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I don't know to be honest. I posted this here because I wanted to know what others thought of it.

By the way essen is the creator of cowboy a very popular erlang web framework.

I had a friend in college who could not use his legs (he had polio) He never let it slow him down though. He travelled about 50 KM daily to college in a bus, sometimes standing on his support. Every one in our college knew him. From the canteen workers to the photocopier guy. Last time I talked to him he was working as a computer lab assistant. I can't even begin to think how difficult it is for people who have lost or can not use one of the organs but I never detected a feeling of self pity or despondence from my friend. Always cheerful and calm as if he had no trouble in the world.

I have made this observation that those who have suffered great misfortune in their life generally know best how to live in the moment. It's funny how we take some very important things in life for granted and worrying over silly small trivialities. I hope the Miles will emerge stronger after this tragedy and find strength in his life.

What I am saying is not a solution to your problem but have you considered suing the organization that did not pay your dad for 7 months? It won't help him get a job but I think it is quite unfair that the organization which profited immensely from his hard unpaid labour should be allowed to walk away. I am assuming of course that being involved in a lawsuit would not lower is his prospects of finding a job.

Why did they have to announce it just 2 days after I bought a new andorid phone! I could have saved some money.

Joking aside this news is very exciting for me mainly because I will finally have a good reason to try out pouch db.

One question that I have though is how the updates to the os are delivered to the user? Are they managed by manufacturers or can any one with access to internet just download it from a central repository?

A request: I implore that you keep a good stock of phones ready. Because I don't want it to go out of stock after the first day at sale.

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Stack: nodejs,erlang,couchdb,lucene,elasticsearch.

http://stackoverflow.com/users/1263781/akshat-jiwan-sharma

akshatjiwan@gmail.com

Exactly. What good it will do to either your employer or yourself? Try your ideas out. See if they have any weight. After which assess your situation and have a heart to heart with your employer.

I tired to create a couple of products while I was still employed. They were not successful but I learned a lot just by deciding to do it. And in the end it gave me confidence enough to leave the job and go into consulting with which fortunately I have had success.

Any way, whether or not you tell your employee about your startup depends upon how well you know him/her, how comfortable are you with him/her and what your contract says.

Can you convince your boss that the duration for which you work in his organization would be as productive as it were before? Can you convince him that you are not just gathering funds just so you can leave and work full time on your own stuff when you are ready? Even if you have the very best of intentions it is hard to convince others of the fact.

At least my thinking is that there is no need to say anything to anyone in your organization unless you absolutely need to. During the early stages of your startup I suppose even you are not sure if you can be successful with it. Keep it under the wraps see how far you can go with it and then take a decision.

It's fantastic. One of the areas where it has improved by leaps and bounds is in the documentation of it's "sql" like query language.

The tcp api and the http api are well documented as well. And if you are learning to use orient db for the first time. The getting started guide, and the wiki on main concepts is great and you will get up to speed pretty quickly. There are 240 pages(!) in the wiki so it is pretty exhaustive in case you need to know about orient db more ddeply.

Where I feel it lacks is in the documentation of client libraries. since orient db could be used both using http and the client libraries I was not sure which one would be the best choice. I had a good experience using the http api in couchdb and elastic search so my first instinct was to use that but I am still not sure if it is the right way?

Any way I think the orient db documentation is fantastic but it could do with better organization and probably some tips from devs on how to use it best. If I ever need a graph database I am definitely using orient db.

As a side note I think orient db's reputation of a graph database might be doing it more harm than good since it is really much more than that. It can save data as documents, build relationships on them and even do full text search. I think the orient db guys should focus efforts on marketing other aspects of orient db (like the awesome sql language) besides the graph part.

I agree with what you said but these blogs are not ugly. In fact I think stephen's blog is pretty good looking.

I do hear people saying that code can be reused across client and server but I don't find many examples of it. I understand that using one programming language for both client and server is really good as there is no context switch but I don't think that there can be much code can be shared between client and the server.

Also you don't need to program entire application in open resty. Just the idea of using lua instead of nginx mini- language for the config files can be a good enough reason to give it a try. Every body uses nginx anyways for their front end, no?

I discovered openresty a few weeks back and I must say that I am very impressed by it. I think it is one of those frameworks that can be immediately useful to everyone who is already using nginx as it provides a better way to work with nginx than the default configuration rules.

And the best part is it is 100% compatible with nginx config file. So all your default locations and blocks that already work with nginx are going to work with open resty. You can now organize and program it better.

I am not as experienced as you are but I do spend a lot of time learning new frameworks. As with everything new the more time you spend with it the better you get.

Rather than trying to learn a thing inside out I like to pick stuff that can be immediately useful to me and build some small stuff with it.

For instance I am learning lua (and open resty) at the moment now lua is itself a very small language but I am new to it none the less. I tried reading a programming book but I got bored quickly as it repeated almost the same stuff that I have gone through many times before(operator precedence etc).Instead I created small utility apps that were useful to me immediately.

Like I created a lua script that cd-ed into a directory and started an elastic search server. Another one that abstracts couchdb api into quick command line options (I got tired of typing long curl http requests into the terminal) and does other things like replication pushing design docs etc.

I use books as reference, something to come back to, unless there is a book like learn you some erlang which I read cover to cover :)

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Hello :)

My name is Akshat Jiwan Sharma. I am a freelancer living in gurgaon, India. I have been working as a contractor for about two years now. A large portion of my work has come through odesk and I have gotten some good reviews there. Check out my profile

https://www.odesk.com/users/~01ee4d19be0ec63fe0

At present I working on a series of tutorials for openresty (ngx_lua)

https://github.com/brickcap/openresty_examples

I am good with following technologies

. node js

. erlang

. nginx

. couchdb

. lucene

. Elastic search

I am a regular contributor on github

https://github.com/brickcap

and on stackoverflow

http://stackoverflow.com/users/1263781/akshat-jiwan-sharma

You can contact me at akshatjiwan@gmail.com

Thank you for reading.

Before I forget I love this post on writing by james la fond

http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=210

> I force myself to write for every movie I watch and do it as quick as possible

Ha ha I do exactly the same thing. I write about a movie that I have watched before moving on to the next one.

I used to write in my diary from a very early age so blogging came very naturally to me. When I write I like to present the topic to a reader as I saw it. So if I do a movie or a game review (I do those a lot :) I would write it as if I was describing the movie or a game to a friend. I would talk about the experience of it.

For instance I reviewed Dead man(http://www.staticshin.com/dead-man/) last year and I opened the review with the following lines

>William Blake( Johnny Depp) has nothing to look forward to in his home town. He is unemployed. His parents are dead. His lover has left him. He has only enough savings to pay for his fare to the machine town where he has been promised a job as an accountant. But when he arrives there he finds that the position has already been filled by some one else.

It immediately told the reader what I thought of William Blake which is exactly how I would have described the movie to a friend.

A constant that I have noticed in my writing is that I write well on topics that I want to write about. How do I know what I want to write? By writing. It is funny but it works every time. I have tonnes of half finished blog posts/ideas that I initially thought would be interesting but turned out commonplace.

Two things that I feel are very important for writing (digitally) are

1. A good text editor.

2. A quiet place.

I think it would be a good investment for any blogger to learn markdown and yet I see a lot of writers fiddling around with wsywig editors that constantly break their chain of thought.

Point 2 is self explanatory, I think, since a large part of writing is thinking and if you can think clearly you will write clearly.

One adivce that I absolutely hate is

> write on a niche topic

I don't like blogs that talk about a single topic. When I read a blog I want to know more about the writer as much as I want to know more on the topic. And I know that every individual has many different tastes so why limit yourself?

For me it's discipline. I train my mind to work on a particular time and it has become accustomed to be in the zone at that time. Not all sessions are equally productive (some times I don't get much done) but they are progressive none the less (I am always doing something).

I am bookmarking this thread for times when I am down/ worried about my future. So inspiring to hear from people who have been hacking for this long.

I don't think that ed wiessman(edw519) is 60 yet but his advice seems like coming from someone who has been in the business of programming for centuries.

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Hello, My name is Akshat Jiwan sharma and I am from India. I have been working as a freelancer for quite some time on [odesk]( https://www.odesk.com/users/~01ee4d19be0ec63fe0 )

I have experience in

nodejs

Javscript

Erlang

couchdb

elasticsearch.

Here is a link to my github profile (https://github.com/brickcap)

I love stackoverflow and like to contribute to it in any small way I can (http://stackoverflow.com/users/1263781/akshat-jiwan-sharma)

I also blog at http://www.staticshin.com/

I am very adaptable and don't have any preference for technology. But I am always learning new programming languages, databases and anything that I find interesting.

I would love to get to know you and work with you. To get in contact with me drop me a line at

akshatjiwan@gmail.com

Thanks for answering. I have used elastic search before and I was very impressed by it. Now I am trying to evaluate couchdb-lucene to see if it can prove to be a good alternative.

Hey Adrian I have got a question. Why did you chose elastic search for indexing couchdb data. Why not couchdb-lucene?

Couchdb-lucene seems more tightly integrated with couchdb to to me.

Question for the dev:

Where did you find PayMeForReviewsUser2041? I could use him on a couple of my own apps. Would you mind lending him to me?

could it be go access?

http://goaccess.prosoftcorp.com/

There is also a free ebook exploring elastic search

http://exploringelasticsearch.com/

I think you are absolutely right about "being forced to speak it" part but moving to a different country may not always be a practical solution. Some people, myself included, learn foreign language for fun and moving to a different country would just make it an expensive hobby.

One thing I have discovered is there are fun ways to learn a new language even if you are on your own. I am learning french and I love watching movies so every now I then I watch a french movie first with subtitles and then without. Most of the times I miss the words but I am getting familiar with sounds and every time I pick up french for dummies I get more confident.

But you are right. One must spend time with the language one is learning.

While it is unfortunate that hygiene is not prioritized I feel that both sanitation and energy are big problems and any attempt to solve either should be applauded.

I also think that making the people self sufficient in terms of energy might help in improving the lifestyle of these people.

lol. Although I am an emacs user I signed up for early access invite for vim after visiting the website. Can't wait to try it out.

I love primer. This quote made me smile.

nothing it was just a joke...