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Today we are open sourcing Hyper. It's built on the ideas presented in From Tomorrow Back to Yesterday and Anders Murphy’s demos. It's early days so expect things to evolve but we …

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In my mind there are a few reasons, but indeed it could definitely be implemented with a flat file. Sometimes you aren't guaranteed write-access to a file on the system, especially…

I haven't tested on a laptop be honest. Interesting point. What is atrun? I'll do some research and see if I can do anything about it... For reference node idles at about 3% CPU on…

Very cool. How robust is the english parsing? For example, would it understand something like "The first wednesday of every month"? Either way I will definitely check it out.

See above for Mongo vs Redis. As for "feature completeness", this is a pretty feature complete job scheduling library. It leaves the writing of a Web interface to someone else, but…

The choice of Mongo vs Redis was intentional. Without configuration Redis doesn't guarantee persistence as well as Mongo. Since Redis is often used for non-critical data such as se…

So if you reboot the server, you just need to make sure that you call agenda.start() again. This will start the job processor which looks for jobs that have come due in the databas…

http://slingingcode.com/writing-a-library-for-building-aggregations/

I am working on a website that runs contests. We need to confirm that users map to real people to avoid cheating on contests. Obviously email confirmation is a way, but easily scam…

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Sorry for the delay, highly recommend using backbone-rails [1]. Reading the docs for Backbone and then the source for the adapters in that gem was really helpful. Ryan Bates also d…

Check out my site: http://goodmate.co We do similar things and you might find some inspiration or things you'd like to build into yours. PS. I also did mine for getting familiar wi…

"Smashing the stack for fun and profit" is absolutely a great introduction to the classic buffer overflow attack. It is also the foundation on which tons of exploits are built on: …

Thanks for the praise!

I appreciate the feedback! We are still playing with the idea of how viable this is as an actual business. For me this gave me an opportunity to escape from the more standard tasks…

One thing we are looking into is building a sort of roommate resume. We have data on how much you borrow from friends, how long you take to pay back, how often you do and don't do …