October 2011
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codingjester:
I never thought I could get so excited about bitwise operations until I got to Tumblr.
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Adam Laiacano: Re-organizing factors in ggplot2... →
adamlaiacano:
When you have a factor with many levels and want to see a histogram, it’s always more useful to see them sorted in some kind of order. An example of this is shown below:
labels <- c( rep("a", 100*rexp(1)), rep("b", 100*rexp(1)), rep("c", 100*rexp(1)), rep("d", 100*rexp(1)))
x <-...
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Blake Matheny: ID Generation at Scale →
mobocracy:
Most companies that operate at a large enough scale run into the problem of efficiently generating ID’s. At tumblr this problem was solved with a simple libevent based HTTP service that essentially generates ID’s fast enough to meet our current demand and handles failure/startup by grabbing the…
