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by datasink 16y ago
He saw opportunities, sometimes embedded within problems, and worked them to his favor. This is what he's referring to when he speaks of the learned skill of transforming "nothing into something", and it's a skill that obviously applies to
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by datasink 16y ago
I've been using Fuel for a number of weeks now, and I'm generally really liking it. I agree with the Twig recommendation though, and did drop Twig in almost immediately. To answer your question specifically: it would be smart to use Twig by
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by datasink 16y ago
When people recommend writing web applications in Python, they don't point to the language itself as being better for web development. They point to Django or web2py. Same for Ruby, with Rails. So it's odd that people talk about PHP itself
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by datasink 16y ago
Small advertising networks are notoriously lax. The ad network in the screenshot, pogads.com, has this testimonial on their front page: "I've been banned from adsense for advertising online with companies offering popups, I registered with
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by datasink 16y ago
It would be simpler to handle it in the application. if ($ip == 'XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX') { require 'poison.html'; exit; }
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by datasink 16y ago
GearSpoke.com - 173.203.91.173 derekfrye.com - 173.203.91.173 badrobots.org - 173.203.91.173 And 173.203.91.173 is a Slicehost IP. Looks like someone just neglected to update their DNS settings.
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by datasink 16y ago
I believe there is a complete, one sentence explanation that would ring true for most developers, but is not being offered for one reason or another. My best guess: It would have been easier to get 1.0 back up and working, but this was view
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by datasink 16y ago
I have noticed a significant decline in the quality of discussions on many slashdot stories over the past few years. Interesting stories are littered with really bad +5 nerd humor, and seemingly very little else in some cases. I still check
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by datasink 16y ago
http://www.advancedtrading.com/infrastructure/229301185 Serious HFT players are either relying solely on news feeds that won't include April Fools stories or are factor in the date for sources that might report them (like CNN). All of the
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by datasink 16y ago
Jeremy Zawodny is implementing some interesting tech at Craigslist. It looks like they're doing a lot of development with MongoDB, Redis, and Sphinx. He drops tech notes on his twitter feed (@jzawodn) occasionally.
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by datasink 16y ago
Especially with all the potentially karma-lucrative HFP arbitrage opportunities with up-trending submissions on different tech aggregators.
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by datasink 16y ago
I think that's a bit extreme. If you have some fundamental issue with getting things done, articles like these are clearly not going to help you. If you're already productive, and looking for tips to optimize your execution, it makes for in
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by datasink 16y ago
I was burned a few times early on, but now I'm fairly successful with outsourcing. The big stuff: be a coder or have one monitor the project progress, don't trust anyone, go hourly on large projects, sample new contractors with limited 1 ho
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by datasink 16y ago
It seems like highlighting the structural insufficiency of a sand castle by stomping on it.
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by datasink 16y ago
It's disappointing someone discovered it did not filter dupes and decided to post, many times apparently, "WE CAN FLOOD IT BECAUSE IT DOESN'T FILTER DUPES". I'm certain they felt clever in doing so.
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by datasink 16y ago
Notational Velocity with Simplenote syncing. An awesome combination.
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by datasink 16y ago
Zend Framework also handles configs with inheritance. It's an elegant way to handle overrides, no doubt. They do one better by allowing the definition to be in ini files, which would have circumvented the Tumblr bug. Still, I think config f
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by datasink 16y ago
Where do you see this?
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by datasink 16y ago
Tumblr has at least one full time sysadmin. I think it's more reasonable to suppose he made the change to a production config file, rather than a developer. A definite failing in their deployment process, but it really says nothing about th
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by datasink 16y ago
Coordinating between teams for any changes to a production config file is a hard sell, but yes, this is the only really solid way to make certain stupid mishaps don't happen. This is how we did it at my last company as well. In addition to
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by datasink 16y ago
It's a config file. How can you make dozens upon dozens of unique memcache, database, and defined constants DRY?
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by datasink 16y ago
A production config file is typically an exception to the rule. If you have a development team, you will probably not want each one of them to know what your production passwords are. If you have sysadmins, they will probably want none of t
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by datasink 16y ago
The author plays to the stereotype of developers who recklessly "commit and forget it". In a properly run organization, QA takes note of developers who consistently commit show-stopper bugs. If the QA team is positioned as a clean up crew f
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by datasink 16y ago
It's also helpful to have someone that can run through endless permutations, paying careful attention to each, finding small issues that popup with countless applied revisions. It is not an easy job.
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by datasink 16y ago
Having been in a high pressure position in which my team and I were writing mission critical code which could "have no bugs whatsoever" first without QA, and then later with QA, I can say confidently the quality of the code and occurrence o
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by datasink 16y ago
I've found Vitamin-R for OS X to be really nice also. http://www.publicspace.net/Vitamin-R/
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A/B Testing Frontpage Screenshots vs. Illustrations(abtests.com)
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by datasink 16y ago
Seconded. It's especially pronounced when you need to flip back a few pages or skip ahead to the next chapter. The command-keys/controller setup is also really user-unfriendly.
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by datasink 16y ago
The fact they went through that exercise demonstrates that there is some interest, however. With retention systems, you have the opportunity to save a sale with a time-limited coupon code, for those that may be bouncing because of the price
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by datasink 16y ago
I worked on a team that developed one of the automated chat bot retention systems. Thanks for quoting "AI", as ours was really crude, but at the same level of other offerings. If memory serves, we cycled through basic pattern matches on nor

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