jvoorhis

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by jvoorhis 15y ago
That while this looks like a good extension to CoffeeScript, it's unfortunate that Haskell's type syntax was appropriated when the relationship between contracts and types is tenuous at best. There are good uses for static type checkers and
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
Not hardly. The runtime can detect that a function invocation violates a post-condition only after all of that function's side-effects have been run.
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
We haven't tried recruiting from PSU ourselves, but we probably should. Galois ( http://corp.galois.com/ ) recruits students from PSU's CS program. My colleagues from PSU's mathematics dept have also been a pleasure to work with.
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
I have no idea where they are now, but we were neighbors once: http://blog.phpfog.com/2011/07/25/want-to-be-the-next-php-fo... Before we were at PIE, our company worked at cafes. I guess you could say we scaled from our home offices to a
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
It's already here. Our company (AppFog) was founded in Portland and we just secured our Series B. We have offices in the same building as JanRain and yet another co-working space. In Old Town or the Pearl District, there are startups on eve
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
When are UNIX time or ISO-8601 insufficient?
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
Why raise so much snark straightaway about keywords, and then gripe about the silly ones later? I've written thousands of lines of JavaScript, and a coupla hundred of CoffeeScript. CS is a usable, rather polished JS overlay, but I only unde
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
I've used this trick to forward to a Twisted Conch daemon running as a non-root user. However, I would never consider this approach for load balancing.
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
Does anyone know if .NET micro supports F#?
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This isn't exactly the factory pattern. It reminds me more of the service classes in Eric Evans' Domain Driven Design. It seems the author is addressing the problem of adding too many side effects to the models themselves.
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
Enumerable ids are an unfortunate weakness in the Rails + MySQL stack. This is good. I'd also like an easy way to use UUIDs instead of incrementing integer primary keys.
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
Exactly. You can pass Maybe objects in Ruby as a convention, but the extra layers of indirection probably aren't buying you much. There is no way to enforce the contract.
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
Stop putting fruit on your stove.
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
Portland, OR - PHP Fog PHP Fog is the leading platform-as-a-service built specifically for PHP. We have spent a lot of energy iterating on feedback from our users (over 2000 detailed surveys) to build a really great product that appeals to
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
It's back again.
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
netflix.com is back online. I received an email alert that RDS is now fully operational, so I checked.
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If you've been exploiting the Mt Gox incident, please share your numbers
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
Anything to do with the current RDS downtime I wonder?
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
Emailing the webmaster is a good way to begin. Try security@domain and hope someone checks the catchall inbox. Learn about best practices for responsible disclosure if you want to escalate.
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
Look, startups aren't built with programming languages. Languages are a part, but you need to think more about people. In the early stages you need developers who are leaders, and who have a proven track record of shipping code. Work with t
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
Quick, someone write a bookmarklet that posts tracklists from discogs
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
To quote Gary McGraw, "All the magic crypto fairy dust in the world won't make you secure."
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And if we ignore them, they will go away?
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JRuby's FFI implementation is great, but I've had about as much success with MRI, so I test my FFI libs on MRI 1.8.7, 1.9.2 and the latest JRuby. I'm looking forward to the day when Rubinius' FFI converges with the other implementations.
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
I think there will be increased demand for such a thing, but the security features a secure PaaS could provide (network and application firewalls) are never going to be a 100% solution. There is no substitute for building your product secur
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I get the impression Peter Landin was ahead of his time. I love this paper. It's worth a read by anyone interested in compilers or functional programming.
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Raw performance doesn't matter to me much as long as I can handle enough concurrent requests, and serve as few as possible with Rails (and trust me, I've built and maintained a webapp handling 50k+ concurrent connections). A good N-tier arc
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by jvoorhis 15y ago
Hi. I work for PHP Fog, a PHP-focused platform as a service. We were one of the many companies to experience some turbulence during the recent AWS outage, and we wanted to share how we are working to make things better.
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PHP Fog upgraded 4500+ sites for free after AWS outage(blog.phpfog.com)
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It's a nice feature. I had a chance to use it today, and it worked beautifully. Its biggest downside is that you don't have an opportunity to run tests without first pulling the changes into your working copy, so I don't see it coming into

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