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by carpal 19y ago
I've been using git for backups the past few weeks. Works incredibly well. I only backup code and documents though. For other things it might not be such a great solution.
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by carpal 19y ago
The amputee wasn't barred from the olympics. This particular set of prosthetics was banned. That guy can still run in the olympics with any other set of prosthetic legs but this one. It was just deemed that these gave him too much of an
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by carpal 19y ago
I don't think it is too hard to do both. Last night I got home from a night out with friends at about 2:30 AM. I then wrote a blog post, wrote a little code, compiled and fooled around with GIT before going to sleep at 5:00 AM. Having a s
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I'm a Terrible Programmer, and You Should Be Too(blog.subwindow.com)
1 points by carpal 19y ago|0 comments
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by carpal 19y ago
#FFFFFF all the way
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by carpal 19y ago
Not bad for a first shot. One suggestion is to use the "fat model, skinny controller" way of thinking. It'll help clean up your code significantly. http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/10/18/skinny-controller-fat... I've pastied an example
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What Ever Happened to Code Reviews?(weblog.raganwald.com)
5 points by carpal 19y ago|5 comments
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by carpal 19y ago
I'm using Slicehost, and it's been a really great experience. I've been with them for about a year, and haven't had any downtime that I've noticed. Current uptime is 82 days, and that was when I changed over from Ubuntu to Debian. I've al
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by carpal 19y ago
A friend of mine and I had an idea for this in 2001, and even made it into an incubator. But everything folded shortly thereafter due to the bubble bursting. The company probably deserved to die. The main market is traveling salesmen and
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by carpal 19y ago
> If you hadn't heard of the technology after reading thousands of startup ideas, then what chance do we have? You're fundamentally mistaken. The technology is 1%. Execution is 99%. You need to stop being so obsessed over technology
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by carpal 19y ago
What she's saying is that a bad idea with bad execution will end badly. That isn't exactly revolutionary. If people panic and the Web 2.0 bubble "pops" because bad businesses die, then some people seriously need their head examined. The e
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by carpal 19y ago
No, and the author never said it was.
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by carpal 19y ago
I really like the approach of having X number of processes started automatically. You can get really fine-grained in your scaling strategy, and can balance multiple projects on the same server much better than you could with Apache. If you
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by carpal 19y ago
Nginx is both incredibly fast at serving static files and pretty useful all around for reverse proxies and whatnot (not to mention being easier to configure/maintain than apache). I use it at work and it has been fantastic.
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by carpal 19y ago
Yes, that's exactly my point. Is this the first approach that does this within the Django framework? That is exactly how page caching in Rails works, and has been implemented for two years. It seems like Django's idea of "page caching" is
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by carpal 19y ago
Is this seriously the first implementation of this in Django? I seriously hate gloating, but Rails' page caching has been around for two years. I must be mistaken. edit: After browsing the Django documentation, it appears that I'm right.
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by carpal 19y ago
This is a really tough problem. I worked on something like this extensively in 2005. Ultimately, the hardest part was syntax highlighting on the current line, because you had to monitor input to figure out when a "token" had been complete
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by carpal 19y ago
Generally I'd be upset at an article like this being on news.yc, but this was a really great speech that didn't focus too much on politics. It had much more to do with hope, success and fighting for what you believe in. That's a pretty un
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Biltmore Can't Log In(thedailywtf.com)
1 points by carpal 19y ago|0 comments
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Rails is a Ghetto (Part 2)(zedshaw.com)
39 points by carpal 19y ago|17 comments
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by carpal 19y ago
I kind of figured you could look outside for that. Temperature is a little harder to gauge.
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by carpal 19y ago
I was a T-Mobile customer for 2 years, and was never treated that nicely. It seemed like every time I called, I was being pressured into signing another contract. Their systems were also always very slow, so while the rep was waiting for
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by carpal 19y ago
Zed was right about the http://example.com/posts/1;edit thing. It stunk the first time I saw it. I think that DHH admitted it was a bad idea in his RailsConf keynote, but I'm not sure if I remember correctly. But the point is that just
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by carpal 19y ago
Try it now. It should be much more iPhone-palatable.
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by carpal 19y ago
There's one thing that just doesn't seem right about this rant, which I think will make his whole argument fall to pieces. Before he wrote mongrel, it seemed like he had a pretty decent working situation. After he wrote mongrel, he was job
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by carpal 19y ago
Yes, Paul. (This is Erik Peterson. We met at ATL Startup Weekend. Damned Internet handles. Using your name is a good idea, huh?)
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by carpal 19y ago
That's a pretty interesting article, but I found it nearly impossible to read. Every paragraph there's a link on an (apparently random) phrase. When there's a link to something like '"real" job', I expect a link to his former company, or
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by carpal 19y ago
Weird. It comes straight from the National Weather Service, so it must be something strange with their data. Some sanity checking would be advisable, though.
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by carpal 19y ago
I'm getting my forecast data from http://www.weather.gov/xml/#nonSOAP (You can read about that in my site's about ( http://forecaster.ws/about.html ) page). The current observations are a little more complex- you have to find the closest
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by carpal 19y ago
I find the vertical forecast easier to digest. I'll experiment with horizontal layouts. Doing geolocation would be sweet. I'll try it out.

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