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by andrewvc 16y ago
I pay $15 / year for no-ip (they're a reseller) because they have good service. I'm glad to pay the difference. Of course, one way they get away with a higher price is that they primarily sell DNS services. So it may be more expensive to pa
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by andrewvc 16y ago
And it's mysteriously back up a few minutes later...
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by andrewvc 16y ago
My take on it. We're programmers, and when I code I could give fuck-all as to how I look. And I say this as a person who enjoys dressing up and buying nice clothes. Wearing t-shirts is just one less level of bullshit, and it's cheaper as we
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by andrewvc 16y ago
TFA seems to think wearing t-shirts helps you keep the man down which is weird. I'm not so sure I'm fighting the power while working in my my nice office in a good part of town in an engineering job. The fact that this guy works at linked i
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by andrewvc 16y ago
For color correction you cannot do better than this book: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Photoshop-Classic-Guide-C... It's a great book for engineers working with color, as its principles are explained through color theory and the ma
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Yes, but the article talks about availability and consistency, not speed.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Santa Monica / Los Angeles, CA: VOKLE, Inc. ( http://www.vokle.com ) Full Time: Flash/Flex developer. If you think dealing with tricky issues with live streaming video is fun, this might be the job for you. We've got massive growth and we
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Well, since it uses 'Enlightenment' as a WM it makes sense. I'll tell you what, as an Atheist, if any Christians want to name their next bible reading app Secular Humanism v3.0 it'll be fine with me.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
The fact that it's 2011 and only just now is MacRuby moving to git is a good reminder that getting stuff done doesn't require all the new shiny tools, and other bleeding edge accouterments. Edit: my point was that sometimes keeping your fo
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by andrewvc 16y ago
redis-rb maps redis commands into the ruby namespace. redis-objects is built on top of redis-rb and creates objects that are backed by redis, with operations like push, pop, etc. cleanly mapped. In other words, it's a more ruby-like API. I
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I actually like the redis-objects gem, which maps redis structures to ruby objects. https://github.com/nateware/redis-objects
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LA Hacker News Meetup this Saturday(meetup.com)
3 points by andrewvc 16y ago|1 comments
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TL;DR The fact that other people find programming to be fun angers and upsets me. Additionally, I feel inferior when talking to them, therefore they should stop having fun.
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That's only sometimes true. There are plenty of intelligent developers learning the newest and coolest languages who'd I'd never hire. Why? Because learning cool tech and Getting Stuff Done are two very different things. While it is true th
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by andrewvc 16y ago
ISPs carry with them an expectation of phone support. That could get messy, and wipe out any profits.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
True. However, for some cases where you don't mind losing some data due to a recovery process EBS snapshots are 'good enough'. Additionally, with a database like CouchDB with a 'crash only' design, it should work for some cases as well.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
One other huge downside of raiding EBS volumes is you can't use EBS's snapshotting features as you cannot guarantee a perfect sync (you could use LVM yourself however). Honestly, since EBS vols are supposedly not tied to a single disk, the
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by andrewvc 16y ago
The big problem here is that once you address the issues you have to get a bunch of people to change their old reviews.
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Redis Auto-completion with Tries(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by andrewvc 16y ago|0 comments
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EM-ZeroMQ: Async ZeroMQ on Ruby's EventMachine(github.com)
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rvm install jruby-head
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Syscall Hijacking: Simple Rootkit (kernel 2.6.x) (memset.wordpress.com)
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I'm glad Zope lost, and that has nothing to do with Python. Zope was just a morass of over-complication. I remember buying the zope book sometime in the early 00s. I was initially impressed with the completeness, but found it to be overly-
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Yeah, that was the original reason I implemented it (since fixed), but I just found having it live was too useful to take away.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
True, but I'm not worried about the extra bytes of an HTTP header. It's actually really useful when coupled with Rails+Unicorn w/ downtimeless deploy. Every once in a while unicorn will run a deploy but stop picking up code changes, and thi
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Adding GIT SHAs to your application's HTTP headers(blog.andrewvc.com)
59 points by andrewvc 16y ago|24 comments
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by andrewvc 16y ago
As if tumblr's paying $0.50 / GB for bandwidth. I'd be surprised if they're paying anywhere near that, prolly more like $0.04GB.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I agree that weekend deploys are a shitty idea, but isn't the real issue here not being able to roll back?
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An SQL in Shell, written by Bruce Momjian of PostgreSQL core.(blog.andrewvc.com)
46 points by andrewvc 16y ago|2 comments
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This is awesome, Aman's one of my favorite rubyists, I can't say I'm surprised to find out he's behind this. If anyone's curious how processes/threads are represented internally on modern linux kernels, I wrote an article on that here: htt

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