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How we lost (and found) millions by not A/B testing(signalvnoise.com)
1 points by gavingmiller 11y ago|0 comments
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Automated Super Mario World(flowingdata.com)
3 points by gavingmiller 11y ago|1 comments
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by gavingmiller 11y ago
This right here is the heart of race condition bugs, and is NOT race condition safe. When running multiple web servers and without a "validates_uniqueness_of" constraint on your database, multiple requests hitting multiple differe
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by gavingmiller 12y ago
The value isn't in creating a new version of MSBuild. The value is in getting PR's merged into mainline. If you've ever done any CI based work, you'll know how valuable this release is! (says the ex .NET developer)
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by gavingmiller 12y ago
Sam has also blogged about this for Ruby specifically: http://samsaffron.com/archive/2013/12/11/call-to-action-long...
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by gavingmiller 12y ago
It does; considering situations where this would be seen as a realistic/novel approach for fixing flapping tests. No need to examine root cause! sigh
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Why RVM caused DateTime arithmetic headaches(nerds.petrofeed.com)
2 points by gavingmiller 12y ago|0 comments
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by gavingmiller 12y ago
At PetroFeed (the app I'm building) we started out with a Capybara test suite to exercise our client side code. I've found Capybara tests were hard to write, difficult to debug, and brittle; often flapping on our CI server (or wor
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Why We Switched From Mixpanel to KISS(nerds.petrofeed.com)
2 points by gavingmiller 13y ago|0 comments
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The Basics of Ruby Memoization(gavinmiller.io)
1 points by gavingmiller 13y ago|0 comments
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by gavingmiller 13y ago
I'm not super knowledgable about climate.com, but I can tell you what we're doing. For PetroFeed we're taking various data sets (public, commercial, and private) and connecting them into a single network. From there we'r
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by gavingmiller 13y ago
Thanks! His name is Pedro. :D
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by gavingmiller 13y ago
Hijacking the topic - I'm co-founder of a startup called PetroFeed[1] that's building a GitHub-esque platform for the Oil & Gas industry. We've raised $3.1M, have 7 team members currently, and are moving out of closed bet
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The Audience Building Challenge: 10,000 Subscribers in 30 days(nathanbarry.com)
3 points by gavingmiller 13y ago|0 comments
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ActiveRecord's Dirty Little Secret(gavinmiller.io)
7 points by gavingmiller 13y ago|0 comments
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by gavingmiller 13y ago
We use Code Climate for Ruby and were in on the alpha for JavaScript. It is an amazing product, the support is great, and I can't recommend it enough!!
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Why I’m Going Back To Capturing Credit Cards Upfront(planscope.io)
76 points by gavingmiller 13y ago|20 comments
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Getting to Know Pluck and Select (ActiveRecord)(gavinmiller.io)
1 points by gavingmiller 13y ago|0 comments
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by gavingmiller 13y ago
If you're in a position to buy this book and support the author you should do so. Our team used it to do the Rails 4 upgrade, and we EASILY saved greater than the minimal $75 cost of the book.
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by gavingmiller 13y ago
Throwing some actual qualitative points on this grossly overstated article: it scored 92/100 on page speed [1], and 76/100 on YSlow [2]. Our companies site uses a mix of static/dynamic javascript which can cause as many as 10
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by gavingmiller 13y ago
None taken :D -- it actually happens a lot up here too! My city routinely sends major projects to designers, architects, contractors, etc. outside of the city, province, and/or country. The likely culprit here is lowest bid != best pro
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Responsive Macbook to iPad to iPhone html(codepen.io)
3 points by gavingmiller 13y ago|0 comments
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by gavingmiller 13y ago
Oil & Gas I'm with a startup called PetroFeed and we're looking to tap into the huge potential in the industry[1]. Most startups in the O&G industry are concerned with building better drilling technologies, or finding new
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Using CanCan to do Feature Authorization(nerds.petrofeed.com)
3 points by gavingmiller 13y ago|0 comments
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Legit.js(github.com)
1 points by gavingmiller 13y ago|0 comments
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by gavingmiller 13y ago
Can anyone who's used Puma on Heroku comment on how it compares to Unicorn?
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by gavingmiller 13y ago
This argument also works the other way. We payed less for beanstalk and got half the features. Sure it was a remote git repo, but our use case for GitHub is more than just external storage, and we were able to remove other tools that we wer
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by gavingmiller 13y ago
I ask because I have no plausible answer: What does someone stand to gain by DDoSing github?
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What algorithm does Readability use for extracting text from URLs?(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by gavingmiller 13y ago|0 comments
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by gavingmiller 13y ago
Or maybe you're no longer part of the culture that the Simpsons is relevant to...

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