mtodd

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by mtodd 16y ago
[Commented on his blog but not sure if he'll approve, so I'm reposting it here]: It just seems like you're associating passion with unpleasantness. Does it make you uncomfortable to be around people that enjoy what they are doing passionate
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Iterations Are Dead, Long Live Iterations(napkin.highgroove.com)
3 points by mtodd 16y ago|0 comments
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Open Source at Highgroove Studios: We're A Rails Shop(napkin.highgroove.com)
3 points by mtodd 16y ago|0 comments
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by mtodd 16y ago
Sorry, didn't see this reply. We've been using EC2 for a while now, before most of these plugins were available for Heroku. We're extremely comfortable with the platform and our tools for managing it. We have most of our customer-facing nod
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by mtodd 16y ago
It's interesting to see this line of questioning because the post to me was more about Rubber than about EC2 vs Heroku. For me, Chef is a no brainer for bootstrapping and managing my instances. Heroku is also a no brainer, but as rapind poi
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by mtodd 16y ago
Moe has some good points about maintaining these instances, keeping things up-to-date, and launching more sophisticated infrastructure beyond your vanilla Rails/MySQL stack apps. In my experience, Chef is really not that difficult to get se
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Setting Big Goals, and Achieving Them(napkin.highgroove.com)
1 points by mtodd 16y ago|0 comments
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by mtodd 16y ago
Great observation about starting with proofs. This is especially true when you step outside of the code and look at the problems being solved: if you don't already have a proof of concept, and even before that, if you don't have a sound pro
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by mtodd 16y ago
GEB is a great experience. It's not a deeply technical book, though it is both deep and technical. It's more specifically an adventure of thought. I hear there are hidden messages in the book itself. I'm not motivated to track them down and
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ZOMG ROFLscale Rubyconf OR Why you missed out(blog.highgroove.com)
1 points by mtodd 16y ago|0 comments
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by mtodd 16y ago
I want my future children to read this.
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Glue, Facebook, and Twitter(blog.highgroove.com)
3 points by mtodd 16y ago|0 comments
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by mtodd 16y ago
We sure did! We had chef-client run continually throughout development so it continuously deployed as we pushed changes up. For RailsRumble, in order to "complete" the competition, you have to tag a commit with "railsrumble" and make sure t
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RailsRumble 2010 Redux(blog.highgroove.com)
15 points by mtodd 16y ago|2 comments
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by mtodd 16y ago
Where's the option of "No, but plan to".
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Knowing How To Solve Your Problem(napkin.highgroove.com)
13 points by mtodd 16y ago|0 comments
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A few git tips you didn't know about(mislav.uniqpath.com)
154 points by mtodd 16y ago|7 comments
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by mtodd 16y ago
I always spell his name Djikstra the first time 'round. :(
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by mtodd 16y ago
I missed some of the other links for Game Mechanics as a service... could you list any you remember? Thanks!
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by mtodd 16y ago
Correct! The most recent version.
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by mtodd 16y ago
* if I have music playing in the background, the music should automatically start instead of requiring me to switch back to the screen and manually restart it * make the password field a password type input element * optionally allow anybod
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by mtodd 16y ago
"Proofs" in Science is a misnomer, though, isn't it? You don't "prove" something with science, you simply construct a theory that matches closest to reality based on experimental data. Science doesn't prove, it provides a framework for inqu
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by mtodd 16y ago
There's Scott Chacon's interesting approach to presentations called ShowOff: http://github.com/schacon/showoff
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by mtodd 16y ago
Well, overall the goal is to burn more calories than you take in. I wouldn't recommended "skip exercise" to anybody, but tell them that it's not necessary if they can control their intake enough. But, if you don't change your intake and als
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by mtodd 16y ago
Congrats! Keep it up. I've lost about 60lbs, and it started the same way for me: cutting out bad foods and doing a bit of exercise. It was nice motivation to say "no, I'm taking the stairs" or "I'll walk" and know that I could do it and it
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by mtodd 16y ago
You sound like a smart guy. Your failure thus far is an amazing and truly educational amount of experience that will benefit you short- and long-term. You really have a great deal more experience than many, and clearly you have drive and pa
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by mtodd 16y ago
Seriously, who cares? So it's not what you're looking for... move on.
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by mtodd 16y ago
Winner!
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by mtodd 17y ago
I've found that I'm much more likely to complete and succeed at a given task by creating very specific goals for myself, and breaking down my goals into specific tasks. It's the same concept that I do in building software writing out storie
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Scout - Extensible Server and Application Monitoring(infoq.com)
6 points by mtodd 17y ago|2 comments

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