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by angelbob 16y ago
I went to the MongoSF conference. I found they explained it extensively in their conference talks. I don't know about their marketing, but it's easy to find on the web site.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Sure. And again, they make that clear. It's quite easy to find out that MongoDB doesn't "have single-server durability". If, like me (and at least one commenter here) you say, "what does that mean?", you can quickly find an explanation on
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by angelbob 16y ago
Eh. Yes and no. The Mongo guys are very, very upfront about this. Check their web site. There are good workarounds, they just require spending a bit more on hardware.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Clustered durability. You can request, per-write, "don't return until this data has been persisted to N other servers," with N chosen per-write. So if you're running master/slave and choose N to be 1, you're durable (at the two server level
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by angelbob 16y ago
They have an early admissions program, with the unspoken assumption that you'll use credits from CMU to get a high school diploma by some arrangement. It turns out that they never say this is required, and you never actually have to do it.
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by angelbob 16y ago
To be fair, there's a difference here between a publicly-traded corporation and, say, a mom-and-pop hardware store. A publicly-traded corporation can be sued for not extracting the most possible money, which is in line with the OP. A sm
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by angelbob 16y ago
I did all right. I'm a high school dropout with two bachelor's degrees from Carnegie Mellon, a six-figure computer programming job and a similar disdain for the public education system. I won't say dropping out of high school was the best
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by angelbob 16y ago
Mobile browsers tend to do less caching, won't cache larger files, and don't caches files for as long. Doing an end-run around their image caching seems prone to cause problems. Has anybody tried this technique on a mobile browser, say Mob
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by angelbob 16y ago
The AC isn't bad, especially upstairs. It's free to drop by, so you can try before you join.
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by angelbob 16y ago
You could deploy it as a sibling process rather than a child. I would never deploy Passenger Lite really by itself -- I'd use god (like monit, but in Ruby) to run it, even if it's just one process. So making that two processes, one non-ru
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by angelbob 16y ago
I don't think it's a coincidence that the multiplatform codebase was cleaner. Very often, things will be written quickly and then you have to clean up a lot of the technical debt as part of porting it. Your assumptions about the compiler/i
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by angelbob 16y ago
I used the linked-list question for years as well. I think our phone screen was harder -- it probably only filtered out about 60%-75% of our applicants rather than 95%. It's a good one. I have an awesome follow-up to it that it sounds lik
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by angelbob 16y ago
I work at On-Site.com and my understanding is that we're willing to hire remotely for the right candidate. The OP is probably not what we're looking for, though -- we're a JRuby on Rails and JSP shop (plus jQuery, which he does know), an
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by angelbob 16y ago
The actual regulations are that the company owes you slightly more in terms of unaudited financials as an unaccredited investor, and there's a maximum total (something like 20 or 30?) number of unaccredited investors they can have. Companie
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by angelbob 16y ago
It's certainly worth mentioning, but... I've made an angel investment, not as friends or family, and I'm not an accredited investor. Be up-front about it to the company, naturally, but we talked to several companies, and it's not uncomm
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by angelbob 16y ago
If you were to refine cannabis down to pure THC, I'm sure it'd have a toxicity level as well. Cannabis, like iceberg lettuce, doesn't have a toxicity level because of chemicals contained in it. And cannabis, like iceberg lettuce, could ha
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by angelbob 16y ago
I love the title, but more details about how would be very nice :-) Summary of article content: design for viral use, minimize friction. We removed as much as possible to let people immediately open their photo and start editing.
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by angelbob 16y ago
You'd think. And yet, the "Rails doesn't scale" meme survived for a remarkably long time... Still does, really.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Sure, but Flash is also straightforward to disable. It's not even installed by default in most browsers.
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by angelbob 16y ago
The blog claimed the opposite: These applications intentionally misrepresented their purpose in order to encourage user downloads, but they were not designed to be used maliciously, and did not have permission to access private data — or s
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by angelbob 16y ago
Much as I love Ruby and all the things he talks about, I worry that publicizing all these self-congratulatory posts about the Ruby community will create a lot more resistance to what we do. I get the impression that that's how SmallTalk di
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by angelbob 16y ago
If one person whining was why we're all totally screwed, then we're all screwed starting long ago... This is the internet.
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by angelbob 16y ago
A lot of bloggers, site owners, entrepreneurs and other people you've heard of are surprisingly approachable, and are happy to respond to email, phone calls or requests to take them to lunch. Many are quite generous with their time, especi
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by angelbob 16y ago
Quick summary: PUT is idempotent, and should be used when you're sending the full text or properties of an item, or otherwise doing some where doing it a second time is harmless. POST is not, and should be used for requests like "incremen
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by angelbob 16y ago
Most things running on Juggernaut/WebSockets/Flashsockets. So: real-time chat, real-time games, constant-update documents and collaboration. More, I'm sure, but that's what immediately goes through my mind.
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by angelbob 16y ago
The "boys club" analogy doesn't end there. According to several of my female techy friends who have worked there, it's a pretty awful place to work if you're female, in terms of sexual discrimination. At least one of them experienced, cons
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by angelbob 16y ago
Helps with firewalls. Helps with poorly-documented services. Helps when you don't know what you're going to be running (i.e. your language/platform supports multiple sorts with a config file, and you don't want your web server to have to
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by angelbob 16y ago
Found them on the local Ruby meetup mailing lists. It's a pretty good place to look, at least for Rails jobs.
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by angelbob 16y ago
I absolutely could not be the world's first programmer generation gap, because we have had so many before :-)
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by angelbob 16y ago
Python offers most of the same abilities, though Pythonista culture seems to emphasize them less.

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