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by fendale 19y ago
For sure - thats one of those hard problems that has not be well solved yet ...
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by fendale 19y ago
I am very interested to see the memory usage. With mod_perl, you pre-loaded a lot of your modules in the httpd.conf file, and Apache loads them once and shares them across all processes saving memory. With Rails that could give large memo
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by fendale 19y ago
I remember that article - I quickly reassured my self by writing fizz-buzz in Perl, Ruby and PLSQL (my three most used languages) - no great achievement, but I am better than the majority of comp-sci grads apparently!
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by fendale 19y ago
Are things really getting that bad here? I have been lurking and occasionally commenting here for quite a while and I haven't really noticed much change recently - the only thing I did notice was a slight slowdown in posts over the Easter
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by fendale 19y ago
Not being from the USA, I am not sure how this works. In the UK, generally the person selling a house finds an agent to sell it for them - they normally charge a fee based on the sale price that the seller has to pay. The buy doesn't requi
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by fendale 19y ago
Probably by storing the keys in a hash table structure instead of an array.
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by fendale 19y ago
Yes, but it gets protected automatically if you use the mentioned attr_protected or the accessible version. Basic Rails code to update your own details on the 'view my details' screen is something like def update_details @logged
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by fendale 19y ago
I am in Belfast - Don't really want to move, I have a lot of friends here that would suck to leave behind! Lots of American investment is hitting Belfast these days, so there are a reasonable number of IT jobs, but they tend to be big compa
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by fendale 19y ago
I can't see any ad's at that URL ... maybe something is broken? One thing thats kept me in my big company job is that I am in a part of the UK where there isn't a massive choice of places to work - there are other big companies, but few if
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by fendale 19y ago
Couldn't agree more. In a company of any size getting a product costing over $100 or so is going to attract attention of middle managers who will put a stop to it. I think the 37 Signals blog (or at least someone on my blogroll) mentioned
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by fendale 19y ago
Woo, you sound just like me. I recall a conversation in the canteen with a colleague recently where I said something along the lines of "... this place is so mediocre ... there has to be something better ..." and she replied with "well its
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by fendale 19y ago
I am also a 27 year old programmer working for a very large company well over 10K employees. Unfortunately, doing well career wise is more about politics than programming. I have never worked for a small company so I cannot comment on that
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by fendale 19y ago
Unfortunately I work for a big company, and our team has a ridiculous 150+ designers/developers - how anything gets done is beyond me. Also unfortunately, it fell upon me to review as much of the code produced as possible for some time. It
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by fendale 19y ago
Yea, London is a total joke, as is Dublin - I have a few friends who rent in Dublin, and they live in a shoe box for a lot of rent (don't really know anyone in London)! I am in Belfast, where the property prices only ballooned about 2 years
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by fendale 19y ago
The price of houses in the UK for one has gotten ridiculous in the last couple of years - I was lucky and got a place a few years back, but if I hadn't, I wouldn't be able to afford it now - I think its becoming more and more common. The o
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by fendale 19y ago
I don't know much about InnoDB's clustered index, but if it is like Oracles IOT's, then normally its more expensive to do inserts (than for a heap table) as it has to put the data into a specific place, but cheaper to find related data when
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by fendale 19y ago
Maybe you are correct actually - the stats of that article certainly indicate it!
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by fendale 19y ago
Well, the smart thing would be to store the data in normalized tables like your supposed to, and then denormalize it with a fast refreshed materialized view (or one that is updated on a schedule, depending on how stale data can be tolerated
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by fendale 19y ago
I have never had a problem managing money, but does anyone else think that everything stated in this article just plain old common sense? I can't believe its managed to get almost 1300 diggs and a host of comments for stating the obvious.
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by fendale 19y ago
The main reason I avoided Textmate is because its Mac specific - in my day job a Mac is not an option ... If I was going to invest the time in learning more advanced features of an editor, I wanted to be able to use it everywhere!
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by fendale 19y ago
You can use the ECB (emacs code browser, which is what's displayed in the left column of the first image) quite happily without the mouse - I use it quite a lot in a terminal.
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by fendale 19y ago
GMT - Ireland
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UK proposing to force ISP's to cut off illegal downloaders net connections(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by fendale 19y ago
The fact that Textmate doesn't run on Windows is exactly why I stayed away from it on OS X - I am forced to use a windows machine at work, and am stuck in a terminal a lot of the time, so I decided to learn emacs instead. Once you get over
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by fendale 19y ago
Command line works for me. I have done some tinkering with TortiseSVN but I am generally not on Windows, so the command line is the most common.
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by fendale 19y ago
Software that doesn't need testing - that doesn't exist I am afraid. The UI is a different ball game (and as browsers evolve it will continuously change), and there are tools out there to solve it in some way or another. With the Rails tes
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by fendale 19y ago
Good call on Inkscape - I have been looking for a decent Photoshop type app to run on OSX for ages. Finally got my next and back arrows drawn without starting up the windows box!
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by fendale 19y ago
I have been toiling away for what seems like ages on a source code review app, aimed at helping cube dwellers who can code sort out some of the horrible outsourced code they have to review (something I have to do in my cube too often, and w
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by fendale 19y ago
Thanks for that - I figured something like that would get me far enough - I guess if you need to scale beyond a single server it is a sign of at least some success!
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by fendale 19y ago
I have been hacking away on a Rails app for the past while, and in about a months time it will be ready for public beta - I have no idea how much server power I am going to need. Any YC'ers got any advice here - I cannot see it being overly

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