andrewvc

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by andrewvc 16y ago
I like the SQLite config. SQLite seems like more of a PITA for some cases, but when using something like chef to configure an instance, SQLite makes more sense than using something like sed to mangle a config file. Now, yes, you can define
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Well, then setup bind. It's not the end of the world :). That, or just use /etc/hosts, it's more of a pain, but for testing you just need a handful of URLs.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
just have your regular DNS use localhost as a wildcard subdomain, say *.development.mysite.com
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Research conducted worldwide shows that leadership contributes to 70% of corporate atmosphere, while corporate atmosphere contributes to 30% of corporate performance. Therefore, leadership can exert direct influence on 21% of corporate per
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by andrewvc 16y ago
You can't just agree on syntax, IMHO the reason for that is the best template languages have the full language available. You need a full-language for a great template language. Smarty, for instance, sucks. HAML, which is terse, but has acc
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Not really, whenever you're looking at a landscape far away (focussing at infinity) everything is in focus. In fact, any situation where everything in front of you is equidistant from your eyes will mimic this everything is in focus situati
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Node is still going through a lot of changes,and their Zeromq lib is still alpha quality.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Small world, I've contributed a fair amount of code to node-paperboy. In fact, I'm the person who forgot to check for URL encoding in paths! Thanks for finding that. I thought about the whole 404 thing, funny thing is, I didn't really think
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by andrewvc 16y ago
We're currently looking for food/drink sponsors. If you're interested give me a shout out at andrew@andrewvc.com. Also, if you'd like to give a 5-10 min lightning talk about something at the meetup email me as well.
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Los Angeles Hacker News Meetup this Saturday(meetup.com)
1 points by andrewvc 16y ago|1 comments
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by andrewvc 16y ago
You're deriding the course based on medium, not message. Perhaps we also shouldn't use a 'common' language like English and revert to being taught in Latin. Additionally, If you'd actually seen The Wire you probably would not be arguing aga
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Since we're talking about node... I like async, and I like node. However, for plain jane dynamic web apps, with no real time needs, I see it as being more of pain than using Ruby (or Python, or whatever). Why? JS syntax kinda sucks for deal
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Satellite view's actually really useful for mountain biking. You can see a good number of trails on it (though sometimes its out of date).
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Use Heroku. The cost of acquiring or hiring the sysadmin knowledge is going to far exceed just using Heroku. This includes Heroku's main competitor, Engineyard. EY has its upsides (and downsides), but definitely requires more sysadmin exper
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by andrewvc 16y ago
rackspace cloud is $10/mo for the smallest vps. I've loved it over the last year.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
xrep/xreq really isn't well documented. I'm writing a learn by example series for ZeroMQ in Ruby, that already includes an XREP example. I'm planning on adding in XREQ this weekend. http://github.com/andrewvc/learn-ruby-zeromq
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Funny, I just started a somewhat similar github project covering ZeroMQ (in Ruby) over at: http://github.com/andrewvc/learn-ruby-zeromq If you're interested in highly concurrent network programming, ZeroMQ's pretty interesting stuff as we
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by andrewvc 16y ago
This is one reason why I always use parens on my method calls. Some rubyists find it cluttering, yeah, but I think it makes reading code easier. The other one to watch out for is precedence of {} vs do; end. Example: > x = [1,2].map
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Glad to see LA getting some press, as a reminder, the LA HN meetup is tomorrow: http://groups.google.com/group/los-angeles-hners-hacker-news...
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Los Angeles Hacker News Meetup this Saturday(groups.google.com)
2 points by andrewvc 16y ago|0 comments
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by andrewvc 16y ago
We're scheduled to have presentations on: 1. Elastic Search 2. Balsamiq Mockups 3. ZeroMQ (By me, if time allows) Presentations will be from 3:00 - 4:15, after that, time to mingle. We'll have food and drinks available as well. Big thanks t
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The Los Hacker News Meetup is this Saturday(groups.google.com)
3 points by andrewvc 16y ago|1 comments
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by andrewvc 16y ago
You're right about that. But people shouldn't be learning rails from online tutorials, they should be reading Active Web Development with Rails which has clear instructions. Learning new languages from random online tutorials is always goin
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Maybe this isn't written down clearly everywhere but it should be. If you're new to ruby ALL you need to know is that everyone in production runs: Rails 2 (currently at 2.3.8) Ruby 1.8.7 or REE (which are 100% compatible, since REE is only
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Yes, I have, which is why I said it wasn't a magic bullet, but something that should be given more of a shot. If it helps 10% of homeless get off the street, that could be a huge victory in and of itself. BTW, for someone so attuned to the
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I think part of the point was that an apartment creates a sense of responsibility and pride in ownership a shelter bed does not. I don't think anyone's saying this is the one true solution, but it makes sense, and perhaps should be given mo
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Poll: A/S/L? Let's chat!
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by andrewvc 16y ago
I feel a mild uneasiness in the force, as if millions of people discovered blogging via a great new interface, then gradually got bored with or forgot about it just as they did the first time they tried it 8 years ago.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Depends on where you live, but your house doesn't have redundant connections and service contracts to fix them ASAP. Your home net connection may be reliable, now, but if something bad happens it could be down for days, not hours.
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by andrewvc 16y ago
Well, the easy answer would be to arm the robot.

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