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r4vik

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Hacker and Writer.

Can be found on: github @ https://github.com/r4vi twitter @ https://twitter.com/r4vi

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/r4vi; my proof: https://keybase.io/r4vi/sigs/GEeAG_HvyhAUscpRZo40Z447G8Xllk76gJac3Qf8kwE ]

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r4vik··on Show HN: A url-based API for images (my weekend project)
seems a lot like jpg.to http://optimus_prime.jpg.to/
r4vik··on JQuery 2.0 Released
installing chrome or firefox doesn't magically uninstall IE
r4vik··on It was not a DDoS: MtGox got 20k new accounts per day
see https://coinbase.com/
r4vik··on New GitHub Pages domain: github.io
this was a long time coming; excellent move
r4vik··on PostgreSQL 9.2.4, 9.1.9, 9.0.13 and 8.4.17 released
defense in depth though, users shouldn't be able to craft connection requests to begin with
r4vik··on Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact
Nice try Guardian: http://order-order.com/2013/04/04/a-tip-off-for-the-guardian...
r4vik··on Build a Twilio Hard Phone with SIP from Twilio, Raspberry Pi, and Asterisk
I'm pretty sure sipgate supports free 800 calls
r4vik··on More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours
repack without the most heinous permissions: http://ge.tt/3os1cIb/v/0?c it's quite good - shame they ask for those.
r4vik··on BitInstant hacked: What and how it happened
there's no reason for you to give them your actual mother's maiden name though, just tell them M)z&1<$Ccy(i]Kg&&dp` or something
r4vik··on Posterous tracker – downloading all of Posterous
Why don't posterous/twitter just dump their data in a torrent instead of making it hard?
r4vik··on LG acquires webOS from HP, plans to use it in smart TV platform
Nexus 4 is ugly?
r4vik··on Ask HN: State of Django vs. Rails?
Flask is basically exactly the same as Sinatra
r4vik··on Berkshire and 3G Capital to Buy Heinz for $23 Billion
as long as the debt costs them less than 6% then free money
r4vik··on Lessons learned in building RQ
RQ is cool but it's not fair to say that celery is complicated, if you use redis rather than rabbitMQ then celery is just as easy to set up and has all the features RQ wants to add in 0.4 and 0.5
r4vik··on We just launched OpenSignal 2.0 for Android
so what if they have legal / export restrictions, it shouldn't stop them from getting software
r4vik··on Optimizing Nginx, Node.js and networking for heavy workloads
have you tried making nodejs listen on a unix socket http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.4/api/net.html#socket.connect and then set your proxy upstreams in nginx to use that?

edit:

scratch that, it seems you're using node on cluster of servers (not on same box as nginx). In which case the article is good advice.

r4vik··on The Simple Math Behind Early Retirement
> Assumptions:

> - You can earn 5% investment returns after inflation during your saving years

r4vik··on Branch
not a limitation of OpenID or OAuth, it's just that twitter doesn't give your email address to 3rd parties (facebook does)
r4vik··on CookiesOK browser plugin
that's why I didn't go down this route; most sites keep serving cookies until you tell them not to so I've found that an adblock filterlist works very well: https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list where we just hide the entire cookie cruft every time or block the cookie prompt script if it's a widely deployed plugin
r4vik··on JQuery's API documentation gets a redesign
This is still slow as shit, why? It seems to be running under php when the whole thing could've been generated with jekyll and maybe even pjax'd to make navigation even quicker.
r4vik··on Ask HN: Where are all the programming jobs?
Should be easy to test this with a small linked in ad campaign targeting people in games industry groups or working for EA. Other people you should look at are those working in film/sfx they are notoriously badly paid and fit your bill.
r4vik··on Ask HN: Macbook Air + Remote Server = Macbook Pro?
I have never had a problem with hetzner doing this exact thing.
r4vik··on Ask HN: Where are all the programming jobs?
seems like you should be targeting burnt out games developers
r4vik··on An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4
and express is 2 fucking days in the UK, I'd call that a cultural faux pas, as 2 day shipping here is the crappy option. I've had amazon get things to my door in less than 14 hours given the right conditions.
r4vik··on Ask HN: What are the most innovative web frameworks?
Meteor is kind of nuts: https://github.com/meteor/meteor, real time, database abstraction built right into the browser/js, no lag for saving as it uses background sync.

Screencast is here: http://player.vimeo.com/video/40104996

r4vik··on You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
AdBlock is for blocking (annoying) ads, not trackers.
r4vik··on Why are ruby devs looked down upon by pythonists?
they are? news to me
r4vik··on A tour of the world in d3.js
You're right, Jason has fixed it as you can see here: http://bl.ocks.org/4183701
r4vik··on A tour of the world in d3.js
it can be arranged: http://bl.ocks.org/4185745
r4vik··on A tour of the world in d3.js
It uses about 40% of one CPU here which isn't so bad.

Yes HTML5 isn't a Flash replacement on it's own, but with the right tooling it's getting there: http://html.adobe.com/edge/animate/

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