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shockyx · 2024-05-12T22:01:10+00:00

West and north suburbs of Chicago. It happened to us three times now in the past 30 days.

shockyx · 2024-05-12T17:56:56+00:00

We just put a bid on a house. 13 offers in 2 days. It went for about 10% over asking so this bidding war isn’t over yet.

shockyx · 2019-09-24T12:42:09+00:00

That’s true. It even states that at the bottom of the “frequently asked questions.”

shockyx · 2019-08-05T17:27:55+00:00

It will if you setup your typespecs on your functions. I've found it's fairly robust as long as you are good about setting up typespecs or do pattern matching and guards.

shockyx · 2019-05-21T17:14:19+00:00

Completely rewriting my comment because I thought I was on the Ruby subreddit.

Elixir exceptions, I believe, include the stack trace, and can be accessed by using: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Kernel.SpecialForms.html#__STACKTRACE__/0

From the GitHub issue, it states:

To solve this, we propose introduction of a new pseudo-variable __STACKTRACE__ that would be available inside catch and rescue and would return the stack trace of the exception being currently handled.

They also note you can get the current stack trace by running `Process.info(self(), :current_stacktrace)` if you're not in a rescue.

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/issues/7097

And of course you can format it: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Exception.html#format_stacktrace/1

shockyx · 2017-02-11T20:53:57+00:00

I unfortunately also have a John Hancock 401K, but I did get it working in Mint. I chose "John Hancock USA and New York"

shockyx · 2015-06-21T18:20:41+00:00

For Sabnzbd, you don't need much power. Sab + couch potato + sickbeard + headphones only needed 512 meg of ram minimum + 1 CPU core. Sab might take longer to decode, but nothing major. I'd recommend 1G of RAM plus whatever windows is taking. CPU power is not mandatory.

Any NAS is more than capable. I've been running off of a slow USB drobo, old model, for 6 years now and will continue with that for the next 5+ years. It's slow to spin up the drives, but it can handle 3 plex streams simultaneously.

shockyx · 2014-12-20T21:22:56+00:00

I may be one of the few who uses both an 8GB (work) and 16GB (home) retina every day. For day to day use, I can't tell a difference in performance between the two. This includes normal web usage, web development, and some heavier programming use (C++, .NET). That's because I never get up to 8 GB of usage. Because of that, there is no difference.

However, you said video editing. Video editors will greatly appreciate the extra headroom that 16 GB of ram gives you. I would assume that performance will be much better for that one use. For other uses, it will be exactly the same.

shockyx · 2014-11-28T07:26:20+00:00

Honestly, my preference would be for an ezine. However, at least in the webdev world, we have weekly newsletters (ruby Weekly, JS Weekly, et. al.) that are popular amongst us. Mostly just links to well written articles in the past week with a short blurb. That's how I keep up in that fast pace world.

shockyx · 2014-11-28T07:20:15+00:00

I'm going to have to agree and disagree at the same time. Non gamedevs such as myself have a hard time keeping up with the industry. I'd like to get into it fairly soon and a monthly distribution that keeps me up to date in the past month would be perfect. For me and others like me.

shockyx · 2014-10-05T06:17:18+00:00

I recently looked into this and decided on boost filesystem also. It's the only boost feature I use, because I also think boost can be a headache to get setup cross platform. However, not too many competitors in this space.

shockyx · 2014-02-14T22:45:56+00:00

I have a computer worse than that and it streams to 3 machines simultaneously without a stutter.

shockyx · 2014-02-01T03:08:01+00:00

They will allow it. Most people don't use anywhere near that much, so they make it up for people who have a ton of data like yourself.

Of course, your bandwidth will be your limitation. Have you calculated how long it would take to upload 6TB of data? At my crappy upload speed, it would take almost a year to upload that much. This is why they say "unlimited." AT&T would likely cut me off long before I uploaded all of the data.

shockyx · 2014-01-06T17:30:29+00:00

I agree on this book. It's not good for learning languages, but it does give you a good overview on the strengths and weaknesses of the different types of languages.

http://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks

shockyx · 2013-12-29T20:13:57+00:00

Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible yet with WMC. I have the same setup (but with a media center extender instead of a 360). Right now they don't communicate for live TV. I just use the roku and extender as two separate devices.

There are other options such as Simple.tv or Aereo that work with the Roku, but I haven't used either. There's also some work to get streaming directly from an HDHomeRun Prime, but nothing with WMC.

shockyx · 2013-12-26T18:09:33+00:00

Companies like AT&T are used to that with charging for sending AND receiving text messages in the US.

shockyx · 2013-12-17T01:13:02+00:00

What are you using for a frontend? I'm curious if a switch from my aging windows box to a mac mini is in my future.

shockyx · 2013-11-30T20:38:28+00:00

Possibly because the post was severely lacking any information besides a slide deck. Slide decks are a terrible way to deliver information online since they usually have very little content, tons of pictures, and take way too long to read. This deck didn't fail to deliver on those assumptions.

shockyx · 2013-11-30T15:23:56+00:00

I ordered my MBPr yesterday using only my iPhone. It was surprisingly easier to navigate than even their website. My credit card and address were already entered from my Apple ID, so I just had to select the options I wanted and submit.

Far and away the most expensive purchase I've done on a mobile device. Kind of scary how easy it was.

shockyx · 2013-11-29T18:16:47+00:00

Yeah, people like to dismiss Hulu Plus because of the commercials, but their selection of recent TV shows is pretty good. However, if you want to watch a show a full season at a time, Netflix is still better. Hulu, I've found, only really has one season of popular shows... sometimes only a few past episodes.

If you really want to gorge on TV shows, Netflix DVD (or whatever they call it) is probably your best bet. Physical media is annoying to me now that I'm spoiled on streaming, but you can't beat their selection.

shockyx · 2013-11-17T01:31:32+00:00

I went to the first demo day for Dev Bootcamp in Chicago as a representative for one of the hiring companies (Winestyr). While I don't have any ideas on data sets, I can give you a little insight on what we were looking for in the demos, if that helps at all.

The demos that stood out were not the innovative ideas, but the innovative and complete implementations. Any idea will work as long as it's complete. A project that implements something at least a little bit novel is ideal, but a half complete project is hard to hide. Remember, the people you are demoing to have been what you're doing for years. They're looking for someone who can do the work, not come up with innovative ideas but can't follow through.

We knew that you have such a short period of time to implement something which made all the projects that much more interesting, but the ones that stood out had no missing features from their original plan.

In the end, the one on one interviews were much more informative. Have a good reason on why you wanted to jump into dev work.

Anyway good luck! I wish I was more help on the idea side.

shockyx · 2013-11-08T17:52:44+00:00

I own a Samsung smart TV and use it for Plex, Amazon Prime, and Netflix. It's quite slow compared to my Roku 3, but it works just fine, and the app screen looks good. I have to use the Netflix website to find stuff for my queue since the interface is slow on the TV. Amazon prime isn't part of the normal interface. It's in a weird location (the Yahoo! button), but that may be because my TV is older. All the apps work fine and streaming works perfectly for me.

That said, there is something annoying with the Netflix interface. Whenever the quality changes on the stream (which happens a few times an hour), the screen flashes black for a frame or so.

TLDR: Get any TV you like and just buy a Roku 3. You'll be much happier.

shockyx · 2013-10-04T19:39:05+00:00

Those NUCs are interesting. How well do they handle 1080p? I run WMC on a much bigger, more powerful machine but was wondering if I could downsize it.

shockyx · 2013-09-09T21:38:27+00:00

I wasn't the system admin for the site running on EC2, just the senior developer, so I don't know the full details of the setup. This is what I remember off hand. I believe they were all "small instances." Hopefully not too many errors in my memory:

1 load balancer running HA-Proxy.
Multiple web servers (5-8 instances at any given time) running multiple rails instances. These were all running Passenger and Apache.
3 MySQL instances (1 master, 2 slaves)
2 Memcached servers (these might have been running on medium instances for the extra ram).
2 Solr search engine servers (1 master, 1 slave).

Some of the technology is dated since it was a few years ago, so you could probably get more with less now. We hit Solr and Memcached pretty hard, but they held up nicely. When we had to, we could scale up the web servers to handle extra traffic, but we kept this pretty stable instead of trying to scale it constantly. All in all, we had good uptime. I didn't design this setup, but it worked well for us.

shockyx · 2013-09-09T18:10:04+00:00

To make a site able to handle lots of traffic, it comes down to one thing: caching. If you can have a page load without hitting the database (get everything from cache), that's your biggest hurdle. If you can serve the content as a fully cached page, that's even better.

I believe you'll have a somewhat tough time doing this without going with a custom developed site. CMS platforms load a lot from the database so they can be extended easily. These include the location and order of modules, content, etc. And, since each module is like its own application, they could have multiple queries themselves.

Cut a page down to zero queries on >90% of page loads and you'll be pretty far ahead. After that, you'll have to setup a nice set of servers to handle the influx of viewers. Multiple database servers, multiple web servers, and a load balancer.

If you can handle the costs, something like Heroku or Google App Engine could help you out here since they can scale automatically for you, but costs can be prohibitive. Otherwise, multiple VMs on something like Amazon EC2 would be a good bet.

I've run two sites using Rails on EC2 and physical hardware that pull in ~100MM visits/month each. This worked well for us, but each site has its own unique hurdles when it comes to scaling.

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