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by rbranson 16y ago
Do you have a testing environment or multiple testing environments? Does it/Do they need to run all the time? If not, you save there. Do you like being able to spin up an entire duplicate of your environment to do environmental tests? You c
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by rbranson 16y ago
Perhaps you don't understand. This is EC2 we're talking about, not prgmr. People run massive production websites on EC2 because it is reliable, predictable, and secure. It provides features that allow you to recover from outages and failure
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by rbranson 16y ago
How is it hard to believe? They are essentially doing what Akamai did and locating server farms very "close" to end users on the network. I have a 20ms ping from the closest Akamai CDN server.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Most supercars are basically hand-made and built to order anyways, so a custom version isn't quite as financially burdensome as it would be for a mass-produced vehicle.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Queue NoACID haters declaring this the final nail in the coffin.
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by rbranson 16y ago
All of the "heavy" agiles like Scrum have confused me: isn't agile about fundamentally less process and more flexibility? One can't serve two masters. Teams have to pick a point along the completely structured - completely flexible line. As
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Encoding for Streaming (2008)(blog.netflix.com)
1 points by rbranson 16y ago|0 comments
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by rbranson 16y ago
Uh, guess I'll be delaying my BD player purchase for a while.
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by rbranson 16y ago
So with tech like this, when is the GHC going to become a "platform" like the JVM?
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by rbranson 16y ago
It's an awfully steep price to pay for it though. It's convenient, but is it really worth 6x the price of an Apple TV or 5x the price of a WDTV Live?
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by rbranson 16y ago
The Apple TV is so close for me now. If it had a more wide range of supported formats I would be all over it, but I'm relegated to the world of WD TV Live Plus right now. People say that this is a techie-only feature, but I highly disagree.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Does this actually cause a disruption of service though? It seems like it would be trivial to just keep the configuration in place for 72 hours even after changing the DNS entry.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Mac is a more commercial software friendly platform. While Apple isn't quite as friendly as Microsoft, they're going to do a lot more to keep things stable and friendly for developers than the wild wild west that is graphics and/or GUI-inte
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by rbranson 16y ago
... and the platform won't survive long-term on free games and audio/video capture alone.
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by rbranson 16y ago
This used to be a deal breaker for many folks. Combine this with the root object support and you can really host entire production static sites on CloudFront now.
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by rbranson 16y ago
IE6 yes. I use VS because IE Developer Tools doesn't offer sophisticated enough JavaScript debugging. I work with large JS-heavy projects, like entire clients built in JS that talk JSON/REST to a backend server.
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by rbranson 16y ago
http://imgur.com/LYjiE.jpg It's a pretty standard Rails hipster setup on a Mac using TextMate as the editor. I'm using a 27" Dell U2711 display. The left hand Terminal is used for monitoring autotest (an automatic test suite runner for Ru
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Ask HN: What does your development environment look like?
50 points by rbranson 16y ago|83 comments
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by rbranson 16y ago
Is anyone of note using this in production? (Not hating, just curious)
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How RabbitMQ 2.0 stores messages on disk(hg.rabbitmq.com)
1 points by rbranson 16y ago|0 comments
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by rbranson 16y ago
Thank FSM! I LOVE my Backblaze! It's the perfect backup solution, no-foolin'.
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by rbranson 16y ago
tl;dw: 99% of web applications will never need to be "web scale," so quit worrying and just use an RDBMS.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Ah, the psychology of price points. Let us all take note of this when we decide how to price our products and/or services. People are now perceiving that the value that this device delivers is significantly higher than it's price.
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by rbranson 16y ago
As a paw.. I mean, early adopter, I've been using Rails 3 for things-people-pay-me-for since beta3 and seen it really mature over the last few months.
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Ezra is now working at VMware(twitter.com)
6 points by rbranson 16y ago|0 comments
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by rbranson 16y ago
Right -- it's sort of a way for sales & marketing departments at service providers to force operations to improve uptime.
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by rbranson 16y ago
Perhaps, but in the context of the article, traffic jams only exist because of commuters. The interstate & highway systems were not designed for commuters and should not be used for them. While I think computer-driven cars will be a boo
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by rbranson 16y ago
It's just a marketing term for marketing to people who don't care about link protocols or multiplexing strategies. The problem was originally started when 1xRTT and EDGE were branded as 3G. This should have never happened, but that's what h
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by rbranson 16y ago
I doubt P2P could be used reliably for video streaming. There's a quality of service component of video streaming that P2P solutions can't currently provide effectively in the context of embedded web video streaming. Besides, YouTube probab
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The White City (2009)(newgeography.com)
9 points by rbranson 16y ago|5 comments

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