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by nkallen 17y ago
it's coming...
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by nkallen 17y ago
It's hard to come up with examples where idempotency is impossible (I'm sure there are some)... but there are definitely cases where it is difficult. Counters are one of the most obvious examples; to make them idempotent you need to jump th
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by nkallen 17y ago
Our uptime could use some improvement, surely. You will bear in mind that it has improved substantially over the last year. It's largely because of things like Gizzard... I think one of the compelling things about Gizzard is that unending l
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The Anatomy of a Whale(engineering.twitter.com)
21 points by nkallen 17y ago|1 comments
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by nkallen 17y ago
Yes but you still need to inject the Factory. My point is not that Java is better than Ruby but that this style, which is commonly associated with Java, is better in any language.
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by nkallen 17y ago
Since you don't control the code that manufactures instances of MyClass.new, you don't have an opportunity to manipulate the metaclass/singleton class of instances of MyClass. So this technique doesn't work.
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Why I love everything you hate about Java(magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com)
59 points by nkallen 17y ago|65 comments
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The Meaning of Information Technology(magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com)
3 points by nkallen 17y ago|0 comments
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by nkallen 18y ago
It could be extended to work with DataMapper in a straightforward way.
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A New Declarative Caching Library for Rails(magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com)
18 points by nkallen 18y ago|5 comments
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Scaling Rails: Write-Through Cacheing(magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com)
1 points by nkallen 18y ago|0 comments
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by nkallen 18y ago
clever
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by nkallen 18y ago
So I can't really comment about Django. I have some Python experience and very extensive Ruby and Rails experience. My advice: choose based on language not on framework. It's fair to say that Python is a more "general purpose" language in t
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How to write great Javascript Unit Tests(pivots.pivotallabs.com)
6 points by nkallen 18y ago|1 comments
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The Law of Demeter is a Piffle(pivots.pivotallabs.com)
1 points by nkallen 18y ago|0 comments
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Become a better Ruby Programmer(pivots.pivotallabs.com)
1 points by nkallen 18y ago|0 comments
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by nkallen 18y ago
murrayh -- i'm an author of screw.unit. Can you provide more detail of the kind of real-world example you'd like to see?
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Advanced and Idiomatic use of Ruby's Splat (*) operator(pivots.pivotallabs.com)
3 points by nkallen 18y ago|0 comments
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Massively scalable relational database using TABLE tags and jQuery(pivots.pivotallabs.com)
16 points by nkallen 19y ago|9 comments
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by nkallen 19y ago
Many highly personalized pages don't have security or admin bits--e.g., when reading an article, it differs based on whether you've favorited it, are the author, etc. Sometimes there are admin bits but they're trivial--a link to delete cont