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qrpike

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About qrpike

Web Developer. Worked for places like Cartoon Network, CNN and Google.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #29243691

    You can customize almost anything. Font colors, BG colors, size of the boxes, animation speeds, scroll speeds and more. It was created for our office (Polygon.io) but wanted others…

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    Comment #29243676

    Thanks for the info! This would be really interesting to try. The code is structured so that most would be reusable with a different rendering method. We may purchase a couple to t…

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    Comment #28719534

    What is the difference between this and https://github.com/yahoo/CMAK

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    Comment #15651592

    Very nice ;)

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    Comment #15618535

    https://polygon.io - real-time stock data APIs

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    Comment #15258018

    I'm not sure I would call Cassandra slow. If the schemas are done well, it can be quite good for time series. Obviously this depends on the type of time series you're writing/query…

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    Comment #15257484

    Both are open source, distributed ( must pay for influxdb ) databases. If you setup Cassandra's schemas correctly it can be good for time series. Influx is more suited to time seri…

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    Comment #15257453

    We offer free real-time forex streams ( polygon.io ). We are required to charge for equities because the actual exchanges charge us fees per use. Otherwise I would love it to all b…

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    Comment #15253892

    Still paid only for anything other than single node? We switched to Cassandra for that reason.

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    Comment #15175450

    Now it's 215+.... Very strange

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    Comment #15175443

    Agreed. It went from #2 on front page, to #215 in half an hour.

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    Comment #13643057

    Keep up the good work! Much appreciated

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    Comment #12603033

    Personally, I don't think so. You can make more contracting as a developer ( 1099 ). Also you get more tax writeoffs, too.

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    Comment #12225058

    109.105.177.184 Was the attempted IP.

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    Comment #12225055

    Signed up for this and minutes later got notifications from LogMeIn with failed login attempts from Russia. Never had this happen EVER before.

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    Comment #11900971

    AGREED 100%. They forget the people who are MAKING the apps for all of these nice mobile devices they are selling hundreds of millions of. What happened to Apple being for those wh…

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    Comment #8990134

    NodeJS Script to download an entire Spotify Playlist ( FROM SPOTIFY @ 160kbps ) to your local machine. Also upon download it writes the ID3 data to the file.

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    Comment #8988545

    Quick script for downloading an entire spotify playlist ( FROM SPOTIFY @ 160kbps ) to your local machine. Also upon download it writes the ID3 data to the file.

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