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by mnutt 15y ago
I think you were originally downvoted because slavery isn't slavery because the person isn't being paid, but because the person is being forced to work against their will. In fact, if the person was forced to work against their will and pai
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by mnutt 15y ago
Yes, especially with a database you can't just pull in new updates and expect them to work. It involves reading the release notes and doing a lot of testing. (much of it is automated)
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by mnutt 15y ago
Since you are a hosted service, you could periodically loop through all of the Quora redirect links you've received and resolve them. This might be against Quora's TOS, though. I believe Twitter does this with URL shortener links posted in
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by mnutt 15y ago
I'm not sure when they started, but 10gen now packages and distributes their own MongoDB Debian and Redhat packages. It seems like the right move, so that they're not beholden to the update schedule of the distros.
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Weekend Project: Doorman, OAuth HTTP services with GitHub/Google Apps(movableink.github.com)
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by mnutt 15y ago
I don't know who he has, but Time Warner does this in NYC. You have zero control over the configuration of the modem/router.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I just looked at Avangate's site and it wouldn't even let you sign up without "requesting a quote". Give Stripe a try.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Agreed, I don't think Twitter has much right to be upset.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I doubt that Twitter just told Google "Sorry, we don't want to do business with you." Most likely either Google wanted a better deal and couldn't get one, or Twitter raised their rates. Which is kind of what the Twitter rep is saying when
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by mnutt 15y ago
only about 10%, if not less Is there a number published somewhere?
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by mnutt 15y ago
Perhaps it was just some mismatch between the expectation (pooled, long-running connections) and reality. (many, many short-lived connections) I think another takeaway from this is any time you need to adjust the ulimit, take a step back an
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by mnutt 15y ago
I'm pretty sure it's fictionalized.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I just remembered that Unicorn actually has an option for out-of-band garbage collection. It works best when you're at < 50% CPU utilization, and improves response times with a possible overall performance decrease. http://unicorn.bog
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by mnutt 15y ago
Rails usually has a request lock so most rails servers end up forking off a number of processes that each only process one request at a time.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Ok, maybe not tons of security issues, but maybe some pitfalls. My imagined use-case is where your friend on a different server posts an event, it gets put into your feed, and when you view your feed you're able to see an updated list of
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by mnutt 15y ago
Since Diaspora is based on federation, you might even be able to do some neat tricks having your browser bypass your current servers and talk directly to other Diaspora servers. There are probably tons of security issues, but for some read-
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by mnutt 15y ago
If anyone gets the chance to go see the Mike Daisey monologue excerpted (The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs) I'd highly, highly recommend it whether you love Apple, hate Apple, or are somewhere in between. He's an amazing storyteller.
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by mnutt 15y ago
My first reaction to the title was to be reminded of "check out this weird weight loss trick invented by a school teacher", which is sort of a link-baity appeal to non-authority. That said, he deserves credit for coming up with a cool idea
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by mnutt 15y ago
Another big development (it probably happened after the article was published) : Ruby 2.0-dev adds copy-on-write support similar to Ruby Enterprise Edition's http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/3367884
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by mnutt 15y ago
To Paul McCartney, it doesn't really matter whether I'm making a crappy metal cover of Hey Jude , or a parody of it. Why is one unethical, but not the other? One could argue that I'm profiting from the original song either way--people are
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by mnutt 15y ago
One minor nitpick: it's actually a series of copyright extensions over the years: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Copyright... Unless something changes, nothing will fall into the public domain again. And the act of rep
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by mnutt 15y ago
Shameless self-promotion: my startup ( http://movableink.com ) lets you add real-time elements to email. In fact, we have a group messaging company using it to show real-time conversations in status emails. It doesn't allow interactivity (
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by mnutt 15y ago
You switched from "using something without someone's permission is morally wrong" to "using something without someone's permission is morally wrong, unless you add value to it". From the perspective of the person whose work was infringed v
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by mnutt 15y ago
It seems like this would also affect audio, depending on how you have it set up: if it runs through the TV, the TV could delay the audio by 100-400ms to compensate, but if it goes straight from the computer to the stereo there would be a no
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by mnutt 15y ago
Were your writes changing the size of the documents so that mongo had to move them? I've had this happen and it'll cause mongo to grind to a halt.
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by mnutt 15y ago
What if every time you did a deploy, afterwards you kicked off a job that wrote a snapshot and brought up instances based off that. Then at any point you'd only ever be at most a deploy behind.
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by mnutt 15y ago
You're right, it's an interesting challenge but not necessarily one that is begging to be solved.
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by mnutt 15y ago
That's interesting, but one of the challenges is the wide variety of modifier keys emacs uses, and the difficulty of binding them all in the browser. The other major challenge is just duplicating javascript the sheer quantity of functionali
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by mnutt 15y ago
I don't think that node.js is doing either of those things. How does one quantify "sinking down the drain"? It's not zero-sum. How is Cloudkick writing services in javascript any worse or better than Cloudkick writing those services in p
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by mnutt 15y ago
Uh, that just proves my point that you don't need a multithreaded app to do so. And your 'cancer' language is unhelpful. What are you afraid of? That somebody somewhere is using a bad language when a better one is available? That the NodeC

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