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by gtaylor 15y ago
I agree. I was noticing that it really read "odd" to me, like someone was trying to be clever and terse. I don't think saving a few keystrokes is worth the decrease in cosmetic appearance/readability. Indeed, I inferred what those keywords
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by gtaylor 15y ago
Yikes, that's a lot of cores. Glad to see the Postgres team keep pushing the scalability envelope.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
The post briefly outlines our philosophy, and goes into some of the tech that runs it (not that tech is the "point"). We'd love to get some feedback!
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Pathwright launches, powered by Snakes and Jazz (online learning)(gc-taylor.com)
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by gtaylor 15y ago
Nor should it. It's for inserting a bunch of stuff, really fast. You can just do normal saves if you want to call the save() method.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
> I think they provide a lot of added value on top of just ram, bandwidth and processor Bingo. This is why we use them. EC2's performance is not great, and the pricing is only "good" if you reserve instances on a 3-year term. However, t
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by gtaylor 15y ago
LastPass, works on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
We're looking at getting a provider implemented in the next quarter or so, and agree with the author's assessment. Particularly for oauth 2.0, the publicly-accessible stuff is in dismal shape.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
This. Good grief, what a leap of logic this entire benchmark is.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
This, this, and this. We document our stuff using ReST and Sphinx. You can optionally specify data types in the docstrings, which does a ton to help with this. It isn't time-consuming, and it makes your team not hate reading your stuff.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
Sounds like Apples to Oranges...
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by gtaylor 15y ago
Definitely a good point, but they're such a cash cow that you have to figure they will mysteriously avoid this new policy.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
We're loving it over at http://coursebookapp.com . We've been happily humming along for a few months, PayPal-free.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
I started using Arch about eight months ago, when Ubuntu didn't have the latest ATI and Xorg packaged so I could use EyeFinity + 3 monitors. At the time, I was very sad to leave my comfy Debian/Ubuntu roots. After struggling a little with t
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by gtaylor 15y ago
Slackware isn't rolling release, though, is it?
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by gtaylor 15y ago
Wouldn't Google Latitude do this, already?
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by gtaylor 15y ago
I'm always immediately skeptical when people are proclaiming a just-announced product as a "<insert big competitor> killer". Let's see how things pan out before proclaiming a new champion.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
General summary: Don't send syslogs over TCP.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
Hm, works just fine on my Galaxy Nexus.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
RTD is the easiest way to do this. It works wonderfully, is free, and if you use GitHub's project hooks in your project settings, the builds start almost immediately after a push. I used to do what this post suggested, but got tired of mana
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by gtaylor 15y ago
I'll see your PC in a closet on a T1, and raise you an API-spawned, auto-scaling cluster of VMs that can be imaged, re-sized, and restored with the tiniest of delays.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
You don't always -NEED- fast I/O, btw.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
To be perfectly honest, this is pretty far from the discussion. SaaSy looks expensive, and their website isn't even clear enough to see if they offer the redirect-less single payment checkout. I'm assuming this is just a shameless plug? Not
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by gtaylor 15y ago
I don't even think the "Why?" of good support matters, from our (the user's) concern, as long as the support is there and fast. Technically, PayPal depends on people sending payments through them to draw profit, as well, but that didn't get
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by gtaylor 15y ago
Dealing with all of the banks, currency, and laws sounds like an absolute mess. Each country does business differently.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
You don't need to choose between safety and no redirects. One of the major points of the article is that you can not touch the credit card data yourself, AND still get a 100% uninterrupted payment experience for the user. Again, it's still
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by gtaylor 15y ago
Most of the gateway-style services operate very similarly. We wrote some abstractions to allow us to eventually add Braintree or Authorize.net, since the payment cycles are much alike (from the API perspective). It only gets difficult when
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by gtaylor 15y ago
I guess you could say Stripe gives you the shotgun, but you have to decide whether you want to use it properly, or blow your foot off. So basically: Be smart about what goes on your sensitive, mission-critical payment-receiving pages, as yo
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by gtaylor 15y ago
It's still really early going, but we've seen some new patterns. For example, we had a customer enroll in four different courses (we help schools offer online courses) in under five minutes. This -never- happened when we only offered PayPal
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by gtaylor 15y ago
I too heard lots of great things about WePay. They seem like a great shop. As you've noted, there are some differences in feature sets on both sides. However, perhaps there will be some convergence in the future. Both services are very youn

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