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The New Guy

Started by Daniel Ha · 5 months ago

Andrew and I both started this week, but seeing as I just flew in from Texas on Sunday, I think I’m the official new guy. That’s me: Devin Naquin, Official Disqus New Guy.

I’m a software developer and in the next couple weeks, I’ll be tackling a couple behind-the-scenes tasks here at Disqus. First, I’ll be [...] ... Continue reading »

19 comments

Luke Hoersten
5 months ago

I'm pretty excited about the prospects of data mining the Disqus data! I've been thinking about it a lot and it's actually what inspired my Erlang + Python blog post. You probably don't want to be tying up the Disqus Django servers with this added dimension of statistical analysis (potentially a lot of mapreduce computations) which lends itself perfectly to Amazon's EC2 and Erlang. Let me know if you have any questions about the Erlang cluster + Python techniques.

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esbie
5 months ago

Hi new guy! :) I'm the new girl at my work too, moved out to the valley from New Mexico for the summer. And I, for one, miss the 100 degree New Mexico heat. It's so cold here! Good luck at Disqus!

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Hendrik Mans
5 months ago

You're on Django, right? How would you go about creating a test suite for a Django project? (I'm from a Rails background and haven't really done much with Django so far, but the last time I had a look at it I noticed there was no "out of the box", canonical way of doing tests.)

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Devin
5 months ago

We have a couple of options that I'll be pursuing, but there is a basic Django test framework. http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/test...

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Hendrik Mans
5 months ago

Cool, I hadn't seen that before. Thanks!

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Benjamin Golub
5 months ago

There isn't a test suite already in place? Wow; congrats for being able to develop so rapidly without one.

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Thomas Pham
5 months ago

Welcome Devin!

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JC John SESE Cuneta (謝施洗)
5 months ago

Welcome!!

Bright future for DISQUS ^_^

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ijohn
5 months ago

Welcome Devin! Glad to you have working on Disqus!

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jyoseph
5 months ago

Devin, you the man! Welcome!

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Den Stockman
5 months ago

Hi and Good luck at Disqus.

Den

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Sallyanne - web design
4 months ago

Couple of weeks late but i hope the job is proving fun!

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Miami Catering
2 weeks ago

This will allow us to implement new features more quickly without unintended consequences and hopefully avoid any hiccups when we push out new features for y’all.

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lane
3 months ago

will there ever be a new guy 2

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Sergey
2 months ago

Good luck

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NewLeaX
1 month ago

He he... as for me I never miss heat. I live in Russia and everytime when I'm somewhere where is too hot I miss my native cold weather. When it's too warm I start being lazy...

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