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Losing Control to the Heroku PaaS(code.dblock.org)
2 points by dblock 14y ago|0 comments
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Five Ways to Torture Candidates in a Technical Interview(code.dblock.org)
2 points by dblock 14y ago|0 comments
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by dblock 14y ago
It only works in that case. What if there's another work that is called "Cezanne's Favorite Watercolor", and we're just in the beginning of search hell :)
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by dblock 14y ago
China and Australia are the worst regions right now in terms of content delivery speed by a factor of 3. I suspect with a new AWS data center in Australia Cloudfront delivery will become better there soon, and we're looking at Akamai medium
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by dblock 14y ago
It's an interesting observation. We built a full text semantic search in 2011 by reverse-indexing art search results from popular search engines and it could do things like "Cezanne watercolors" at ease. We showed it to people and we found
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by dblock 14y ago
Thanks for the kind words. We load 1GB of CSS and JS. OK, maybe I am exaggerating :) It's a constant struggle between "it looks and feels amazing" and "it's super fast".
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by dblock 14y ago
Same thing for us at Art.sy. We have humans doing targeted emails, with MailChimp. Sendgrid is an SMTP relay with high deliverability. That's all it does. You can find who received what on the website, too. With MailChimp you have to setup
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by dblock 14y ago
From what I see, when you have a single dyno, Heroku deploys you to a different environment sandbox called "development". Typically that has less uptime and takes lots of upgrades all the time with interesting consequences. I believe they p
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by dblock 14y ago
I wrote a blog post on our overall tech stack here: http://artsy.github.com/blog/2012/10/10/artsy-technology-sta... Our MongoHQ integration is very straightforward - MongoHQ provides us with a replica set and we configure it as any other
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by dblock 14y ago
I think it's totally worth it. Right now it still costs us less than a developer to run on Heroku and not that long ago we were 3 of those devs. I think having our front-ends on EC2 along with setting up memcached/mongo/nginx/etc ourselves
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by dblock 14y ago
dblock from Art.sy here. The analytics comment is totally fair - we spent a lot of time looking at all kinds of stats as we keep experimenting and it needs to be trimmed down to 1 (or none :)). Our average API response is 380ms. It's about
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by dblock 14y ago
It might be worth noting that Grape is Rack based and will work very well alongside Rails or standalone on top of Rack (sample in https://github.com/dblock/grape-on-rack ).
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by dblock 14y ago
This was designed in the 50s!
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by dblock 14y ago
The assumption that software can work from the first try is proven wrong, time and again. Software is something that needs to grow, mature and stabilize. The Romney campaign had the thing that's usually hardest to get - the human beta test
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by dblock 14y ago
We set a cookie when you click that and don't redirect to the error when that happens. So two questions: 1) do you have cookies enabled 2) what's your browser? Feel free to e-mail support@art.sy with this.
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by dblock 14y ago
There's a blog post on 3d transforms here: http://artsy.github.com/blog/2012/10/18/so-you-want-to-do-a-... There's also an awesome open-source project by a fellow NY dev here: https://github.com/hakimel/meny that accomplishes the same t
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by dblock 14y ago
Can you please drop a note to support[at]art.sy with what you see?
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by dblock 14y ago
Thanks so much for the kind words :)
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by dblock 14y ago
Can anyone please comment on the humans involved in running some of this stuff? What are their roles, occupations? Infrastructure? Who owns that?
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by dblock 14y ago
"While it sounds like a compelling anecdote, it's complete bullshit. If you are just squeaking by at 30k, and you get a raise up to 60k, you suddenly have an extra 30k per year to play with." That is if you live in a tax-free zone :)
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by dblock 14y ago
I think one should some hard math on how much food costs vs. some of these other expenses that the article says to start cutting _first_. TV is 100$, which is easily 5 days of food in New York City if you live on a budget. A car is 500$, wh
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by dblock 14y ago
Feel free (you or anyone reading this) to drop me an email and come visit Art.sy, we're on Broadway & Canal (dblock[at]dblock[dot]org).
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by dblock 14y ago
They did snag netfix.com though :)
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by dblock 14y ago
See clap for an implementation, https://github.com/soveran/clap
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Kim Dotcom's Website Circa 1999(web.archive.org)
1 points by dblock 14y ago|0 comments
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Pressing the Big Scary Red Reset Button (on failing projects)(code.dblock.org)
1 points by dblock 14y ago|0 comments
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by dblock 14y ago
If the opposite were to happen: if they were unhappy with your performance, they would fire you and you would agree that it was the right thing to do. Quit.
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by dblock 14y ago
Well said. Matz is a perfect example of what Linus is not and can never be.
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by dblock 14y ago
France has been working 4 days a week basically. All the fundamentals in France seem the same as Germany except the working hours, yet Germany is doing economically much better. Switzerland has school 4 days a week. Its students are doing b
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How to Cross the Chasms of Your Technology Career(code.dblock.org)
3 points by dblock 14y ago|0 comments

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