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by mojombo 17y ago
Don't worry, I'll be making some technical blog posts down the road explaining in excruciating detail exactly how I've done the federated architecture.
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by mojombo 17y ago
RedHat GFS. It works great for low and medium IO situations, but can cause sporadic issues on high IO installations like ours, and we aren't able to attach any more servers to it without further impacting performance.
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GitHub is moving to Rackspace(github.com)
152 points by mojombo 17y ago|29 comments
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by mojombo 17y ago
Currently cofounder of http://github.com , previously founder of http://gravatar.com .
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by mojombo 17y ago
Same on webkit nightly. Needs more backspace!
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by mojombo 17y ago
I found these ideas very refreshing, coming from a business of NetFlix' size and maturity. If these slides resonate with you, you may enjoy Maverick by Ricardo Semler, an auto-biographical account of how he transformed SemCo (a brazilian co
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by mojombo 17y ago
Yeah, it's called the local user's group for the technology of your choice.
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by mojombo 17y ago
These points are all true, though I'd like to point out that the post is not intended to be an accurate description of history or implementation. It is meant as a teaching tool, hence the label "parable."
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by mojombo 17y ago
It takes a lot more time and effort to sift through mountains of emails than it does to read a single post whose sole purpose is to distill all that information into one, easy to consume piece.
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The Git Parable (building a Git-like system from the ground up)(tom.preston-werner.com)
147 points by mojombo 17y ago|20 comments
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by mojombo 17y ago
Thanks, grandalf! It means a lot to me for you to say that.
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by mojombo 17y ago
MRI has had a variety of memory leaks. I did an extensive search for the memory leaks on god, which you can read about here: http://groups.google.com/group/god-rb/browse_thread/thread/0... . I've verified that it's not an object referencin
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by mojombo 17y ago
May I ask which other projects you've had problems with?
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by mojombo 17y ago
Just for the record, the correct spelling of my name is "Tom Preston-Werner." If you're going to attack me, please take a moment to spell my name right. Thanks!
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by mojombo 18y ago
Try GitX: http://gitx.frim.nl/
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GitHub releases integrated issue tracking(github.com)
135 points by mojombo 18y ago|47 comments
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Hosting your OSS project on GitHub(codebetter.com)
1 points by mojombo 18y ago|0 comments
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Fuzed: A Distributed Erlang Frontend for Heterogenous Clusters(github.com)
9 points by mojombo 18y ago|0 comments
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by mojombo 18y ago
There are two kinds of startup ideas: those that have basically already been done, and those that nobody else thinks can or should be done. In either case, maintaining secrecy is only detrimental. If you believe in your team and your idea,
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by mojombo 18y ago
Classifieds. CraigsList is not the be-all end-all of buying/selling things locally online. It may be a tough nut to crack, but it won't be hard to radically improve upon their horrible user experience. I would love to see some competition i
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A Postmodern Crime at TED2009(duncandavidson.com)
76 points by mojombo 18y ago|37 comments
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Conceptual Algorithms (RubyFringe talk by GitHub's Tom Preston-Werner)(infoq.com)
9 points by mojombo 18y ago|2 comments
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by mojombo 18y ago
There's an easier way: http://colorpicker.com/
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by mojombo 18y ago
We've had a lot of people tell us that they're using Git on Windows with msysgit. It provides everything you need to be productive with Git and the install procedure is pretty slick. There's always room for improvement and a TortoiseGit [1]
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An Ioke Update (Ioke is an Io-like language based on the JVM)(olabini.com)
1 points by mojombo 18y ago|0 comments
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Encouraged Commentary (cool use of jQuery to enhance blog commenting)(donttrustthisguy.com)
53 points by mojombo 18y ago|22 comments
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The Day I Got Git (with some help from github)(lbrandy.com)
30 points by mojombo 18y ago|0 comments
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New Git Homepage(github.com)
32 points by mojombo 18y ago|5 comments
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by mojombo 18y ago
Luckily, people are easily trained by enforcing the rules. If airlines actually enforced zone rules, people would learn that it's easier to obey them than to chance the hangup they would cause by a failed attempt to cheat them.
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by mojombo 18y ago
Perhaps the 3 subsections they present is too many; imagine it with 2 subsections resulting in 12 groups. Using an organized line-up system like Southwest, you could reduce the ready-time. First, groups 1 and 2 would line up. Once the group

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