Vitaly

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by Vitaly 17y ago
I can only second the recommendation. Skype + Screen & vim over ssh is a great way to collaborate in a distributed environment. We are all working from home since 2005 and it worked pretty well so far.
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by Vitaly 17y ago
the mix of the time, space, and 'possibility' dimentions is completely arbitrary and is not explained at all. There might as well just be 10 spacial dimensions, which this video doesn't help to visualize at all.
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by Vitaly 17y ago
What I don't understand is why did they create a separate site per topic. With separate user account! This is very inconvenient and complicates things for the users. having it as a 'category' within the same site would be much better for us
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by Vitaly 17y ago
Actually Puppet is written in Ruby. Even more, there is ShadowPuppet gem ( http://github.com/railsmachine/shadow_puppet/tree/master ) which replaces the puppet's DSL with ruby classes and functions to directly manipulate Puppets manifests,
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by Vitaly 17y ago
astrails-safe ( http://blog.astrails.com/2009/4/6/simple-backups-can-be-simp... ): runs from cron, archives files and mysql databases (and more), encrypts with gpg and uploads to amazon s3
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by Vitaly 17y ago
thats the exact definition of the "Pewter Principle" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle Everyone are promoted to their level of incompetence. If you are good at something, you'll get promoted until you are not that good anymore
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by Vitaly 17y ago
The scientific approach works for figuring out how nature works because nature doesn't try to game your system. TRying to measure performance of people in any area will inevitably lead to people gaming the system to optimize the score and n
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Astrails: PostgreSQL and Subversion support for astrails-safe s3 backup (blog.astrails.com)
2 points by Vitaly 17y ago|0 comments
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Importing Mephisto comments into Disqus (blog.astrails.com)
1 points by Vitaly 17y ago|0 comments
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by Vitaly 17y ago
How exactly you are precluding yourself from doing anything by using http_require? http_require is equivalent from the security standpoint to doing 'wget ...;..;make install' and myriad other less then secure things we do almost everyday (i
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by Vitaly 17y ago
ok. security. everyone is soooo concerned about it... A few questions for you: * When was the last time you personally verified gem sources that you built and installed? * did you ever install software not from the big known sources that ar
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Yes We Can. Ruby "require" over HTTP, That Is.(blog.astrails.com)
12 points by Vitaly 17y ago|16 comments
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by Vitaly 18y ago
at the age 12 there are very few girls tinkering with computers. Later in life this translates to much less girls going to CS. not everyone doing CS started at 12, but if you start with more, you end up with more...