure didn't work out for them, I wonder if there is any hope for RIM at this point.
bluemoon··on Facebook deleted their Python SDK repository without warning
We just had to deal with this, there is a fork of the repository here https://github.com/pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk I think part of the reason they removed the repository was because there were some changes to the way they handled the cookies, this fork however fixes that and does work.
bluemoon··on Show HN: My weekend project, realtime log viewer in Flask
That's pretty cool, hopefully we will have better support for multiple logs soon
bluemoon··on Show HN: My weekend project, realtime log viewer in Flask
Yeah we had the data just return instead of escaping the value.
bluemoon··on A White House Petition: should daylight savings time end permanently?
While there are many studies that have conflicting results on whether it reduces energy, it does affect the circadian rhythm
bluemoon··on Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder: MongoDB is fine
As he highlights, it is software it will likely have bugs
bluemoon··on HP PC Boss: Shutting down of WebOS is “unfounded rumor”
It seems like they up and changed their mind about it, but then again it could truly be an unfounded rumor
bluemoon··on Ask HN: I'd like to pay customers of my service, what are the best options?
I would look at services with ACH
bluemoon··on John McCarthy Has Died
I am deeply saddened with this loss to our community. He was such an influence to computer science as a whole.
bluemoon··on Adding a picture of me to your site will improve conversions by 788%
While it may not have much substance he is showing that the user experience plays an important role in subscriptions to RSS
bluemoon··on John McCarthy Has Died
Are there any other verifiable sources?
bluemoon··on John McCarthy Has Died
Yeah, i'm still waiting on a source too other than twitter
bluemoon··on Ask HN: How do you *use* HN?
I check it probably 10 times a day, its much better than other "social sites"
bluemoon··on Ask HN: Contract/Consulting Gigs (September 2010)?
I'm a developer from Spokane, Washington and have been currently working with real-time javascript analytics and other django projects, some relating to Scaling/Data mining/etc.
bluemoon··on RabbitMQ 2.0 is out includes paging messages on disk and support for AMQP 0-9-1
now only if it cooperated with STOMP better
bluemoon··on Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement
Yeah it never actually loaded for me :(
bluemoon··on Spinning wheels [Storing energy using flywheels, not batteries]
This has been done before, there was a bus i read about on boingboing that used only kinetic energy to power it, if i remember the wheel was some 20tons.
bluemoon··on Ask HN: I want to start a News Website
I dont mean to put you on a defensive but, what makes me want to go to YOUR site. Where will the content come from, users? aggregated? How will the content be shared? Social networking? reddit style?