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Re:Ask HN: Finding a tiny Linux server on Thursday September 06, 2012 @04:05PM (#4485944)
it actually supports k2.6 since 2010. It runs on some of the newest Asus routers, so I wouldn't say those are obsolete.

Still, it is kind of a hack.

Re:Ask HN: Finding a tiny Linux server on Thursday September 06, 2012 @03:40PM (#4485822)
what about a wifi router running tomatousb ? http://tomatousb.org/
Re:Pipe Viewer on Thursday May 24, 2012 @04:16PM (#4020339)
It's amazingly useful to have realtime throughput rates

tail -f query.log | pv -tri 1 > /dev/null

Re:Enough with whiteboard coding interviews on Monday July 25, 2011 @09:02PM (#2805502)
I think both are OK. Personally, I like whiteboards to outline solutions. A sheet of paper may serve the same purpose.

Once I decided how to solve the problem, vim comes in handy :)

Re:Ask HN:Help for server side options. I know only .net on Sunday July 24, 2011 @05:24PM (#2800369)
I'd go for ROR, or maybe Sinatra + your favorite ORM.

If you don't want to host your own servers, you can grab an ec2 free micro instance, or just go with heroku or cloudfoundry.

Hi,

I wrote a bunch of jQuery plugins for IndexTank on https://github.com/flaptor/indextank-jquery/tree/indextankiz...

I'm working on instant search right now .. So I'll have it available soon

Re:How I wrote a Twitter timeline search app in two days on Thursday January 20, 2011 @07:21PM (#2125898)
probably they didn't do it because it takes too many resources to have a separate index for every user.

I thought about adding Facebook status updates to the index. If people start asking for it, I'll consider doing it.

Re:How I wrote a Twitter timeline search app in two days on Thursday January 20, 2011 @07:11PM (#2125875)
What you see on your timeline at the time you sign up is indexed right away. After that, the app gets all your tweets and those from who you follow. As twitter has an hourly limit for API calls, it may take some time to index your friends history.

It depends on how many friends you have and how much they tweet

Re:Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline on Monday January 17, 2011 @04:33PM (#2113546)
I keep all the tweets. So the answer is Yes, you'll be able to find tweets that twitter's search does not let you find.
Re:Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline on Monday January 17, 2011 @03:22PM (#2113297)
It took me about 3 days to build it. It's my first ruby / heroku app, so I learned a lot. Sinitter (http://sinitter.moocode.com/) saved me a lot of coding, though.
Re:Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline on Monday January 17, 2011 @03:21PM (#2113287)
I'm doing something like that on my app. Even requesting 200 tweets per API call, it takes a while to index when you have lots of friends.
Re:Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline on Monday January 17, 2011 @03:13PM (#2113255)
I'm fetching your timeline, you friends timelines, and indexing them with IndexTank.

It's incremental, so it may take a while. There's a limited number of allowed twitter API calls per hour, so in case you have lots of friends it'll take some time to have them all indexed.

About the status, there's a status bar on the upper right corner.

Re:Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline on Monday January 17, 2011 @03:02PM (#2113217)
I can choose between a Nexus S or an IPad.

Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline

I'm a developer at IndexTank, we are having an internal contest similar to the public one we had with Heroku a few days ago. My entry is an app to search your personal twitter timeline, something I've been wanting Twitter to do but for some reason they don't. Does anyone find this useful?http://friendtweets.heroku.com/

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Re:Holiday Hacks Contest – Enter to Win a MacBook Air on Thursday December 16, 2010 @10:33PM (#2015042)
I'd add grooveshark to that mix