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by brianm 17y ago
That is a sadly long and storied history, which Stephen Colebourne describes best: http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/sun_apache_ip_in_pi... There is some hope that the legal shenanigans will stop once ORCL finishes taking ownership
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by brianm 17y ago
Short n' Snarky 1) Technical skills are all the same as web dev in general. 2) Building product. 3) You are at the right place. Seriously, from a pure dev perspective, it is just web dev. The biggest difference comes in on the product desig
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by brianm 17y ago
No, wondered why he was restating the obvious. There are certainly features of both C++ and Smalltalk which would be nice to have in it, but Java is, on the whole, an advancement over them. In particular, GC and a great standard library for
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Embedding Clojure(skife.org)
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by brianm 17y ago
I do not use crossfit (yet) but a friend of mine with serious fitness requirements for his day job (firefighter) does use it. He takes fitness very seriously, and is quite a fan of crossfit. If you do want to consider doing it, take your
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by brianm 17y ago
The best way to get this feedback, imho (and it worked for me) is to start contributing to an active open source project you use. Specifically, contribute to one you use , not one you think is cool or would be fun to hack on. If you have t
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by brianm 17y ago
Until you said 5th floor, I thought I must have worked with you! Our Tim was on the second floor.
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by brianm 17y ago
Was going to post a response to this, but you nailed it. Anecdotally, we moved off postgres because we could not hire (full time, contact, or consult) anyone who would be considered an expert at postgres replication, and the cost/benefit
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by brianm 18y ago
(I work for Ning) It can take a huge amount of effort to build a social networking site. It can, also, take no perceived effort on the part of the person setting it up. You need to separate out the "I am building this for profit and see it
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by brianm 18y ago
sorry to use comment for personal message, but email me :-) (email in my profile)
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by brianm 18y ago
I'm going to be there. Anyone else going? Would be great to meet up.
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by brianm 18y ago
Nginx shines as a high-volume proxy, but as a straight up web server or app server, if either apache or nginx is your bottleneck, you are probably do something wrong. At its heart nginx is a fork of apache 1.3 with the multi-processing ripp
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by brianm 18y ago
I deactivated on first turning it on, then next day turned it back on and spent some time. Right now I have three panes, stacked vertically. One is the inbox, one is unread messages with a particular label (which i really had been treating
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by brianm 18y ago
with color coded output ;-)
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by brianm 18y ago
I love the "only 17 times faster" bit ;-)
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by brianm 18y ago
Very true, Lua is optimized for being very small, fast, and portable. It optimizes for embedding, which means you cannot make assumptions about what you are allowed to do, so it errs on the side of very little. On the other hand, interfacin
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by brianm 18y ago
Having done a lot of both, Lua feels more pythonic than rubyish in many small ways. Objects are just syntactic sugar where self is the first arg (though unlike python, lua has the syntactic sugar to make it prettier to look at), etc. Inte
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by brianm 18y ago
Personally, I would hav just done Lua vs Ruby instead of LuaJIT vs Ruby. Results look almost the same ;-) http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... Lua is generally the fastest scripty language, ruby is generally the
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by brianm 18y ago
There is, the Kepler folks came up with it, they call it WSAPI. My main use for mod_lua, right now, is actually not content handlers (regular apps), but things like auth modules, ripping out mod_rewrite, etc. A large news company in atlanta
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by brianm 18y ago
Lua has the nice trait of being tiny, fast, and playing correctly with all the various threading/process models apache supports. Ruby and Python don't. Mod_wombat (now mod_lua) came into being out of frustration trying to embed ruby, and th
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by brianm 18y ago
With any luck I'll be able to backport it to 2.2 as well, once it is stable, itself. It would probably be backported as an external module though, as it was when we called it mod_wombat.
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by brianm 18y ago
Has worked for me, so far, but I love hacking...
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by brianm 18y ago
Cambridge itself isn't famous for great schools, but right around there (Newton, Lexington, etc) have the best schools in the country by most measures. When you include private schools, though, I don't know how things stack.
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by brianm 18y ago
Lua (the impl) is awesome, Lua (the language) is very pleasent, but the arrays using position instead of offset (start at 1, not 0) thing... I still love it :-)
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by brianm 18y ago
Get a copy of http://www.amazon.com/Power-Tools-Third-Shelley-Powers/dp/05... and experiment with interesting topics in it.
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by brianm 18y ago
Once you are sure you are never going to roll back to the old code you can wipe out the old columns.
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by brianm 18y ago
You roll out incrementally, and keep interfaces between components backwards compatible for all versions presently out and any you may need to roll back to, if you possibly can. When you cannot, I, personally, believe in partitioning traffi
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by brianm 18y ago
Yes, yes they did.
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by brianm 18y ago
So, some lessons learned... 1. lights out management matters 2. ensure your OS is happy on the hardware ahead of time 3. if you are expecting to make regular purchases, with growth for example, tell the vendor that 4. always negotiate 5. de
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by brianm 18y ago
Just saw Alan's post -- hi Alan!

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