nirvdrum

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by nirvdrum 13y ago
Well, I think the matter is a bit more complicated than that. When dealing with a full browser, you fetch a lot of resources. The status code for the first page fetch may be easily obtained, but your API gets very wonky as soon as you wan
812.
by nirvdrum 13y ago
BrowserMob Proxy is the go-to tool for use with Selenium: http://bmp.lightbody.net/
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by nirvdrum 13y ago
I just wanted to add -- since you're not the first to point out the Rails part -- that I've also run a 42 node Cassandra cluster on a m1.xlarges and did a fair bit of CPU-bound operations (encryption and compression) on hundreds of TB of da
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by nirvdrum 13y ago
I don't entirely disagree. All I can say is REE and Rails 2.3 were far lighter weight and faster than Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3.2. Given it's a 3.5 year old app, the landscape was pretty different back then. I looked at Lift and didn't like i
815.
by nirvdrum 13y ago
I made no claim otherwise about light or medium instances. I was merely pointing out that for many people Amazon is no longer a purely pay-per-hour or pay-for-what-you-use service. Many people overlook the wording change made for heavy re
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by nirvdrum 13y ago
I know you were asking for effect, but of course they do and it's EC2. That's why they have a heavy reservation pricing tier, which only makes sense for 24/7/365 (you pay for hours even if you don't use them). But, it's fun to point at "el
817.
by nirvdrum 13y ago
That's one way to look at it. Another is when this app started 3.5 years ago, Rails & the app had a drastically different performance profile and Amazon didn't have super-over-subscribed hardware. Not that it matters much, but there's
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by nirvdrum 13y ago
Thanks. I read the article, but completely blocked out that blue box. There's so much hawking of eBooks and such that I skip over that stuff now.
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by nirvdrum 13y ago
Sure, but the whole thing is predicated on the 20ms slowdown coming from a slow machine, not network latency. And that's a pretty good assumption. Due to RAM limitations and abysmal performance, I could maybe push 15 concurrent requests o
820.
by nirvdrum 13y ago
Considering Amazon offers an entire pricing tier around 24/7 utilization (heavy reserved instances), it's probably safe to say that EC2 is no longer purely elastic.
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by nirvdrum 13y ago
That's not entirely accurate either. If you buy a heavy reserved instance you have to pay for every hour, whether or not you use it, for the length of the reservation. So, it's technically still per-hour billing at a discounted rate, but
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by nirvdrum 13y ago
For those requiring a credit card for trials, how are you tracking metrics/conversions? Since the conversion happens when the trial ends, which is an event disconnected from your customer's browsers session, none of the JavaScript/cookie-b
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by nirvdrum 13y ago
Dilution isn't the only thing to worry about. This post has a pretty good treatment: http://rob.by/2013/negotiating-your-startup-job-offer/ It's pretty unlikely you'll see anywhere near those numbers.
824.
by nirvdrum 13y ago
outlook.com has a similar feature, but it seems far less obtrusive and a bit more useful. Having a "Shipping Notifications" category for instance has been really handy. My gut is the outlook.com implementation is more user friendly in gen
825.
by nirvdrum 13y ago
If you're taking feature requests, it'd be really handy to see pricing breakdowns for Windows instances as well. They have a different breakeven point than the Linux ones.
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by nirvdrum 13y ago
Unfortunately, it's not an assumption. It's not immediately clear when looking at the pricing, but if you buy a heavy reserved instance you have to pay the 24/7/365 hourly rate. It's something for startups to consider as they look at thei
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by nirvdrum 13y ago
Maybe, but the heavy reserved instances come with a required hourly commitment. If you buy one, you have to pay the 24/7 hourly usage fee regardless of whether you're actually running a server. That strikes me as the bigger "gotcha."
828.
by nirvdrum 13y ago
Well, the point I suppose is the person filing the issue thought it was a bug. Apparently the removal didn't make any release notes, so why believe otherwise? The reason you have these discussions on the issue tracker is so when the next p
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by nirvdrum 13y ago
I guess it's different for renting purposes. But when selling a house (at least in MA) there are rules as to what makes a room a bedroom. I think they do need to have closets. And there's a minimum bathroom : bedroom ratio that needs to
830.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
I don't think SES originally supported SMTP, which meant it was harder to use and I couldn't relay through a local Postfix server. I think they fixed that, but I had already chosen SendGrid by then and I've been pretty happy with the choic
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
While that may be strictly true, we've now created an environment where if you don't deal with something as quickly as humanly possible, you get crushed with negative publicity. So the company could either sit back and seem to condone sexi
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
Most of these forms are more complicated because of tax codes and such. If I don't know your name or your address, I can't adequately assess whether I should be collecting sales tax. Failing to collect and report sales tax can come with v
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How to Accept Self-signed SSL Certificates in Selenium 2(blog.mogotest.com)
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
Or JRuby + TorqueBox if you're looking for a stable application server.
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
You mean like charging $20 / year to access a service and not be displayed ads? That's the alternative revenue model and you want to circumvent that as well.
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
Opera was also commercial. At some point there was a free adware version, but I think that was later than 2001. After IE, most people stopped paying for web browsers.
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
Ahh, maybe it's the demo page that doesn't support them then? They came up as an error for me.
838.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Supporting 4 digit years might help on the usability front. I'm probably a special case, but I forgot what the format was, as it disappears immediately upon clicking on the field, and naively went with a 4 digit format. There's no helpful
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by nirvdrum 14y ago
Agreed. But then you're not benchmarking Ruby execution speed, which really makes comparing the two not very worthwhile. By the same notion, then when you compare on something like JRuby, you really should be comparing JDK 6, 7, and 8 build
840.
by nirvdrum 14y ago
Sorry about the link comment. I'm so used to Wikipedia links being passed around I must have instinctively looked there. In any event, we probably agree on more than we disagree. I never disagreed with working on the DB if that's truly th

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