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by pwaring 15y ago
Isn't a major selling point of GitHub the fact that you don't have to develop and maintain your own infrastructure, because they've already set everything up for you?
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by pwaring 15y ago
If a project is very popular, something which makes it easier to handle pull requests is surely a good thing as well? That way developers spend more time coding and less time on review/merging (not that those aren't important tasks, but it
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by pwaring 15y ago
"Together with making it trivial to create commits and pull requests entirely in the browser" Isn't that a /good/ thing? The main hurdle I find when trying to fix problems in open source projects is working out how to submit my patch in a w
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by pwaring 15y ago
I suspect it's likely to be: RoR: Large number of contributors with relatively small patches, few full time contributors who are paid just to work on RoR. Linux: Possibly smaller number of overall contributors but supplying more patches eac
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by pwaring 15y ago
Endorsement is perhaps a bit strong, certainly good free publicity though.
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by pwaring 15y ago
GitHub doesn't support OpenID for registration or login (or if they do, it's hidden away somewhere).
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by pwaring 15y ago
It's definitely not US only, as I'm in the UK and see the paywall.
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by pwaring 15y ago
There's a risk vs effort balance involved in these sorts of decisions. The risk of any of my sites getting Slashdotted is sufficiently low that it's not worth spending time preparing for such an eventuality, and I'm prepared to accept the c
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by pwaring 15y ago
Sufficient = enough for normal use. My point was that people tend to get worked up and spend time on caching strategies when there's no need for the vast majority of sites. Even with caching, I suspect Apache would fall over if I got slashd
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by pwaring 15y ago
This was on a shared hosting platform, where the provider probably oversold capacity, and without access to the command line. I suspect part of the delay was waiting for the CGI script to send data to the browser.
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by pwaring 15y ago
You can get too carried away with scalability though. I run half a dozen WordPress blogs, plus some static sites and email for multiple domains (with AV and spam filtering) within 500MB of RAM. I don't need to implement any caching because
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by pwaring 15y ago
It's how Greymatter and a few other systems used to work as well. The main problem was determining which pages should be updated, which usually resulted in the entire blog being rebuilt. This took several minutes if you had a few years of a
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by pwaring 15y ago
Even with the full IP address, GeoIP won't necessarily tell you much. My location has been reported as York, Cambridge, City of London and the Netherlands, all of which are 100+ miles away from my actual location.
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by pwaring 15y ago
Unfortunately it doesn't. If you hear the words 'efficiency' or 'value for money' being used at a UK university, it usually means they're about to announce a round of redundancies.
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by pwaring 15y ago
"We bleed friendship and work together, so it’s hard to tell when we’re discussing work and when we’re chatting over beers" Isn't that potentially a bad idea from a work/life balance point of view? I like to know at the end of the week that
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by pwaring 15y ago
It could arguably be a tax strategy if he received a dividend from his Apple shares in lieu of a salary, although that ignores the fact that dividends have been taxed already because they're paid from post-tax profits. Even that isn't a new
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by pwaring 15y ago
I have a short domain (xk7.net), doesn't cause any problems over the phone (occasionally people comment on the fact that I have my own domain/mail) and doesn't sound immature. Although I was once told 'sorry, you must use a Hotmail, Yahoo!
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by pwaring 15y ago
A well designed framework should allow you to use its separate components as well as the whole thing. For example, you can use Zend Framework as a full framework, or as a library by importing individual classes (e.g. I use Zend_Http_Client
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by pwaring 15y ago
It might be nice, but from a purely selfish point of view I'd rather people (not just coders) spent time improving Linux (which is already in widespread use) than tinkering with Hurd.
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by pwaring 15y ago
Looks very pretty, I can't see any reference to a licence on the page or in the CSS file though, so I've no idea if I can use it on my site.
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by pwaring 15y ago
It's perhaps a bit old now (2005), but O'Reilly published a good book on Java game programming if anyone is interested in the subject: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007300/
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by pwaring 15y ago
"prices for individual text messages on pay-as-you-go plans have quadrupled from an average of 5 cents to 20 cents" Really? In the UK they've stayed static at about 10-12p for at least ten years (for a 'standard' text on a PAYG plan, assumi
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by pwaring 15y ago
A restructuring can be classed as a default by the rating agencies, and for the purposes of paying out on credit default swaps.
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by pwaring 15y ago
Didn't smart match and given/when get added in 5.10? If so they should have been covered in the 5th edition (which claims to include 5.10).
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by pwaring 15y ago
I'm guessing it covers stuff in 5.12 and 5.14, although a lot of that wouldn't be relevant to beginners.
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by pwaring 15y ago
DNS is handled separately, so there's no chance of any of my domains being 'taken over'. The control panel doesn't actually allow you to do that much, and changes to the billing contacts result in a confirmation email being sent. As for pas
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by pwaring 15y ago
No, but one of the big reasons for that is that they base everything in England in London (with the exception of a small sales office in Manchester), and I don't want to move there.
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by pwaring 15y ago
My hosting provider (Bytemark) sends out passwords in plaintext, though I'm not sure if they're stored that way. It is a lot more convenient that having to follow a password reset link, though I'm not entirely convinced by the security/us
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by pwaring 15y ago
Possibly overkill, but if clients are concerned about deciding who gets the email they could use something like RT (or a more user-friendly alternative :). I'm sure with a few clever hacks you could probably route anything mentioning 'accou
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by pwaring 15y ago
Efficiently determining the news feed per user is a pretty big technical challenge when you get to 500m users (which probably means a million or so news feed requests per second, possibly more). If you think about it, there are broadly two

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