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by kelseydh 11y ago
If one user is offended by the rantings of a another user, they should be able to block that user universally across the site if they so wish. As long as this is at the user level I see no problem.
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by kelseydh 11y ago
If these communities then see a decline, then maybe that's a sign that Reddit was smart to pursue its free speech policy. As much as people get outraged by the content, there is no doubting that Reddit has done well for itself due to i
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by kelseydh 11y ago
Reddit is in dire need of a UI/UX improvement. The site is unuseable without the Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) browser extension. Honestly it feels like developers have not made a significant change to Reddit in years. Screw adverti
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by kelseydh 11y ago
We just ran into a problem with Google Analytics trying to track opening clicks by sending an event to GA. Turns out when you click a link to open it, the browser page would load before the event to GA could be sent. Screwed up a huge amou
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by kelseydh 11y ago
Heroku is just a layer on top of AWS. I know a ton of successful business applications who rely on Heroku + AWS. Obviously after a certain size you will want to customize your hardware more, but in the early stages Heroku can take you a
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by kelseydh 11y ago
No problem, here's my two (relatively unorganized) two cents: With Heroku (frankly also thanks to Ruby on Rails) I can be a sys-admin, developer, database administrator and QA all at once; far easier than before. For the price of $100
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by kelseydh 11y ago
If you're on Heroku, one immediate way around this problem is to guide your users towards your heroku domain. I've been doing this for clients contacting me who absolutely need access right this moment. E.g. https://my
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by kelseydh 11y ago
Lately my number one bloody cause of downtime has been DNS lookup failures. I switched to Cloudflare hoping to avoid this. If I can't trust Cloudflare, then who the heck can I trust? Also, is there any way to actually resolve this is
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by kelseydh 11y ago
I love how even https://support.cloudflare.com/ is down by this.
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by kelseydh 12y ago
Unfortunately this sentiment is why software is plagued with an unhealthy culture of constantly needing (/wanting) to learn new languages and frameworks. The "elite" developers (who often don't actually maintain real pro
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by kelseydh 12y ago
You're making the mistake of thinking that the software that Twitter builds today should be the same as the software they built early on as a startup company. You can't make those comparisons because as company during those times
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by kelseydh 12y ago
Exactly, unless you're doing an app with high concurrency or real time updating, you can pretty much scale any Rails app to the stratosphere if the app is properly cached and optimized for performance -- and you get to do so while stay
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by kelseydh 12y ago
Why? If I'm running a business and I intersect closely between the business side and software side of the company, but need help on the side. I'm hiring for the stack that I use and already understand. It's not mediocrity,