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by look_lookatme 18y ago
I've read Michal's blog for a long time. I used to host with him (in fact I think I still owe him about $60). One thing he is not is a windy tech evangelist. He writes about his experiences small and large. He's a interesting entrepreneur.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
"> I was working at ThoughtWorks at the time and I noticed that the people who were all ga ga about Rails (and later JRuby) were people who didn't have much technical "street smarts" and spent their careers riding the latest bandwagon a
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
That is amazing.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
Uh, wow, that house is huge. What is the town and neighborhood like? This is crazy...
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
Rails doesn't have any user management functionality. Most of the user libs do something to this effect with auth tokens.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
No the point is backing up a 500G database is difficult, but not unpossible. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
“Uthing LITHP ith like having no money, you never know where your next meal ith coming from.” Lisp and art: no way to make a living.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
Early on Facebook made the decision that their users are real people with real names and an identity that mirrors life beyond the internet. Whether they realized it at that time or not, that was a great decision. I dunno if this widget will
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
Well, half a gig is trivial to backup. Half a terabyte is not. Assuming you meant to say 500 gigs, then yes, there is difficulty, but it's not uncharted territory. He had two xserves -- perfect for replication.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
You may not want to get into this, but why was the database half a terabyte anyway? That seems like a shitload of data for a site like ma.gnolia. My best guess is the link screenshots were being stored in the DB.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
"It turns out that Ma.gnolia was pretty much a one-man operation, running on two Mac OS X servers and four Mac minis." This should be a lesson: entrust your systems administration to people that have experience in this stuff. I'm not saying
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
Two chicks at once.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
Defending the app/site split notion here... While this is obviously not the entire case and Django is a fantastic general purpose web framework, lemme just say this: When using much of the django middleware, django.db.models, generic views,
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
The site has been operational for less than a day. Let's compare at the end of administration.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
This is not a special syntax. It's just ruby 1.9 specific hash literal syntax.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
What a bizarre, weird rant.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
One of the things I've wanted from github was a code review interface. With this and commit comments, it's pretty close.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
Live between Mexico, LA and NYC. Spend my days dallying. Share the wealth with my family.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
Wow, you're a genius. Facebook should hire you.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/...
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
indeed.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
Alex Muse is a moron. No, seriously.
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by look_lookatme 18y ago
I was tossing this around in earnest with a group of friends late last winter. We essentially were planning what something that heavily resembled ingamenow... now. Now that someone realized the idea, I'm kind of glad we didn't invest much t