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by ajtaylor 14y ago
OpsWorks looks quite impressive from my non-devops perspective. And most interesting of all is the fact that it's free! I understand that it's build to encourage more usage of AWS, but there are plenty of 3rd party services out there which
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One thing I just noticed is that the native app uses a LOT less memory than the AIR client: 43 MB native vs 100-150 MB air. It definitely feels snappier too, from startup time to normal usage. Even with the limitations (no local Find functi
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It's definitely XMPP compatible. We have an outside dev firm that does some work for us and they connected their own chat system via XMPP. It works fine for them as far as I can tell. Their help docs [1] [2] have all the details you need. [
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As a cyclist myself, I can easily put myself in his place. If someone stole my bike, I would probably go to extreme lengths to get it back. But he's REALLY lucky he didn't end up with a puncture wound from the guy. Kudos for getting the bik
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My wife and I took this route in Massachusetts. We were VERY lucky from the start and quickly had a baby placed in our home on the "adoption" track rather than "reunification". It was a long road due to legal issues with the birth mother, b
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I can understand the reason for having no-fly lists, but the total and complete secrecy around them makes a mockery of the democratic and legal process which is supposed to protect people. A person on the list should at least be able to kno
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I knew the AR Drone sounded familiar. When I first saw it, I was concerned about the only flying controls being a mobile device (and not a traditional remote). That said, it looks like a ton of fun and the extensibility options are endless.
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I don't pretend to fully understand everything that's going on with this exploit, but I give Pinkie Pie full props for being such a genius. Reading these types of write ups always leaves me with a sense of awe for the hacker.
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After processing the full article, I'm completely amazed at all the extreme lengths Chrome goes employs to speed page loading. From the networking stack, with it's abundance of optimisations and resource reuse, to the massive (and slightly
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Congratulations! The ENS 856 has since been replaced, but luckily there is still the skills exemption for 457 workers.
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Luckily, it still does though the visa has changed from 1 July 2012. It's now a ENS 186. The relevant portions [1] are below. This visa costs 3060 AUD along with 540 AUD for the employer nomination, but that covers the entire family. "Tempo
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I was concerned about this very thing when I was preparing to immigrate to Australia. In the end, because I had a job offer I got in on a 457 (good for 4 years) and didn't have to pay the ACS' accreditation fee. Even better, in 6 months whe
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Ilya has never disappointed me with any of his articles. They are always top notch, and this one is no exception. As a Chrome user, seeing how things work behind the scenes (and why) is fascinating!
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Many of these salaries are in Silicon Valley, where the cost of living is sky-high. It takes a six figure salary to live decently in these areas. I've seen a number of posts and comments to the effect of lowering their standard of living my
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I'm loving MC Frontalot! Thanks for the pointer.
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My wife and I bought Carcassonne because it could be played with only 2 people. But it's one of our favorite games because it's never the same game twice!
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This is a great writeup! I love reading these types of postmortems because I always end up learning something new.
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I forked a repo via the website and submitted a pull request, so it's working from Florida.
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That's exactly what I did as well. It works a treat, other than the cable and/or connection sometimes being finicky and sending the external monitor into sleep mode. I suspect a higher quality cable wouldn't exhibit this problem.
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This happened to me last Christmas! Those guys (it was a woman in my case) are super effective in their techniques. I had absolutely no intention of buying anything as I was walking by. My first mistake was responding to their question as I
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It's good that there are workarounds for employees, but that doesn't affect the long-term effects of prolonged loud noise exposure on the person's hearing. If I was an employee in that store I would think very hard about trying to transfer
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
This is a massively late reply, but I've been signed up for the perl weekly newsletter from its inception. Thank you for mentioning it though! I'm sure Gabor is grateful for the link. :)
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Signed up! I don't use Ruby much, but I'm curious to see what I can steal from Ruby back to Perl. :) BTW, you should include links to the other 3 lists on all the websites. I see that statuscode.org and rubyweekly.com have it now, but when
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I've been subscribed to your HTML 5 and JS newsletters for a couple months now. The content has been great overall. Enough so that I'm asking you where I can signup for the other two newsletters. :)
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Thank you for another quality article Ilya! This makes me wonder: If we were to add SPDY support to our REST API at $work, would we see any real world performance benefits from our mobile app which talks to the API?
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I laughed when I read this too! That's true "outside the box" thinking.
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I had bought the book a few months ago for work in a big batch, thinking ahead to the time I would need it. That time came a day ago when I needed to do clustering of markers for displaying on a map. A stackoverflow post mentioned the book,
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I use mosh from our office in Sydney to work on a server on in Vancouver. The character prediction makes this much easier, even if you do see the occasional literal character in a vim session before the server responds. It's so much better
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I started using Mosh a month or two ago, and I can never, ever go back. The automatic connection resumption is pure gold! I can close my laptop at work, go home, open it back up and resume work. And if I switch between wifi and ethernet, th
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I'm really excited about all the new features in 4.0. The more I read, the more I can't wait to try it out on my dev server. The new features that are most interesting to me: spatial search improvements, atomic updates, custom scoring optio

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