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by mojombo 18y ago
I think it was inevitable that Automattic would more closely integrate the two products, but they're doing it in a way that maintains both brands. As far as having to choose a permanent identifier on signup, it's not the path I would have c
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by mojombo 18y ago
Once Automattic took over and scaled Gravatar out with their amazing CDN, adoption really ramped up. I use them without pause on my own projects, and I'm really happy to not have to configure my avatar every place I go!
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by mojombo 18y ago
I've found that it's best to find some sort of sweet spot. Not so simple that later scaling requires a huge rewrite, but not so complex that you're spending valuable time up front to scale something that may never need it. I now try to code
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by mojombo 18y ago
I'm really glad you enjoyed it! Were you at Active? I'll write a post later on about how I ended up moving to SF. Good call on the move, this area is amazing.
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Looking Back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic(tom.preston-werner.com)
143 points by mojombo 18y ago|23 comments
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JavaScript Will Save Us All(meyerweb.com)
21 points by mojombo 18y ago|6 comments
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by mojombo 18y ago
I do this all the time on the GitHub repo itself. I'll have an idea for a small tangential feature (like per-repo pageview stats) that I want to spend an hour hacking on to see if it goes anywhere. By branching off master, I can experiment
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by mojombo 18y ago
I considered Disqus, and will continue to evaluate it, but for now I'm going old-skool and leaving comments off my blog. I'd like to experiment with using HN for comments. Hmm, I wonder if I could hook up a piece of JS that automatically pu
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by mojombo 18y ago
Isn't that what comments here at HN are for? =) In all seriousness, from past adventures in blogging, I'm sick of managing a commenting system of my own. I love HN and the people here, so this is the only place I plan to notify when I post.
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How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub(tom.preston-werner.com)
224 points by mojombo 18y ago|68 comments
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by mojombo 18y ago
This interview was from before I left Powerset to work on GitHub full time, but is still quite relevant. Let me know if you have any questions!
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by mojombo 18y ago
The difference is that if Apple were to do something like this they'd actually ship product and not just release a far-fetched concept.
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by mojombo 18y ago
3.77. But in my defense I'm a little bit hung over. :/ I like this test though. Speaking of booze, it would be interesting to see a graph of people's test score vs BAC. Sounds like a fun drinking game!
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Elastic Tab Stops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code(nickgravgaard.com)
82 points by mojombo 18y ago|40 comments
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by mojombo 18y ago
No more disturbing than Google really. Today's reality is that if you put information on the internet that can be tied to your name, email, address, phone number, etc, then that information can be found and used for or against you. Improvem
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GitHub Founder (and former Powersetter) Tom Preston-Werner's InfoQ Video Interview(infoq.com)
1 points by mojombo 18y ago|0 comments
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by mojombo 18y ago
If they can offer a decent API to their analytics, I'll jump on board right away. It's so frustrating that Google does not provide anything other than a web interface and manually generated exports to interface with their data. And as far a
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GitHub Hires Scott Chacon to Help Evangelize Git(jointheconversation.org)
17 points by mojombo 18y ago|0 comments
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by mojombo 18y ago
Of particular interest to some of the hackers here will be the "Impact Graph." This was my first Canvas + JavaScript graph implementation and I must say that it's a pretty nice system to work with. While Canvas is strictly a painting tool,
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by mojombo 18y ago
I find this to be excellent advice. This is exactly the approach we took at GitHub almost down to the letter. It took about 2 months until the site was good enough to use to host the GitHub source, another month until we started private bet
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by mojombo 18y ago
Here's a great video that bryanl made showing off gist and what makes it interesting: http://www.vimeo.com/1381658
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by mojombo 18y ago
The comparison operator that returns -1, 0, or 1 depending on how the operands compare is often represented as <=> and commonly referred to as the "spaceship operator" because it looks like a flying saucer viewed from the side. htt
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by mojombo 18y ago
Here's a piece of it that we did opensource. An Erlang pipe implementation. It acts as a FIFO for binaries. http://github.com/mojombo/erlang_pipe/tree/master/pipe.erl The performance ends up being quite good.
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by mojombo 18y ago
Changes to the git protocol happen at a glacial pace. Keeping up with them will not be a problem. The only users of the C daemon that would benefit from egitd are our competitors. We've open sourced our Ruby git library since that has benef
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by mojombo 18y ago
It's not about that at all. I'm more familiar with Erlang than C, and the git source is a twisty jungle of advanced C code. I could have patched git-daemon, but to have a project that I can easily understand, maintain, and improve, I chose
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by mojombo 18y ago
I'm the dev at GitHub that's working on egitd. It's true that those two features are not Erlang specific. They could be accomplished in any language. However, Erlang lets me write very robust servers with tiny amounts of code. The automatic
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by mojombo 18y ago
No, Fuzed does nothing to help with database scaling. If you're going to scale big you'll need to deal with that separately. We hope that Fuzed will free up your time to deal with those interesting DB scaling issues!
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by mojombo 18y ago
Hi, Tom Preston-Werner here, one of the fuzed developers. Keep in mind that Scott is running Rails in development mode. We'll be doing more experiments with EC2 and production Rails to see what kind of numbers we can push with that setup, a
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by mojombo 19y ago
If you have questions about Rails and git you can come hang out in #github on freenode. There's usually some Rails core members or Rails plugin authors there that are experienced git users.
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by mojombo 19y ago
I work on a ton of stuff: god, chronic, fuzed, grit, erlectricity, yaws (those first four are mine or co-mine). You can see them all (and clone the git repos or look at a feed of my commits) at http://github.com/mojombo/

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