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Mod_rails vs. mongrel vs. thin: a benchmark(izumi.plan99.net)
11 points by apathy 19y ago|5 comments
602.
by apathy 19y ago
yah. Joker rules. Been using them since 1999. Other shops come and go, but Joker is a rock.
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by apathy 19y ago
Get a padded sleeve for your laptop. I paid $9 for a Timbuk2 sleeve at REI on sale. I've taken some whoppers on my bike with my laptops in my messenger bag (enough to put me in the hospital) and the sleeves seem to do a really good job of
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by apathy 19y ago
What you said -- you're going to install Ubuntu -- leads me to believe that the Thinkpad will provide better value. I have serious trouble using any laptop without a Thinkpoint anymore, because I hate moving my hands away from typing posit
605.
by apathy 19y ago
waiting for... what? Hard to say... but lord knows I hope that you'll have a better idea as a result of perusing the better offerings of the site. I have found it useful to compare my performance against the theoretical optima that I see
606.
by apathy 19y ago
PG owes you thanks for taking the time to rant a bit on the way out I disagree, and here's why. PG is clearly benefiting from this bully pulpit as a means to recruit startup founders. Especially in the midst of Startup School (the perio
607.
by apathy 19y ago
The third worst, ironically, is the one complaining about the problem Why is that ironic? No solutions are presented. No value is generated. An individual starting a company or hacking on a problem does not grow as a result of having r
608.
by apathy 19y ago
eBay already has the market cornered anyhow
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by apathy 19y ago
Not a bad idea by any stretch, but it helps to know what you're looking for when you do hire someone. Plus, if you just have a little itch to scratch, it can be a lot less work to implement the damn thing yourself, regardless of whether it'
610.
by apathy 19y ago
Start here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ No, seriously. If you've never programmed before, this will teach you far more than you'll need, initially, but later on you'll realize that you picked up a lot of really good habits and never ne
611.
by apathy 19y ago
Well, the nice thing is that the author may be getting some of his smart friends back, now that Wall Street has overreached. Perhaps some of the statisticians will come back to work on fundamentally (as opposed to monetarily) interesting pr
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by apathy 19y ago
The problem on those sites is that their is not only poor comments This is a legitimate problem, and ironically it is a symptom that a news concentrator is becoming a victim of its own success. As the signal-to-noise ratio attracts a pro
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by apathy 19y ago
Funny, that's what my users want, and the only object I use to give it to 'em is a CSV parser that happens to have an output method (which works really well). Users are delighted that all they have to do is click and their Excel/SAS dataset
614.
by apathy 19y ago
meatspin.com Always good for laffs when the boss walks by
615.
by apathy 19y ago
Niiiice. THG ate your lunch though ;-) Emulex FTW!
616.
by apathy 19y ago
Not to be a douche, but how often does a person find themselves out of range of an open access point? In my neighborhood alone there are 10. I had to start using WPA just to keep myself from stumbling onto other, lower signal power SSIDs
617.
by apathy 19y ago
I still find myself thinking "ooh, ahh" when I launch a win32 app in Wine and it just works. It's not just you. Even my professors think it's pretty cool that I can fire up Windows apps inside Linux while all of my terminals with their g
618.
by apathy 19y ago
Quote from the page: We're looking for good people. Fill out the form below, and cross your fingers. Pass. Even Google was never that arrogant.
619.
by apathy 19y ago
> (in the metaphorical sense) Literal, as well. Paper money wears out and needs replacing.
620.
The Black Swan for the Young and Restless (e.g., you)(fractalpress.com)
3 points by apathy 19y ago|0 comments
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by apathy 19y ago
> an uber hacker is already the top of their competition. Those guys are called CEOs. Or rockstars. If you're Bill Joy, you'll know it, and you won't be asking anyone for a job.
622.
by apathy 19y ago
> CEOs have resumes. You could have condensed your entire (quite good) post to this. Great pull quote, and it obliterates Godin's argument.
623.
by apathy 19y ago
Maybe a repost, but it's a great article. Consider: what incremental value is really provided by a 4-bedroom McMansion in some shithole out in San Berdoo? Answer: about as much as the assets of Bear Sterns (and this is intentionally metacir
624.
by apathy 19y ago
Maybe. Thanks to subscribing (only) to economics, programming, ruby, science, and a handful of other subreddits, I'm seeing an awful lot more of the people I thought had departed. I've started 'adding them as friends' so that I can visual
625.
by apathy 19y ago
Indeed -- if I hadn't seen 'plover.com' in the URL I would not have bothered to read it. But MJD is one of those people who is pretty much always worth reading.
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by apathy 19y ago
5 years? If you count from when FSFS became the standard (2005?) it's really more like 3 years. I think Subversion will probably remain the standard for your 'average' developer, and Git will make huge inroads into the more elite/distribu
627.
by apathy 19y ago
I think Howard Aitken was the one who said it first, but regardless: Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. Always apropos in such times of uncertainty...
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by apathy 19y ago
The dragon book is Aho, Sethi, & Ullman. If you look through modern string search algorithm implementation, for example, the number of hits for Aho is up there with Knuth. Not that string searching has an awful lot to do with compilat
629.
by apathy 19y ago
You might want to play with Git instead. SVN is very, very easy to set up and use: svnadmin create ~/svn-repo svn import myproject file:///home/you/svn-repo/myproject svn co file:///home/you/myproject myproject-workingcopy Work in the wor
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by apathy 19y ago
AdSense predates the Applied Semantics acquisition That's not what your press release says: http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/applied.html What was the idea of an intern? The self-service approach to buying AdWords, IIRC. The mail

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