mnutt

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by mnutt 14y ago
"On time" would be any externally imposed deadline, and I would say it's completely the fault of imperfect estimation practices. If we could estimate perfectly, then deferring all work until it needed would be uniformly good. But many time
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by mnutt 14y ago
Steve Blank gave a very interesting Google tech talk about it, back in 1997: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSPHfZQpIQ
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by mnutt 14y ago
The problem I see with this is that humans are really bad at estimating how long tasks are to complete. So while perhaps procrastination isn't inherently bad, in the world of poor estimation it means things don't get done on time.
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by mnutt 14y ago
In my experience, ruby's '+' doesn't get redefined all that often. The most-redefined operators I've seen are '[]' and '<<'. I think it works because people don't usually just go around wantonly pushing objects onto each other. It
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by mnutt 14y ago
Patent infringement is a civil matter, and a variety of those don't require intent. Criminal cases are much more likely to require intent, though there are plenty that don't.
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by mnutt 14y ago
This leaves them more options, and they incentivize the CEO to stay through stock grant vesting.
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by mnutt 14y ago
You could even streamline it a bit, by having a 'previous' branch that you automatically sync with the previous tag on deploy. So if something goes wrong you can always just `git checkout previous`.
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by mnutt 14y ago
Google is using certificate pinning for Chrome/Gmail, though it's targeted to fix their particular case and not a good general solution. http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/new-chromium-security-featu...
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by mnutt 14y ago
On the other hand, a lot of people automatically assume that tasks are hard, when they could be a lot easier. I make a point to try and periodically ask the business people in my startup to show me their workflow in our software. Occasion
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by mnutt 14y ago
Yeah, I didn't mean to give you a hard time for the ipad autocorrect, I just thought the end result was funny.
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by mnutt 14y ago
As a side note, "defecto standard" is a great turn of phrase which seems to never have been used intentionally. Googling it results in pages and pages of very serious documents which intended to use "de facto standard".
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by mnutt 14y ago
Not only the user agent, either. Try javascript `navigator.appName` in any browser, and you'll get "netscape". `navigator.appCodeName` in most browsers returns "mozilla". Mike Taylor gave a talk about this and more at yesterday's GothamJS
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by mnutt 14y ago
I haven't used it, but MaxMind sells an organization database along with their GeoIP database: http://www.maxmind.com/app/organization
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by mnutt 14y ago
What is the difference between real speed and the impression of speed? If it feels fast, is it not fast? Automated website speed tests aren't a good measurement the way you're using them. They're good for a site developer to find bottlenec
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by mnutt 14y ago
And most likely you only have a handful of these templates, so if you're nice you'll actually just put some effort into each one: Thanks for signing up! ====================== Click here to finish your registration: http:
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by mnutt 14y ago
I understand where the author is coming from, and it can be hard to figure out where to even get started on new projects. On the other hand, I am thankful from the obscene amount of great software coming out of the open source community
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by mnutt 14y ago
While there's nothing wrong with Rails 2.3.8, there's also a lot you're missing out on. Maybe you don't start your next project with bleeding edge software, but it's definitely worth exploring to see what is out there. Web apps behave so
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by mnutt 14y ago
It seems like you can make a good tradeoff between Chef and AMIs by nightly rebuilding the AMIs off a fully configured system, and then when the machine comes up you run Chef to make up the incremental difference.
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by mnutt 14y ago
Limewire was this way to some degree. The source was free if you were willing to check it out from CVS, or you could download a binary from Limewire.com which strongly encouraged you to pay for "Pro". This produced tons of scam sites that
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by mnutt 14y ago
Yeah, but the average person doesn't really understand how their PHP is set up either. It was done for them, or they copy and pasted some instructions. Perhaps it's best if you either completely take deployment into your own hands, or you
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by mnutt 14y ago
For the longest time they didn't, but this year they launched Premium Support, and a few weeks ago they made it significantly more affordable. http://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/
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by mnutt 14y ago
For pretty much every language these days, there is a hosted service that will handle deployment for you, and you can just push code to them and they'll take care of the rest. Better yet, they're perfect for beginners, who usually don't
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by mnutt 14y ago
`git push heroku` style deployment is pretty easy. And for anything where having a site up and running in 10 minutes is the primary driver, Heroku is probably good enough. Granted, for larger projects where you run your own ruby/python ser
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by mnutt 14y ago
Could you turn this into a gem that just adds rake tasks to your jekyll site? You could also use the markdown gem to read the markdown directly, turn it to HTML, and do your parsing all in one step. That way it could be as simple as
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by mnutt 14y ago
Presumably in the future connectivity will be much better than it is now, though I don't deny that there are real benefits of cloud hosting.
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by mnutt 14y ago
I'm not sure the book ever mentioned LCDs specifically? It was written in 1992 before LCDs became prevalent; perhaps he imagined some other (analog) technology being used instead.
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by mnutt 14y ago
One of the things that really attracted me was Snow Crash's very 90s idea that your plot of land in the Metaverse was run from your own computer. Of course, it didn't turn out that way and now everything is moving to the cloud.
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by mnutt 14y ago
Maybe you tell them that they won't be able to trade cat pictures for some time. And that the outage happened because you didn't overinvest in infrastructure so that you could keep prices down and roll out some new features faster. Even if
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by mnutt 14y ago
I may be giving them too much credit, but I believe the author is referring to the proprietary software companies who would presumably steal G-WAN, rename it, and sell it. Their argument is still ridiculous, but I don't think they're talki
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by mnutt 14y ago
Many browsers support an async/defer attribute on script tags now, which will cause them to load without blocking.

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