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by joshpadnick 12y ago
This is really interesting because it juxtaposes two fundamental issues: (1) The business need to make sensible, sustainable decisions that increase the ability of the company to prosper, and (2) the human need to address the day-to-day rea
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
But what about if you're a large company with a large patent portfolio, you don't intend to abuse silly software patents, but it would be irresponsible to de facto grant Facebook free license to all your patents? If I'm doing
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
But what if you have a legitimate patent claim against Facebook that doesn't relate to usage of react? It sounds like if you pursue that, then as a result, you can no longer use react. Or perhaps I'm missing something?
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
Is Akido Labs meant to be hired by hospitals to support easier integration with vendors? Or meant to be used by HIT vendors to more easily offer integration with different hospitals?
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
Why are you so negative on Scala? Better yet, why are you so unequivocally negative on any programming language? Like every language, Scala has strengths and weaknesses. It makes sense for some teams and not for others. Why don't we
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
I've had such positive experiences with FlyWay. It's well-documented, works across all the JVM-based languages, and now based on the latest packaging, it looks like it can be easily used in non-Java projects. Great work @axelfon
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
Thank you!
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AWS is definitely aware that their costs can be prohibitive for brand new startups. Check out AWS Activate[1]. If you can demonstrate that you're a legit startup, there's a decent chance you can get free AWS credits, not to ment
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
Article author here. So, you're right that while AWS does continue to lower prices, they're still not the cheapest game in town. Frankly, they're not even necessarily the most performant game in town. What they are really c
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A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Scalable Web App on AWS – Part 1(airpair.com)
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
Through all the noise, this comment is exactly what I care about. For a new project, which tech's should I choose? If I were Docker, I would organize the ecosystem for the end user on a nice clean website that explicitly lists the spec
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
What a great resource. I'm in the process of writing an article on AWS & DevOps to be published on AirPair.com. I'll probably include a link to this.
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According to one of the AWS devs, they plan to start honoring invite requests in about 2 - 4 weeks. It appears to be in preview right now mostly b/c the loose ends aren't tied up yet. For example, in their demo today, they launc
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
I'm here at AWS reinvent and just saw the EC2 Container Service presentation. They specifically targeted security as part of their design. Basically, you launch a cluster of EC2 instances that are "available" for containers t
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
Thanks very much for your reply. Both Rundeck and control-M look like they're worth checking out.
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Thanks for your reply. I actually do have a couple related "practice" questions for the theory guy. Do you have any recommendations on good tools for: a) visually modeling your servers (something more than just lists of instances
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We're currently using "knife ec2 server create" to create servers, and it is indeed a pain. That's part of what's driven my interest in Terraform. In practice, though, we're hampered by Terraform's only p
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
Can you elaborate on the relationship between Twilio and Bandwidth.com? I actually have very little understanding of what happens once Twilio receives an API request.
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Would love to. Email sent.
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This is a great point. I am always struck by how there are so many times where, if I could sit down with the original program author for 5 - 10 minutes, I could understand more from that interactive back-and-forth than several hours of read
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
I can understand a part of your perspective. After all, from an objective point of view you are the one who's ultimately accountable for getting things done. And by that logic, you deserve the lion's share of the rewards when t
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
I hear you on that. I guess Pluralsight is like a "course on demand" and requires an hour or more of sit-down time, whereas Safari is really "ad hoc learning".
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
This is essentially the "Computer Science vs. Programming" debate, although Uni gives some programming experience and Pluralsight gives some computer science. Yevgeniy Brikman maintains a great blog and wrote about this[1]. [1] h
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
Sites like Safari Books Online and Pluralsight have transformed the way I learn new technologies and techniques. That being said, I find myself getting 3x or 4x the value out of Safari Books Online. Something about those Pluralsight videos
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I'm always struck by how none of these services ever integrate with classic old QuickBooks. Since that's the dominant accounting system for the same target market this is serving, does anyone know why that integration isn't
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No, I didn't. I don't even have an Amazon associate's referral code, so I must have pasted someone else's. Hoping 1 person on Hacker News will buy a book I linked to in one comment so I could earn $0.25 does not strike
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
In my opinion, this book[1] is the authority on continuous integration and continuous deployment. Continuous Integration is fundamentally about creating a tight feedback loop between your developers and your code. When you program in your
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First, thanks for releasing this! Second, silly question, but what is the recommended way to navigate long commands? Is there a way to click my cursor to a specific point, or a keyboard shortcut to navigate large blocks of words? I tried OP
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by joshpadnick 12y ago
@pswenson, I used Chef to automate setting up the server with Jenkins. This included automated security updates, awscli tools, nodejs, and even hubot so that we can trigger builds from HipChat (we still need to write a custom hubot listene
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I was always weary of Heroku because it's exactly what @hunvreus said: a black-box. Very appealing when you're strapped for resources in the beginning, but increasingly frustrating as you scale. Case in point: http://r

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