colinhowe

I never truly appreciated how many planes are in the air until now..

London UK. Mid/Senior Engineer. Conversocial.

We provide companies with a SaaS solution that helps them do customer service on things like Facebook and Twitter.

We're excited about improving customer service, we're excited about making enterprise software good instead of the usual trash that people have to put up with.

We primarily work in Python but accept good people from any background.

http://www.conversocial.com/jobs

Whenever I've looked at drawing tutorials they give stages. Just tried the hands tutorial. I can see what circles and bits to be drawing first and why they are there but only because I've done other tutorials. More steps and explanation would be good!

I've made it easier to start adding more metrics... could you pop this one in a github issue? I'll be able to actually remember to do it :)

Added!

htop is nice but it's not so usable for generating output that you can graph up and use for comparing things.

Switched around the process architecture. Less code now :)

Will look at dropping the target-output option.

Good point! Changing it now :)

The monitor is stopped as soon as the target process finishes - which means that the very last reading emitted will only contain information from during the run of the target.

If it were done the other way around then we'd have to poll for the termination of the forked target process. Either the poll duration would have to be really small or the monitor would contain readings for some time after the end of the target.

This isn't so bad when running with an interval of 1 second... but for an interval of 1 minute (or longer) it can start to give odd readings.

To be honest, I'm thinking of removing the very final reading anyway. Or, at least documenting that the final reading may be slightly misleading.

I believe prstat (the Python library I'm using) has this. I'll probably add it in the next few hours :)

We play a lot of openarena at lunch (private server in the office). We're just trying this out now. First impressions are that the install and configuration steps are really smooth - something often omitted in these kind of projects. It's also fun. Might be that we switch our gaming from openarena to warsow...

There's definitely a lack of good developers in London. We don't mind too much about what language people know as the fundamentals of good software translate to pretty much any language :)

they're totally worth it:

  - less time spent optimising
  - fewer machines needed (can pile a lot more data on to one server)

If money really is an issue then something like flashcache might be a good stepping stone (https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/)

A bounty on issues would also be interesting... sometimes you have an issue you can't personally fix and isn't critical enough to get a contributors interest. $100 might get their interest though :)

Are there any stock letters to send to my MP?

"The information commissioner said public bodies not involved in dealing with serious crime or national security, such as the Department for Work and Pensions, should have to apply to a court before access was granted."

I don't have much of a problem with GCHQ using it... but the Department for Work and Pensions? Also, a lack of warrants is concerning.

It feels very much like a law that could be exploited by anyone.

sigh In preparation, where's the best place for a startup hacker to emigrate to nowadays?

This does make me tempted to just put everything in one zone (less latency) and have a backup on another region entirely. Clearly, backups on different AZs isn't the best plan

Their dashboard not showing this and Twitter being more reliable as a way of showing downtime is a sad tale.

East coast issue. Looks like routing issues mainly in getting to Europe. Fun times.

This is nice. I'd love it if I could create a company account, invite my colleagues and then know that only those people can access the pads that we make.

Also, ability to download all data as a dump would be nice.

Mr Chaffetz is my new hero. More politicians should raise the issue of people not having a clue what they're on about. Even better, raising it eloquently.

London - Conversocial

We make a SaaS platform that helps companies do a better job of customer service and marketing on Facebook and Twitter (and other social networks soon)

We're looking for someone to automate breaking what we make and tell us we're rubbish :)

http://www.conversocial.com/jobs#testing

Clearly invalid. Prior use dates back to X BC when gestures by cavemen were used.

[Edit] Or are they going to be chasing anyone that uses light in some fashion?

Interesting that it has transaction support... I don't believe many of the mainstream NoSQL options support transactions.

Having had the joy of installing an Oracle database in the past I nearly spilt my tea when I read "Easy Administration"

Does anyone know what these patents claim to cover? "wifi" seems a bit broad

Awesome stuff. You should put the source somewhere :)

Keep going with it. I started a similar (short-lived) site a few years ago.

At the time I think I got too caught up on the idea of it being all my own data. You could easily make it pull in data from Facebook (as well as your own data and other places). I think the gain of a dedicated app is that it won't change when the next idea for a profile comes along. Also, you can probably do an even better and more useful job if that is all you are focussed on.

Good luck!

pysolr is on the wishlist... we use Solr at work so it shouldn't be too long a wait :)

It was indeed... and after a short bit of stalking... hello!