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by mnutt 14y ago
While wanting a ferrari as a kid may or may not make you unhappy, I don't personally know anyone who was given a ferrari as a kid and was ultimately happy. They usually tended to end up less happy than children who weren't spoiled by the
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by mnutt 14y ago
Failover across geographically distributed datacenters is a challenge that doesn't get talked about all that much. As a small company you probably aren't able to easily get your own IP block allocated (that I know of) so BGP [0] isn't reall
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by mnutt 14y ago
I was on a panel at CMU, as part of a NYC startup tour designed to encourage students to move to NYC and/or join a startup. Of all the schools we went to, the CMU event had the best attendance and students I talked to afterwards seemed the
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by mnutt 14y ago
Yeah, we're using Cassandra for logging. Not quite as simple to scale up, but it's write-only in the request cycle and hasn't been anywhere near a bottleneck yet.
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by mnutt 14y ago
Adding MX records for gmail and adding A records / CNAMEs for Heroku are pretty much orthogonal. They shouldn't conflict with each other.
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by mnutt 14y ago
My company provides dynamic content in emails, and as such gets large traffic spikes when 10 million emails get sent at once and everyone begins opening them. The content's configuration (in postgres) is trivially cacheable, but our app se
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by mnutt 14y ago
If you get into a dispute with Time Warner over your cable bill, do they gain legal rights to anything you write at home and publish on the internet? If he used AOL computers (which it sounds like he didn't) they may or may not have grounds
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by mnutt 14y ago
I think just as large a part is that it's difficult for multiple designers to contribute to a project in a meaningful way without stepping on each others' toes. Do designers often collaborate in groups of more than two? (Layer Tennis is th
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by mnutt 14y ago
That would likely be a case where a corporation would not protect you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
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by mnutt 14y ago
With separate var statements, you never end up with this situation: var foo = 1, bar = 2 baz = 3 In 90% of the cases the code will run the same whether or not there is a comma on line 2, but in the other 10% you wil
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by mnutt 14y ago
Check out the Node Toolbox: http://toolbox.no.de/ It doesn't seem as fleshed out as the Ruby Toolbox ( https://www.ruby-toolbox.com ) and could use a bit more editorial for your purposes, but it's a good place to start.
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by mnutt 14y ago
If you're looking for ruby meetups, come to NYC.rb. ( http://www.meetup.com/NYC-rb/ ) The talks are usually very good and it's a great group of people.
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by mnutt 14y ago
It may be obvious, but don't buy a used mattress from someone you don't know in NYC. The bed bug risk means that it isn't worth it. And I don't think that $500 for mattress + bed frame is ridiculous, given that you spend roughly 1/3 of you
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by mnutt 14y ago
My startup uses it in production. We probably send a couple million events a day and have a big dashboard with around 40 graphs on it. We also have other dashboards split out for viewing specific things. It works pretty well once we got
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by mnutt 14y ago
Sorry, you're right about the :via, I must have misremembered.
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by mnutt 14y ago
The only thing I don't like about the Rails routing guide is how much it talks about having a default route of `match ':controller/:action/:id'`. I would still use `match`, but any actions that are meant to be posts should add `:method =&#
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by mnutt 14y ago
It doesn't appear to, however if you ever have to get your machine serviced you have to painstakingly undo and redo the installation, as Apple doesn't guarantee the machine that comes back from the factory will have your extra drive in it.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Not that I can tell, unfortunately.
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by mnutt 15y ago
It looks like two iPads, one playing the movie with the other one above it in video record mode, presumably streaming to the TV.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Another hypothesis is that Best Buy can't afford to match Amazon's prices on bestbuy.com because they are subsidizing the online retailers with their in-person show rooms. (I'm not a Best Buy sympathizer, just a hypothesis)
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by mnutt 15y ago
At least in NYC I believe the startup is expected to pay both sides' legal fees, usually with a cap.
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by mnutt 15y ago
But it seems that the entire incident was caused by jsmin being overly conservative in what it accepted, thus breaking bootstrap's js. While I use semicolons myself, it seems like jsmin should conform to the js spec as long as the spec allo
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by mnutt 15y ago
There's actually two separate concerns: Mongo client's "safe" operator causes the client to see if the database threw an error and throw an error itself. Like someone mentioned, it mostly falls on the mongo clients to implement this. We m
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by mnutt 15y ago
I think it's supposed to be a shift from backend/frontend to frontend only, in the same way that Heroku was a shift from building your own infrastructure to just building a backend/frontend. By reducing the surface area, you can reduce the
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by mnutt 15y ago
One more is Timecrimes ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/ )
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by mnutt 15y ago
We used to do this at Gilt. The problem we found was that eventually the warmer wouldn't be able to get through every page of the site before the cache expired, and users would start falling through to the rails instances. Despite there b
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by mnutt 15y ago
This is really great work, and I can't wait to see some of it filter into Square's Cube project.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Also somewhat related is Zed Shaw's Utu. It's a chat room where all messages are encrypted, and if you start annoying people they begin increasing the amount of work your computer has to do to encrypt the messages sent to them. http://www
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by mnutt 15y ago
Boxcar is great. It was very cool to be able to curl the Boxcar API and have a notification on my phone in a fraction of a second. My startup uses Boxcar for deploy notifications, new paying customers, etc.
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by mnutt 15y ago
It is pretty heavily integrated with Github. And at least last time I checked it was challenging to get it to use private Github projects. I believe the feature is on their roadmap, though.

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