moe

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by moe 14y ago
I think our opinions are not as far apart as it seems. You are of course right that rolling your own auth won't be the first priority in your initial PoC. Neither is it needed for very simple apps or when you're dead-certain that you won't
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by moe 14y ago
In fact for serious apps that are expected to grow I do recommend to write the auth yourself. It's not a lot of code, from the second time it's mostly copy/paste, and most importantly you'll fully understand what your code does and when, th
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by moe 14y ago
This is the sanest Rails design-advice that I've read in a long time. It counters the misguided "implicit over explicit"-mantra that is both very prevalent in the rails-community and also the source of most problems. I.e. when you watch any
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by moe 14y ago
I don't want a car that has a touch screen Hell yes. Whoever decided to put touchscreens into cars deserves the Darwin Award. We live in a bit of an unfortunate age where perfectly time-tested interfaces are replaced with inferior touch-c
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by moe 14y ago
The problem with fossil is that it's not git. However it would indeed be nice if someone built a distributed github on top of git.
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by moe 14y ago
Unless your servers are really slow their service will always be the bottleneck. I'll keep repeating this every time the Cloudflare spam comes up on HN (which happens with disturbing frequency): Do your homework, measure them . Cloudflar
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by moe 14y ago
We're talking about a difference of $10k USD per instance per year. You'll want at least two for redundancy so that's $20k spare change if you go dedicated. That buys quite lot of rackspace, network IO and spare parts. Staff salaries don'
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by moe 14y ago
On-demand pricing is $4.60 at the moment which isn't bad considering what you get ($110 per day; $3300ish per month) Well, depends on what you compare to. The reserved price for 3 years is quite revealing in this case; So Amazon asks $169
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by moe 14y ago
Well, the CSS preprocessor ecosystem is a clusterfuck (pardon my french). Since the differences are so marginal I wish projects would pick their preprocessor by the number of available implementations (in popular languages) rather than the
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by moe 14y ago
For anyone who is still looking: http://f.cl.ly/items/3w2j2h0a1a3h0M1K0i3l/ppl.jpg (you can only see the people at max zoom-level, they are really tiny)
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by moe 14y ago
New high I/O instances have 2TB of "holy shit fast, destroys my $1000 enterprise SSD" storage. Just a tongue-in-cheek comment: Those instances also cost over $2000 USD per month. For the same money you could buy a new Dell Server with 2
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by moe 14y ago
I second this. If you are in the position to commit either way I'd suggest to first run a simple benchmark with your app on EC2 versus some cheap dedicated server. As parent says: EC2 does have its place, but for deployments in the 10-20 ho
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by moe 14y ago
Terribly misleading marketing blurb. If I read this right then this is not a tool that you can download but a SaaS-addon that works only on one fairly obscure cloud-platform (openhosting.com). Too bad, I'd happily pay a license fee for a ca
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by moe 14y ago
If someone broke into an apartment lobby Do you really face 10yrs for breaking into a hollywood apartment and releasing nude tapes you found? I can see him going to a jail for a while, but 10 years is an awful long time for a crime that
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by moe 14y ago
Well, I started by first cobbling together a basic middleman "hello world" app and then fleshing it out until I met my legacy app in the middle. There wasn't much straight porting from nanoc (apart from the HTML, JS and CSS) since the ruby-
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by moe 14y ago
The main differences would be the overall integration and the "Vagrantfile". I.e. you can slap a Vagrantfile into your project (akin to a Rakefile) that defines what a dev-environment should look like. Some other developer can then just che
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by moe 14y ago
I have to strongly advise against nanoc and recommend middleman[1] instead. The problems with nanoc unfortunately only become apparent after you've invested significantly into it and your site starts to grow in complexity and/or size (file-
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by moe 14y ago
That has to be the worst webdesign I've seen in months, and I'm talking about 24ways.org. We're supposed to take design advice from a site that looks like a car accident? No thanks.
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by moe 14y ago
Hard to think that your job is worthwhile when it consists of cleaning up after other people's crappy perl scripts... At least you are not alone. Every sysadmin in the world knows how you feel.
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by moe 14y ago
I love Alfred, so my main hope is for it to retain its simplicity and speed during this update (I don't see myself using this feature as I don't use any of the current advanced features either - other than the calculator).
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by moe 14y ago
You are right, free was an euphemism. However, you could use a cheap webhoster, those can be had for as low as $0.50/mo and usually come with FTP. I'm definitely sticking with skitch as long as it works and until a suitable replacement appe
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by moe 14y ago
Backing up wild performance-claims with a Pingdom chart ? I really don't know how anyone can take CloudFlare seriously anymore...
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by moe 14y ago
The whole notion of "hosting" a status page is ridiculous. You just generate it as static HTML and dump it on a bunch of free webhosters (or clouds if you want to be fancy). It's not rocket science to keep a HTML page online.
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by moe 14y ago
You can still download the old version (the real skitch) right there from evernote: http://evernote.com/skitch/ (small link at the bottom, "previous version"). Skitch supports FTP-upload, so if they turn off sharing in the future you ca
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by moe 14y ago
In fairness, baremetal clouds have existed for a while. E.g. baremetalcloud.com, stormondemand.com and a few others. That said your offering strikes a nice balance in terms of price/performance. What I'm missing is bigger profiles (64G Ram
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by moe 14y ago
Guaranteed delivery is super easy. Oh, then why do you propose a wrong solution right there in your next paragraph? you call and the server with your payload, and inspect the server response. Wait, what if the response gets lost on the
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by moe 14y ago
To extend on your comment: It's not possible to predict individual drive failure with reasonable accuracy. It's disconcerting to see the parent comment suggesting this still sits at the top of the thread. You can roughly predict the longe
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by moe 14y ago
So all you've got to do is monitor the status of the drives, and replace them before they get too close to their rated lifespan Sorry, that is terrible advice. Do not do that. In availability planning two is one and one is zero. If you
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by moe 14y ago
Well, "good" is a relative term when you use a non-ECC board for a server. ;) I just summed up the component prices for similar servers that we have built - that's the ballpark if you are willing to assemble it yourself (takes around 45mins
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by moe 14y ago
Sorry, that makes no sense. For around $1200 you can buy an 1RU supermicro with 6-core i7, 32G Ram etc. that will smoke your mini ($1500, 4 cores) on every metric. If your rackspace is precious you could fit two of them into one RU with a

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