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by mjackson 13y ago
From the OP: > I changed the app to use cookie-based sessions, so that session data is stored in signed cookies rather than in memcache. This way, the web app servers don't need to share any state (other than the database). Plus it's fa
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by mjackson 13y ago
> this is a dirty hack I disagree. This is people starting businesses within a reasonable budget. I assume you've tried to purchase a reasonable domain name in the gTLD space. If so, you already know that a name like "filepicker.com" or
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by mjackson 13y ago
If you're interested in doing web stuff with Elixir, check out Dynamo: https://github.com/elixir-lang/dynamo It's a web framework developed and maintained by the Elixir core team, and I've had fun playing with it recently. It already supp
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by mjackson 13y ago
> Where is the language documentation? The language is documented extensively under the Getting Started section of the website. It's a pretty easy read and really helps to understand the pieces of the language that make Elixir so powerf
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by mjackson 14y ago
Get ready for the massive pop sound...
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by mjackson 14y ago
> There still isn't a canonical Promises specification. Yes, there is: https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec
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by mjackson 14y ago
Watching the video is so much nicer directly on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/61059530
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9 Model S owners set out to duplicate NYT's route(allthingsd.com)
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by mjackson 14y ago
tl;dr Don't run your single-threaded Rails app (read: the vast majority of Rails apps) on Heroku. Neither the Cedar or Bamboo stacks are optimized for them at this point. It's incredible to me how the performance of their stack has degraded
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by mjackson 14y ago
It's not quite Ruby on top of Erlang, but you might be interested in Elixir ( http://elixir-lang.org/ ). Elixir has some of the syntax of Ruby but is built on the Erlang VM.
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AppJS - Build desktop apps using Chromium + node(github.com)
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by mjackson 14y ago
> We've always had two or three dogs at a time, and they've had our love, attention, and affection. They're spoiled rotten. Better dogs than children. One very common trait among people I know who don't have kids is that they have dogs.
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Here is what NO looks like(gothamgal.com)
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Only the naive want to continue the drug war(thetimes.co.uk)
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by mjackson 14y ago
Related: The director of Twitter's Application Services group, Raffi Krikorian, gave an interesting talk about the architecture of Twitter's real-time delivery service at QCon in October. In the talk he discusses in pretty good detail the w
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Twemproxy, a Redis/memcached proxy from Twitter with auto-sharding(antirez.com)
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Twitter Certified Products Program(dev.twitter.com)
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by mjackson 14y ago
So awesome. Thank you Allan.
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by mjackson 14y ago
Ditto. Another good example is Cappuccino/Objective-J. One of my favorite things about the whole Cappuccino/Objective-J framework was that 280 North built 280 Slides with it very early on. Going through the paces of developing an actual app
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by mjackson 14y ago
The reason you describe your relationship with PHP as an "addiction" instead of using a word that described a more healthy relationship is probably because there is something about it that doesn't resonate well with your core values. At lea
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by mjackson 14y ago
The need for a "startup hustler" is a myth. Of all the startups I know of out here in SF and SV, I can't think of any good ones that have needed this kind of person around. The part about impatience is especially dangerous. Being impatient
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by mjackson 14y ago
This looks incredible. Congrats to node core on this milestone! I really appreciate how laser-focused you guys are on code consistency across the board. Looking forward to trying out the cluster and domain modules in strata!
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Show HN: Monterey.js – OO and functional toolkit for ES5 JavaScript(mjijackson.github.com)
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by mjackson 14y ago
Totally agree with this assessment. I don't know how their routing mesh works exactly, but it seems that they're coupled too closely. Either everybody is mostly working fine, or everybody's down.
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by mjackson 14y ago
Congratulations Mark! A well deserved fireballing. Have fun with it!
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The Ballerinas of Silicon Valley(bryce.vc)
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Twitter releases Common Locale Data Repository gem(github.com)
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by mjackson 15y ago
Excellent points all around Ryan. Thanks for bringing this up. The binge drinking that is almost mandatory at most conferences I attend these days is exclusive and annoying. I don't, however, think that you need to stop attending conference
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by mjackson 15y ago
Would be really great if these pages were automatically generated from a project's README. It would also encourage devs to write better README's.
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by mjackson 15y ago
#rofl

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