rartichoke

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by rartichoke 13y ago
I was sad the article was so short. I wish there were a part 2 where he went through everything, fixed a bunch of obvious mistakes and the app shipped successfully.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
It was during the time when a bunch of people claimed they were "hacked" a bit after Diablo 3 came out. It's on the bnet forums somewhere.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Pretty much. Look at company's like Blizzard who are even bigger. - Their passwords aren't case sensitive. - Their login form's GET request isn't using https. - Within 20 minutes of informing a security specialist not af
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Twitter seems to really rag on rails but at the end the graph looked pretty good to me for their old architecture at the 95th percentile given their traffic. Most sites won't even get 200 reqs per second total, and it's great to k
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by rartichoke 13y ago
My point was that even with node's mind boggling growth it still hasn't really overtaken rails when it comes to developer productivity.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I'll believe it when I see it. Almost nothing has changed since I went through my Go adventure which was like 9 months ago I think. 9 months to me is a huge amount of time. I don't want to have to wait years to be super productive
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by rartichoke 13y ago
To be fair I didn't use revel. Instead I just used pat (the route mapper) and started to try and recreate most of what express does using go's stdlib because nothing else really existed yet. The gorilla toolkit's APIs are ina
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I did like it, what I didn't like was solving common web app related issues that were solved on other platforms years ago. That's what completely killed my urge to consider Go. I don't want to spend most of my time solving bo
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by rartichoke 13y ago
The development speed isn't very good with Go because you have to re-invent almost everything yourself because the web libs are seriously years behind other platforms. The default template language is also really archaic and no one has
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by rartichoke 13y ago
That test is rigged to be a best case scenario for Go. How often do you send 1MB responses down to the client? If you send 3KB responses then you would see both setups are much closer in performance. Factor in some actual I/O and the d
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I'm not sure why you wouldn't cache anything. It doesn't matter if x is faster than y. If both were cached the difference might be milliseconds and in the real world that is what will happen.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Nice, sounds good. I vaguely remember reading about a downside when using the console to run tests, maybe I should give it a second look. All I care about is being able to run tests on file save from my editor and seeing feedback in a termi
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I'm still new to rails but I would really like to see: - Something like spring ( https://github.com/jonleighton/spring ) built in because I use a low end machine and it still takes 5-6 seconds just to see a page r
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I really don't have an ego. I think you under estimate the stuff I've encountered. I've had people who barely know how to use an e-mail client somehow find links to adobe after effects filter sites and ask me to "drop in
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Hard to say. I watched them go from $18ish per coin down to basically nothing and now it's at $100+ per coin all in a few year time frame. I think it's a given that some type of global digital currency will happen at some point in
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Their mental image of a mechanic is some person laying on their back under your car doing work. They can mentally see him doing some form of work even if it's not the truth. Their mental image of a web developer is some dude sitting do
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by rartichoke 13y ago
My latest thing has been to relentlessly bombard them with questions on their decisions. "Why do you think it needs to pop?" or "what do you mean by pop?". Even if they eventually agree with you in the end it's stil
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Ask HN: How do you deal with clients who keep second guessing your decisions?
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I still have a client who is like this now. He still goes through AOL and thinks it's the internet. The funny thing about it though is that he usually says things like "the page needs more pop", "make that bright red and
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I actually started to use Rails recently and came from Node and fooled around with Go in a past too. I switched because I found myself to be much more productive with Rails and it's really easy with Rails to do fairly complicated thing
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Been programming with a Windows box for a few years now with virtual box. It's quite good. Recent versions have solid dual monitor support too. It's still not flawless but it's good enough to not be disruptive or annoying eno
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by rartichoke 13y ago
This year's speech made me think what it might have been like to listen to visionaries in the past give a talk out in the middle of a town's square. It was like the room was dead silent (not even random people coughing or opening
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by rartichoke 13y ago
His keynotes are always so good. I'm really looking forward to watching it a bit later.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I wouldn't mind if Dart didn't support older versions of Chrome or Firefox because that's just much different than IE 8. Most people who are running IE 8 are random non-technical folks who are using the browser that came with
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by rartichoke 13y ago
An issue with Dart is it does not support IE 8. IE 8 still ships with Windows 7 and it is quite popular. It's not reasonable to throw away all IE 8 traffic just to get Dart's features.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
That's a pretty good list, thanks.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I talked to the guy on IRC about a month ago. They are still on target to ship it in August of this year so it's not too far away if they can meet their mark.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Have you looked into Ghost? It's a blogging engine written on top of node. It has close to 200,000 pounds of funding on kick starter. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-... They are n
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Yeah latency is more important but wouldn't you cache most results in a real app. I think 37 signal's showed us that a rail's app is capable of delivering low latency responses. In some presentation David mentioned most respo
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Any thoughts on doing the same thing with Sinatra and/or Padrino? Also do you think rails 4 will make any improvements? ~20 reqs per second with barely any concurrency seems so low. Is heroku, ruby or rails the culprit for such low thr

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