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by earless1 13y ago
Does anyone here know of a comparable project in Ruby?
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by earless1 13y ago
We don't currently use Lob, but we use a service like it and for us it's the printing and mailing functionality that makes it appealing. Giving our customers the ability to send things like invoices directly to their customers fro
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by earless1 13y ago
>If we're thinking about this pragmatically, the world attention paid to Haiti during the flood saved far more than that number of people, even those not directly hit by the earthquake and instead were living with diseases that are
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by earless1 13y ago
lies, lies, damn lies. you've never witnessed faster googling than when a system is down. googling is usually much faster than trying to recall the proper switches for all utilities. I find Google to be far better sometimes than even m
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by earless1 13y ago
We found out the hard way that directly deploying from github might be a bad idea. I wrote a little web service that receives notifications via hooks when code is tagged and rehosts the tarballs in S3 for deployment. it's been rock sol
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by earless1 13y ago
The Atlanta Metro area is a great place to be. cost of living is low and there are many big companies located here.
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by earless1 13y ago
Well that was fast
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by earless1 13y ago
haha didn't think I'd see anyone I knew on hacker news. good job Owen.
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by earless1 13y ago
Be careful about the multi-AZ promise. One of the reasons we don't use RDS is because there is no multi-region failover/replication capability.
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by earless1 14y ago
I guess I am biased because I work at an organization with separate development, operations, and support groups. I work for the operations side of things and I can't image just letting support logging in as users. it just seems wrong.
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by earless1 14y ago
>If your application doesn’t require a high level of user privacy, then you should be able to log into your site as a given user. Odd problems will pop up that only affect one user. when the hell is this ever ok? even for a to-do list a
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by earless1 14y ago
>Personalized, color-coded weather reports and warnings based on your personal minimums. Sounds weird to me, not sure why. you might want to consider alternate wording.
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by earless1 14y ago
http://pogoweb-staging.a.pogoapp.com/team is broken
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by earless1 14y ago
You should make sure that the site is not actually returning 500's for those request. We had some similar issues when we first started using the service
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by earless1 14y ago
Yup, this CNAME service just allowed me to make a quick update to DNS and get us back up. We will probably need to automate this in the future.
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by earless1 14y ago
I don't think developer time is considered overhead for a software outfit. I believe overhead is anything that does not directly contribute to the bottom line. At a software company a dev contributes to the bottom line in the form of shippi
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by earless1 14y ago
DigitalOcean seems like they are worth a look
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by earless1 14y ago
He was passing the numbers directly when running stand-alone. His other code was looping through an array.
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by earless1 14y ago
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/securerandom/rdo...
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by earless1 14y ago
I know this is probably a stupid question, but what are you using for the videos on the site. I like they way they are just in their without controls or anything.
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by earless1 14y ago
Do you guys plan on staying with ServerBeach? Was their hosting cheaper than rolling your own infrastructure on EC2?
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