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by krobertson 14y ago
That sounds depressing... who you are summarized down to a status dashboard. I think the OP's idea is great and can go further. The distinction is between what I am doing/need to do and who I am.
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by krobertson 14y ago
Better subject: "How not testing my website with all browsers, even IE, and ignoring metrics for months cost me dearly"
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by krobertson 14y ago
I agree. You can find previous generation server hardware pretty cheap through liquidators or ebay. Availability may vary in India, so that may be a factor. Hardware availability after the initial purchase is certainly a big longterm cons
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by krobertson 14y ago
Preface this by acknowledging don't know much bout the OP and his professional experience, but he is likely young. I don't care for the "I'm now the Lead Software Engineer with my own department". If he was in manual data entry, he is likel
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by krobertson 14y ago
Ohh no, 4.2Kw in Sacramento... just thinking in terms of what that would be in HE. I must need sleep, since just realized I calculated kW/$. :) With my math corrected though, getting about $338/Kw.
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by krobertson 14y ago
It is great for DR if it can support your IO load, considering the cloud sucks for IO. :) One project moved from AWS to a managed hosting provider with gear built to our specs mostly due to IO issues... continued to grow and then went back
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by krobertson 14y ago
Doing the quick math from what I remember HE's pricing to be, it is cheaper per watt... at my peak I had a full rack and 4.2Kw and only actually using half a rack. It just feels wrong to have to get 3 racks at HE and basically just be 4 se
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by krobertson 14y ago
I toured Layer42's Mountain View facility and it looked pretty good. Don't remember exactly what the power prices were, but it was comparable to Sacramento. I stuck with Sacramento since it was closer.
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by krobertson 14y ago
HE Fremont is a total ghetto. 15A per full rack, essentially no cooling. Its just a massive open warehouse. Fremont 2 is much better than Fremont 1, but still had one power outage when I was there. Connectivity wise, they are pretty good
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by krobertson 14y ago
Actually, not telling them may be illegal too. This isn't legal advice, but as someone who worked when I was a teenager, parent consent may be required, so then they'd know you are a minor. Under US Federal law, it is illegal to work under
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by krobertson 14y ago
Four years in and just now doing a seed round. They were likely young, inexperienced, and mostly technical. Unfortunately, technical people don't always think of those ramifications. And it was probably a series of pivots along the way th
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by krobertson 14y ago
> Cloud Foundry is really not at the point where it can replace Heroku. I'm curious what Heroku still does that CF can't. As another person who is building infrastructure on Cloud Foundry like Lucas, I am biased, and don't quite agree w
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by krobertson 14y ago
Amen. Talk about "running to mommy"
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by krobertson 14y ago
I agree. I think the interesting aspect is that they built a service that serves an impressive number of users on fairly common technologies. There isn't anything very revolutionary about their stack by itself. FB didn't buy them for thei
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by krobertson 14y ago
Not always. Most employers will likely realize the differences in cost of living and try to get you relative to your local market. One of the benefits of remote employees for an employer is around being more cost effective. I've also been
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by krobertson 14y ago
Their hybrid offering still leaves a lot to be desired. They're more like two separate products, and even being on a sales call with them involved people from each team. It lacks a unified product experience.
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by krobertson 15y ago
What is it based on? Global activity? I am seeing 99% "Eclipse Platform project repository".
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by krobertson 15y ago
I love APIs. One recommendation though would be to change the server response slightly for the API call. In Chrome, it had me download a file instead of showing the response in the browser. I think it might be because the response has a
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by krobertson 15y ago
The service only pulls info from hosting services like Github/Bitbucket. If you host your own, you can't show up on their "awesome" list.
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by krobertson 15y ago
I wouldn't say none, you still need to setup your DNS settings with SPF/DKIM to support Mailgun/Sendgrid. They usually have documentation how to do that, but you need to be sure to do it. :) Good article though... overall, if you aren't in
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by krobertson 15y ago
I've done custom debian packages from scratch and always found it a pain. I've also done customized source builds and still prefer this approach because its simple, slimmer, easily version controlled, and wrapped up in a single command. Bu
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by krobertson 15y ago
I prefer to custom build deb packages (on Ubuntu myself) using a project called brew2deb: https://github.com/tmm1/brew2deb It provides a DSL for describing how to build and package something, including patching, and already has a nginx fo
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by krobertson 15y ago
Agreed. It can sometimes be a side effect of small companies, or young developers living the startup lifestyle. Not saying its bad or the root of the problem, just an observation. More so, I think it comes more with modern languages that
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by krobertson 15y ago
I think this is a pretty common misconception overall. Working at startups, often find devs with multiple hats sometimes doing ops tasks. Seen many who hop on a system trying to diagnose some issue, fire up top and proclaim "OMG, the probl
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by krobertson 15y ago
Aren't they pretty much all the same? :)
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by krobertson 15y ago
Don't know if the author is reading, but would be nice if the main domain list was sorted. Have dealt with a few of those mentioned and agree, and was going to forward the site to our internal recruiter to make sure don't use them. :)
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by krobertson 15y ago
He's also optimized around his current setup and think that would carry over 1:1 to another platform. He has 24 unicorn workers now, so he thinks he needs 24 dynos on Heroku. Whenever I've moved an app between platforms or server setups, I
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by krobertson 15y ago
The "they" in this case being the Rails team and not Github? A common thread here seems to be grouping Github and Rails. Its interesting how bring up their Terms Of Service gets discounted and the holy war just takes over. No where did I me
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by krobertson 15y ago
Where have they been dicks? Please elaborate. From all appearances, GH is taking it quite seriously. Because it is a serious matter. Egor on the other hand wasn't taking it seriously.
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by krobertson 15y ago
He clearly violated their Terms Of Service. If you like and enjoy a service, exploiting it to prove a point is not the way to do it. It takes no time to spot the clause about exploiting the service. Legally, it wouldn't be good to have a T

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