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by jarin 15y ago
Oh I missed that part :) I don't think it's ready for production anyway until it has el.creepyUncle() and el.nieceWithInappropriateFacebookPhotos()
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by jarin 15y ago
While this definitely does make things more concise, does it make things clearer? I've never had to deal with overly complex hierarchies like that in JS, so I'm not sure.
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by jarin 15y ago
Argh this is terrible, I fear change.
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by jarin 15y ago
Most of the time, it takes stops and starts, failure, heartache, and most importantly years of work and some luck to make an overnight success. Your Ask HN not making it to the front page? Probably just bad luck (there are lots of good stor
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by jarin 15y ago
I guess it sort of could be, but I'd consider a "cloud" service something where you either a) can spool up or shut down servers dynamically from an image without any additional configuration (ala EC2 or Heroku), or b) a commodity service li
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by jarin 15y ago
It is also 100% effective in losing your ability to think critically (see the TED talk about "filter bubbles").
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by jarin 15y ago
"The Cloud" isn't always the right solution for everything. If you're looking to go inexpensive, you can put it on a 2 GB Linode VPS on a ramen budget.
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by jarin 15y ago
On a basic level, you can think of it as just a faster version of Memcached. Digging a little deeper, you can think of it as a faster, extremely powerful version of Memcached.
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by jarin 15y ago
Resque and redis-store are like auto-adds for almost any Rails project I work on these days. Resque is for background jobs (with many add-ons for locking, scheduling, retries, etc.), and redis-store is a drop-in store for Rack::Session, Rac
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by jarin 15y ago
I never understood why people hate on MG Siegler so much and then give John Gruber a free pass.
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by jarin 15y ago
> FWIW I love hg and android. You didn't explain why.
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by jarin 15y ago
You don't think that raising the overall self-esteem of a population has a net positive effect on their society's condition? I mean yes you could argue that it might contribute to a class divide, but I think orthodontic treatment is much mo
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by jarin 15y ago
I've got a buddy who is a paid writer for AOL/HuffPost, and he writes great, originally researched articles. I was really sad to see recently through his author feed that he's now also churning out their signature content-less keyword artic
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by jarin 15y ago
I can understand why some parents are outraged about this. Despite my parents' best efforts, I managed to watch Terminator with some friends at a sleepover. That's why I grew up to be a homicidal cyborg.
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by jarin 15y ago
Remember when Catcher in the Rye was going to pervert and corrupt America's youth?
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by jarin 15y ago
Having worked for an adult company (and doing consulting for a different adult company now), one thing that I always see is adult companies banning access and/or credit card transactions from certain Zip codes known to be risky for the Mill
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by jarin 15y ago
My Gmail account recently was compromised due to the MtGox intrusion, as I had completely gotten lax with my password security practices (I noticed because I was no longer able to log in to my Google account). The worst thing about it is I
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by jarin 15y ago
The key is to put some stuff that's reasonably embarrassing in the fake volume, like nude pictures of yourself or weird fetish porn.
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by jarin 15y ago
It's really similar to Chef, but I find Puppet way easier to work with.
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by jarin 15y ago
Oh thank the heavens, this was literally the only thing keeping me from upgrading my Rails apps to Ruby 1.9.x (all of my "serious" apps are deployed via Moonshine).
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by jarin 15y ago
The answer to potential security vulnerabilities is not to avoid using technology, it's to improve your security.
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by jarin 15y ago
It can't be a completely intractable problem; iPhone apps have been able to do it since iOS 2.0.
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by jarin 15y ago
Not that this kind of attack is likely unless you leave your keys sitting out in public, but it might be a good case for Lockitron if you're paranoid: https://lockitron.com
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by jarin 15y ago
This looks even smoother than Square, but I'm curious to see how it handles credit cards with the silvery ink worn off of the numbers, or cards with complex graphics on the front.
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by jarin 15y ago
I used to do IT in the Navy and participated in upgrade processes like this, and this is exactly why I didn't go work at a government software contractor like most of my shipmates did after we got out.
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by jarin 15y ago
Looks like the FBI is operating from the Department of Homeland Security playbook now.
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by jarin 15y ago
Tempted to just leave this in the background all day while I work.
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by jarin 15y ago
Paying 20 cents for a faster transaction (assuming a value of around $20/BTC) isn't really a small fee, that's in the ballpark of what credit card gateways charge.
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by jarin 15y ago
All these articles about BankSimple are fine and dandy, but I feel like I've been waiting for my beta invite for at least a year. Meanwhile, companies like Dwolla are springing up and poised to pull the rug out from under them. As long as e
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by jarin 15y ago
I haven't had a chance to use Riak in a production application yet but am definitely looking for the first possible excuse to use it.

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