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by mnutt 16y ago
That is exactly right. See "Taxing Rewrites" on http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls
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by mnutt 16y ago
Good points. I figured it was probably totally infeasible, thanks for filling me in on why.
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by mnutt 16y ago
Twitter had an XMPP feed at one point, but shut it down due to scaling issues and later brought up their current firehose/sitestreams service. Does anyone know if they ever talked about why XMPP didn't scale for them? Site streams requires
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by mnutt 16y ago
Just a crazy idea, when something like NaCl catches on perhaps gumroad could generate bitcoins client-side in lieu of payment?
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by mnutt 16y ago
As a high-res monitor user, with proper mouse acceleration it's really not any harder to hit a menu item that is anchored to the top of the screen than it is to stop the mouse on a menu item 200px away. The only issues I've seen are when I
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by mnutt 16y ago
Sorry, I just posted numbers to show the difference between dev mode and production mode. I guess what I don't understand is: if you're running a site in development, isn't 250 req/s enough? And if you're running in production, do you need
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by mnutt 16y ago
It's unfortunate that he included benchmark numbers because people will discuss the numbers rather than his main point. Since we're discussing the numbers anyway, antirez, were you running Sinatra in production mode? My benchmarks on my MB
938.
by mnutt 16y ago
I actually tried this recently. Page load speed isn't too bad at all, but the time it takes to start up the rails stack is awful. It's unusable for dev work.
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by mnutt 16y ago
Page load speed does relate to profitability, but your language choice most likely won't move the needle so far that you notice a difference. My startup's Rails-based homepage averages ~11ms render time.
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by mnutt 16y ago
Part of it might be explained with the fact that in a small shop the mobile dev also happens to be the one doing the mobile UX, and there are at least some mobile UX skills that are relevant across platforms.
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by mnutt 16y ago
Other than style, is there an advantage to either of them over just declaring each one separately? var variable; var anotherVariable; var thirdVariable; One issue I see with multiple variable declarations is that a forgotten comm
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by mnutt 16y ago
By "other forms of testing" do you mean something like integration testing or do you mean manually checking things? If you run their code and within 10-30 seconds of looking at the result you can spot something wrong with it, then besides b
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by mnutt 16y ago
Gathering information from a website is very different than publishing it verbatim. I am not a lawyer, but I think it comes down to website Terms of Service enforceability. I don't know what the precedents are, but I would guess that a TOS
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by mnutt 16y ago
By moving the part that wasn't scaling off rails. From what I understand they had a giant monolithic rails app which just couldn't scale after a point. They moved to a services-based approach, with a rails frontend talking to scala servic
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by mnutt 16y ago
I've often heard people cite Friendster's outages and slow loading time as one of the reasons for its decline. But yes, it's usually a secondary issue and not a primary cause.
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by mnutt 16y ago
In this case, the court gave them exactly what they asked for: "As a result of the actions and benefits described above, Lime Group and Gorton are liable for LW’s inducement of infringement. See Capitol Records, Inc., 218 F. Supp. 2d at 284
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by mnutt 16y ago
And rightly so; as far as these cases are concerned the RIAA is merely a PR instrument. The plaintiffs are the record labels, not the RIAA.
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by mnutt 16y ago
LimeWire is incorporated as an LLC but plaintiffs are trying to pierce the corporate veil and name the founder personally.
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by mnutt 16y ago
This doesn't make much sense. Why not just sell the laptop, instead of allowing it to be stolen?
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by mnutt 16y ago
This is just a late-night hack that I did after I got tired of viewing Github repository links on my iPhone. The app is on Github if anyone wanted to fork it for whatever reason. Hopefully Github doesn't have an issue with me using 'octoca
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Show HN: octo.cat - URL shortener / mobile Github(octo.cat)
2 points by mnutt 16y ago|1 comments
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by mnutt 16y ago
I agree with you completely that the most likely chance of success comes from knowing the rules before breaking them. But I don't think it's unheard of for someone to bypass the rule-learning and figure out some new way of looking at thing
953.
by mnutt 16y ago
But what is the resource cost to spoof a connection? Very cheap for a teenager to sit at Starbucks and spoof your connection, but how much would it cost when using a fiber splitter at AT&T in order to MITM billions of connections per d
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by mnutt 16y ago
I agree with the author that it's probably best to learn rules before you break them, but is there any inherent value in things produced by breaking rules you know over breaking rules you don't know? Or is it merely that by knowing the rul
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by mnutt 16y ago
It visually looks a lot like Kod. ( http://kodapp.com )
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by mnutt 16y ago
The larger problem I see with regards to REST is: what resource are you hitting that would give you multiple types? Meta resources like /media, /things, etc aren't ideal; is there a better way to do it?
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by mnutt 16y ago
As the author of Hummingbird I'm happy to see it get exposure, but it doesn't serve the same purpose as most of the other packages on the list. It doesn't tell you where you should optimize your site to get the best conversions. The purpos
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by mnutt 16y ago
It's often tough to justify from a ROI perspective, but it turns out that there is quite a bit of emotional reaction to real time analytics. Sort of like fear of flying vs. fear of driving, people like to feel in control.
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by mnutt 16y ago
I think we're past that point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_web
960.
by mnutt 16y ago
I think the point might have been that there are some more casual uses (homebrew, rubygems, python eggs, etc) that aren't as hardcore as writing c but that have gcc as a dependency.

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