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by rartichoke 13y ago
The problem with teaching TDD is there are too many opinions. If someone wants to use assertion based testing and fixtures then learning rspec and factory girl in depth is not going to appeal to them. A lot of the useful information on test
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I started working with rails a few months ago. I skimmed the book in about 3 hours from start to finish while skipping the parts I knew I was comfortable with. The book is really good and 100% worth reading if you're new to rails. I ho
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I don't think $16,000 a month is really that bad if you factor in what type of money a consistent 1 million reqs/sec would probably give you. 1m req/s is: 60 million+ reqs an hour 1.4 billion+ reqs a day 43 billion+ reqs a mo
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I'm not too afraid of number crunching because if I do need some type of analytical report crunching done I'll just chuck them in a sidekiq worker and use the whenever gem to setup a cron job. I already setup sidekiq to work with
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by rartichoke 13y ago
This is exactly why I started to use rails recently. If it becomes pretty easy to cache everything and you get the amazing productivity boosts that rails provides you then there's really no down side. My first rails app is approaching
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by rartichoke 13y ago
That's why I recommended to use an escrow service to hold the money. You take a small hit (%) from using it but then the money is held at a reputable third party place. It's a big win if it means more people will sign up because t
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I think it's a pretty cool idea but I'd really be really concerned as an end user that you're not just going to take my $50 and walk. I'm sure you don't have that intention at all but you're basically asking pe
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I've seen: https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-recurly-subscription-saas Which seems similar. I never looked too deep into the source code though or used it personally. It might have value but template solutions al
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I'd definitely go with AWS for deployment only because if you never signed up before you get a micro instance for free for a year in most cases. This gives you an ability to deploy multiple toy projects without having to fork out $5-10
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by rartichoke 13y ago
This argument always bothers me because what it costs to live really isn't important. At the end of the day Chinese worker A put in 40 hours of work and American worker B put in 40 hours of work. They both invested 40 hours of their li
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I use my own. I spent about 3 weeks making a nice one with rails. It took so long because I was learning rails and also ruby as I went. I use it over managed solutions because I've set it up to easily integrate into any site, it loads
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Testing is just a means to an end like the code you write. It creates a certain confidence level that your code is doing what it supposed to do based on the instructions you gave it. Like the other dude said start with model tests because t
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Colt is a pretty funny dev. He co-ran that html5 game development course last year. https://www.udacity.com/course/cs255
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by rartichoke 13y ago
The article says they are pushing for 20TB drives by 2020. That means they are saying 7 years from now we will be using the same technology but the drives will be larger. They are clearly talking about non-SSDs in the article. SSDs are ok f
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I wish HD manufacturers would try to innovate the technology rather than give us more space. I have a 300gb drive and it still has 180gb free. I have a ton of stuff backed up too and quite a few large apps/games. With more things being
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by rartichoke 13y ago
There are tons of 120hz LCDs. Some of the korean models that you can pickup for $350 can be manually set to run at 120hz but you have to be lucky. They run at 2560x1440. A popular one is: http://www.overclock.net/t/1374
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by rartichoke 13y ago
There's nothing stopping a competitive gamer from having a job or family. You also don't need to play 10 hours a day to remain competitive. If you sleep 7 hours a day and work 40 hours a week there's still 9 hours a day to do
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Yep, input lag in an LCD monitor context is the amount of time it takes for a frame to be displayed on the screen. A lot of panels have a varied amount of input lag. Some of them are in the single digits of milliseconds. On the other side o
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by rartichoke 13y ago
People who enjoy games at a competitive level don't just out grow it once they hit late 20s or 30s. I'm 33 by the way. I'm extremely confident that anyone playing a fast paced game at a highly competitive level would notice t
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I don't actively follow it anymore but I remember there being a huge fiasco over Dell's 2007fp series. A few hardware communities labeled buying one as playing "panel roulette" or "panel lotto". It went on for
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by rartichoke 13y ago
30 fps is even a bigger joke than 60. I think even the general public would get nauseous watching a game being played at a solid 30 fps, it's much different than watching a low fps movie. If I were to drop $700 on a new display I would
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by rartichoke 13y ago
This is also why most LCD manufacturers use low quality TN panels. A majority of people just can't tell the difference, don't care enough or they don't care about things like viewing angles. LCD manufacturers in general are r
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I'm not too impressed honestly. 120 fps is the minimum for me when it comes to playing games. Then again I was used to 120hz monitors on CRTs in the early 2000s with 0 input lag. I would only ever consider 4k for normal desktop usage b
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Ah good call on the whois.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Was it Bluehost? I've heard stories of them just instantly shutting down your server without notice when you generated any form of decent traffic.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
It's unfortunate that it ended so soon due to a hosting company being garbage. I would have loved to see this really blow up and get billions of visitors and see it running a year from now because it's an interesting concept for a
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by rartichoke 13y ago
He's definitely right about how most people want a lot of choice but in the end it's going to paralyze you for most use cases. I made this realization a few months ago. I can't count the number of months I lost trying to rese
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Setup a kickstarter project immediately.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Yes I know but if you want to pickup "web development" as a beginner then chances are you're going to start with PHP unless you are getting trained by someone who happens to be using a different technology. At least that&#x27
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I started with php and never used a framework quite some time ago. Every web site/app I've built had different file structures and my own little twists on how to abstract away certain things. I rarely used any third party php code

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