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by jpcx01 16y ago
Brilliant. Funniest thing I've seen all year
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by jpcx01 16y ago
url is dead already
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by jpcx01 16y ago
"Try it, you'll see" is snake oil sales 101. Are you skeptical that my fig leaf root seed product results in a higher sex drive and whiter teeth? Don't just accept this... try it!
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Not like they really had a choice here. It's spreading like wild on twitter already. If they ignored it, it would have been a huge problem for them. At least they aren't crazy and are doing the right thing. I'm guessing someone really regre
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Yep, these are handled via the provisioning apis. When the addon is installed, the service gets a simple provision api request with the customer details. When the addon is uninstalled, there's a deprovision api request. Heroku Addons are su
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by jpcx01 16y ago
I was just trying to be nice. But then realized I'd rather be honest than nice.
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Nah. MVP should be done in the technology you are most proficient at, regardless of how fast/slow it runs. Optimize after you've proven your idea. I think he just should have hosted on Heroku as he could have scaled it a bit faster.
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by jpcx01 16y ago
I like it! I'll keep that on my radar.
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Cloud is a good product. But it basically just resell AMZN ec2 instances and doesn't provide the simplicity of Heroku. I switched from EY to Opscode's Platform and it's both much cheaper and much more powerful. edit: ok, I love engineyard a
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by jpcx01 16y ago
I totally agree. straightforward != easy. That's why I'm not chomping at the bits to do it myself :-). But the opportunity and potential is there, there should be some investors and star developers who should take it.
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Every one of those addons is available directly from the vendor. The addons just set some ENV variables, or auto installs a plugin on deploy. Plus the provisioning apis are well documented so you could easily replicate it on a competing ser
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by jpcx01 16y ago
How about another Heroku for Ruby? Could use some competition I think, and the market is already proven. Seems like it should be straightforward replicate the functionality for a lower price and get a good percentage of the Heroku user base
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Awesome. Now I can stop checking http://wastm2released.com/ every hour. Woohoo... thanks!
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Some background here would be really nice (for us non device hackers). Who exactly would have DD-WRT on their routers? Is it something you have to install manually? edit: i should have googled before asking :-). Apparently it's a custom fir
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by jpcx01 16y ago
EngineYard was doing uber expensive fully managed rails hosting at the time Heroku go started. Wasn't till over a year after Heroku launched that EY launched their alternative (Solo->Cloud->??). Pretty good tools, but fairly differe
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Doesn't it seem a bit "me too"ish? Seems like a super crowded market with extremely capable competitors. Heroku was able to sneak in since they were the first company to offer a service like this for rails. With Joyent's amazing no.de platf
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Wait... what about Ubuntu? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Also, s3 doesnt serve up index.html for folders.
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by jpcx01 16y ago
I'm currently using Zerigo. They've been awesome so probably wont switch anytime soon. Tough competition going up against AMZN for this though.
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Informants save lives. Many terrorist plots that have been stopped since 9/11 were due to some insider alerting authorities. If people think they're identity is not safe with the government, they will not come forward and we will see people
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Boycott wikileaks. Posting classified government documents is going too far. Im all for whistleblowing, but you can't expect to share private government documents that potentially put Americans in danger and expect no consequences.
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by jpcx01 16y ago
I agree we need more WikiLeaks for the Federal Reserve. Where wikileaks screwed up was getting into the business of national security stuff. Leaking diplomatic and military secrets is going to get you in a world of trouble, and Assange dese
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Makes sense to me. Wikileaks is violating laws by posting other people's private and classified information. Amazon has no business aiding them in criminal activities. Free speech != exposing classified documents. Free speech is about origi
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by jpcx01 16y ago
The fact that its so heavily dependent on Flash sort of kills it for me. But maybe i'm just weird. It's a cool idea and nice implementation
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Using Ruby extensively with CoffeeScript is also making me long for significant whitespace. I think CoffeeScript gets it perfect. Unfortunately, it's just a wrapper around JS so it has limited uses (until Node.js gets mature).
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by jpcx01 16y ago
They used to. Probably they removed it to prevent this very case. Here's the related issue #: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=353
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by jpcx01 16y ago
In practical terms, under scale, it's pretty much the case. If you don't have enough memory to have your entire dataset in memory, the performance degrades to a point where it'll be too slow to do anything, so it might as well not work at a
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Compass CSS is the killer feature of SASS I think.
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Yeah, after watching the video, I was wondering if this was just a rebranding of Pivotal Tracker. If you're going to steal an interface... please don't steal from such an ugly and disfunctional web app. Having to use Pivotal Tracker for 3 m
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by jpcx01 16y ago
Do most of these examples work in Postgres?

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