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by gtaylor 14y ago
I'm sorry, there are just too many absolutes and far too much hyperbole in your response for it to even be taken seriously. This "Rigid" term you keep throwing around is absolutely ridiculous. It seems to be the entire basis of your argumen
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by gtaylor 14y ago
I am sure they are larger, but I highly doubt they invest as much time (full-time), and do it as cohesively as Canonical. That's without factoring in all of the volunteers and other unpaid contributors. Debian has a notoriously slow, bikesh
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by gtaylor 14y ago
Arch has been overall very good for me, but there have been breakages (and I experienced a whole lot more with Gentoo, though that was a while ago). Arch's systemd migration in particular was somewhat painful and the documentation wasn't gr
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by gtaylor 14y ago
You really are at the mercy of the PPA maintainer, too. For some packages, the maintainer's interest may not be there for more than a release or two. That's a pain, when I could just be pulling from multiverse/universe/whatever it was calle
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by gtaylor 14y ago
Although, I'm not sure we can even look at the Debian when trying to predict what a rolling release Ubuntu would look like (even considering that they are "relatives"). The current difference in manpower and mind share is pretty big between
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by gtaylor 14y ago
The packaging is actually likely to be a lot easier, which is one of the big perks to this model. They only get stuck supporting the LTS releases, instead of having to backport fixes to every release in the last X years (was it 4?). Somethi
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by gtaylor 14y ago
A lot of the counter argument is based on FUD and bad experiences with OTHER rolling release distros. I'm not sure we can look at Gentoo or Arch as examples of what Ubuntu would be aiming to do (and I say this as an Arch user). Within the p
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by gtaylor 14y ago
> I just believe it's a non-optimal choice, in almost any situation. And this is where your argument loses every bit of credibility, this is an awful, unsubstantiated blanket statement. I'll be the first to bemoan Django for its flaws (
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by gtaylor 14y ago
I think it's important to note that not everyone wants or needs to choose every single component in a project. In fact, this can be a big waste of time and added complexity for some projects, particularly the more simple ones. Even for
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by gtaylor 14y ago
He never said they were specific to Django, he was mentioning a few specific things he liked about Django. It's great you like Pyramid, but honestly, a lot of this is just a matter of taste. I personally find the way Pyramid fits together
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by gtaylor 14y ago
I haven't tried that yet, but sounds like a good idea. I may have to give it a shot again.
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by gtaylor 14y ago
The fact that you even have to do something like this to attempt to get decent performance illustrates my point. Not to mention that this may cause issues if you are RAM-constrained. It just seems like some engineering effort could be s
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by gtaylor 14y ago
Touchpad support is the big blocker for me. It does support some of the gestures, but the whole experience is sub-par compared to what we were spoiled with on Mac OS. Movement and acceleration is weird, the ignoring of "accidental" contact
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by gtaylor 14y ago
I have been really unimpressed with the direction of Mac OS the last few releases. The desktop environment is attractive to look at, but I find it somewhat sluggish and moody (don't you show me that dreaded beachball!). 10.6 is the last rel
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by gtaylor 14y ago
If anyone is using this, I'd love to hear about their experience. We default to recommending Stripe to our customers, but will probably need to offer Braintree support in the future as well (in case they already have a Braintree account and
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by gtaylor 14y ago
A large number of the people who would be hit heavily by these are already using in some form.
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by gtaylor 14y ago
It's running great on my Arch Linux + AMD setup.
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by gtaylor 14y ago
As a Disqus user, I did receive notification of this and did disable the new "Promoted Discovery" feature. I don't take issue with anything you have just said, except for the part where you call it "Promoted Discovery" instead of advertis
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by gtaylor 14y ago
I think you're missing the point: We could spend extra time doing any number of things ourselves. When it comes down to it, shipping, being productive, and being reasonably efficient are much more important than "just doing it yourself".
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by gtaylor 14y ago
> With a cost of 200$ for 125 repos, it is less than 2$ per client Something that I keep seeing go un-mentioned is that all GitHub users are not software consultants in the traditional sense. For those that have an actual product and ow
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by gtaylor 14y ago
I have a family member that experienced something very similar. She too was pretty upset. Sometimes this kind of ranting is the best way to lighten a very upsetting situation. As someone who carries an Android, Google really screwed this up
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by gtaylor 14y ago
We have found quite the opposite. Route 53 has been very responsive for us all around the world. Also, Route 53 has Anycast support.
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by gtaylor 14y ago
Very helpful, thanks for posting this! The parts about map declaration vs. make() vs. new() are the most valuable tidbits, I think. A lot of the rest is mostly just very handy tips and pointers.
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Amazon Elastic Transcoder Review(gc-taylor.com)
2 points by gtaylor 14y ago|0 comments
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by gtaylor 14y ago
We've done some preliminary testing, and this AWS Transcoding service is very fast. It's good enough to the point where I don't even care to consider this a factor in our AWS vs Zencoder comparisons.
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by gtaylor 14y ago
While this makes me (as a developer) happy, my customers don't care. They want encoding, they want it cheaper, and they want it better. I am still tinkering, but for our purposes, it looks like Amazon's Transcoding service is going to be ch
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by gtaylor 14y ago
Purely anecdotal, but the web interface is probably my most frequent means of interacting with Twitter. It does what it needs to do for me.
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by gtaylor 14y ago
You know, these posts sound a lot like "I've got mine, screw you." Am I rare in that I wouldn't mind paying a little more if it'd mean that the country would be legitimately happier/healthier? Whether that be socialized healthcare, single-p
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by gtaylor 14y ago
When the author was asked why his changes weren't merged upstream (which would have prevented his issues): > "A lot of this kind of stuff differs wildly between the distributions, especially since no two distros share the same boot code
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by gtaylor 14y ago
For work stuff, I have to agree. For play/hobby stuff, I could see jumping on this the next time I need a VM for experimentation. Excellent work, DigitalOcean!

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