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by jherdman 17y ago
Wait... they have Nginx out front passing requests to HAProxy and THEN to Apache + mod_rails? That just seems like a bit much given that mod_rails can be installed with Nginx straight up. Why would you want a set up like this?
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I think you're missing the point. The people that are likely to use this application for articles are likely the kind of people that either (a) regularly visit your site, (b) are new to your site but presently don't have time to read the co
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Not only that but it looks incredibly underwhelming. It looks and smells so much like Java that you might as well use Java.
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Interesting point. I tend to agree with you. I find myself hesitant about putting my business logic essentially on the front-end. With the current model we can hide some of the "secret sauce" that makes our applications unique on the server
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It doesn't actually say Github is moving. It just says that Github isn't going to be supported by EngineYard in the same way. It's entirely feasible that Github remain at EngineYard. Edit Woops. Looks like I missed the key part of a sente
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Relatedly, and I mean this question with the utmost sincerity, what is an MBA exactly good for? Far too many people I know are dismissive of MBAs and their degree ("Master in Bullshit Administration! Hur hur hur"), but this same crowd tends
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Not really. A Git repo isn't really beholden to any other repo. Some are considered definitive, but truly they can all stand on equal footing.
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I strongly considered using MongoDB for an internal project at work. I eschewed it for my project though. I simply didn't have time to fully investigate it. I looked at using John Nunemaker's MongoMapper library to integrate MongoDB into my
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I had the same experience at RubyFringe with Zed. Stand up dude.
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Quick question to my fellow Rubyists who happen to do Rails: would you really resent working with Zed? I've enjoyed Zed the few times I've met him in person and find the prospect of working with him to be a desirable thing.
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It's not just you. I think tablets are a over-hyped idea. I think we'll see things like mobile phones take their place. I do, however, see natural input (such as writing and drawing) making their way on to notebook computers.
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Agreed. My thoughts were more or less along the lines of developer mind-share. Though MS has some interesting things, the vast majority of developers producing the cool things are leaving MS in their past. OS X and Linux, on the other hand,
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Thank god for Instapaper ( http://www.instapaper.com )! That's one long article that will make for fine, fine nerdy subway reading.
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This is interesting, but I feel like it's half an article. The author gets to the point of noting that the experiment was flawed before, states new facts about Asparagus pee odour, but doesn't state the old numbers, nor why this disparity e
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Sometimes I arrange to have an outlet. During my last break up I called my mom a lot when I absolutely couldn't focus. I talked to her for 5 or so minutes on my break to vent a bit. I found that after a little bit of releasing the mental pr
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It's more common in a server environment. I'd expect to see more Java installs as the popularity of JVM-based language implementations rise, such as JRuby, Clojure, and Scala. I am, for instance, working on putting together a JRuby stack fo
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Have many HN'ers done the Myers-Briggs personality type test? According to this test, I'm an INTJ.I tend to set very high standards for myself, many times they're impossibly high. When I fail to achieve them, I feel horribly depressed and d
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I did, in fact, read the entire article. Hawking says: """In the last ten thousand years the human species has been in what Hawking calls, "an external transmission phase," where the internal record of information, handed down to succeedin
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Just because I'm a programmer doesn't mean my progeny automatically are. Nothing I learn is passed on through my genes. Hawking and yourself aren't describing evolution, you're describing learning and education.
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I've been playing guitar for quite some time now. How did you go about learning gypsy-jazz? Do you recommend learning "simpler" forms of jazz first? I could use a challenge.
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Wow. These guys are on top of their game. I'm impressed! I've been using Mercurial at work, and generally Git at home. This could definitely simplify my toolbox a bit. I need to spend some more time with Git, but right now Mercurial is edgi
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"Stupid people" is a bit harsh and not very accurate. It's more accurate to say that we need more quick answer guides for the less experienced. We were all there at one point in time.
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I've noticed lately that listening to music with headphones helps me focus more than listening to it through speakers. I'm assuming this is because the headphones make the music the only thing I hear, where as with speakers the music
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I've been wondering about Django as a MS Access replacement as of late. I currently use either Rails or Sinatra, but Ruby has one major flaw as an MS Access replacement: it has lousy _native_ libraries for generating MS Excel files. You can
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An iPod doesn't help me concentrate, but sometimes music does. Techno sometimes helps me too, but it has to be techno I've heard before. New stimuli will distract me. Interestingly, a walk around the block can do wonders for my concentratio
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This is basically my job right now.
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by jherdman 18y ago
Until today, I thought people like you were the unicorns of the geek world.
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He's not just talking about the GUI though. He's talking about the actual usage of the machine. Personally I find Windows to be a complete pain to use. The console is weak, the way files are laid out on the system irritates me, and their po
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Parent is correct: http://twitter.com/d2h/status/1590279638
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After a long day at work, I find I need certain cues to tell my brain to cut it out and think about other things for a while. Sometimes it's a tasty beverage (be it beer, coffee, or otherwise), a long walk, or turning up a favourite album r

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