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okalex··on Machine Learning with Scala and Spark: Feature Engineering
Link is broken. Here's the actual link: http://eugenezhulenev.com/blog/2015/06/15/feature-engineerin...
okalex··on Ask HN: Life advice for 25yo Web Dev, single, no debt, $30k/£20k savings
Go traveling. Central America is cheap, beautiful, and full of other travelers (i.e. people who don't know anyone there and are therefore happy to make new friends). And if you have some work lined up before you go, you can code using hostel wifi and live like a king (a king that sleeps in a room with 6 or 7 strangers, but a king no less).
okalex··on Send email asynchronously with Rails and Sidekiq
Well that would be because I didn't know about the delayed extensions :) Will update the post accordingly.

And regarding .send… d'oh! I'm actually using .deliver in my code and changed it just before pressing publish. What can I say? It was 4am and I wasn't thinking properly.

okalex··on Show HN: Evernote powered website/blogging platform
Agreed, but the markdown formatting didn't seem to work on my first test post. Still, a really cool idea. Nice job, guys!
okalex··on Heroku Class Action
That's not entirely true. Cloud Foundry (the software) is an open-source platform that allows for compatibility across providers. You can see a list of compatible providers here, in addition to cloudfoundry.com: http://www.cloudfoundry.com/partners

Full disclosure: I work for AppFog, one of the providers listed.

okalex··on Best place to launch a company? Not the valley anymore...
most popular != best
okalex··on Show HN: Easily publish an email conversation to the web
Stay tuned ;)
okalex··on Show HN: Easily publish an email conversation to the web
Yeah, I'll definitely get in touch soon. Cheers!
okalex··on Show HN: Easily publish an email conversation to the web
Yep, I'm still going to. There's some difference between our ideas and I think they're both valuable for different segments. I should have a show HN within a week.
okalex··on Show HN: Easily publish an email conversation to the web
Ah man, I've been working on a side project that does just this for the last couple weeks. Was almost ready to show it off. Good on ya, guys.
okalex··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
Portland, OR | Full-Time | AppFog

Developers and Designers

AppFog (PHP Fog) is the leading platform-as-a-service built specifically for PHP. We have spent a lot of energy iterating on feedback from our users (over 2000 detailed surveys) to build a really great product that appeals to a large and growing user-base (over 15,000 people have signed up and growing). On top of that, we have put together a team of exceptionally talented developers. We are O’Reilly authors, open-source contributors and we enthusiastically ship code.

For more details visit http://appfog.jobscore.com/

okalex··on New Boston Globe website design
It's not the transition from one layout to another that is graceful. Under normal circumstances, you're not resizing your browser to use a site. What's graceful is the fact that the layout is well suited for each and every resolution you throw at it, whether you're on a full-screen desktop or a mobile phone.
okalex··on Vote to amend the DMCA and help music apps like Grooveshark stay alive
Yeah, and I'd be willing to bet their lawyers don't even know how the back-end software works. Idiots.