fendale

28 ms·

211.
by fendale 18y ago
Fantastic - I have been looking for something like that for ages that just works. I even posted in a thread on there that a 'usable whiteboard' was one of those problems that still needed solving - I reckon you are a long way there - well d
212.
by fendale 18y ago
I actually got how to use the text straight away - Please don't change that to force people to use the tool bar to put it into text mode - that would be very frustrating!
213.
by fendale 18y ago
Yes I think so - your example will still print "after the block x is 5", but in that case that probably is what you would expect. Maybe my head has just gone blank, but I cannot think of a way to get a local called 'x' inside that block th
214.
by fendale 18y ago
The major problem with block variables in ruby is that if you do something like x = 4 1.upto(5) do |x| puts x end puts "after the block x is #{x}" It will print: 1 2 3 4 5 after the block
215.
by fendale 18y ago
I hope the OP was joking :-/
216.
by fendale 18y ago
What I don't understand is why Facebook feels slow each time I logon with these 10K servers - its often one of the slowest sites I visit! If they are intending to have 60K servers, they better keep a slug of that cash around to pay the elec
217.
by fendale 18y ago
Yea, 10,000 servers is a serious number - is that actually an accurate figure?
218.
by fendale 18y ago
The fear factor is certainly one thing holding me back. That any not having an idea that is good enough. I have plenty of ideas all the time, but I don't think any are good enough to put all that work into. I have also found it is tough t
219.
by fendale 18y ago
Well said - I remember reading somewhere before that the database was mentioned (as usual) as the problem area. Someone else in the comments mentioned 400K messages a day, plus personal messages, say thats even another 400K. I have zero exp
220.
by fendale 18y ago
I am pretty certain it was mentioned in a blog post recently (I cannot find it now) that Ruby on Rails is only used for a small part of what Twitter is doing - ie the front end, and there is a lot of non Rails or Ruby code in the background
221.
by fendale 18y ago
The article mentions the cost of gas reaching $3.60 a gallon - here in the UK, based on 3.78 litres per gallon, the cost is about £4.35 - thats over twice the price! I always knew gas was cheaper in the USA, but didn't realise how much. I
222.
by fendale 18y ago
Sounds like NBC are creating a Meatball Sundae (to steal Seth Godin's term) - that is what his latest book was all about.
223.
by fendale 18y ago
This is something I have been struggling with too. I would love to make a useful web app that businesses would pay for, but all my ideas are something to do with software development, as that is all I know ... I do try to speak to people i
224.
by fendale 18y ago
Not so much a distribution problem, but a platform problem - I cannot get Ruby to compile on an Itanium HP-UX box - even the HPUX ports site says it won't work :-( If anyone has got it to work please let me know!
225.
by fendale 18y ago
Wall street types are used to working on serious hardware though (I am not a wall street person, but work for a fortune 500 type place). One of our Oracle databases sits on a 24 core itanium box That sort of hardware + Oracle can munch thro
226.
by fendale 18y ago
For me, Facebook often seems very sluggish and slow - I have a pretty useful 4Meg connection and others sites are fine - maybe 10,000 servers is part of the problem - it seems like a ridiculously high number. I wonder how many transactions
227.
by fendale 18y ago
You may well be correct - perhaps the distributed tools are easier - I need to get one of them installed so I can play around with it to figure it out. That said, if people don't get version control at all (yip, there are plenty of them) th
228.
by fendale 18y ago
I have just got a rather large team ( > 100 people) using Subversion - from my experience, I noticed two things. Firstly, most developers I have encountered in big corporations (and India) don't even give version control a thought - I t
229.
by fendale 18y ago
I had the same problem, but that url isn't working for me - guess I will have to wait until I get home to read it!!
230.
by fendale 18y ago
Yea that would be correct I reckon - the more adventurous you try to be, the bigger the reward, but also the less chance of getting any reward.
231.
by fendale 18y ago
"Also, will people be more employable after quitting their jobs? It depends what employers are looking for. Some of them want "stable" employees who won't go leaving soon again, when the next best opportunity shows up." Yea I guess that is
232.
by fendale 18y ago
I think their model carries a lot of weight, but its not the only way. Besides, show me 1 successful business and I will be able to show you 9 that failed (if the 1 in 10 success statistic is correct) - most businesses will fail, not matter
233.
by fendale 18y ago
And then they will go out and get a new job and probably be more employable as a result of their experiences ... Clearly a few will make millions, some will make enough and most will go broke, but that's the way business is. Now, to some ho
234.
by fendale 18y ago
Has anyone figured out how much less memory mod_rails uses than say Mongrel? I haven't gotten round to experimenting with it myself yet.
235.
by fendale 18y ago
I work for a big company where they believe in the cog-in-a-machine idea so much they actually implemented a process they coined 'the factory process' with the emphasis on being able to swap in team of developers at the drop of a hat. Noone
236.
by fendale 18y ago
Sigh - I am with Virgin and have been generally happy for years now. I don't like the sounds of this one bit. Its getting bad enough in the evenings, as if you download more than a few 100MB they throttle your connection down to 1MB from
237.
by fendale 19y ago
This is great news good to see it! What I have been wondering is what happens to the memory footprint? It says somewhere on the site it is reduced by 33% - is that a typical reduction? Also, if this is like mod_perl, deployment wasn't real
238.
by fendale 19y ago
Yea, I had a J1 visa once and spent a summer working in a beach club on Cape Code - good times! They expect evidence that you have at least one more year of university left to get it (they don't want people not going back home and staying i
239.
by fendale 19y ago
First its bad for you, then its good - I wish they would make up their mind! I actually don't like the taste of coffee, which makes me a bit of a weirdo apparently, but I believe you can get your caffeine hit from tea instead (or red bull i
240.
by fendale 19y ago
Yes - and second that with a usable white board interface - Livemeeting sucks so badly!

More ›