Hacker News: timtrueman

Twitter open sources typeahead.js

timtrueman — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:16:14 +0000

Article URL: http://engineering.twitter.com/2013/02/twitter-typeaheadjs-you-autocomplete-me.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5246783

Points: 17

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New comment by timtrueman in "Twitter employee live-tweets his WSOP ascent"

timtrueman — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:44:04 +0000

Storytelling on Twitter in the first person is filled with suspense, at least in this case.

His Tweets are filled with the two basic building blocks of great storytelling, even if only by coincidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loxJ3FtCJJA

Federated Fluther Lets Third Parties Integrate Q&A With A Few Lines Of Code

timtrueman — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:23:44 +0000

Article URL: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/09/federated-fluther-lets-third-parties-integrate-qa-with-a-few-lines-of-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1589060

Points: 2

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New comment by timtrueman in "Poll: When do you usually go to bed?"

timtrueman — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:31:43 +0000

I tend to alternate between two schedules for a week or more at a time:

12-2AM: Life is busy and I've lost track of time but I am always in bed by 2AM.

10PM (ish): My body is in tune with the sun and so I'm waking up at 5-6AM by the light. I find I usually need naps to make it through the day but this schedule is usually my most productive. I get onto this schedule when I crash early from staying up late for an entire week or when I spend time outdoors (e.g. camping for a week in Yosemite under the stars).

New comment by timtrueman in "The First Falcon 9 Launch"

timtrueman — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:23:46 +0000

Audio feed of what's going on: http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?feedId=705

New comment by timtrueman in "Introducing the Linode Backup Service"

timtrueman — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:15:56 +0000

I could have used this last week when I hosed my box running the Lucid Lynx upgrade from 8.04 (I lost networking). I can easily justify $5/month to not have to waste my time rebuilding a server like I just had to…

New comment by timtrueman in "Ask HN: Who's hiring?"

timtrueman — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:45:26 +0000

Fluther is now hiring a software engineer and an operations engineer: http://fluther.theresumator.com/apply/

We'll give a free iPad to anyone who refers someone to us that we hire.

New comment by timtrueman in "IPhone OS 4.0 unveiled, adds multitasking, shipping this summer"

timtrueman — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:05:04 +0000

Alright good job Apple. Now when can I have Google Voice without jailbreaking?

New comment by timtrueman in "NoSQL vs. RDBMS: Let the flames begin"

timtrueman — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:28:30 +0000

NoSQL/NoREL is a tradeoff of features for performance. If you don't need certain features and you can make the trade and need the extra performance than it can make sense for some people. I don't think it applies to everyone. They made the decision that was best for them and congrats on that.

Also I can say rotational disks may not provide the economics that make RDBMS seem attractive—but FusionIO cards have really changed that. And I didn't just read the datasheet and get a nerd boner. I watched the queries from 8 beefy physical database boxes (that were getting hammered) combined onto one physical box that was identical in all ways except it had an FusionIO card. It handled 8x the number of queries with ease and could have taken a lot more punishment. Yes, the cards are expensive but in the scheme of getting rid of 7 servers it was actually saving significant amounts of money.

New comment by timtrueman in "Ask HN: Who's hiring?"

timtrueman — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:43:21 +0000

Fluther (http://fluther.com/) is hiring an operations engineer: http://fluther.theresumator.com/apply/fy2tOt/

We're building something brand new, incredibly challenging, and very exciting and this is your chance take something complex and setup the perfect environment for it (if you've ever wanted to do try that…). We're a Python/Django shop, we're in San Francisco and this isn't a remote job.

Fluther is funded by Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Ron Conway, Naval Ravikant, and Dave McClure, and we're advised by Biz Stone (Twitter) and Leonard Speiser (Bix).

New comment by timtrueman in "Building a world-class team: six mistakes I made early in my career"

timtrueman — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:51:39 +0000

On the subject of "don't get informal before the formal interview but I'm nervous unless it's informal", why not use two people and clearly delineate their purposes to the interviewee: one person to be informal and get them comfortable before handing them off to another person to conduct a formal interview. If you're up front about the second person and the fact that it will be a formal interview, wouldn't solve both problem to some degree?

New comment by timtrueman in "Going for a trot on the Django pony"

timtrueman — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:57:17 +0000

I'm sorry about that. We get a lot of spam comments so I was constantly checking the Wordpress page to approve comments. For some reason a HUGE chunk of them didn't show up until just now. I approved all comments that weren't spam. The ones that were there when your comment wasn't there were people who had commented before and were auto-approved. Again, I'm sorry you felt that way, it was not the intention.

New comment by timtrueman in "Going for a trot on the Django pony"

timtrueman — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:31:08 +0000

Our designer (http://www.davidcole.me/) is awesome. We'll let him know you love it!

New comment by timtrueman in "Going for a trot on the Django pony"

timtrueman — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:33:53 +0000

That's the sense I get—that they are laying the framework for more advanced database functionality like sharding.

New comment by timtrueman in "Going for a trot on the Django pony"

timtrueman — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:33:15 +0000

How well would you say you know South?

I felt that way at first but once I got to know South I found it to be much better than custom queries.

New comment by timtrueman in "Going for a trot on the Django pony"

timtrueman — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:15:00 +0000

I'm excited for that but what I really meant was split/sharded databases, something you need at scale (which Fluther doesn't need...yet). Correct me if I'm wrong but the upcoming multiple database support can't do that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_(database_architecture)

What it seems to support is "Database Routers" which let you implement your own sharding. It's not that you can't do it. It's just that it doesn't support sharding out of the box.

I'm more excited for the template performance improvements.

Going for a trot on the Django pony

timtrueman — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:13:47 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.fluther.com/going-for-a-trot-on-the-django-pony/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112953

Points: 19

# Comments: 15

New comment by timtrueman in "How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter"

timtrueman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:02:17 +0000

This advice feels wrong but it reminds of what Jason Fried said at this year's startup school, which I feel is better advice anyways. [I'm probably butchering it but one of the gists of it was] Just get started and practice making money.

http://www.justin.tv/clip/b897875d2e8cd907

Innovation in Battery Manufacturing: A123Systems, Amprius Score Funds from Feds

timtrueman — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:42:47 +0000

Article URL: http://earth2tech.com/2009/12/16/innovation-in-manufacturing-a123systems-amprius-score-funds-from-feds/

Hacker News: timtrueman

Twitter open sources typeahead.js

New comment by timtrueman in "Twitter employee live-tweets his WSOP ascent"

Federated Fluther Lets Third Parties Integrate Q&A With A Few Lines Of Code

New comment by timtrueman in "Poll: When do you usually go to bed?"

New comment by timtrueman in "The First Falcon 9 Launch"

New comment by timtrueman in "Introducing the Linode Backup Service"

New comment by timtrueman in "Ask HN: Who's hiring?"

New comment by timtrueman in "IPhone OS 4.0 unveiled, adds multitasking, shipping this summer"

New comment by timtrueman in "NoSQL vs. RDBMS: Let the flames begin"

New comment by timtrueman in "Ask HN: Who's hiring?"

New comment by timtrueman in "Building a world-class team: six mistakes I made early in my career"

New comment by timtrueman in "Going for a trot on the Django pony"

New comment by timtrueman in "Going for a trot on the Django pony"

New comment by timtrueman in "Going for a trot on the Django pony"

New comment by timtrueman in "Going for a trot on the Django pony"

New comment by timtrueman in "Going for a trot on the Django pony"

Going for a trot on the Django pony

New comment by timtrueman in "How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter"

Innovation in Battery Manufacturing: A123Systems, Amprius Score Funds from Feds

Does open source undermine innovation?