mnutt

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by mnutt 14y ago
If we all operated in UTC time, you would probably very quickly get a feel for when other people are at work. I'm on the east coast, and when working with people on the west coast I often just imagine them as working 12pm-9pm. Trying to re
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by mnutt 14y ago
I don't believe there are any rails-apps-as-packages in the official debian/ubuntu repositories, but if there were I assume they would use bundler to bundle their gems internally.
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by mnutt 14y ago
My ISP, RCN, is "ready". I have 50Mb/5Mb.
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by mnutt 14y ago
The script looks nice, though if you don't want to have to use sudo to update /etc/hosts you can also just add entries in ~/.ssh/config. Downsides are that it only works for ssh-based activities.
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by mnutt 14y ago
Very nice writeup. For the GeoIP part, there are actually libraries that will load up the entire Maxmind database into memory. Though it bloats your node app's memory usage as you would expect, it's extremely fast and almost always worth
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by mnutt 14y ago
It's probably against their TOS, but it is possible to run your personal dropbox account and a team account on the same machine. It's a pain to set up, but works well once it's running. And since you're paying for both anyway, it seems li
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by mnutt 14y ago
I originally signed up into our dropbox team account with my personal account. At some point dropbox emailed me and effectively said "hey, not a great idea to have your personal account merged with your team account." They had an interfac
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by mnutt 14y ago
Also the setup instructions have everything prefixed with sudo, why they don't just say sudo su - user and do the rest as that user is beyond me. Half of the setup could just be a few sh scripts. In many of the more security-conscious org
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by mnutt 14y ago
Google Maps has started trying to monetize, and I don't think that has positively impacted their sales or service.
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by mnutt 14y ago
I have to assume so, as D3 does have things like CSV import: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/CSV And I assume that it xCharts omits it because of the wide variety of ways you may get your data. (XHR CSV, JSON, WebSockets, etc)
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by mnutt 14y ago
I guess that depends on if they could hire twice as many people in sales and double their revenue. If there are diminishing returns, then it could be a revenue generator.
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by mnutt 14y ago
It's an interesting hack, but it seems like the DOM changes that they're trying to detect all result from some user event. (clicking "reply" or something) Wouldn't it be easier to just listen for that user event?
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by mnutt 14y ago
Personally, I migrated to homebrew due to the ease of writing packages compared to macports. But I happen to enjoy ruby more than custom DSLs. It's probably a division similar to Chef/Puppet.
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by mnutt 14y ago
If you don't want to set up graphite and don't mind paying for a service, I've really enjoyed using Scout. ( http://scoutapp.com ) Cron jobs report to their app every 3 minutes and they have very nice ad-hoc graphs. They also have some in
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by mnutt 14y ago
> I like to spend more time expanding/marketing my business than worry about scaling it. If you're truly more interested in the business side, why don't you build it as quickly as possible in rails/django and then later if it warrants i
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by mnutt 14y ago
> but if you pass a certain (very unusual) level of traffic, you'll wish you'd made the extra effort I'm not sure that's the case. Perhaps had they started out by trying to scale to their current levels they would never have gotten off
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by mnutt 14y ago
At the same time they did that, they replaced MySQL with a real-time version of Lucene. Almost every one of these "we switched from A to B and got a 3x speed increase" articles conflates a lot of different variables. The first version you
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by mnutt 14y ago
I actually ran into a very similar problem this weekend. I ended up using gitolite with post-commit hooks that checked out the repo to a directory served by nginx. It ends up taking up a lot more space than Mike's solution, but has fewer
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by mnutt 14y ago
I can't imagine myself using a GUI for git, but there are some things that are faster with a GUI and mouse than with a keyboard. Almost all of them involve some kind of visual feedback. For instance, lately I've been working on some proje
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by mnutt 14y ago
I believe the issue with using it as your primary monitor is that projectors have limited bulb life, and the bulbs are often almost as expensive as the projectors themselves.
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by mnutt 14y ago
It might be interesting to be able to slow down the visualization. Right now it all happens instantly, whereas you might be able to see the flow from one method to the next.
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by mnutt 14y ago
They mention that they use anycast rather than geoip-located DNS. (which itself would probably use anycast) I was under the impression that with anycast it was possible for routes to change mid-connection and you could end up with packets
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by mnutt 14y ago
Isn't that like complaining about Apple selling the iPhone at over $100/ounce? I don't contest that there are probably people who only need a remote git repo and nothing else. But those companies that would service them either compete on f
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by mnutt 14y ago
It seems like it could be mitigated by having the client hash the file and notify the cloud of the hash of the file it intends to upload first. But I think your explanation for why they don't currently do LAN-only sharing is correct.
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by mnutt 14y ago
This is really cool; a few years ago I wanted to do this for the published schedules of NYC's subway. At the time it involved scraping schedules from the MTA website's horrendous HTML, but now it looks like they've completely reversed dire
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by mnutt 14y ago
If it's standardized with multiple providers then either a) you can't communicate with people who have switched to a different directory service or b) it's no longer centralized. :)
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by mnutt 14y ago
While it's not nearly as old as those projects, it may be used by the same order of magnitude of people. Both bootstrap and jQuery itself are officially hosted on Github: jQuery - 16,896 watching, 2,314 forks bootstrap - 38,02
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by mnutt 14y ago
You're absolutely right; I was mistakenly thinking of codeswarm. ( http://www.michaelogawa.com/code_swarm/ )
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by mnutt 14y ago
Gource doesn't tell you a lot about history, but on larger projects with many people I could see how it could aid in coming up to speed with team dynamics. Maybe you could see that Module A gets updated by the newest hire once every 6 mont
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by mnutt 14y ago
I meant "discovery phase" in the broader sense of locating people and content around you, making sure that they are who they say they are, and that they have the content that you want. Less about keeping track of where to reach someone and

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