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Ask HN: What are you working on today?
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#262At work, setting up CouchDB to store annotated genomic data. Currently replacing a few CouchDB temporary view functions with Lucene search functions.
At home, using Django to write a social photo guide-sharing web app for tinkerers.
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#263Now: drinking coffee and laying in bed reading HN. In an hour: Building an iPhone app in tandem with its Rails backend for a client.
I must say that your personal site/portfolio is fantastic. I LOVE the design.
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#264Writing btree_balance_split. If I manage to get that finished today, I'll move on to btree_balance_merge. I hope to have btree_balance finished by the end of the weekend, at which point I'll write btree_mutate and finally have a key-value store.
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#265I migrated http://wasitup.com from Tokyo Tyrant to Redis.
Why?
Tokyo Tyrant is poorly documented, virtually unmaintained, and has a small community. In addition I've seen strange replication errors and locking when doing expensive operations.
As an alternative I needed something simple, resource efficient, well maintained (antirez is an excellent maintainer), documented, easily deployed, easily configured, and seemingly stable. It also needed to scale down to small virtual machines. Cassandra and MongoDB was evaluated, but drew the short straw.
My only complaint with Redis is its lack of features for high availability out of the box. Thankfully this is going to be addressed in the next release.
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#266Got bored with real work so I'm working on a thing that prints Python tracebacks:
1) in colour
2) in colums, function | line num | file name
3) stripping file name directories
4) Only printing code line on the top N frames (because the rest is just noise).
There may be something like this already, but it's a good excuse to learn more about Python tracebacks.
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#267Finished up a web app/program (PHP and Python cron jobs) that will notify you if a course that you want at Virginia Tech opens up.
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#268Today I released my three-day project "I Write Like". You paste some text, it analyzes it and tells you what famous writer you write like. Link: http://iwl.me
Nice idea. I'd be intrigued to know what features of the writing (other than vocabulary) you're comparing. [some advanced work in this area, plus a perfect UI, could be a really interesting project to work on, and something you could sell]
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