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by dkoch 13y ago
DigitalOcean's big selling point for me is SSD disk. I don't see that listed on the OVH offering.
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by dkoch 13y ago
"Again, depending on the choice of the database-engine, MySQL can lack certain features, such as the full-text search." Both of the two biggest engines (MyISAM, InnoDB) support full-text search. It was added to InnoDB in MySQL 5.6
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by dkoch 13y ago
Ansible can be used as a distributed command runner but it's also a configuration management tool like Puppet (and much more). Its "playbooks" are by default meant to be idempotent -- you can run them over and over ensuring t
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by dkoch 13y ago
The AP Stylebook switched from e-mail to email a few years back.
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by dkoch 13y ago
My first job title was "webmaster." Which meant dev-ops-designer-product-guy.
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by dkoch 13y ago
What about CGI scripts from Matt's Script Archive [1] which amazingly is still alive? [1] http://www.scriptarchive.com/
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by dkoch 13y ago
I don't know anything about shipping, but I wonder how much of the crews' time is spent in maintenance and repairs. Are they trained to fix common issues? What happens when the robot boats break down? Or are they just there to fil
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by dkoch 13y ago
Signed up for an account when they started offering free, didn't really understand the benefit because no one was there. I have not been back.
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by dkoch 13y ago
How do you compare to big players in the market like Concur, which has these features?
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My Baby and AOL’s Bottom Line(slate.com)
1 points by dkoch 13y ago|0 comments
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by dkoch 13y ago
Self-funded health insurance plans are very common with employers. Third-party administrators (TPAs) that provide the claim processing are big business.
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by dkoch 13y ago
Yes. The author of South is writing the built-in migrations, and keeping a 3rd party migration library would be redundant.
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by dkoch 13y ago
It's pretty cool that at least two of the off-site links from that page are still live, considering how quickly most sites from that era fell into link rot: "prefab hell" http://www.theatlantic.com/past/d
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'The Floppy Did Me In'(theatlantic.com)
14 points by dkoch 13y ago|4 comments
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by dkoch 13y ago
I think more flexible is a better word -- it can do more than what you can do when you bake a static image because you also use it to dynamically manage a running system post-boot. Ansible can deploy all of your dependencies, keep them upda
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by dkoch 13y ago
I create an AMI with a bare minimum OS. Then I use a configuration management tool to install all software packages, libraries and configurations. My new favorite is Ansible (ansibleworks.com) but Chef and Puppet are others. Updates are eas
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by dkoch 13y ago
The example looks very clean. Reminds me a bit of treesaverjs.com, which created automatic magazine-like page layouts for any size screen, but unfortunately seems to have run out of steam. Do you plan on offering a complete solution for pub
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Dropbox and Uber: Worth Billions, But Still Inches From Disaster(wired.com)
97 points by dkoch 13y ago|71 comments
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Every Edit You've Ever Made to a Facebook Post Is Visible(onthemedia.org)
1 points by dkoch 13y ago|0 comments
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by dkoch 13y ago
Don't be a pedant. The author uses the word in the sense of the slang expression "insanely great."
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by dkoch 13y ago
I've found django-allauth a bit friendlier than django-social-auth, and it covers registration of local accounts in one package.
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How the Wolf of Wall Street Created the Internet(slate.com)
1 points by dkoch 13y ago|0 comments
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A Solar Boom So Successful, It's Been Halted(scientificamerican.com)
196 points by dkoch 13y ago|112 comments
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Target: 40 million credit cards compromised(money.cnn.com)
1 points by dkoch 13y ago|1 comments
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This Silicon Valley Class War Must Stop Fighting About the Wrong Things(wired.com)
2 points by dkoch 13y ago|0 comments
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by dkoch 13y ago
Do you use a sheet and a mattress pad on top of the mattress?
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by dkoch 13y ago
I never would have noticed that the Dropbox icon was the only colorful icon up there if I hadn't read this article. Oh well.
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by dkoch 13y ago
It seems to have dependencies on core Foundation Javascript. I don't think it can be used stand-alone.
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by dkoch 13y ago
What do people recommend for functionality similar to Interchange on a Bootstrap 3 site?
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Dad says Google Maps shows son's dead body(cnn.com)
29 points by dkoch 13y ago|44 comments

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