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by mnutt 15y ago
My international corporate tax law knowledge is also practically nil, but I believe there is discussion in Congress about a corporate tax holiday that would allow them to bring money back to the US at a 3.5% tax rate.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I've been to their open office hours in NYC and, though we don't have a support contract, they were incredibly welcoming and helpful.
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by mnutt 15y ago
The parent is referring to a new user trying to set up postgres. And in the above Linux networking example, this response is analogous to the person who says "But I wrote my own scripts to fix my ethernet configuration, I don't see what the
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by mnutt 15y ago
You say that like it's a failure on the devs' part, but that's kind of like blaming regular users for not switching to Linux because they don't like editing network configuration files.* It's masking the problem that there are real develop
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by mnutt 15y ago
"I think you could anticipate that maybe you'll have a Skype call that starts going bad," Fletcher said. "Wouldn't you like to be able to hit the turbo button and have that come back up to be a good call?" This is the most blatantly bad p
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by mnutt 15y ago
That makes the commas easier to see (and is ugly IMO) but it's still one comma away from making the rest of your variables global. What's so bad about just var a = "foo"; var b = "bar"; var c = "baz";
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by mnutt 15y ago
This is why I really dislike it when I see var a = "foo", b = "bar", c = "baz"; All it takes is one missed comma and all of a sudden you've turned a lot of your variables global.
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by mnutt 15y ago
HAProxy is easy to set up and is probably what he wants, if he plans to scale to multiple machines. But on those machines I'd recommend cluster.js. ( http://learnboost.github.com/cluster ) It will spawn n child workers, proxy requests to
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by mnutt 15y ago
Not in the sense of running out of machines, but at least from my past experiences if your VMs share physical hardware with someone who is using their maximum IO, yours will suffer as well. It makes it more challenging to load test. When th
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by mnutt 15y ago
The price I was quoted was actually $17k/year for 250,000 impressions. We asked for clarification, and the salesperson said yes, you only get 250,000 impressions a year. That's $68 cpm. With some pushback they increased it to 1M impression
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by mnutt 15y ago
Two interesting things in the open mapping space since the talk was published are TileMill: http://mapbox.com/tilemill/ And Justin O'Bierne had some great blog posts on why Google Maps work so well from a usability perspective: http://we
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by mnutt 15y ago
One other thing that is also useful: for any automated message you send, make sure that it comes from a real address that you monitor. Many, many customers reply directly to the automated emails.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I think the difference in the two interactions is that if a biker hits a pedestrian they are likely to be hurt just as bad as the pedestrian if not worse. A driver who hits a cyclist or pedestrian risks a dent in the hood at the worst. So
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by mnutt 15y ago
I would only reach for service-oriented architecture after the application is very mature and it is apparent which parts will benefit by moving to their own services.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Don't replace it if it works for you, but due to Moore's Law computer hardware doesn't age that well. Older guitars that are well taken care of sound as good if not better than shiny new ones, but after a certain age your computer begins w
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by mnutt 15y ago
I believe that in GMail, when you compose a new message your signature is just at the bottom and you can select and delete it.
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by mnutt 15y ago
In NYC, the MTA has opened up an API to their turnstile data: http://www.mta.info/developers/turnstile.html They even put ads for their data API in the subway.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Another three.js globe project, pulling from the site's Google Analytics: http://superfad.com/missioncontrol/
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by mnutt 15y ago
My guess is that your ruby is loading rubygems on startup. It shouldn't take nearly that long if you don't. That said, startup times are often not as important as other metrics.
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Movable Ink: Breathe life into your emails(movableink.com)
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by mnutt 15y ago
Knowing what happens when you fail to initialize a static variable may be useful for debugging when you (or someone else) accidentally fails to initialize a static variable.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Are there any plans for (pseudonymous) identity?
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by mnutt 15y ago
There have been some really, really interesting cases where California's non-compete laws collide with other states: http://www.cooley.com/57476
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by mnutt 15y ago
Perhaps part of it is this: I have an iPhone 3GS and didn't upgrade to an iPhone 4 when it came out because I was locked into my contract. By the time my contract ended, the 4 was 8 months old and I decided to hold off on upgrading until
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by mnutt 15y ago
As of 1.3, Sinatra can do streaming using an evented webserver like Thin, which uses EventMachine. Goliath may also be worth checking out.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Actually, javascript running on v8 sounds like it would (theoretically) be an excellent platform for writing an Android app. It's fast enough and has a small memory footprint compared to java.
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by mnutt 15y ago
It won't let you pull if checked-in files have been modified, but it will let you pull if you have uncommitted new files.
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by mnutt 15y ago
A year ago I would have agreed with you, but Heroku has been on a roll lately introducing features at a very fast pace. The party may end eventually, but I've been really pleasantly surprised by their post-acquisition actions so far.
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by mnutt 15y ago
The only thing that comes to mind is if you turn off css, you'll end up with just the text header, rather than both the image header and the text header.
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by mnutt 15y ago
It is; we use it and it is very reasonably priced. However their APIs are very painful to work with and there is no web interface.

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